Professor Corinna Peniston-Bird
Professor of Gender and Cultural HistoryCurrent Teaching
I have a wide portfolio of courses, and in 21/2 will be convening HIST 288, 348, and 477, as well as supervising Hist300, Hist 400, and PhD theses.
Research Overview
Corinna Peniston-Bird's research on the cultural circuit examines the relationship between lived experiences, memory, and cultural representation. She has a particular interest in femininities and masculinities at war, particularly the British experiences of the First and Second World Wars. She is currently working on gendered commemoration, with a particular focus on British war memorials. Her interest in untraditional source materials is reflected in jointly edited collections with Dr Sarah Barber entitled History Beyond the Text: A Guide to the Use of Non-Traditional Sources by Historians (London: Routledge, 2008) and Approaching Historical Sources in their Contexts: Space, Time and Performance (London, 2020) which introduce research students and colleagues to methodologies and theories of how to engage with sources ranging from the visual and material (monuments, photographs, film) to the oral (personal testimony), to the material (albums, buildings, cemeteries...).
PhD Supervision Interests
Dr Peniston-Bird would like to hear from students interested in writing dissertations and theses on topics that would fall under the following headings: The combat taboo and gendered experience of war and commemoration. Britain in the First and Second World Wars. Austria in the inter-war period. Cultural Representations of and Personal Testimonies in the above fields.Students writing essays and dissertations might be interested in the following guide to websites useful for Modern British History. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/history/resources/modern.htm
The Method of History
01/10/2004 → …
Research
‘“She’s in the Ranks too!”: A Regional Perspective of Women in the War Effort’
Invited talk
AMPS Prague Heritages
Participation in conference - Academic
Unesco Angel Conference 2023
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Migration Stories North West
Consultancy
Memorialisation and the Second World War
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Learning From the Past
Consultancy
British Armed Forces Records Workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Lancaster Castle and Northern English History
Other
The People's War? The Second World War in Socio-Political Perspective
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
World War I, Lancaster and Lancaster Castle
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
Regional Heritage Centre: Elizabeth Roberts Working Class Oral History Archive Launch
Invited talk
Collaboration Past and Present, Lancaster University and LMHG
Invited talk
From Home Front to Front Line: Lancaster and Gretna Munition Factories
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Learning from the Past
Consultancy
Lancaster in the First World War
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Local History in the National Context: Lancaster in the First World War
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Regional Heritage Centre: White Lund Exploration Day
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Campus in the City, 2018
Other
WWI - Sowing the Seeds of Global Citizenship
Consultancy
Bowerham Primary and Nursery School
School Engagement
Moorside Primary School
School Engagement
Ripley St. Thomas High School
School Engagement
Lessons of War: Gender and the Second World War
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
The Forgotten Year: Enhancing the Second Year Experience
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Social History Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Twentieth Century British History (Journal)
Editorial activity
Lancaster City Council (External organisation)
Member of Advisory Panel For Social Community and Cultural Engagement
Silences and Perspectives: Film, Memories and Representations of War
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Trentino Visitato
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
- Centre for Gender Studies
- Dynamics of Memories
- Regional Heritage Centre