Helen McCarthy
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Historian @CamHistory @stjohnscam Author of Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood #WolfsonHistoryPrize Shortlist 2021 @prospect_uk Top 50 Thinker 2020
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https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-helen-mccarthy 13-04-2012 10:51:04
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Great to see Our NHS on sale at the ice-cream stand National Theatre for tonight’s performance of #Nye Andrew Seaton
Am teaching a class on the history of Covid 19 tomorrow & we're discussing government sources. Can anyone (maybe Institute for Government?) tell me: why would some names of SAGE meeting attendees be redacted from the published minutes? (Personal safety concerns?)
If you want to know more about why experiences of work & retirement have been, and remain, profoundly gendered in Britain, come to my talk: in-person/online on 26th Feb CambridgeGender @ bsky.social
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Read my review of Women and the Miners Strike, 1984-5 by Natalie Thomlinson and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, a major addition to the scholarship on class, gender and politics in 20th-century Britain tandfonline.com/eprint/S9FUZQS…
Though remembered as the era of the housewife, momentous change in the status of women began in the 1950s.
🔓 This 2020 article by Helen McCarthy is still free to read at buff.ly/3SftA4B
🚨Fully funded PhD opportunity 🚨
Exploring the Professional and Personal Lives of Post-War Black Nurses in Britain with Royal College of Nursing Libraries at School of History, Queen Mary University of London with my amazing supervisor Dr Leslie James.
Happy to answer any questions about doing a PhD at QM or applications in general☺️