Helen Sunderland

Former co-editor-in-chief 

3rd year PhD student at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge | MSt in British and European History, 1500 to present, University of Oxford | BA in History, University of Oxford

History isn’t made in the archives or library.

Current research: Political socialisation of schoolgirls in late Victorian and Edwardian England

Interests: History of childhood | Political cultures and engagement | Space and place | Music

hls60@cam.ac.uk | @hl_sunderland

Blog posts:

• ‘Commemorative Button Badge of General Roberts‘, 2019 Advent Calendar, 17 December 2019.
• ‘Virtual electioneering: echoes of the 1883 Corrupt and Illegal Practices Act‘, 10 December 2019.
• ‘Current affairs or old news? DHP at the Festival of Ideas‘, 22 October 2019.
• ‘A historian of youth politics stands with the school climate strikers’, 24 September 2019.
• ‘Royal babies: a late-nineteenth-century perspective’, 14 May 2019.
• ‘Constitutional history’s new public moment?’, 3 April 2019.
• ‘Doing History in Public review of the year‘, 8 January 2019.
• ‘School attendance medals: a status symbol?’, 2018 Advent Calendar, 8 December 2018.
• ‘Mike Leigh’s Peterloo: Inequality and resistance in nineteenth-century Britain’, 20 November 2018.
• ‘Some advice for people embarking on their PhD’, 4 September 2018.
• ‘Unintended research finds: the mustard bath’, 7 August 2018.
• ‘The Great British Summer? A Historical Heatwave’, 10 July 2018.
• ‘History, policy, and religion: a conversation’, 5 June 2018.
• ‘Tall Tales and Shaping the Research of the Future’, 8 May 2018.
• ‘Children’s strikes, school walk-outs, and youth political activism’, 6 March 2018.
• ‘Marking the Women’s Suffrage Centenary in Cambridge’, 30 January 2018.
• ‘Schoolchildren’s Jubilee Address to Queen Victoria’, 2017 Advent Calendar, 7 December 2017.
• ‘Conflict, Memory and Reconciliation: ‘The Vietnam War”, 14 November 2017.