Claire Louise Langhamer, FRHistS (born 1969), is a social and cultural historian of modern Britain. Since 2021, she has been director of the Institute of Historical Research.

Career

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After growing up in North Humberside, she attended the University of Manchester, graduating with a history degree in 1991. She subsequently completed her doctorate under the supervision of Dave Russell at the University of Central Lancashire; she was awarded her PhD in 1996 for her thesis Women and leisure in Manchester, 1920–c.1960. In 1998, Langhamer started working as an academic at the University of Sussex as a lecturer; she was promoted to a senior lectureship in 2004 and was appointed Professor of Modern British History in 2014.[1] She left Sussex in 2021 to be director of the Institute of Historical Research.[1] In 2017 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).[2]

Langhamer's work has focused on the history of emotion, love, leisure and work in twentieth-century Britain, often in relation to the experiences of women. Alongside more than a dozen articles in peer-reviewed journals, Langhamer has published two single authored books, Women's Leisure in England, 1920–1960 (Manchester University Press, 2000) and The English in Love: The Intimate Story of an Emotional Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2013).[3]

On 1 October 2021, Langhamer became director of the Institute of Historical Research of the University of London.[4]

Bibliography

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Books

  • Langhamer, Claire (2000). Women's Leisure in England, 1920–1960. Studies in Popular Culture. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719057373.
  • Langhamer, Claire (2013). The English in Love: The Intimate Story of an Emotional Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199594436.
  • Tinkler, Penny; Spencer, Stephanie; Langhamer, Claire, eds. (2017). Women in Fifties Britain: A New Look. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 978-0367234317.
  • Noakes, Lucy; Langhamer, Claire; Siebrecht, Claudia, eds. (2020). Total War: An Emotional History. Proceedings of the British Academy. Vol. 227. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.5871/bacad/9780197266663.001.0001. ISBN 9780197266663.
  • Barron, Hester; Langhamer, Claire (2021). Class of '37: Voices from Working-Class Girlhood. London: Metro Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78946-405-4.

Thesis

Peer-reviewed articles and chapters

Reviews of published works

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The English in Love (2013)
Women's Leisure in England, 19201960 (2000)
  • Grace Lees-Maffei for Journal of Design History, vol. 14, no. 2 (2001), pp. 162164.
  • Sean O'Connell for Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 37, no. 4 (2002), pp. 675683.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Claire Langhamer", Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  2. ^ "Fellows – L" Archived 2017-12-09 at the Wayback Machine (Royal Historical Society). Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  3. ^ "Prof Claire Langhamer: selected publications", University of Sussex. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  4. ^ IHR website
Preceded by
Professor Jo Fox
Director,
Institute of Historical Research

2020–present
Succeeded by
incumbent