Dr Selina Todd is a lecturer in modern history at the University of Oxford and a fellow of St Hilda’s College. Dr Todd’s speciality areas are working-class and women’s history in modern Britain. She is author of Young Women, Work, and Family in England, 1918–1950, published in 2005.
ST I was very interested in school in studying people and getting the facts behind the headlines, for example those concerning the Arab–Israeli conflict and Northern Ireland. Both stories featured strongly on the news when I was at school. History is a way to learn about these things. For me the spark was a school oral history project. We had to interview the oldest woman we knew. It was half a term of women’s history when, aged 14, we went out and spoke about a woman’s life. It made us re-think history with that woman’s story at the centre, telling us about how ordinary people shape history.
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