Lecturer in History
School of Arts and Humanities
Dr Louise Carter received First Class Honours for her B.A. in History and a distinction for her M.A. in History from the University of Essex. She gained her Ph.D. in History at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. Both her M.A. and Ph.D. were funded by the E.S.R.C. (Economic and Social Research Council). Dr Carter joined the History team at UCS in August 2008 after teaching at the University of Aberdeen.
She is a modern British historian with a particular interest in social and cultural history from 1750-1900 and issues of gender and identity.
Teaching and Other Responsibilities
British Society and Culture 1530-1780|
British Society and Culture 1780-1918| (contributor)
Gender in British Society since 1500|
Gender, War and Empire in British Society 1760-1930|
The Witch-Hunt in East Anglia and Beyond|
Dissertation Skills| and supervision
Library Liaison
History website
External memberships:
The Royal Historical Society; The Historical Association; HEA Subject Centre for History; Women's History Network; Soldiers and Soldiering 1750-1815; The Fawcett Society and Suffolk Records Society.
Research Interests and Publications:
'British Masculinity on Trial in the Queen Caroline Affair of 1820', Gender and History, vol. 20, 2, August (2008).
The Crimean War in the British Imagination, by Stefanie Markovits, The English Historical Review, 2011, 126, pp. 1214-1216.
Domestic Affairs: Intimacy, Eroticism and Violence Between Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-Century Britain, by Kristina Straub, History, 97:325, Jan 2012, pp.160-162.
'Scarlet Fever: Women's Enthusiasm for Men in Uniform 1780-1815', in Kevin Linch and Matthew McCormack (eds.), Britain’s Soldiers: Rethinking War and Society, 1715-1815, (forthcoming, Liverpool University Press).
I am currently working on a book entitled Scarlet Fever: British Men and Women and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815 and have an ongoing interest in issues of war, gender and empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
I am happy to supervise dissertations on modern British social and cultural history 1700-1950.
Selected Conferences and Papers:
'Britain, Gender and Men in Uniform 1793-1815', History Dept Research Seminar, University of Essex, February 2012.
'Scarlet Fever: Women and the Military Man 1780-1815', Soldiers and Soldiering in Britain 1750-1815 Conference, University of Leeds/AHRC, July 2011.
"War and the Sexes: Propaganda, Gender and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars", Nation, Home and Empire: Readings of Gender from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day Conference, University of Manchester, July 2007 and UCS Research Colloquium July 2010.
"Separate Spheres and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars", Varieties of Cultural History Conference, University of Aberdeen, July 2007.
'A Just War? The 1790s Debate', Selwyn MCR, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, January 2004.
"British Women’s Writing on the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars", Women and Conflict in Historical Perspective Conference, University of California Santa Barbara, October 2003.