Dr. Grace Huxford

Biography

Grace Huxford is an Associate Professor of Modern History at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on post-1945 Britain, particularly the Cold War, and she explores themes of social history and oral history. Huxford's work examines the experiences of individuals affected by war, including military families and children, and investigates the long-term impacts of conflict and memory, as well as gender and selfhood. She is also a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Higher Education Academy. Huxford's current research project studies the social history of British military bases in Germany from 1945 to 2000, which forms the basis of her forthcoming book, Cold War Frontier. Her published works include "Korean War Britain: Citizenship, Selfhood, Forgetting" (Manchester University Press, 2018), which assesses the social and cultural impacts of the Korean War in Britain. She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Britain's Cold War, 20th-century society, oral history, and public history at the University of Bristol. Huxford actively supervises PhD and MPhil students in various research topics related to modern British and European social history, emphasizing the use of oral history methodologies.

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