British historian
Julie-Marie Strange , FAcSS (born 1973) is a historian. Since 2019, she has been Professor of Modern British History at Durham University .
Career
Born in 1973,[1] Strange completed a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Philosophy degree at the University of Wales, Cardiff .[2] From 1996 to 2000, she carried out doctoral studies at the University of Liverpool [3] under the supervision of Andrew Davies and Jon Lawrence ;[4] she was awarded a PhD in 2000 for her thesis on death and mourning in the British working classes during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods.[5]
After working as a research assistant on the archives of the United Africa Company and (for two years) as a lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London , she joined the Department of History at the University of Manchester in 2003.[2] She was eventually promoted to be Professor of British History.[2] In 2019, she moved to Durham University to be Professor of Modern British History.[3] [6]
Strange was elected a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2019; the citation called her "a leading figure in framing historically-informed research questions around issues of the marketplace and accountability in humanitarian discourse and practice".[7]
Books
Strange, Julie-Marie (2005). Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain 1870–1914 . Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories. Vol. 6. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press . doi :10.1017/CBO9780511496080 . ISBN 9780511496080 .
Carnevali, Francesca; Strange, Julie-Marie, eds. (2007). 20th Century Britain: Economic, Cultural and Social Change (2nd ed.). Harlow: Longman . ISBN 9780582772878 .
Strange, Julie-Marie, ed. (2012). British Family Life, 1780–1914 . Vol. 2 : Husbands and Fathers . London: Pickering and Chatto . ISBN 9781138750722 .
Strange, Julie-Marie, ed. (2012). British Family Life, 1780–1914 . Vol. 5 : Substitute Families . London: Pickering and Chatto . ISBN 9781848931022 .
Strange, Julie-Marie (2015). Fatherhood and the British Working Class 1865–1914 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press . doi :10.14296/RiH/2014/1926 . ISBN 9781316027059 .
Worboys, Michael; Strange, Julie-Marie; Pemberton, Neil (2018). The Invention of the Modern Dog: Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain . Baltimore, M.A.: Johns Hopkins University Press . ISBN 9781421426587 .
Roddy, Sarah; Strange, Julie-Marie; Taithe, Bertrand (2019). The Charity Market and Humanitarianism in Britain, 1870–1912 . London: Bloomsbury . ISBN 9781350057982 . Thesis
Peer-reviewed articles and chapters
Strange, Julie-Marie (2000). "Menstrual Fictions: Languages of Medicine and Menstruation, c. 1850–1930" . Women's History Review . 9 (3): 607–628. doi :10.1080/09612020000200260 . S2CID 143459453 .
Strange, Julie-Marie (2001). "The Assault on Ignorance: Teaching Menstrual Etiquette in English Schools, c. 1920s to 1960s" . Social History of Medicine . 14 (2): 247–265. doi :10.1093/shm/14.2.247 . PMID 11697352 .
Strange, Julie-Marie (2002). " 'She Cried a Very Little': Death, Grief and Mourning in Working-Class Culture, c. 1880–1914" . Social History . 27 (2): 142–161. doi :10.1080/03071020210128373 . S2CID 143916443 .
Strange, Julie-Marie (2003). "Only a Pauper Whom Nobody Owns: Reassessing the Pauper Grave, c. 1880–1914" . Past & Present . 178 (1): 148–175. doi :10.1093/past/178.1.148 . JSTOR 3600760 .
Strange, Julie-Marie (2003). "Tho' Lost to Sight, to Memory Dear: The Neglected Grave in Victorian and Edwardian Commemorative Culture" . Mortality . 8 (2): 144–159. doi :10.1080/1357627031000087398 . S2CID 145661263 .
Strange, Julie-Marie (2005). " 'I Believe It to Be a Case Depending on Menstruation': Madness and Menstrual Taboo in British Medical Practice, c. 1840–1930". In Shail, Andrew; Howie, Gillian (eds.). Menstruation: A Cultural History . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan . pp. 102–116. ISBN 9781403939357 .
Strange, Julie-Marie (2007). " 'Speechless with Grief': Bereavement and the Working-Class Father, c. 1880–1914". In Broughton, Trev Lynn; Rogers, Helen (eds.). Gender and Fatherhood in the Nineteenth Century . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 138–152. ISBN 9780230207851 .
Strange, Julie-Marie (2007). "Leisure". In Carnevali, Francesca; Strange, Julie-Marie (eds.). 20th Century Britain: Economic, Cultural and Social Change (2nd ed.). Harlow: Longman . pp. 197–213. ISBN 9780582772878 .
