Dr Katie Carpenter - Creative Economy Engagement Fellow

I am currently an AHRC Creative Economy Engagement Fellow with the Citizens Project and the Parliamentary Archives. I am also the co-ordinator for the Centre for the Study of the Body and Material Culture and I teach in the departments of history at UCL and KCL.

I completed my PhD at Royal Holloway in 2019. My doctoral thesis explored the relationship between science and housewifery in the middle-class kitchen in the Victorian and Edwardian periods. Since 2015, I have taught at Royal Holloway on a range of courses on British and imperial history. I have also taught at King’s College London, University College London and Loughborough University.

In my current role as Creative Economy Engagement Fellow, I am working with the Parliamentary Archives to produce digital content on nineteenth-century political history. This has included uncovering previously undiscovered documents on the Peterloo massacre of 1819. These were digitised for a multi-touch table as part of the ‘Parliament and Peterloo’ exhibition which was on display in Westminster Hall from July to September 2019.

More information about my research is available via PURE

Email - Katie.carpenter@rhul.ac.uk

Twitter - @ktrcarpenter

Webpage - www.drkatiecarpenter.com