Professor Julie Gottlieb
B.A. (McGill), M.A., Ph.D. (Cambridge)
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
Professor of Modern History
Impact Lead
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School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
9 Mappin Street
Sheffield
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- Profile
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I am a Professor of Modern History. I completed a Joint Honours BA in English and History at McGill University (Montreal) before coming to Britain where I completed an MPhil and a PhD at the University of Cambridge. After my studies at Cambridge, I was a lecturer at the University of Manchester and at Bristol University, before starting at Sheffield in September 2003. I have held fellowships and been guest professorships at univerisities in France, Hungary, Slovenia, Canada and the USA.
- Qualifications
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PhD in History, University of Cambridge MPhil
University of Cambridge
Joint Honours BA in English and History, McGill University
- Research interests
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My research interests are, broadly in:
- Modern British political history (principally the period 1918 to 1945) the history of political extremism (with a focus on right-wing extremism in Britain)
- women's history and gender studies (particularly women in politics, the construction of gender identities in the political sphere, and women in the Conservative Party)
- comparative fascism (particularly gender and fascism in comparative perspective)
- Race and identity in the British context
- the Medical Humanities, mental health, and the history of suicide
My second monograph examines women's participation and their representation in British foreign affairs between the wars; women's political activism in a range of internationalist, feminist and pacifist organizations; womens contribution to resistance to fascism at home and abroad; and the gendering of the appeasement in the late 1930s. "Guilty Women: Gender, Foreign Policy and Appeasement in inter-war Britain" was published in 2015 and became available in paperback in 2017.
Emerging from 'Guilty Women', I carried on researching the intersecting themes of women's political engagement in domestic and foreign affairs, alongside the history of below of the international crises of the 1930s.
Recent collaborative publications, all stemming from international conferences, include Rethinking (2017); a special issue of Diplomacy & Statecraft as well as a Routledge edition Gendering Peace in Europe c.1880-2000 (co-edited with Gaynor Johnson); the collected volume The Munich Crisis, Politics and the People (co-edited with Daniel Hucker and Richard Toye); and Women on the Right: Politics and Social Action in Comparative and Transnational Perspective, 1870s-1990s (co-edited with Clarisse Berthez癡ne and Laura Lee Downs).
Ongoing research projects focus on women's politicisation in Modern Britain; people's histories of international crises; and the emotional and psychological fallout of the Munich crisis, stemming from my Wellcome Seed Award-funded project "Suicide, Society and Crisis" (2017-19). I am completing a new mongraph with writer Nicola Baldwin titled "The Nervous State: F.L. Lucas and the Internalisation of Crisis, 1938 (White Rose University Press).
- Publications
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- Books
- Edited books
- Journal articles
- Book chapters
- Book reviews
- Conference proceedings
- Digital content
- Dictionary or encyclopaedia entries
- Other
Books
- 9780755627325. London: I.B. Tauris/ Bloomsbury.
- Feminine Fascism: Women in Britain's Fascist Movement, 1923-1945.
- . Manchester University Press.
- . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- The Culture of Fascism: Visions of the Far Right in Britain.
Edited books
- Women on the Right: Politics and Social Action in Comparative and Transnational Perspective, 1870s-1990s. London: Bloomsbury.
- Gendering Peace in Europe, C. 1880s to 2000. Routledge.
- The Munich Crisis, politics and the people: International, transnational and comparative perspectives. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
- The Munich Crisis, politics and the people International, transnational and comparative perspectives Introduction..
- Rethinking Right-Wing Women: Women in the Conservative Party, 1880s to the Present. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.
- Feminism and Feminists After Suffrage. London and New York: Routledge.
- . Palgrave Macmillan UK.
- Making Reputations: Power, Persuasion and the Individual in Modern British Politics (London: I.B. Tauris)..
- The Culture of Fascism: Visions of the Far Right in Britain (London: I.B. Tauris)..
Journal articles
- Britains War of Nerves: Reframing and Reclaiming the Period from the Munich Crisis to the End of the Phoney War. The East Asiona Jounral of British History, 9(March 2025), 31-41.
- Introduction. Women on the Right Politics and Social Action in Comparative and Transnational Perspective 1870s 1990s, 1-11.
- . The Historical Journal, 68(1), 115-138.
- The Age of the Gas Mask: How British Civilians Faces the Terrors of Total War. GENDER AND HISTORY, 35(3), 1156-1157.
