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Staff Menu Staff A-Z By Role By Keywords Keywords Search See also New Staff SEARCH using keywords/tags or full text search.	Dr Corinna Peniston-Bird Senior Lecturer Degree: M.A.; Ph.D.(St Andrews) Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Gender and Women's Studies Current Teaching HIST288, HIST300; HIST348, HIST421; MAs; PhDs 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. 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. Recent Publications C. M. Peniston-Bird: 'Austria', in Richard Bosworth (ed.), Handbook of Fascism (Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 434-452 C. M. Peniston-Bird (with S. Barber) (eds): History Beyond the Text: A Student's Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources (Routledge, 2008), including the chapter on 'Oral History'. pp. 105-121 With Penny Summerfield, Contesting Home Defence: Men, Women and the Home Guard in the Second World War (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007). 'Coffee, Klimt and Climbing: Constructing an Austrian National Identity in Tourist Literature 1918-1938', in John K. Walton (ed.) Tourisms, Histories and Identities: Nations, Destinations and Representations in Europe and Beyond (Clevedon, Buffalo, NY, 2006), pp. 214-34. 'Classifying the Body in the Second World War: British Men In and Out of Uniform', Body and Society, 9 (2003), 31-48. Blitz: A Pictorial History of Britain under Attack (London, 2001) pp. 1-184. With G. J. DeGroot (ed.), A Soldier and a Woman; Sexual Integration in the Military (Harlow, 2000). Vienna, World Bibliographical Series (Oxford, 1997). Potential Doctoral Proposals 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. Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database Corinna Peniston-Bird has 9 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk Peniston-Bird, C. M. and Summerfield, P. (2007) Contesting Home Defence: Men, Women and the Home Guard in the Second World War. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 978-0-7190-6201-8 Peniston-Bird, C. M. (2007) 'I wondered who'd be the first to spot that': Dad's Army at war, in the media and in memory. Media History, 13 (2-3). pp. 183-202. ISSN 1469-9729 Peniston-Bird, C. M. (2006) Edith Summerskill and women's home defence. In: Women and war: a historical encyclopaedia from antiquity to the present. ABC Clio Press, Santa Barbara. ISBN 1851097708 Peniston-Bird, C. M. (2005) Coffee, Klimt and climbing: constructing an Austrian national identity in tourist literature 1918-1938. In: Histories of Tourism: Representation, Identity and Conflict. Channel'View Publications, Clevedon. ISBN 1-84541-032-7 Peniston-Bird, C. M. (2003) 'Classifying the body in the Second World War: British men in and out of uniform'. Body & Society, 9 (4). pp. 31-48. ISSN 1460-3632 Peniston-Bird, Corinna M. (2001) Blitz : a pictorial history of Britain under attack. Caxton Editions, London. Peniston-Bird, Corinna M. and Summerfield, A. P. (2001) 'Hey, you're dead!' : the multiple uses of humour in representations of British national defence in the Second World War. Journal of European Studies, 31 (123). pp. 413-435. ISSN Online ISSN: 1740-2379 Print ISSN: 0047-2441 Peniston-Bird, Corinna M. and De Groot, G. J. (2000) A soldier and a woman : sexual integration in the military. Pearson Education, Harlow. Summerfield, A. Penny and Peniston-Bird, Corinna M. (2000) Women in the firing line : the Home Guard and the defence of gender boundaries in Britain in the Second World War. Women's History Review, 9 (2). pp. 231-255. ISSN 0961-2025 Other Interests and Hobbies Pedagogy, cult tv, Die Sendung mit der Maus, and the creative arts from musicals to the work of Cassandra Wilson, the Gershwins and Johann Sebastian Bach. More recently, Peppa Pig. Associated Keywords: Austria, Britain, Culture, Gender, Gender identities, History, Identity, Nation, Oral testimony, Society, Teaching and learning, War View all research activities, ePrints, news and events associated with Corinna Peniston-Bird. «Back	Contact Details Tel: (5)94857 Room: Bowland Main, B138 View Staff Profiles History Staff All Faculty Staff Search Faculty by Keyword
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