Department of History

Editors and contributors

 

CURRENT ISSUE CONTRIBUTORS

Jennifer Purcell is currently an instructor of History at St. Michael's College in Colchester, VT. Her publications include "The Domestic Soldier: British Housewives and the Nation in the Second World War," History Compass 3 (Nov. 2005), a forthcoming book, The Domestic Soldier: Housewives on the Home Front (Constable and Robinson), and a forthcoming article in Sex and Sexuality in a Feminist World, eds. Katherine Hermes and Karen Ritzenhoff (Cambridge Scholars Press). She is currently finishing her D.Phil thesis at the University of Sussex on women's domestic and national identities entitled "Beyond Home: Housewives and the Nation, Private and Public Identities 1939-1949." Current research interests include: domesticity, self and national identities, personal narratives and the everyday, the cultural and political impact of the BBC in the postwar period and Mass-Observation.

T.O. Smith
is Assistant Professor of History at Huntington University, USA.


George Campbell Gosling
is currently working towards a Wellcome Trust funded PhD in the History of Medicine at Oxford Brookes University under the title 'Co-ordinating Diversity: Politics, Economics and Ideology in Bristol's Mixed Economy of Healthcare, c.1918-1948'. His research interests are focused around cultures of welfare both before and after the classic Welfare State in Britain. He is also the author of '"Co-operate! Co-ordinate! Unify!" The 1920 Proposal to Amalgamate the Medical Charities of Bristol', Southern History, vol.29 (forthcoming 2007).
Email: gcgosling@brookes.ac.uk


EDITORIAL BOARD

The newly formed editorial board from Spring 2008 is made up of Kevin Reynolds, Rebecca Searle, Elke Side and Stella Sims. We would all like to thank and congratulate Ben Jones, the previous editor of several years standing, for maintaining the high standards of editorial work to which we will endeavour to aspire.


PAST CONTRIBUTORS AND EDITORS
Brief profiles on previous contributors can be found here.

We welcome updates of the profiles above at: sussexhistoryjournal@googlemail.com