- Dying for The Nation: Death, Grief and Bereavement in Second World War Britain. GENDER AND HISTORY, 35(3), 1156-1157.
- Introduction. Munich Crisis Politics and the People International Transnational and Comparative Perspectives, 1-18.
- . Diplomacy & Statecraft, 31(4), 745-770.
- . Diplomacy & Statecraft, 31(4), 601-608.
- Suffrage Statutes and Statues: Reflections on Commemorating Milestones in the History of Womens Emancipation in Britain. Caliban, no.62(2019), 159-180.
- Julie Gottlieb, The Past Imperfect or a gendered vision of fascism https://www.politika.io/fr/notice/fascism-is-as-fascism-does. Politika(https://www.politika.io/fr/notice/fascism-is-as-fascism-does).
- Julie V. Gottlieb 'As we enact physical distancing, the virtual world provides endless outlets for emoting'. HISTORY TODAY, 70(5), 9-9.
- . Women's History Review, 28(2), 337-349.
- . Women's History Review, 28(2), 189-193.
- The Munich Crisis: Waiting for the end of the world. History Today, 68(9), 24-34.
- The Munich Crisis: Waiting for the end of the world. History Today, 68(9).
- Guilty Men: From Dunkirk to Brexit. History Today, 68(3), 18-20.
- Eleanor Rathbone, the Women Churchillians and Anti-Appeasement. Women's History: The Journal of the Women's History Network, 2(6), 15-18.
- . Women's History Review, 1-22.
- . Twentieth Century British History, 27(3), 357-388.
- . Journal of Contemporary History, 51(3), 701-702.
- 'Rethinking Right-Wing Women: Coming Together to Converse about and Conserve Conservative Women' (a report on the conference). Conservative History Journal, II(4), 58-59.
- . Women S History Review, 23(3), 325-329.
- . Women S History Review, 23(3), 441-462.
- . Politics, Religion and Ideology, 13(3), 197-219.
- Introduction to Special Issue "Women, Fascism and the Far-Right, 1918-2010. Politics, Religion and Ideology, 13(2), 137-140.
- . Politics, Religion & Ideology, 13(2), 137-140.
- . Contemporary European History, 20(2), 111-136.
- . EUR HIST Q, 39(2), 315-316.
- . Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, 8(1), 163-197.
- . Journal of Contemporary History, 41(1), 35-55.
- Responses to Nazism in Britain, 1933-1939: Before war and holocaust. ETHNIC RACIAL STUD, 28(3), 588-589.
- Right-wing women in women's history: A global perspective - Introduction. J WOMENS HIST, 16(3), 106-107.
- Women and British fascism revisited - Gender, the far-right, and resistance. J WOMENS HIST, 16(3), 108-123.
- . The American Historical Review, 108(3), 917-918.
- Introduction: Culture and the British Far Right. Culture of Fascism Visions of the Far Right in Britain, 1-9.
- . Gender & History, 14(2), 294-320.
- . Canadian Journal of History, 37(3), 561-563.
- . Canadian Journal of History, 37(2), 389-391.
- . Twentieth Century British History, 12(2), 262-266.
Book chapters
- British nationalist feminism in the sphere of international relations in the interwar period, Women on the Right Politics and Social Action in Comparative and Transnational Perspective 1870s 1990s (pp. 119-136).
- (pp. 1-12). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- The British Fascisti and Rotha Lintorn-Orman In Hope Not Hate (Ed.), They Shall Not Pass: 100 Years of Fascism and Anti-Fascism (pp. 10-11). London: Hope Not Hate.
- , The European Experience (pp. 251-260). Open Book Publishers
- , European Experience A Multi Perspective History of Modern Europe (pp. 251-259).
- Munich and the masses: emotional inflammation, mental health and shame in Britain during the September crisis, Munich Crisis Politics and the People International Transnational and Comparative Perspectives (pp. 192-212).
- , Considering Conservative Women in the Gendering of Modern British Politics (pp. 1-5). Routledge
- Modes and models of Conservative women's leadership in the 1930s, Rethinking Right Wing Women Gender and the Conservative Party 1880s to the Present (pp. 89-103).
- WOMENS PRINT MEDIA, FASCISM, AND THE FAR RIGHT IN BRITAIN BETWEEN THE WARS, Edinburgh History of Womens Periodical Culture in Britain Womens Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain 1918 1939 the Interwar Period (pp. 450-462).
