Dr. Hannah Charnock

Biography

Hannah Charnock is a Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Bristol. She specializes in twentieth-century histories of relationships, gender, sexuality, and youth culture, with a focus on social history. Her research primarily explores the history of interpersonal relationships, particularly the social history of gender and sexuality in post-war Britain. She has published articles on the history of marriage, friendship, and heterosexuality, while her current work probes teenage girls' heterosexuality in England from 1950 to 1980 through oral history and the Mass Observation testimonies. Additionally, she is involved in a project revisiting the role of schools as key sites in young people's social lives during post-war Britain. Beyond her core research, she is interested in the histories of women's activism and is actively working with the Feminist Archive South to illuminate contemporary social challenges through historical research. Additionally, she teaches various courses within the History program, contributing to units related to youth subculture, sexualities, and gender in the modern world. She is open to supervising MPhil and PhD projects focusing on modern history with an emphasis on gender, sexuality, youth, or broader British social history.

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