Dr Jenny Macleod

Dr Jenny Macleod

Senior Lecturer in 20th Century History

+44 (0)1482 465833 | J.Macleod@hull.ac.uk

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Arts Cultures and Education
  • School of Humanities

Related groups

  • History

Qualifications

  • PhD / DPhil (University of Cambridge)

Summary

Dr Jenny Macleod is the Head of the School of Humanities. She was previously Head of History from 2019 to 2022, steering the department through the first iteration of Transforming Programmes and the challenges of Covid-19. She is an historian of war and memory, focusing particularly on commemoration and national identity of the two world wars. She is best known for her work on the Gallipoli campaign of 1915 and its legacy, and she has delivered keynote lectures in Australia and Turkey on this subject.

She is the co-founder of the International Society for First World War Studies, a scholarly society with global reach which has shaped the field through its emphasis on supporting postgraduate and early career researchers.

She is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and Pembroke College, Cambridge. She has held lectureships and research fellowships at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Newcastle, and 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). In 2015 she was a Visiting Canterbury Fellow at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

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.

Completed PhD supervisions

- Chris Berriman, 'Imperial Legacies and Contemporary Museum Practice: exploring British army museum history and the challenges and pathways for decolonising collections.'

- 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)

External examiner role

PhD external examiner, University of Lincoln

2023 - 2023

External examiner for a thesis on the memory of Bomber Command.

External Examiner, University of Kent

2023

I am the External Examiner for Military History modules on the BA History at the University of Kent.

PhD external examiner, University of Melbourne

2022 - 2022

External examiner for a PhD on the memory of Anzac in Australia post WW2

Journal editorial role

Editorial Board member

2024

I am a member of the editorial board for 'First World War Studies', published by Taylor and Francis. Between 2009 and 2018 I was an associate editor for the journal. The journal is connected to the International Society for First World War Studies, a scholarly society which I co-founded in 2001. I have been a member of the Executive Committee of the society since 2013, the point at which we formalised the organisation of the society.

Research assessment service

External reviewer, REF preparations

2024

The University of Exeter invited me to review submissions to their REF audit exercise

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