Julie-Marie Strange

Julie-Marie Strange, FAcSS (born 1973) is a historian. Since 2019, she has been Professor of Modern British History at Durham University.

Career

Born in 1973,[1] Strange completed a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Philosophy degree at the University of Wales, Cardiff.[2] From 1996 to 2000, she carried out doctoral studies at the University of Liverpool[3] under the supervision of Andrew Davies and Jon Lawrence;[4] she was awarded a PhD in 2000 for her thesis on death and mourning in the British working classes during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods.[5]

After working as a research assistant on the archives of the United Africa Company and (for two years) as a lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London, she joined the Department of History at the University of Manchester in 2003.[2] She was eventually promoted to be Professor of British History.[2] In 2019, she moved to Durham University to be Professor of Modern British History.[3][6]

Strange was elected a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2019; the citation called her "a leading figure in framing historically-informed research questions around issues of the marketplace and accountability in humanitarian discourse and practice".[7]

Bibliography

Books

• Strange, Julie-Marie (2005). Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain 1870–1914. Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories. Vol. 6. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511496080. ISBN 9780511496080.
• Carnevali, Francesca; Strange, Julie-Marie, eds. (2007). 20th Century Britain: Economic, Cultural and Social Change (2nd ed.). Harlow: Longman. ISBN 9780582772878.
• Strange, Julie-Marie, ed. (2012). British Family Life, 1780–1914. Vol. 2: Husbands and Fathers. London: Pickering and Chatto. ISBN 9781138750722.
• Strange, Julie-Marie, ed. (2012). British Family Life, 1780–1914. Vol. 5: Substitute Families. London: Pickering and Chatto. ISBN 9781848931022.
• Strange, Julie-Marie (2015). Fatherhood and the British Working Class 1865–1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.14296/RiH/2014/1926. ISBN 9781316027059.
• Worboys, Michael; Strange, Julie-Marie; Pemberton, Neil (2018). The Invention of the Modern Dog: Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain. Baltimore, M.A.: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9781421426587.
• Roddy, Sarah; Strange, Julie-Marie; Taithe, Bertrand (2019). The Charity Market and Humanitarianism in Britain, 1870–1912. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781350057982.

Thesis

• Strange, Julie-Marie (2000). This Mortal Coil: Death and Bereavement in Working-Class Culture, c. 1880–1914 (PhD). University of Liverpool.^[permanent dead link‍]

