Dr Jenny Macleod

Dr Jenny Macleod

Senior Lecturer in 20th Century History

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Arts Cultures and Education
  • School of Humanities

Qualifications

  • PhD / DPhil (University of Cambridge)

Summary

Dr Jenny Macleod is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and Pembroke College, Cambridge, whose first lectureship was in Modern British History at the University of Newcastle.

Thereafter, she worked for King's College London, firstly as a research fellow at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, and then as a lecturer in Defence Studies at the Joint Services Command and Staff College.

Dr Macleod then returned to the University of Edinburgh as a research fellow before joining the University of Hull as a lecturer in 2006. She was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2015. She took on the role of Head of Department in 2019.

During the centenary in 2015 of the Allied attack on Gallipoli, Dr Macleod's research was recognised through a range of media and lecturing invitations including:

- Visiting Canterbury Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

- Keynote speaker at conferences at the Australian National University, the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, and Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Çanakkale, Turkey

Dr Macleod was the co-founder of the International Society of the First World War Studies and performed a number of leadership roles for the society up until 2018.

I teach the following undergraduate modules:

History in the News (Level 4)

World War Tudors (Level 4)

Global Britain and its Past (Level 5)

Capstone Project (Level 6)

Global First World War (Level 6)

The Past in the Present (Level 6)

The recent Masters dissertations that I’ve supervised have focused on the Notting Hill Carnival, the Spanish Flu pandemic in Britain, Women munitions workers of the First World War and their commemoration, Aboriginal Australian soldiers’ service in the First World War, and the conscription of women in the Second World War.

Recent outputs

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Book Chapter

Decentering Anzac: Gallipoli and Britishness, 1916-39

Macleod, J. (2017). Decentering Anzac: Gallipoli and Britishness, 1916-39. In K. Ariotti, & J. E. Bennett (Eds.), Australians and the First World War : Local-Global Connections and Contexts (185-201). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51520-5_11

Decentering Anzac: Gallipoli and Britishness, 1916–39

Macleod, J. (2017). Decentering Anzac: Gallipoli and Britishness, 1916–39. In K. Ariotti, & J. E. Bennett (Eds.), Australians and the First World War: Local-Global Connections and Contexts (185-201). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51520-5

Journal Article

Looking Forward to the Centenary of the Second World War: Lessons from 2014-2018

Macleod, J. (2022). Looking Forward to the Centenary of the Second World War: Lessons from 2014-2018. British Journal for Military History, 8(3), 2-16. https://doi.org/10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v8i3.1641

Nation, memory and great war commemoration: mobilizing the past in Europe, Australia and New Zealand: edited by Shanti Sumartojo and Ben Wellings, Bern, Peter Lang, 2014, 329 pp., US $72.95 (hbk), ISBN 9-783-0343-0937-0

Macleod, J. (2019). Nation, memory and great war commemoration: mobilizing the past in Europe, Australia and New Zealand: edited by Shanti Sumartojo and Ben Wellings, Bern, Peter Lang, 2014, 329 pp., US $72.95 (hbk), ISBN 9-783-0343-0937-0. First World War Studies, 10(1), 162-164. https://doi.org/10.1080/19475020.2019.1657311

A century of Armistice Day: memorialisation in the wake of the First World War

Macleod, J., & Inall, Y. (2020). A century of Armistice Day: memorialisation in the wake of the First World War. Mortality, 25(1), 48-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2019.1611752

Research interests

Memory, commemoration and national identity

Trans-national Britishness

Gallipoli

First World War

Lead investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

HIKE: Team GB / Paris 1924 & 2024

Funder

AHRC Arts & Humanities Research Council

Grant

£1,892.00

Started

12 May 2023

Status

Complete

Co-investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

Philip Nicholas Trust Fellowship

Funder

Philip Nicholas Charitable Trust

Grant

£60,000.00

Started

1 July 2021

Status

Complete

Postgraduate supervision

Dr Macleod welcomes postgraduate students interested in 20th-century British history, and particularly the cultural history of the First World War in Britain and the Empire.

Current PhD students

- Chris Berriman who is working on regimental museums

Completed PhD supervisions

- Lauren Theweneti, 'Women, War, and the City: Leeds during the First World War, 1911-1920'

- Ann-Marie Foster, 'The ephemera of remembrance in the wake of war and disaster, c. 1899-1939' (2019)

- Melvin Johnson, The national politics and politicians of Primitive Methodism (2017)

- Stefan Ramsden, Working-class community in the era of affluence : sociability and identity in a Yorkshire town, 1945-1980 (2011)

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