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 Northumbria University in September 2017.

Campus Address

Office location: Lipman 316

Email Linsey

@Linseyrobb

Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

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.

Key Publications

Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
British Humour and the Second World War: ‘Keep Smiling Through’, Pattinson, J., Robb, L. 29 Jun 2023
'Good-Natured as any Folk in the World': The Ministry of Information Film and British Humour during the Second World War, Robb, L. 29 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
Blood, Thunder and Showgirls: The Merchant Navy on the BBC, 1939–1945, Robb, L. 26 Mar 2015, In: Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
‘His Own Weapons to His Own Battlefront’: The civilian working man in British culture 1939–1945, Robb, L. Apr 2015, Fighting for Britain? Negotiating Identities in Britain During the Second World War, Peter Lang

PGR Supervision

Victoria Peretitskaya The Russian Doukhobors in Canada: A twentieth-century history of radical pacifism, religious anarchism and migration. Start Date: 01/10/2023
Luke Usher 'We Were There,' The British Infantryman’s Recalled Experience of the Burma Campaign, 1942-45: A Secondary Oral History. 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

Qualifications

History PhD September 30 2012

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