
I began an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award, entitled ‘Voices of the Cold War in 1950s Britain’, in October 2014. As a partnership between IWM and the University of Strathclyde, my research investigates the experiences of the Cold War by ordinary British people in the 1950s through oral history testimony. In doing so, it will give voice to routine engagement with predominant Cold War themes. The research will interrogate how Britons felt towards the Cold War in their everyday lives. I am particularly interested in experiences of how emotion impacts on individual and collective political engagement. Previously I studied a master’s in International History at London School of Economics and BA in History at the University of Sussex. Having worked in education and museums I am fascinated by life story collections beyond academia, in community and public engagement; as a result I also sit on a Board of Trustees for a London-based oral history charity called Eastside Community Heritage.
Prizes
2015: First prize in the Social History Society Postgraduate poster competition.
Conference organisation
February 2015 – present: member of conference organising committee, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council: What's it Worth? The Value and Potential of the CDA, 27 July 2015.
Papers
• June 2015: Modern British History Network annual conference
‘…When one side’s got it the other side has to have it… What did ‘Cold War’ mean in everyday life 1945-62?
• September 2015: University of Essex, Popular Myth & Memory conference
‘Montage in oral history: listening for emotions through collaged events’.
• November 2015: University of Strathclyde humanities research seminar
‘Ideals and inheritance: being an ‘ethical’ woman in the past and present’.
• March 2016: EUROPEAN Social Science History conference
‘An ‘age of fear’? Deciphering untold emotions in oral histories’.
Publications
2017: co-authoring chapter with Jonathan Hogg. ‘Memory and oral history’ in Using Primary Sources, University of Liverpool e-textbook.
Sessions auxquelles Ms Jessica Douthwaite participe
9:00
9:00
- 11.40 Immediate Emotion: Articulating Historical Consciousness and Heritage in Oral Histories
- Participant.e Ms Jessica Douthwaite (University of Strathclyde) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II
- Paper
Sessions auxquelles Ms Jessica Douthwaite assiste
17:00
17:00
- Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
- Inscription req. Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel
- 17:00 - 19:30 | 2 heures 30 minutes
- Cocktail
9:00
9:00
- Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
- 9:00 - 10:00 | 1 heure
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

11:00
11:00
- Memory and Heritage: Oral Narratives and Cultural Representations of Industry, Work and Deindustrialization in Scotland UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
- 11:00 - 12:30 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1950
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 heures
- Regular session
13:30
13:30
- Cultural Heritage and the Working Class UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Regular session
18:30
18:30
- Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
- 18:30 - 20:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

9:00
9:00
- Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2518
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Regular session
19:00
19:00
- Film Series: De engel van Doel
- Inscription req. Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
- 19:00 - 21:00 | 2 heures
9:00
9:00
- In-community session: Walking Post-Industrial Areas
- Inscription req. Salon Laurette - Salon Laurette
- 9:00 - 10:30 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Roundtable
13:30
13:30
- Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue (exhibition opening) Concordia, LB Building - LB 671 CaPSL/CEREV
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Research-Creation
7:00
7:00
- In Griffintown/ Dans le Griff and Scandal! Vice, Crime and Morality in Montreal, 1940-1960
- Inscription req. Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 9:00 | 2 heures
- Tour
15:30
15:30
- Critical Heritage Studies in the UK: Future Directions Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Roundtable