Keywords
Austria, Britain, Culture, Gender, Gender identities, History, Identity, memorials, Nation, Oral testimony, Society, Teaching and learning, War
Research Areas
History
Dr Corinna Peniston-Bird
Senior Lecturer
Bowland College
Lancaster University
Bailrigg
Lancaster
United Kingdom
LA1 4YT
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Tel: +44 1524 594857
Affiliations
PhD Supervision Interests
Dr Peniston-Bird would like to hear from students interested in writing dissertations and theses on topics that would fall under the following headings:The combat taboo and gendered experience of war and commemoration.
Britain in the First and Second World Wars.
Austria in the inter-war period.
Cultural Representations of and Personal Testimonies in the above fields.
Students writing essays and dissertations might be interested in the following guide to websites useful for Modern British History. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/history/resources/modern.htm
Research Interests
Corinna Peniston-Bird's work on oral testimonies is centred on the relationship between memories and cultural representations. She is currently working on gendered commemoration, with a particular focus on British war memorials. Her interest in untraditional source materials has recently been reflected in a jointly edited collection with Dr Sarah Barber entitled History Beyond the Text: A Guide to the Use of Non-Traditional Sources by Historians (London: Routledge, 2008) which introduces research students to methodologies and theories of how to engage with sources ranging from the visual (photographs, film) to the oral (personal testimony), to the material.
2012
'All in it together and backs to the wall': relating patriotism and the people's war in the 21st century
Peniston-Bird, C. 2012 In: Oral History. Autumn, n/a, p. 69-80, 12 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
War and Peace in the Cloakroom: The Controversy over the Memorial to the Women of World War II
Peniston-Bird, C. 17/10/2012 Representations of peace and conflict. Gibson, S. & Mollan, S. (eds.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
2011
La costruzione di un’identità nazionale austriaca nella letteratura turistica, 1918-1938
Peniston-Bird, C. 2011 In: Archivio Trentino. 2011, 1, p. 65-86, 21 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2010
Glorified, Contested and Mobilized: the Alps in the Deutscher und Oesterreichischer Alpenverein from the 1860s to 1933
Peniston-Bird, C., Rohkramer, T. & Schulz, F. R. 2010 In: Austrian Studies. 18, 2010, p. 141-158, 18 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2009
Austria
Peniston-Bird, C. 2009 The Oxford Handbook of Fascism. Bosworth, R. J. B. (ed.). New York: Oxford University Press, p. 434-452 19 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Introduction
Barber, S. & Peniston-Bird, C. 2009 History beyond the Text: A Student's Guide to approaching alternative Sources. Barber, S. & Peniston-Bird, C. M. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 1-14 14 p. (Routledge Guides to using historical Sources).
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Oral History, The Sound of Memory
Peniston-Bird, C. 2009 History Beyond the Text: A Student's guide to approaching alternative sources. Barber, S. & Peniston-Bird, C. (eds.). London and New York: Routledge, p. 105-121 17 p. (Routledge guides to using historical sources).
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
History Beyond the Text: A Student's Guide to approaching alternative sources
Barber, S. (ed.) & Peniston-Bird, C. (ed.) 2009 London and New York: Routledge. 208 p. (Routledge guides to using historical sources).
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Scholarly edition
2007
'I wondered who'd be the first to spot that': Dad's Army at war, in the media and in memory.
Peniston-Bird, C. M. 1/08/2007 In: Media History. 13, 2-3, p. 183-202, 20 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Contesting Home Defence: Men, Women and the Home Guard in the Second World War.
Peniston-Bird, C. M. & Summerfield, P. 2007 Manchester: Manchester University Press. 328 p.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
2006
Edith Summerskill and women's home defence
Peniston-Bird, C. M. 2006 Women and war: a historical encyclopaedia from antiquity to the present. Cook, B. (ed.). Santa Barbara: ABC Clio Press, 742 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
2005
Coffee, Klimt and climbing: constructing an Austrian national identity in tourist literature 1918-1938.
Peniston-Bird, C. M. 2005 Histories of Tourism: Representation, Identity and Conflict. Clevedon: Channel'View Publications, 162 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
2003
'Classifying the body in the Second World War: British men in and out of uniform'.
Peniston-Bird, C. M. 1/12/2003 In: Body & Society. 9, 4, p. 31-48, 18 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2001
'Hey, you're dead!': the multiple uses of humour in representations of British national defence in the Second World War.
Peniston-Bird, C. M. & Summerfield, A. P. 09/2001 In: Journal of European Studies. 31, 123, p. 413-435, 23 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Blitz: a pictorial history of Britain under attack.
Peniston-Bird, C. M. 2001 London: Caxton Editions. 184 p.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
2000
Women in the firing line: the Home Guard and the defence of gender boundaries in Britain in the Second World War.
Summerfield, A. P. & Peniston-Bird, C. M. 06/2000 In: Women's History Review. 9, 2, p. 231-255, 25 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
A soldier and a woman: sexual integration in the military.
Peniston-Bird, C. M. & De Groot, G. J. 2000 Harlow: Pearson Education.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
Delilah shaves her hair: women, the military and Hollywood.
Peniston-Bird, C. M. 2000 A soldier and a woman: sexual integration in the military. Peniston-Bird, C. M. & De Groot, G. J. (eds.). Harlow: Pearson Education, p. 320-336 17 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Ambiguity, contradiction, possibility.
Peniston-Bird, C. M. 2000 A soldier and a woman: sexual integration in the military. Peniston-Bird, C. M. & De Groot, G. J. (eds.). Harlow: Pearson Education, p. 175-184 10 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
1997
Vienna: World Bibliographical Series
Peniston-Bird, C. 11/1997 ABC-CLIO. 220 p.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
The Method of History
01/10/2004 →
Work in all my areas of research involves using sources from material, visual, aural and oral culture which prove problematic for Historians. Corinna Peniston Bird (Lancaster) and I have co-edited the ... Read more»
History beyond the Text - New publication
28/11/2008
November 2008 saw the release of History beyond the Text edited by and with contributions from Corinna Peniston Bird and Sarah Barber, both of the History department at Lancaster. The book is the firs ... Read more»
Trentino Visitato
(Participant) 26/5/2012
Activity: Participation in conference
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