Selected publications

Article

Vinen, Richard, Langhamer, Claire and Siena, Kevin (2020) The 2020 historical research lecture: writing histories of 2020: first responses and early perspectives. Historical Research, 93 (262). pp. 786-806. ISSN 0950-3471

Langhamer, Claire (2018) 'Who the hell are ordinary people?' Ordinariness as a category of historical analysis. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 28. pp. 175-195. ISSN 0080-4401

Langhamer, Claire (2018) Mass observing the atom bomb: the emotional politics of August 1945. Contemporary British History. ISSN 1361-9462

Barron, Hester and Langhamer, Claire (2017) Children, class and the search for security: writing the future in 1930s Britain. Twentieth Century British History, 28 (3). pp. 367-389. ISSN 0955-2359

Barron, Hester and Langhamer, Claire (2017) Feeling through practice: subjectivity and emotion in children’s writing. Journal of Social History, 51 (1). pp. 101-123. ISSN 0022-4529

Langhamer, Claire (2017) Feeling, women and work in the long 1950s. Women's History Review, 26 (1). pp. 77-92. ISSN 0961-2025

Langhamer, Claire (2016) An archive of feeling? Mass observation and the mid-century moment. Insights, 9 (4). pp. 1-15. ISSN 1756-2074

Langhamer, Claire (2013) Everyday advice on everyday love: romantic expertise in mid-twentieth century Britain. L’HOMME, European Journal of Feminist History, 24 (1).

Gazeley, Ian and Langhamer, Claire (2013) The meanings of happiness in Mass Observation's Bolton. History Workshop Journal, 75 (1). pp. 159-189. ISSN 1477-4569

Langhamer, Claire (2012) Love, selfhood and authenticity in post-war Britain. Cultural and Social History, 9 (2). pp. 277-297. ISSN 1478-0046

Langhamer, Claire (2012) 'The live dynamic whole of feeling and behavior': capital punishment and the politics of emotion, 1945–1957. Journal of British Studies, 51 (2). pp. 416-441. ISSN 0021-9371

Langhamer, Claire (2007) Love and courtship in mid-twentieth-century England. Historical Journal, 50 (1). pp. 173-196. ISSN 0018-246X

Langhamer, Claire (2007) Mass Observation and histories of women. Mass Observation.

Langhamer, Claire (2006) Adultery in post-war England. History Workshop Journal, 62 (1). pp. 86-115. ISSN 1363-3554

Langhamer, Claire (2005) The meanings of home in postwar Britain. Journal of Contemporary History, 40 (2). pp. 341-362. ISSN 0022-0094

Langhamer, Claire (2003) 'A public house is for all classes, men and women alike': women, leisure and drink in Second World War England. Women's History Review, 12 (3). pp. 423-443. ISSN 0961-2025

Langhamer, Claire (1999) Manchester women and their leisure: changing experiences from youth to married adulthood, 1920-1960. Manchester Region History Review, XIII. pp. 32-42. ISSN 9524320

Langhamer, Claire (1995) Women's leisure in the life cycle: an oral history study of Manchester women 1920-1960. Women's History Notebooks, 2 (2). ISSN 1358-1457

Book

Langhamer, Claire (2013) The English in love: the intimate story of an emotional revolution. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780199594436

Langhamer, Claire (2000) Women's leisure in England, 1920-1960. Studies in popular culture . Manchester University Press, 220pp. ISBN 9780719057373

Book Section

Langhamer, Claire (2020) 'Astray in a dark forest?' The emotional politics of reconstruction Britain. In: Noakes, Lucy, Langhamer, Claire and Siebrecht, Claudia (eds.) Total war: an emotional history. Proceedings of the British Academy, OUP, Kettering. ISBN 9780197266663

Francis, Martin (2020) Wounded pride and petty jealousies: private lives and public diplomacy in Second World War Cairo. In: Noakes, Lucy, Langhamer, Claire and Siebrecht, Claudia (eds.) Total war: an emotional history. Proceedings of the British Academy, OUP, Kettering. ISBN 9780197266663

Langhamer, Claire, Noakes, Lucy and Siebrecht, Claudia (2020) Introduction. In: Langhamer, Claire, Noakes, Lucy and Siebrecht, Claudia (eds.) Total war: an emotional history. Proceedings of the British Academy, 183 . Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780197266663

Langhamer, Claire (2019) Trust, authenticity and bigamy in twentieth-century England. In: Barclay, Katie, Meek, Jeffrey and Thomson, Andrea (eds.) Courtship, marriage and marriage breakdown: approaches from the history of emotiontions. Routledge Research in Gender and History . Routledge. ISBN 9780367424558

Langhamer, Claire (2016) Amours, seductions et désir. In: Histoire des emotions, Volume 3, L' empire de l'emotion (1880-2013). Le Seuil, Paris. ISBN 9782021177299

Langhamer, Claire (2015) Afterword. In: Harris, Alana and Jones, Timothy Willem (eds.) Love and Romance in Britain, 1918-1970. Genders and Sexualities in History . Palgrave Macmilan, London, pp. 245-253. ISBN 9781137328625

Langhamer, Claire (2008) Leisure: comparative history and practices. In: Smith, Bonnie G (ed.) The Oxford encyclopedia of women in world history. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195148909

Langhamer, Claire (2004) Leisure, pleasure and courtship: young women in England, c.1920-1960. In: Soland, Birgitte, Benninghaus, Christina and Maynes, Mary Jo (eds.) Secret gardens, satanic mills: placing girls in European history, 1750-1960. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253344496

Langhamer, Claire (2001) Towards a feminist framework for the history of women's leisure, c. 1920-1960. In: Gallagher, Ann-Marie, Lubelska, Cathy and Ryan, Louise (eds.) Re-presenting the past: women and history. Longman. ISBN 9780582382190

Edited Book

Langhamer, Claire, Noakes, Lucy and Siebrecht, Claudia, eds. (2020) Total war: an emotional history. Proceedings of the British Academy, 227 . Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780197266663