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
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 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] Institute of Historical Research .[1] 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]
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
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): 3–14. Langhamer, Claire (1999). "Manchester Women and Their Leisure: Changing Experiences from Youth to Married Adulthood, 1920–1960". Manchester Region History Review . 12 : 32–42. Langhamer, Claire (2001). "Towards a Feminist Framework for the History of Women's Leisure, c. 1920–1960" . In Gallagher, Anne-Marie; Labelska, Cathy; Ryan, Louise (eds.). Re-Presenting the Past: Women and History . Harlow: Longman . pp. 198–215. doi :10.4324/9781315838670-19 . ISBN 9780582382190 Langhamer, Claire (2003). " . Women's History Review 12 (3): 423–443. doi :10.1080/09612020300200367 S2CID 145001240 . Langhamer, Claire (2004). "Leisure, Pleasure and Courtship: Young Women in England, c. 1920–1960". In Maynes, Mary Jo; Søland, Birgitte; Benninghaus, Christina (eds.). Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills: Placing Girls in European History, 1750–1960 . Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press . pp. 269–284. ISBN 9780253217103 Langhamer, Claire (2005). "The Meanings of Home in Postwar Britain" . Journal of Contemporary History 40 (2): 341–362. doi :10.1177/0022009405051556 . JSTOR 30036327 . S2CID 145429727 . Langhamer, Claire (2006). "Adultery in Post-War England" . History Workshop Journal 62 (1): 86–115. doi :10.1093/hwj/dbl004 . Langhamer, Claire (2007). "Love and Courtship in Mid-Twentieth-Century England" . The Historical Journal 50 (1): 173–196. doi :10.1017/S0018246X06005966 . JSTOR 4140170 . S2CID 2004106 . Langhamer, Claire (2008). "Leisure: Comparative History and Practices" . In Smith, Bonnie (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History . Vol. 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press . pp. 90–96. ISBN 9780195148909 Brooke, Stephen; Langhamer, Claire (2011). "Introduction: Voluntary Organizations, NGOs, and Twentieth-Century Political Culture" . Twentieth Century British History 22 (2): 216. doi :10.1093/tcbh/hwr004 . Langhamer, Claire (2012). " . Journal of British Studies 51 (2): 416–441. doi :10.1086/663841 . JSTOR 23265482 . S2CID 146131599 . Langhamer, Claire (2012). "Love, Selfhood and Authenticity in Post-War Britain" . Cultural and Social History 9 (2): 277–297. doi :10.2752/147800412X13270753068966 . S2CID 144322174 . Gazeley, Ian ; Langhamer, Claire (2013). "The Meanings of Happiness in Mass Observation's Bolton" . History Workshop Journal 75 (1): 159–189. doi :10.1093/hwj/dbs015 .Langhamer, Claire (2013). "Everyday Advice on Everyday Love: Romantic Expertise in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain" (PDF) . L'Homme: Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaf . 24 (1): 35–52. doi :10.25595/1125 . Langhamer, Claire (2016), "An Archive of Feeling?: Mass Observation and the Mid-Century Moment" (PDF) , Insights , 9 : 1–15 Langhamer, Claire (2016). "Amours, Seductions et Désir". In Corbin, Alain (ed.). Histoire des Emotions . Vol. 3 : De la Fin du XIXe Siècle à Nos Jours . Paris: Éditions du Seuill. pp. 382–400. ISBN 9782021177374 Barron, Hester; Langhamer, Claire (2017). "Feeling through Practice: Subjectivity and Emotion in Children's Writing" . Journal of Social History 51 (1): 101–123. doi :10.1093/jsh/shw070 . Tinkler, Penny; Spencer, Stephanie; Langhamer, Claire (2017). "Revisioning the History of Girls and Women in Britain in the Long 1950s" . Women's History Review 26 (1): 1–8. doi :10.1080/09612025.2015.1123020 . S2CID 146837578 . Langhamer, Claire (2017). "Feelings, Women and Work in the Long 1950s" . Women's History Review 26 (1): 77–92. doi :10.1080/09612025.2015.1123025 . S2CID 147331361 . Barron, Hester; Langhamer, Claire (2017). "Children, Class and the Search for Security: Writing the Future in 1930s Britain" . Twentieth Century British History 28 (3): 367–389. doi :10.1093/tcbh/hwx018 . PMID 28922817 . Langhamer, Claire (2018). " . Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 28 : 175–195. doi :10.1017/S0080440118000099 . S2CID 149600424 . Langhamer, Claire (2019). "Alun and Sussex" . History Workshop Journal 88 : 325–326. doi :10.1093/hwj/dbz040 . Langhamer, Claire (2019). "Trust, Authenticity and Bigamy in Twentieth-Century England" . In Barclay, Katie; Meek, Jeffrey; Thomson, Andrea (eds.). Courtship, Marriage and Marriage Breakdown: Approaches from the History of Emotion . New York, NY: Routledge. pp. 160–174. doi :10.4324/9780367824228-11 . ISBN 9780367824228 S2CID 226902149 . Langhamer, Claire (2019). "Mass Observing the Atom Bomb: The Emotional Politics of August 1945" . Contemporary British History 33 (2): 208–225. doi :10.1080/13619462.2018.1519422 . S2CID 149201560 . Vinen, Richard ; Langhamer, Claire; Siena, Kevin (2020). "Writing Histories of 2020: First Responses and Early Perspectives" . Historical Research 93 (262): 786–806. doi :10.1093/hisres/htaa029 PMC 7717259 Noakes, Lucy; Langhamer, Claire; Siebrecht, Claudia (2020). "Introduction" . In Noakes, Lucy; Langhamer, Claire; Siebrecht, Claudia (eds.). Total War: An Emotional History . Proceedings of the British Academy . Vol. 227. Oxford: Oxford University Press . pp. 1–20. doi :10.5871/bacad/9780197266663.003.0001 . ISBN 9780197266663 Langhamer, Claire (2020). " . In Noakes, Lucy; Langhamer, Claire; Siebrecht, Claudia (eds.). Total War: An Emotional History . Proceedings of the British Academy . Vol. 227. Oxford: Oxford University Press . pp. 227–288. doi :10.5871/bacad/9780197266663.003.0008 . ISBN 9780197266663 S2CID 226120002 . 