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Dr Linsey Robb

Associate Professor

Department: Humanities

Linsey Robb is a social and cultural historian of warfare. She completed her undergraduate degree and PhD at the University of Strathclyde (with an MSc in Social History from the University of Glasgow), graduating for the final time in July 2013. After graduation Linsey worked on the AHRC-funded oral history project ‘Masculinities Challenged?’, a large-scale oral history project examining the lives of men in reserved occupations during the Second World War. She then taught at Teesside University (2015-2017) before joining ϲ in September 2017.

Linsey Robb

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Office location: Lipman 316



Linsey is predominantly interested in the civilian experience of modern warfare. Her previous research focused on the lived experiences and cultural representations of civilian men at work in the Second World War. Her current research predominatly focuses on the lives of British Conscientious Objectors in the Second World War.

  • Luke Usher 'We Were There,' The British Veterans’ Recalled Experience of the Burma Campaign, 1942-45. Start Date: 20/01/2023
  • Drew Ryder 'Don’t Forget the Boys in Korea’: British Soldiers’ Experience of the Korean War 1950-1953 Start Date: 01/02/2020 End Date: 22/10/2020
  • Bethany Wyatt Cultures of Care in Britain’s Country House Hospitals, 1914-1919 Start Date: 23/10/2024
  • Victoria Peretitskaya The Russian Doukhobors in Canada: A twentieth-century history of radical pacifism, religious anarchism and migration. Start Date: 01/10/2023

History PhD September 30 2012


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