Staff Profile: Dr Laura Ugolini

Name
Dr Laura Ugolini
Title
Reader in History and Director of the Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution
Research Department
School School of Law, Social Sciences and Communications
Tel. 01902 321890
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Summary

Laura Ugolini is a Reader in History, based at Wolverhampton City Campus. Her research interests are in gender history, particularly late 19th and early 20th century masculinities and male identities. Her book on English middle-class civilian men during the First World War will be published by Manchester University Press in September 2013. Laura Ugolini directs the Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD) and is co-editor of the journal Textile History.
 

Research Interests

  • Gender history and masculinity, late 19th/ early 20th centuries
  • The First World War and civilian experiences
  • Dress and textile history
  • The history of retailing and consumption 
  • The relationship between fathers and sons in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain 

Qualifications

  • BA (Hons) History  University of Cardiff
  • MA Women’s History, University of Cardiff
  • PhD, University of Greenwich, ‘Independent Labour Party Men and Women’s Suffrage in Britain, 1893-1914’

Teaching Responsibilities

Laura is responsible for and contributes to a variety of modules:

  • Level 4 The Pursuit of History
  • Level 4 Early Modern England
  • Level 4 The Making of Modern Britain, 1750-1850
  • Level 5 The Age of Total War, 1914-1945
  • Level 6 A Consumer Society? Britain, c. 1800-1939
  • Level 7, MA Popular Culture, Popular Consumerism in Britain, c. 1850-1939

Membership of Professional Bodies and Advisory Committees

  • Pasold Research Fund  (member)
  • Economic History Society (member)
  • Association of Business Historians (member and past council member)
  • Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Recent Publications (since 2007)

Books

  • Civvies: Middle-Class Men on the English Home Front, 1914–18, Manchester University Press, 2013.

  • Men and Menswear: Sartorial Consumption in Britain, 1880-1939, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2007.

Articles

  • ‘Growing fat? Middle-class men and food consumption on the English home front, 1914-1918’, to Food & History (as part of a special edition on ‘Food: Convergence and Divergence in Europe since 1800’), vol. 10, no. 1 (2012).
  • ‘Uniforms and illicit consumption in Britain, 1914-1918’, Journal of Design History, vol. 24, no. 2 (2011).
  • ‘Consumers to combatants? British uniforms and identities, 1914–18’, in Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, vol. 14, no. 2 (2010).
  • ‘Menswear consumption and autobiographies’, in Textile History, vol. 40, no. 2 (2009).

Other

  • Guest editor (with J. Benson), Journal of Historical Research in Marketing, special issue, ‘Beyond the Shop: Acquisition and Exchange Outside the Formal Market’, vol.2, no. 3 (2010).

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