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- Qualifications:MA (Hons), University of Glasgow; MA, University of York; PhD, University of Leeds
- Position:Senior Lecturer in Modern History
- Department:Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries, and Education (ACE)
- Telephone:+4411732 84521
- Email:Laura2.Harrison@uwe.ac.uk
About me
Laura is a social and cultural historian, with a particular interest in the histories of youth and youth culture, and young people's expereinces of urban and rural environments.
She began teaching at UWE in 2016, following a year at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, as the 2015-16 Fulbright-Robertson Visiting Professor in British History. Laura completed her PhD in History at the University of Leeds in 2015, and her doctoral research focused on regulation, resistance, and young working-class behaviour in public space.
Laura has published on urban poverty and the attempts made by reformers to understand and 'map' the slums of the Victorian and Edwardian city, and institutional attempts to informally police young women's behaviour in public, and is currently revising her doctoral research for publication as her first monograph.
Dangerous Amusements: Leisure, the young working class, and urban space in Britain, c.1870-1939 will be published by Manchester University Press late 2020/early 2021.
Laura is one of the editors of the Routledge History of the Working Class in the West, currently under contract.
Other forthcoming publications inlcude an article on rural youth in the south west of England, and a piece on the 'monkey parades' in York.
You can hear Laura speaking to Jane Garvey on BBC Radio 4's 'Woman's Hour' about the history of the school summer holiday here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007k5n
Area of expertise
- Nineteenth and twentieth century British social and cultural history
- Histories of young people and youth culture
- Urban history and social geography
- Working-class history in Britain
- History of women, sexuality and gender relations
- History of leisure
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