Lucy Noakes

I am a historian of modern Britain, who works on the experience and memory of the two World Wars. My research has included studies of the ways that both wars are remembered in Britain (and what gets forgotten) such as 'War and the British' (1998 and 2023) and studies of the experience of war (Dying for the Nation, 2020). My interest in the social and cultural history of war was shaped by my grandparent's stories of life in wartime London and Coventry and I enjoy finding untold stories and working with students and colleagues to explore the uses that the memory of war is out to in modern Britain.