Dr Sally Sokoloff

My doctoral and post-doctoral expertise was in twentieth-century French and European history and focused on the history of the French countryside and agriculture, and in my first lecturer post at the University of Salford I taught this. How another nation sees and handles its own history gives a particular viewpoint on the history and historical practices of one's own country. After a break to have a family and do un-academic things, I returned to what is now the University of Northampton, and became a historian of British society in the twentieth century. Loads of committee work and administration within the University goes with my current post: I try to represent the interests of a great team of historians at Northampton in a modernising University. The development of a placement scheme for history students recently has brought me into interesting networks in museums, archives, libraries, and heritage sites.

• Conflict and Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century World
• Introduction to Women's History
• Research Skills in History
• Empires Through History
• The Home Front in Britain in World War Two
• Popular Culture and the British Experience of War 1939-45
• The First World War and British Society: Experience and Memory

PhD supervision

I am happy to supervise students wishing to research the social history of World War Two Britain, Military Service Tribunals and First World War Britain, or aspects of Northamptonshire History 1870 - 1970, especially using oral history techniques.

My research interests bring together the history of the experience of Total War within Britain in the twentieth century with questions that lie within the new agendas of class, local, and gender history. I am currently working on the Military Service Tribunal records of 1916-18 for Northamptonshire, and using the results for various research questions and events.

Other publications

• 'Soldiers or Civilians?  The Impact of Army Service in World War Two on Birmingham Men'',' Oral History, 25, 1 (1997)
• '"How are they at home?"  Community, State and Servicemen's Wives in England 1939-45'', Women's History Review, 8, 1 (1999)
• 'The Home Front in the Second World War and Local History', The Local Historian, 32, 1 (2002)
• 'The Historiography of the Home Front in World War Two Britain', History Teaching Review Yearbook, 20 (2006)