Rank:



Associate Professor

Address:

University of Illinois at Chicago
Department of History (M/C 198)
913 University Hall
601 South Morgan Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7109

Phone: (312) 996-3141
Fax: (312) 996-5799
E-mail: inazb@uic.edu

Education:

• Ph.D. 1990, Cambridge University, UK. Dissertation entitled, 'Industrial Relationships and Nationalization in the South Wales Coal Mining Industry', supervised by Barry Supple
• B.A. hons. 1985, London University, UK, in History and Politics; Class I

Areas of Expertise:

• Twentieth Century British History; British Women's and Gender History; History of the Body

Books:

• Women in Twentieth Century Britain: Economic, Social and Cultural Change (editor and contributor) (Longman/Pearson Education: London, 2001).
• Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls and Consumption, 1939-1955 (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2000), [paperback, 2002] winner of 2001 British Council Prize, North American Conference on British Studies.
• The Conservatives and British Society, 1880-1990 (University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 1996) (co-editor with M. Francis); includes my contribution entitled 'Explaining the Gender Gap: The Conservative Party and the Women's Vote, 1945-1964.'
• In preparation Managing the Body: Beauty, Health and Fitness in Britain, 1880s - 1950s (under contract with Oxford University Press).

Aricles and Chapters:

• “Raising a Nation of ‘Good Animals’: The New Health Society and Health Education Campaigns in Interwar Britain”, Social History of Medicine, 20:1 (forthcoming April 2007).
• “Building a British Superman: Physical Culture in Interwar Britain”, Journal of Contemporary History 41:4 (2006), pp. 595-610.
• "'The Culture of the Abdomen': Obesity and Reducing in Britain, c.1900-1939", Journal of British Studies 44:2 (April 2005), pp. 239-73.
• "Living Standards and Consumption", in P. Addison and H. Jones (eds.), Blackwell Companion to British History: Contemporary Britain, 1939-2000 (Blackwell: Oxford, 2005), pp. 226-44.
• "Women under Austerity: Fashion in Britain during the 1940s", in M. Donald and L. Hurcombe (eds.), Gender and Material Culture: Representations of Gender from Prehistory to the Present (Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2000), pp. 218-37.
• "Consensus and Consumption: Rationing, Austerity and Controls after the War", in H. Jones and M. Kandiah (eds.), The Myth of Consensus: New Views on British History, 1945-64 (Macmillan: Basingstoke, 1996), pp. 79-96.
• "'How Britain was fed in Wartime': The Administration of Food Rationing during the Second World War", in E. Volkmar Heyen, V. Wright and G. Melis (eds.), Yearbook of European Administrative History 7: Offentliche Verwaltung und Wirtschaftskrise (Nomos: Baden-Baden, 1995), pp. 143-165.
• "Rationing, Austerity and the Conservative Party Recovery after 1945", The Historical Journal, vol 37, no 1 (1994), pp. 173-97.
• "South Wales Miners' Attitudes towards Nationalization: An Essay in Oral History", Llafur, vol 6, no 3 (1994), pp. 70-84.
• "Bread Rationing in Britain, July 1946 - July 1948", Twentieth Century British History, vol 4, no 1 (1993), pp. 57-85.
• "Royal Rations", History Today, 43 (December 1993), pp. 13-15.
• "Miners' Militancy: A Study of four South Wales Collieries during the Middle of the Twentieth Century", Welsh History Review, vol 16, no 3 (1993), pp. 356-89.
• "Colliery Managers and Nationalization: The Experience in South Wales", Business History, vol 34, no 4 (1992), pp. 59-78.

Conferences and Seminar Papers:

• (2007) “How to Keep Healthy in the City: Life Reform and Physical Culture in Britain, c. 1900-1914”, European Association for the History of Medicine and Health Conference, London, 12-15 September 2007.
• (2007) “Slimming through the Depression: Obesity and Reducing in Interwar Britain”, invited speaker at the International Commission for Research into European Food History Symposium, Oslo, Norway, 26-28 September 2007.
• (2006) “Raising a Nation of ‘Good Animals’: The New Health Society, Diet and Health Education in Interwar Britain”, Conference on ‘Food and History: Health, Culture, Tourism and Identity’, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK, 29 June – 1 July 2006.
• (2006)  The New Health Society and Public Health Campaigns in Britain, 1920s to 1939, Fellows Lecture, Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois, Chicago.
• (2006) "Fighting Racial Degeneration: The New Health Society and Public Health in Britain, 1920s-1930s", American Historical Association Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 5-8 January 2006.
• (2005) "Building a British Superman: Physical Culture in Britain, 1918-1939", North American Conference on British Studies Meeting, Denver, CO, 7-9 October 2005.
• (2004) "'Building the Body Beautiful': Women and Physical Culture, 1890s-1930s", 50th Anniversary Midwest Conference on British Studies, East Lansing, MI, October 22-24, 2004.
• (2004) "Building an A 1 Nation: Physical Culture and the Quest for National Efficiency in Britain, 1890s - 1939", Seminar on Technology, Politics, and Culture, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, 17 September 2004.
• (2003) "'The Culture of the Abdomen': Obesity and Reducing in Interwar Britain", part of panel on Hunger and Obesity in Interwar Britain, Anglo-American Conference of Historians: The Body, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, London, 2-4 July 2003, also presented at North American Conference on British Studies Meeting, Portland, Ore., 24-26 October 2004.
• (2003) "Citizen Housewife: Women, Consumption and Party Politics in Britain, 1945-1955", Workshop on "Cycles of Change: Reconstruction, Gender and Public Life in Western Europe after the Two World Wars", Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
• (2002) "'Dare to Bare': Women, Body Images and Slimming Diets in Britain since the 1950s", Midwest Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting, 18-20 October 2002, Columbus, Ohio.
• (2002) "Managing the Body: Slimming and Physical Culture in Twentieth Century Britain", Keynote Address, Mid-America Conference, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 18 September 2002.
• (2002) "The Vices and Virtues of Affluence: Slimming Diets in Britain since the 1950s", Social History Society Conference, Manchester, UK, 4-6 January 2002.
• (2001) "Masculinity, the Body, and Mass Consumer Culture in Britain during the 20th Century", Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 15-18 November 2001.
• (2001) "'Is it a Girl? Is it a Boy? No, it's Twiggy': Fashion, Gender and Body Images during the 1960s", presented at the 15th Summer Conference of the Institute of Contemporary British History, The Permissive Society and Its Enemies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, London, UK, 10-12 July 2001; also North American Conference on British Studies, Toronto, 2-4 November 2001.
• (2000) "Managing Affluence: Gender, Bodies and Mass Consumer Culture since the 1950s", presented at the 14th Summer Conference of the Institute of Contemporary British History, Aspects of Gender in Contemporary Britain, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, London, UK, 10-12 July 2000.
• (1999) "The female body and consumer culture in twentieth century Britain", Economic History Society Conference, Oxford, UK, April 1999; also presented at Conference on Englishness and English Dress, London College of Fashion, London, UK, 12-13 May 2000.
• (1998) "Citizen housewife: women under austerity during the 1940s", North American Conference on British Studies, Colorado Springs, Colorado, October 1998.
• (1997) "The black market in Britain, 1839-1950", Canadian Economic History Conference, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, May 1997; also presented at Departments of History and Economic and Social History, Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, UK, November 1996.
• (1996) "Explaining the gender gap: the Conservative party and the women's vote, 1945-1964", North American Conference on British Studies, Loyola University, Chicago, October 1996; also presented at Conference on the Conservative Party and British Society, 1880-1990, Gregynog, University of Wales, Wales, September 1995.
• (1996) "The women's movement and politics: the case of equal pay, 1945-55", Conference on the Formation of the British Political Elite, 1931-1951", Department of History, University of North Wales, Bangor, Wales, April 1996.
• (1995) "Gender, affluence and electoral politics, 1945-64", Conference on British History 1945-95: The State of the Art, Institute of Contemporary British History, London, UK, July 1995.
• (1995) "The female consumer in Britain in the twentieth century", Social History Society Conference, York, UK, January 1995.
• (1994) "Consensus and consumption: rationing, austerity and controls after the war", Conference on the Myth of Consensus, Institute of Contemporary British History, London, UK, September 1994.
• (1994) "Women under austerity: fashion in Britain during the 1940s", Conference on Gender and Material Culture, Exeter University, Exeter, UK, July 1994.
• (1994) "Labour and the female consumer, 1945-51", Conference on the History of the Labour Party, 1900-1970, Warwick University, Coventry, UK, April 1994.
• (1994) "Popular attitudes to food rationing in Britain, 1939-1955", Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine Research Seminar, Oxford, UK, February 1994.
• (1993) "Communal feeding: an introduction to wartime food films", Imperial War Museum, London, UK, June 1993.
• (1992) "Bread rationing in Britain, July 1946 - July 1948", Seminar in 20th Century British History, Institute of Historical Research, London, UK, October 1992.
• (1991) "Rationing, austerity and the Conservative party recovery after 1945", Conference on Political Parties and Political Identities, Girton College, Cambridge, UK, September 1991.
• (1991) "The coal miner as archetypal proletarian reconsidered", Social History Seminar, King's College, Cambridge, UK, 1991.
• (1990) "Miners' militancy: a comparative study at colliery level during the middle of the 20th century", Economic and Social History Seminar, All Souls College, Oxford, UK, November 1990.
• (1988) "Nationalization and colliery management in South Wales 1947-1957: structural change and oral history", Economic History Society Conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, April 1988.
• (1986) "Attitudes to nationalization and its impact on industrial relationships in South Wales coal mining", Conference on Pit Closures in Britain and the Ruhr, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, December 1986.

at UIC:

• History of Western Civilization since 1648
• British History since 1689
• Gender in Britain since the late eighteenth century (upper level)
• Women in twentieth-century Britain (upper level)
• Gender and Modernity in Britain and USA since the 1880s (upper level)
• The Making of the Modern Body in the West (graduate colloquium)
• Class and Gender in Britain, 1920s to 1960s (graduate colloquium)
• Modern European Research Seminar (graduate seminar)

at Aberystwyth:

• The British economy since 1870: Relative growth and economic decline
• Living standards, consumption and quality of life in Britain, 1780-1990
• Gender in Britain since the mid-nineteenth century
• Women in twentieth century Britain
• Computing and historians
• Undergraduate (3rd year) dissertations - supervisor and co-ordinator
• Economic and social history in Britain since 1800 (jointly taught)
• The making of modern Britain since the mid-nineteenth century (jointly taught)
• Historiography (jointly taught)
• British history from the middle of the eighteenth century (London University, 1989-90)
• British economic history since 1870 (Oxford University, 1991-93)

Aberystwyth

Oxford

Professor Pat Thane, Institute of Contemporary British History and the Institute of Historical Research
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, UK.
Email: pthane@icbh.ac.uk

Professor Avner Offer
All Souls College, Oxford OX1 4NL, UK
Email: avner.offer@all-souls.oxford.ac.uk

Professor Sonya O. Rose
History, Sociology and Women's Studies,
University of Michigan
3515 Woodland Road
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Email: sorose@umich.edu