Dr Fiona Terry-Chandler

Department of History
Honorary Research Fellow

Contact details

Email: f.terry-chandler@bham.ac.uk
Twitter: @FTerryChandler

I am a social, gender and cultural historian focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I also specialize in the relationship between history and heritage.

Biography

Former Senior Lecturer in History at Wolverhampton University, I have a background in classroom teaching.

Research

Women and industrialization, The Birmingham Metal and Hardware Trades, Gender and Skill in the Nineteenth Century, The Condition of England Debate, The Impact of teaching gender-inclusive history upon children’s perceptions of gender, The CPGB and World War Two, the relationship between history and the heritage industry, Cinema and Heritage, Compulsory Industriousness in the nineteenth-century West Midlands.

Publications

Home Economics: Female Breadwinners in the Birmingham Hardware Trades, 1780-1870. (forthcoming, 2022).
‘Neat-handed women? The gendered construction of skill in the Birmingham hardware trades (1780-1870). (forthcoming, 2022).
‘Women’s History and Children’s Perceptions of Gender’, Teaching History, 56, (July 1989), pp. 20-24.
‘Introduction to Birmingham Women’s History’ in Carl Chinn (ed.), Birmingham: Bibliography of a City, (The University of Birmingham Press, 2003), pp.126-145.
‘Compulsory Industriousness: Working Conditions and Exploitation in Birmingham during the Industrial Revolution’, Midland History, 44 (1), 2019, pp.71-84.
‘Vanished Circumstance: Titanic, heritage, and film’, International Journal of Heritage Studies, 6 (1), 2000, pp.67-76.
‘Heritage and History: A Special Relationship?, Midland History, 24, (1), 1999, pp.188-216.
‘Gender and ‘The Condition of England Debate in the Birmingham Writings of Charlotte Tonna and Harriet Martineau’, Midland History, (30, (1), 2005, pp.53-66.