Wendy Webster

Short Biography

Wendy Webster’s current project on Englishness and Europe, 1939–75 has been supported by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. She would like to thank the Leverhulme Trust for this support and the Australian National University for the award of a Research Fellowship in 2010 to develop it further.

Her writing, initially mainly in journalism, led to the publication of Not A Man To Match Her: The Marketing of a Prime Minister (London 1990). Since her turn to academic work, she has published widely on questions of imperialism, race, ethnicity, gender, migration and national identity in contemporary British history including Imagining Home: Gender, ‘Race’, and National Identity (1998) and Englishness and Empire, 1939–1965 (2005) which was awarded the International Association for Media and History prize for best work in the field in 2006. Her latest book, co-edited with Louise Ryan is Gendering Migration: Masculinity, Femininity and Ethnicity in Post-war Britain (2008). She is Professor Emeritus of Contemporary British History at the University of Central Lancashire.