Dr Roseanna Webster
Dr Webster's research focuses on contemporary Spain but her wider interests extend to modern Europe and the Hispanic world. She has expertise in gender, urban history, and using people's life stories to understand the past.
She completed her BA and MA at the University of Manchester and her PhD at the University of Cambridge, and was a Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence from January to June 2022. This year she is away from Cambridge as she has taken up a 1-year position as an associate lecturer in Twentieth-Century European History at the University of St Andrews
Contact
Tags & Themes
Trinity College Cambridge, CB2 1TQ
Key publications
The Challenge of Ambivalence: Hitchens on Orwell, Critical Quarterly (2024)
'Women and the Fight for Urban Change in Late Francoist Spain', Past & Present (2022) — winner of the Royal Historical Society's 2023 Alexander Prize.
“A Spanish Housewife is your Next Door Neighbour’: British women in the Spanish Civil War’ Gender & History, 27 (2015), 397-416.
Public Engagement
'Women’s Activism in Seville under and after Franco', Programme for George Bizet's Carmen by Scottish Opera, May 2023
Public conversation in Waterstones with biographer Sarah Watling on her book Tomorrow Perhaps the Future March 2023
'La Revo', The King's Review (2018)
Interviewed for the documentary: La Lucha de las Mujeres, Juan Zápico Muñiz Foundation, 2018