Dr Jessica Douthwaite is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working on the AHRC-funded collaboration with National Museums Scotland, ‘Materialising the Cold War’. Her Collaborative Doctoral Partnership PhD based at IWM, London and University of Strathclyde was titled 'Voices of the Cold War in Britain, 1945-1962' and awarded in 2018. She is currently writing a monograph which explores how the national and international landscapes of post-war Britain contextualised and influenced civilian experiences of Cold War security. She specialises in oral history methodology, gender and cultural studies, international relations and post-war British history.
Cold War history Postwar British history Gender studies Oral history Cultural studies Museum studies Heritage Nuclear studies Cold War security
Materialising the Cold War
PI: Professor Holger Nehring
Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council
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Avoiding Armageddon: Tales of Cold War Britain, from nuclear threat to ghost bunkers and posh spies
Douthwaite J (2023) Avoiding Armageddon: Tales of Cold War Britain, from nuclear threat to ghost bunkers and posh spies. Douthwaite J (Other) [Television] Channel 4.
Teaching Resource
Where does one era end and the other begin? Teaching the Cold War through a Second World War context
Douthwaite J (2022) Where does one era end and the other begin? Teaching the Cold War through a Second World War context. SATH, pp. 42-47.
Audio
BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking: Cuba, cold war and RAF Fylingdales
Douthwaite J (2022) BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking: Cuba, cold war and RAF Fylingdales. [Radio programme] 20.09.2022.
Article
Douthwaite J (2022) 'Is Radioactive Iodine Present Equally in the Cream on Milk as in the Milk Itself?': Lonely Sources and the Gendered history of Cold War Britain. Gender and History. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12643
Website Content
H-Diplo Article Review 1113- "Pre-enacting the Next War"
Douthwaite J (2022) H-Diplo Article Review 1113- "Pre-enacting the Next War". [Blog post] 01.06.2022. https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443/discussions/10310003/h-diplo-article-review-1113-pre-enacting-next-war
Newspaper Article
Douthwaite J (2022) New world order. New Statesman. 20.04.2022, p. 17.
Article
'. . . what in the hell’s this?' Rehearsing nuclear war in Britain's Civil Defence Corps
Douthwaite J (2019) '. . . what in the hell’s this?' Rehearsing nuclear war in Britain's Civil Defence Corps. Contemporary British History, 33 (2), pp. 187-207. https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2018.1519421
Book Chapter
Douthwaite J & Hogg J (2016) Memory. In: Hogg J & Balderstone L (eds.) Using Primary Sources. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. https://liverpooluniversitypress.manifoldapp.org/projects/using-primary-sources