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Dr Penny Starns
Seminar Tutor
Email: penny.starns@bristol.ac.uk
Research interests
Dr Penny Starns was awarded her doctorate at the University of Bristol in 1997. Since that time she has worked as a researcher and writer for BBC history programmes and as a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, University of Reading and more recently at the University of London. Penny specialises in the history of the Second World War and has a particular interest in oral history. She was responsible for the BBC Radio 4 series 'Frontline Females' and the award winning series 'Evacuation: the true story'. She is currently writing a series of historical biographies about Women and War.
Teaching
- Introduction to the History of the British Empire
Selected publications
- Tenko: the story of Margot Turner (History Press, forthcoming, 2010)
- Odette: World War II's Darling Spy (History Press, forthcoming, Oct 2009)
- The Evacuation of Children During World War II (DSM, 2004)
- Co-author of 'Against Their Will: the use and abuse of children during the Second World War' in James Marten eds, Children and War (New York University Press, 2003).
- Co-author of 'The Invisible Industrialist and Public Health' in Medicine, Market and the Mass Media: Producing Health in the Twentieth Century (Routledge, 2003).
- 'Medicine and Warfare', Modern History Review (2002)
- Nurses at War (Sutton, 2000)
- March of the Matrons (DSM, 2000)
- Co-author of Evacuation: the true story (DSM, 1999)
- 'Fighting Militarism' in Roger Cooter (eds.), War Medicine and Modernity (Sutton, 1998)