Dr. Selina Todd

Biography

Selina Todd is a Professor of Modern History at St Hilda's College, University of Oxford, specializing in the history of modern Britain, particularly the 20th and 21st centuries. Her research focuses on the history of working-class life and women's lives, examining ordinary people's experiences and memory of the past. Todd's work explores themes of class, gender relations, social mobility, work, and education through the use of oral histories and unpublished autobiographies. Her publications include 'Young Women, Work, Family in England, 1918-1950' (Oxford, 2005), which won the Women's History Network annual book prize, and 'People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010' (London, 2014), a Sunday bestseller. Her recent work, 'Tastes Like Honey: Making Shelagh Delaney and the Cultural Revolution' (London, 2019), further contributes to her examination of social mobility in modern Britain. Todd enjoys teaching undergraduates and has designed courses such as 'Approaches to History' and a special subject entitled 'Britain, the Bomb and the Beatles, 1945-67'. She is actively engaged in mentoring prospective graduate students interested in researching feminism and inequality within working-class life.

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