Activities per year
Personal profile
Qualifications
PhD, 1998, Modern British History, University of Houston, USA
PhD thesis 'Gendering Class, Patriotism and Militarism: The Women's Corps Movement in Britain during and after World War I' .
MA Hons, 1989, History and English, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
MA thesis 'The Falklands War, 1982'
Research interests
- Women's participation and lived experience in First World War Britain
- The intersections of gender & modernity in the First World War
- Spatial discourses and the concept of the Home Front in modern warfare
- The 'khaki portrait' - visual representations of gendered military identities in 19th and 20th century Britain and Europe
- The social and cultural history of the First World War
- Militarism in Europe, 1850s-1945
Professional affiliations
- International Society of First World War Studies
- Women's History Seminar, IHR
- Centre for First World War Studies, University of Birmingham
- Women's History Network
- British Commission for Military History
Consultancy work
- Collaboration with the BBC on 'What did World War One really do for women?' online guide, 2014
- Collaboration with the Imperial War Museum on 'What Lies Beneath' online exhibition and educational resource on British experiences of the Cold War, 2009
- Collaboration with Panoptic Productions for Channel 4 documentary series 'The Other Europe' on the transition of Eastern Europe to democracy, 1988
Teaching
- The First World War in Britain and Europe
- Definitions of modernity and modernism in Britain and Germany
- Modern German history, 1871-1945
- British and European historiography
- European political history, 18th-20th c.
- History of London from Antiquity to the 1990s
Activities
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The War Veteran in Culture & Society - Symposium
Robert, K. (Invited speaker)
21 May 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic event › Participation in academic workshop, seminar, course
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Veterans of the First World War - Study Day
Robert, K. (Invited speaker)
25 May 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic event › Participation in academic workshop, seminar, course
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American Historical Association Annual Meeting
Robert, K. (Invited speaker)
5 Jan 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic event › Participation in academic conference
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The British Home Front - Production - Clothing, Uniforms & Boots
Robert, K. (Interviewee), Strachan, P. H. (Organiser) & Oliphant, C. (Presenter)
19 Dec 2018Activity: Public engagement and outreach › Media Article or Participation
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The British Home Front, 1914-1918 Conference
Robert, K. (Invited speaker)
21 Jun 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic event › Participation in academic conference