Dr Siân Pooley
Tutor in Modern British History
Siân Pooley directs the ‘Uncovering histories of childhood within the National Trust’ project in partnership with the National Trust. She is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of History, University of Oxford, and a tutor and fellow at Magdalen College Oxford. She teaches modern British history and is a director of Oxford’s Centre for the History of Childhood. She researches childhood, family, and welfare in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain. Her latest publication, with Jonathan Taylor, is Children’s Experiences of Welfare in Modern Britain (2021), available open access here.
