Dr Linsey Robb

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.

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• ‘We Must Find a Way to Remember Them Too’: British Second World War Conscientious Objectors in Post-War Culture, Thompson, R., Robb, L. 21 Oct 2024, In: Journal of War and Culture Studies
• British Humour and the Second World War: ‘Keep Smiling Through’, Pattinson, J., Robb, L. 1 Jun 2023
• ‘Few things in life are less funny than war’: Reclaiming the humour in the horror, Pattinson, J., Robb, L. 1 Jun 2023, British Humour and the Second World War, London, Bloomsbury
• 'Good-Natured as any Folk in the World': The Ministry of Information Film and British Humour during the Second World War, Robb, L. 1 Jun 2023, British Humour and the Second World War, London, Bloomsbury
• Britain at war 1914–1918 and 1939–45, Robb, L. 30 Dec 2022, 20th Century Britain, London, Taylor & Francis
• Women and War: British Women and War, 1850-1950, Robb, L. 17 Apr 2020
• The 'Conchie Corps': Conflict, Compromise and Conscientious Objection in the British Army, 1940 – 1945, Robb, L. 1 Sep 2018, In: Twentieth Century British History
• 'Fighting In Their Ways'? The Civilian Man in British Culture, 1939-1945, Robb, L. 1 Jun 2017, Home Fronts - Britain and the Empire at War, 1939-45, Boydell & Brewer
• Men in reserve: British civilian masculinities in the Second World War, Juliette, P., McIvor, A., Robb, L. Jan 2017
• Men, Masculinities and Male Culture in the Second World War, Robb, L., Pattinson, J. 17 Nov 2017

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• We say no!: British Conscientious Objection in the Second World War, Robb, L. (Principal Investigator), Arts & Humanities Research Council, 09/01/23 - 08/07/24, £182,466.00

• 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