Peer-reviewed articles and chapters

• Strange, Julie-Marie (2000). "Menstrual Fictions: Languages of Medicine and Menstruation, c. 1850–1930". Women's History Review. 9 (3): 607–628. doi:10.1080/09612020000200260. S2CID 143459453.
• Strange, Julie-Marie (2001). "The Assault on Ignorance: Teaching Menstrual Etiquette in English Schools, c. 1920s to 1960s". Social History of Medicine. 14 (2): 247–265. doi:10.1093/shm/14.2.247. PMID 11697352.
• Strange, Julie-Marie (2002). "'She Cried a Very Little': Death, Grief and Mourning in Working-Class Culture, c. 1880–1914". Social History. 27 (2): 142–161. doi:10.1080/03071020210128373. S2CID 143916443.
• Strange, Julie-Marie (2003). "Only a Pauper Whom Nobody Owns: Reassessing the Pauper Grave, c. 1880–1914". Past & Present (178): 148–175. doi:10.1093/past/178.1.148. JSTOR 3600760.
• Strange, Julie-Marie (2003). "Tho' Lost to Sight, to Memory Dear: The Neglected Grave in Victorian and Edwardian Commemorative Culture". Mortality. 8 (2): 144–159. doi:10.1080/1357627031000087398. S2CID 145661263.
• Strange, Julie-Marie (2005). "'I Believe It to Be a Case Depending on Menstruation': Madness and Menstrual Taboo in British Medical Practice, c. 1840–1930". In Shail, Andrew; Howie, Gillian (eds.). Menstruation: A Cultural History. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 102–116. ISBN 9781403939357.
• Strange, Julie-Marie (2007). "'Speechless with Grief': Bereavement and the Working-Class Father, c. 1880–1914". In Broughton, Trev Lynn; Rogers, Helen (eds.). Gender and Fatherhood in the Nineteenth Century. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 138–152. ISBN 9780230207851.
• Strange, Julie-Marie (2007). "Leisure". In Carnevali, Francesca; Strange, Julie-Marie (eds.). 20th Century Britain: Economic, Cultural and Social Change (2nd ed.). Harlow: Longman. pp. 197–213. ISBN 9780582772878.
• Davies, Andrew; Strange, Julie-Marie (2010). "Where Angels Fear to Tread: Academics, Public Engagement and Popular History". Journal of Victorian Culture. 15 (2): 268–279. doi:10.1080/13555502.2010.491663.
• Strange, Julie-Marie (2010). "Historical Approaches to Dying". In Kellehear, Allan (ed.). The Study of Dying: From Autonomy to Transformation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 123–146. ISBN 9780521739054.
• Strange, Julie-Marie (2011). "Tramp: Sentiment and the Homeless Man in the Late-Victorian and Edwardian City". Journal of Victorian Culture. 16 (2): 242–258. doi:10.1080/13555502.2011.589683.
• Strange, Julie-Marie (2011). "Death". In Jackson, Mark (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 355–372. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199546497.013.0020. ISBN 9780199546497.
• Strange, Julie-Marie (2011). "Reading Language as a Historical Source". In Gunn, Simon; Faire, Lucy (eds.). Research Methods for History. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. pp. 165–183. ISBN 9780748654048.
• Strange, Julie-Marie (2012). "Fatherhood, Providing, and Attachment in Late Victorian and Edwardian Working-Class Families". Historical Journal. 55 (4): 1007–1027. doi:10.1017/S0018246X12000404. JSTOR 23352188. S2CID 144726797.
• Strange, Julie-Marie (2012). "In Full Possession of Her Powers: Researching and Rethinking Menopause in Early Twentieth-Century England and Scotland". Social History of Medicine. 25 (3): 685–700. doi:10.1093/shm/hkr170.
• Strange, Julie-Marie (2013). "Fatherhood, Furniture and the Inter-Personal Dynamics of Working-Class Homes, c. 1870–1914". Urban History. 40 (2): 271–286. doi:10.1017/S0963926813000060. S2CID 143863042.
• Strange, Julie-Marie (2013). "Fairy Tales of Fertility: Bodies, Sex and the Life Cycle, c. 1750–2000". In Toulalan, Sarah; Fisher, Kate (eds.). The Routledge History of Sex and the Body: 1500 to the Present. Abingdon: Routledge. pp. 296–310. doi:10.4324/9780203436868-ch-16 (inactive 1 November 2024). ISBN 9780203436868.
• Roddy, Sarah; Strange, Julie-Marie; Taithe, Bertrand (2014). "Henry Mayhew at 200 – The 'Other' Victorian Bicentenary". Journal of Victorian Culture. 19 (4): 481–496. doi:10.1080/13555502.2014.968362.
• Roddy, Sarah; Strange, Julie-Marie; Taithe, Bertrand (2015). "Humanitarian Accountability, Bureaucracy and Self-Regulation: The View from the Archive". Disasters. 39 (2): 188–203. doi:10.1111/disa.12153. PMID 26395108.
• Roddy, Sarah; Strange, Julie-Marie; Taithe, Bertrand (2015). "The Charity-Mongers of Modern Babylon: Bureaucracy, Scandal, and the Transformation of the Philanthropic Marketplace, c.1870–1912". Journal of British Studies. 54 (1): 118–137. doi:10.1017/jbr.2014.163. S2CID 145746274.
• Pemberton, Neil; Strange, Julie-Marie (2015). "Dogs and Modernity: Dogs in History and Culture". European Review of History. 22 (5): 705–708. doi:10.1080/13507486.2015.1070123. S2CID 143266330.
• Strange, Julie-Marie (2015). "Fathers at Home: Life Writing and Late-Victorian and Edwardian Plebeian Domestic Masculinities". Gender and History. 27 (3): 703–717. doi:10.1111/1468-0424.12158. S2CID 143390387.
• Pemberton, Neil; Strange, Julie-Marie; Worboys, Michael (2018). "Breeding and Breed". In Kean, Hilda; Howell, Philip (eds.). The Routledge Companion to Animal–Human History (PDF). London: Routledge. pp. 393–421. doi:10.4324/9780429468933. ISBN 9780429468933. S2CID 187988465.
• Strange, Julie-Marie (2020). "The Comfort of Animal 'Things' in Late-Victorian Britain". In Stobart, Jon (ed.). The Comforts of Home in Western Europe, 1700–1900. London: Bloomsbury. pp. 234–238. doi:10.5040/9781350092983.0025. ISBN 978-1-3500-9298-3. S2CID 214123873.
• Strange, Julie-Marie (2021). "When John met Benny: Class, Pets and Family Life in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain". The History of the Family. 26 (2): 214–235. doi:10.1080/1081602X.2021.1897028. S2CID 236554579.

References

1. "Strange, Julie-Marie, 1973–"^[permanent dead link‍], British Library. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
2. "Prof Julie-Marie Strange", University of Manchester. Archived at the Internet Archive on 12 June 2016.
3. "Prof J. Strange", Durham University. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
4. "Modern Britain and Ireland – Awarded 2000–2009", History Theses 1970–2014: Historical Research for Higher Degrees in the Universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland (British History Online). Retrieved 2 June 2021.
5. "This Mortal Coil: Death and Bereavement in Working-Class Culture, c. 1880–1914"^[permanent dead link‍], EThOS (British Library). Retrieved 2 June 2021.
6. "Featured Speakers", JMC Research (University of Turku). Retrieved 2 June 2021.
7. "Press Release: Seventy-Three Leading Social Scientists Conferred as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences", Academy of Social Sciences, 19 March 2019. Retrieved 2 June 2021.