- 1. Suffrage and Nationalism in Comparative Perspective: Britain, Hungary, Finland and the Transnational Experience of Rosika Schwimmer In Stibbe M & Sharp I (Ed.), Women Activists between War and Peace, 1918-1923 London: Bloomsbury.
- Suffrage and Nationalism in Comparative Perspective: Britain, Hungary, Finland and the Transnational Experience of Rosika Schwimmer, Women Activists Between War and Peace Europe 1918 1923 (pp. 29-76).
- British Women and the Three Encounters: International, European, and Fascist, GUILTY WOMEN, FOREIGN POLICY, AND APPEASEMENT IN INTER-WAR BRITAIN (pp. 13-37).
- 'Anyway Let's Have Peace:' Women's Expressions of Opinion on Appeasement, GUILTY WOMEN, FOREIGN POLICY, AND APPEASEMENT IN INTER-WAR BRITAIN (pp. 185-211).
- Memory, Mourning and Maternal Inheritances: A Daughter on Becoming My Mothers Daughter In Jilovsky E, Silverstein J & Slucki D (Ed.), In the Shadows of the Shadows of the Holocaust: Narratives of the Third Generation (pp. 15-34). London: Valentine Mitchell.
- 'Don't Believe in Foreigners:' The Female Franchise Factor and the Munich By-elections, GUILTY WOMEN, FOREIGN POLICY, AND APPEASEMENT IN INTER-WAR BRITAIN (pp. 212-234).
- Introduction-Guilty Women? Gendering Appeasement, GUILTY WOMEN, FOREIGN POLICY, AND APPEASEMENT IN INTER-WAR BRITAIN (pp. 1-+).
- 'Guilty Women:' Powers behind Thrones, GUILTY WOMEN, FOREIGN POLICY, AND APPEASEMENT IN INTER-WAR BRITAIN (pp. 82-100).
- 'Guilty Women:' Conspiracy and Collusion, GUILTY WOMEN, FOREIGN POLICY, AND APPEASEMENT IN INTER-WAR BRITAIN (pp. 61-81).
- The Women Churchillians and the Politics of Shame, GUILTY WOMEN, FOREIGN POLICY, AND APPEASEMENT IN INTER-WAR BRITAIN (pp. 235-265).
- Women's War on Fascism, GUILTY WOMEN, FOREIGN POLICY, AND APPEASEMENT IN INTER-WAR BRITAIN (pp. 38-60).
- 'Women Are the Best Friends of Mr Chamberlain's Policy:' Gendered Representations of Public Opinion, GUILTY WOMEN, FOREIGN POLICY, AND APPEASEMENT IN INTER-WAR BRITAIN (pp. 152-184).
- 'To Speak a Few Words of Comfort to Them:' Conservative Women's Support for Chamberlain and Appeasement, GUILTY WOMEN, FOREIGN POLICY, AND APPEASEMENT IN INTER-WAR BRITAIN (pp. 101-151).
- Female "Fanatics": Women's sphere in the British Union of Fascists, Right Wing Women from Conservatives to Extremists Around the World (pp. 29-42).
- , The Aftermath of Suffrage (pp. 159-180). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- The Aftermath of Suffrage: Women, Gender and Politics in Britain, 1918-1945 (pp. 159-180). Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
- "Femmes, Conservatisme et Fascisme en Grand-Bretagne: Comparisons et Convergences", A driote de la droite: Droites radicales en France et en Grande-Bretagne au XXe si癡cle (pp. 387-424). Paris: Presse Universitaires Du Septentrion.
- The Gender of Tolerance and Hate: Women, Philo-Semitism and Anti-Semitism in Britain in the late 1930s and 1940s, Sexe, Race et Mixite dans laire Anglophone (pp. 129-156). Paris: LHarmattan.
- In Copsey N & Olechnowicz A (Ed.) Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Varieties of Feminist Anti-Fascism In Copsey N & Olechnowicz A (Ed.), Varieties of Anti-Fascism: Britain in the Inter-war Period (pp. 101-118). Basingstoke: Palgrave.
- , British Fascism, the Labour Movement and the State (pp. 68-94). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- A Mosleyite Life Stranger than Fiction: The Making and Remaking of Olive Hawks, Making Reputations: Power, Persuasion and the Individual in Modern British Politics (pp. 70-91). London: I.B. Tauris.
- Feminism and Anti-Fascism in Britain between the Wars: Militancy Revived? In Copsey N & Renton D (Ed.), British Fascism, the Labour Movement and the State Basingstoke: Palgrave.
