Julie-Marie Strange, FAcSS (born 1973) is a historian. Since 2019, she has been Professor of Modern British History at Durham University.
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]
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: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of June 2024 (link)In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the reign of Queen Victoria, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. Slightly different definitions are sometimes used. The era followed the Georgian era and preceded the Edwardian era, and its later half overlaps with the first part of the Belle Époque era of continental Europe.
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Works about the United Kingdom and British Empire during the reign of Queen Victoria.
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