Penny Summerfield, Histories of the Self. Personal Narratives and Historical Practice

Throughout her distinguished career as a feminist cultural historian of the Second World War, Professor Summerfield’s work has been remarkable for its imaginative, rigorous use full range autobiographical material–diaries, letters, oral history, memoirs and more–available to researchers whose interest is in how subjective experience shapes shaped by wider societal historical context. This “turn personal” (6), exemplified work, cont...