2023 - 2024 | Dr Laura Carter

Dr Laura Carter is an historian of modern Britain whose work focuses on histories of education, gender, and social change. Her first book, Histories of Everyday Life: The Making of Popular Social History in Britain, 1918-1979 (OUP, 2021) was nominated for the Royal Historical Society Whitfield Book Prize, 2022. Since 2017, she has been part of a team of historians working on the ESRC-funded project ‘Secondary education and social change in the United Kingdom since 1945’. Her most recent article arising from this project is about women who attended secondary modern schools in Britain between the 1940s and 1960s and how they navigated school to labour market transitions, it is available to read open access here. She is a Lecturer in British History at Université Paris Cité in Paris, France and a member of the CNRS-funded research unit LARCA - UMR 8225.