Davies, Andrew ; Strange, Julie-Marie (2010). "Where Angels Fear to Tread: Academics, Public Engagement and Popular History" . Journal of Victorian Culture . 15 (2): 268–279. doi :10.1080/13555502.2010.491663 .
Strange, Julie-Marie (2010). "Historical Approaches to Dying". In Kellehear, Allan (ed.). The Study of Dying: From Autonomy to Transformation . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press . pp. 123–146. ISBN 9780521739054 .
Strange, Julie-Marie (2011). "Tramp: Sentiment and the Homeless Man in the Late-Victorian and Edwardian City" . Journal of Victorian Culture . 16 (2): 242–258. doi :10.1080/13555502.2011.589683 .
Strange, Julie-Marie (2011). "Death" . In Jackson, Mark (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine . Oxford: Oxford University Press . pp. 355–372. doi :10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199546497.013.0020 . ISBN 9780199546497 .
Strange, Julie-Marie (2011). "Reading Language as a Historical Source". In Gunn, Simon ; Faire, Lucy (eds.). Research Methods for History . Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press . pp. 165–183. ISBN 9780748654048 .
Strange, Julie-Marie (2012). "Fatherhood, Providing, and Attachment in Late Victorian and Edwardian Working-Class Families" . Historical Journal . 55 (4): 1007–1027. doi :10.1017/S0018246X12000404 . JSTOR 23352188 . S2CID 144726797 .
Strange, Julie-Marie (2012). "In Full Possession of Her Powers: Researching and Rethinking Menopause in Early Twentieth-Century England and Scotland" . Social History of Medicine . 25 (3): 685–700. doi :10.1093/shm/hkr170 .
Strange, Julie-Marie (2013). "Fatherhood, Furniture and the Inter-Personal Dynamics of Working-Class Homes, c . 1870–1914" . Urban History . 40 (2): 271–286. doi :10.1017/S0963926813000060 . S2CID 143863042 .
Strange, Julie-Marie (2013). "Fairy Tales of Fertility: Bodies, Sex and the Life Cycle, c. 1750–2000" . In Toulalan, Sarah; Fisher, Kate (eds.). The Routledge History of Sex and the Body: 1500 to the Present . Abingdon: Routledge . pp. 296–310. doi :10.4324/9780203436868-ch-16 . ISBN 9780203436868 .
Roddy, Sarah; Strange, Julie-Marie; Taithe, Bertrand (2014). "Henry Mayhew at 200 – The 'Other' Victorian Bicentenary" . Journal of Victorian Culture . 19 (4): 481–496. doi :10.1080/13555502.2014.968362 .
Roddy, Sarah; Strange, Julie-Marie; Taithe, Bertrand (2015). "Humanitarian Accountability, Bureaucracy and Self-Regulation: The View from the Archive" . Disasters . 39 (2): 188–203. doi :10.1111/disa.12153 . PMID 26395108 .
Roddy, Sarah; Strange, Julie-Marie; Taithe, Bertrand (2015). "The Charity-Mongers of Modern Babylon: Bureaucracy, Scandal, and the Transformation of the Philanthropic Marketplace, c.1870–1912" . Journal of British Studies . 54 (1): 118–137. doi :10.1017/jbr.2014.163 . S2CID 145746274 .
Pemberton, Neil; Strange, Julie-Marie (2015). "Dogs and Modernity: Dogs in History and Culture" . European Review of History . 22 (5): 705–708. doi :10.1080/13507486.2015.1070123 . S2CID 143266330 .
Strange, Julie-Marie (2015). "Fathers at Home: Life Writing and Late-Victorian and Edwardian Plebeian Domestic Masculinities" . Gender and History . 27 (3): 703–717. doi :10.1111/1468-0424.12158 . S2CID 143390387 .
Pemberton, Neil; Strange, Julie-Marie; Worboys, Michael (2018). "Breeding and Breed" . In Kean, Hilda ; Howell, Philip (eds.). The Routledge Companion to Animal–Human History . London: Routledge . pp. 393–421. doi :10.4324/9780429468933 . ISBN 9780429468933 . S2CID 187988465 .
Strange, Julie-Marie (2020). "The Comfort of Animal 'Things' in Late-Victorian Britain" . In Stobart, Jon (ed.). The Comforts of Home in Western Europe, 1700–1900 . London: Bloomsbury . pp. 234–238. doi :10.5040/9781350092983.0025 . ISBN 978-1-3500-9298-3 . S2CID 214123873 .
Strange, Julie-Marie (2021). "When John met Benny: Class, Pets and Family Life in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain" . The History of the Family . 26 (2): 214–235. doi :10.1080/1081602X.2021.1897028 . S2CID 236554579 .