- Women and British Fascism, Antisemitism A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution Volume 1 2 (pp. 773-774).
- Webster, Nesta (1876-1960), Antisemitism A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution Volume 1 2 (pp. 759).
- Britain's New Fascist Men: The Aestheticization of Brutality in British Fascist Propaganda In Gottlieb JV & Linehan T (Ed.), The Culture of Fascism: Visions of the far Right in Britain (pp. 83-99). London: I.B. Tauris.
Book reviews
- . Global Intellectual History, 9(3), 344-346.
- . Gender & History, 35(3), 1156-1157.
- Inez Holden, There's No Story Here. TLS - The Times Literary Supplement.
- . Twentieth Century British History, 29(3), 487-489.
- . Women's History Review, 24(4), 653-654.
- . Journal of British Studies, 54(2), 527-528.
Conference proceedings
- Introduction. RETHINKING RIGHT-WING WOMEN: GENDER AND THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY, 1880S TO THE PRESENT (pp 1-10)
Digital content
- A Right Royal Controversy: The Princess Elizabeth and the Heil , History Matters Blog.
- Women to the Right: The Ascendency of Women in Conservative Politics, History Matters Blog:.
- SUFFRAGETTE: THE FORREST GUMP OF FEMINISM.
- Julie V. Gottlieb on Feminists and Feminism after Suffrage Julie V. Gottlieb, the editor and contributor to Feminists and Feminism after Suffrage, talks about how she first became interested in British Feminism and what we can learn from feminist activism after suffrage..
- TELLING GUILTY WOMEN BY ITS COVER: PUTTING WOMEN IN THE PICTURE IN APPEASEMENT STUDIES.
- WHICH WITCH IS WHICH? MARGARET THATCHER AS LADY POLITICIAN.
- SEIZING THE MUNICH MOMENT: THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MUNICH CRISIS.
- Fascism in Inter-war Britain.
- Shy Tory women in the history of suffrage and beyond.
- Was 2016 just 1938 all over again?.
- 2016: a very bad year for women.
- Women to the Barricades: Gendering the Battle of Cable Street.
- The Battle of Cable Street: Julie Gottlieb interviews filmmaker Yoav Segal.
- This MAY be Tory Feminism: The Second Woman MP is not Margaret Thatcher Mark II.
- The Feminising Fallout of the EU Referendum: Is this the new face of feminism?.
- Post-Referendum Depression.
- Telling 'Guilty Women' by its Cover: Putting Women in the Picture in Appeasement Studies.
Dictionary or encyclopaedia entries
- British Union of Fascists. In Antisemitism A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution Volume 1 2 (Vol 1-2).
- Oxford University Press.
Other
- Lincertain statut des statues. Constructions et d矇constructions.
- Unveiling Nancy Astor's Complicated Legacy https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/unveiling-nancy-astors-complicated-legacy.
- Nancy Astor: Feminist By Default Rather Than By Design.
- From Dunkirk to Brexit in History Today.
- Research group
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Research Supervision
- Current Students
Second Supervisor
- Completed Students
- Alexander Noonan (second supervisor) - Spectators or Citizens? British Political Culture, 1974-1994.
- Vernon Jones - Improving the Social and Working Conditions of Miners 1920-1946: The Contribution of the Miners' Welfare Fund
- Cherie Prosser - BEYOND NATIONALISM: Profression to Modernism in propaganda posters 1914-1918
- Isabelle Carter (second supervisor) - The lived experience of post-war multi-storey council housing: reassessing Sheffield's Park Hill and Manchester's Hulme.
- Liam Liburd - The Eternal Imperialists: Empire, Race and Gender on the British Radical Right, 1918-1968.
- David Page (MPhil) - Pioneers of European Federalism: the New Europe Group and New Britain Movement (19311935).
- Sarah Kenny (second supervisor) - Unspectacular Youth? Evening Leisure Space and Young Culture in Sheffield c.1960-1989.
- Ross Paulger (MPhil, second supervisor) - Anglo-American Quality Press Narratives and Sexual Revolution, 1958-1979.
- Steven McKevitt (second supervisor) - The Persuasion Industries in the UK and the Inculcation of Persuasion within British Society from 1969 to 1997.
- Lucy Brown (second supervisor) - Encountering Each Other: Love and Emotional Relationships Between Men and Women in Britain, 1950s-1970s.
- Mary Feerick (second supervisor) - The Role of Trust, Social Capital and Reputation in the Networks and Connections of British Industrialising Cotton-Spinning Mills, c. 1780-1840.
