History and Cultures Workshop

Ellis Stacey
Secretary of the History and Cultures Workshop

Ellis is a first year ESRC 3+1 funded Modern History PhD student supervised by Dr. Matt Houlbrook and Dr. Chris Moores. His research is in the area of Book History and concerns the publication of books about Revolutionary Russia and the Soviet Union in Britain, 1917-41. Enquiry concerns itself not merely with what authors wanted to say about Russia, but with the vehicles available for saying it. Attention, therefore, is focused on the process of publishing and its influence on the lifespan of the books under consideration, as they progressed from conception to bookshelf.

Ellis also completed both his BA (Hons) in History and his MA in Social Research: Economic and Social History at the University of Birmingham between 2009 and 2013. Ellis is also the Reviews Editor for the Journal of History and Cultures (JHAC).

Amy Edwards
Press and Web Officer
AXE885@bham.ac.uk

Amy is a second year ESRC 3+1 funded doctoral researcher in the Centre for Modern and Contemporary History and is supervised by Professor Matthew Hilton and Professor Gavin Schaffer. Her research concerns the dissemination of ‘Thatcherism’ by the Conservative Party as well as external institutions and groups c.1975-1990. This concerns the evolving relationship between the individual and the concept of private ownership during the 1980s, with a particular focus on the popularisation of individual share-ownership.

Amy graduated from the University of Birmingham with a BA (hons) in Medieval and Modern History in 2011 and also completed her MA in Social Research (Social and Economic History) at the University 2011-2012.

Robert Brown
HCW Seminar Series Coordinator and Skills Session Coordinator
hcworkshop@contacts.bham.ac.uk

Robert received his Bachelor of Arts in Medieval and Modern History in 2008, and Master of Arts in Contemporary History in 2011, both from the University of Birmingham. Funded by a University school scholarship, he is now a doctoral researcher investigating British Imperial culture, particularly the ‘yellow peril’ trope and fantasies of East Asian subversion in British and Australian popular discourse, from the Edwardian period until the outbreak of the Pacific war.  He also helps out with the History and Cultures Workshop, and has put together a Film Group which runs once a term.