- Teaching interests
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Modern British History, Fascism, Internationalism, Women and Gender.
- Teaching activities
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Undergraduate:
- HST119 - The Transformation of Britain, 1800 to Present
- HST2030 - Appeasement, the Munich Crisis and the British People
- HST2091/2 - Course Assignment
- HST276 - Gender and Sexuality in Modern Britain 1850 to the Present
- HST3069/70 - Facism and Anti-Facism in Britain 1923-1945
Postgraduate:
- HST6046 - Sex and Power: The Politics of Womens Liberation in Modern Britain
- Professional activities and memberships
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- - Member
- - Editorial Board
- The Aftermath of War (a AHRC-funded network) - Steering Committee
- AHRC Peer Review College - Member
Administrative roles:
Beginning in 2017, I took over as chair of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities Equality and Diversity Committee, and I am a member of the standing Development Committee. I organised a number of events to raise awareness of FEDIC priorities and concerns including:
- Tackling Implicit Bias with Professor Jenny Saul ()
- The future of gender in the curriculum with Professor Andrea Pet ()
- Women in leadership ()
Department of History Exams Officer 2016-17.
I have previously been on Research Committee, Teaching Committee and Postgraduate Committee. In 2011, I chaired the Level I Teaching Sub-Committee to lead reform of our curriculum by integrating research-driven teaching at level I, and this committee designed the first version of "The History Workshop", an innovative module adopted by the Department in 2013-14.
I have been Level II Tutor, a student-centred role, in which I introduced new time-efficient, rationalized procedures. I have also served as Course Assignment Coordinator, and CILASS representative, responsible for developing CILASS workshops, and responding to student concerns.
- Public engagement
Since 2022, I have been working in close collaboration with writer-filmmaker Nicola Baldwin on "The Nervous State" []. The pedagogical strand of this project has produced . , and policy work on embedding emotional literacy within the history curriculum with the Schools History Project.
I have shared my research through public engagement activities in the wider community, speaking to schools, through arts projects, and in the media. Especially since the summer 2016, I have been in the media, offering historical contextualisation for the fallout of the EU referendum, the feminisation of British politics and the ascendency of women in Conservative and Right-wing politics, and the impact of political crisis on mental health (individually and collectively).
I have reached regional, national, and international audiences on radio and television, including BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, The Sunday Politics, and Sky 壅翌腦瞳, and interviewed by a number of news outlets, including the Times, Atlantic Monthly, the Yorkshire Post, BBC Magazine, the New York Times, the 壅翌腦瞳tatesman, and Kristeligt Dagblad. I have written for publications with wide readerships, like BBC History Magazine and History Today, recorded many podcasts, and contributed to First 壅翌腦瞳 to interest children in the links between the news and history. The 壅翌腦瞳tatesman, The Huffington Post, The Conversation, History Matters, and The PSA Political Insight.
In Sheffield I have appeared a number of times on BBC Radio Sheffield, spoken to a variety of local groups about aspects of my research, acted as historical consultant to Coralie Turpin for the artists vibrant mosaic installation at Anne Knight House, and curated the Suffrage 100 strand of the Off the Shelf Festival of Words in October 2018 OTS 2018 3.indd .
I have found my active collaboration with Freddie Garland, dancer-choreographer of the Tenfoot Dance Company, especially enriching in the creation of the multifaceted and multimedia community dance project Angels of the North: Womens Movement 100, phases of which have been performed at Ideas Alive and Festival of the Mind. [link to YouTube video will be available soon] You can see my impact case study for the Department of History REF 2014 and REF 2021.
I was a historical adviser to the statue of suffragist Millicent Fawcett, unveiled in the spring 2018. Following the Vote 100 celebrations on 6 February, she shared her experience of the project and her research in the interview: Why does the Vote 100 centenary matter?. To find about more about the Fawcett statue and the unveiling event, see here.
In May 2018 our Wellome-funded Conference Suicide, Society and Crisis brought together scholars, practicioners and community activists. You can hear from a number of the participants here Suicide, society, crisis (academic conference) In June 2018 our conference The Munich Crisis and the People brought together researchers interested to use fresh approaches and offer new perspectives on the familiar story of the international crisis and appeasement in 1938.
In February 2020 I joined a panel organised by Dr Karina Urbach at the IAS, Princeton, considering the Impact of the Past: Antisemitism Past and Present. You can watch the discussion here Anti-SemitismPast and Present.