Juliette Pattinson, a socio-cultural historian with particular interests in gender and personal testimonies, joined the Dept as Professor of War Studies in August 2024. She is an AdvanceHE Chair of Athena Swan. She previously served on the Executive Group of the University of Kent where she was the Director of the Division of Arts and Humanities (2022-24) and prior to that Head of the School of History at Kent (2015-2020). She completed her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Lancaster, and has taught at the University of Wales, Bangor (2003-4) and the University of Strathclyde (2004-13).

Research Interests

• Gender and war
• Cultural memory
• Oral history methodology
• Resistance
• Home Front Britain
• Occupied Europe 

Juliette has published widely on the Second World War, including on partisan and anti-partisan warfare and in particular the SOE, on men in reserved occupations and on masculinity and male culture more broadly, on humour, cultural memory, incarceration and Britishness. Her most recent monograph was on the formation, in 1907, and the First World War service of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. Juliette is currently engaged in writing about the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry in the Second World War and on cultural representations of civilian men in the First World War.

Teaching

• 4SSW1003: Global Experience of War
• Code tbc: Testimonies of War

Publications

Books

• Pattinson, J. and Robb, L. (eds) (2023) British Humour and the Second World War: ‘Keep Smiling Through’. London, UK: Bloomsbury.
• Pattinson, J. (2020) Women of War: Gender, Modernity and the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. Manchester University Press. Available at: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526145659/.
• Pattinson, J. S. and Robb, L. (2018) Men, Masculinities and Male Culture in the Second World War. Edited by L. Robb and J. Pattinson. Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/978-1-349-95290-8.
• Pattinson, J., McIvor, A. and Robb, L. (2017) Men in reserve: British civilian masculinities in the Second World War. Manchester University Press. Available at: http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526100696/.
• Pattinson, J. S. and Ugolini, W. (2015) Fighting for Britain? Negotiating Identities in Britain during the Second World War. Edited by J. S. Pattinson and W. Ugolini. Peter Lang. Available at: http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=83914.

Book chapters

• Pattinson, J. (2023) ‘’I couldn’t get a parrot, dear, so I bought a wren!’: the British Cartoon Archive and wartime visual culture’, in Pattinson, J. and Robb, L. (eds) British Humour and the Second World War: ’Keep Smiling Through’. London, UK: Bloomsbury, pp. 85-109.
• Pattinson, J. and Robb, L. (2023) ‘’Few things in life are less funny than war’: Reclaiming the humour in the horror’, in Pattinson, J. and Robb, L. (eds) British Humour and the Second World War: ’Keep Smiling Through’. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 1-15.
• Pattinson, J. S. and Robb, L. (2017) ‘Becoming visible: gendering the study of men at war’, in Pattinson, J. S. and Robb, L. (eds) Men, Masculinities and Male Culture in the Second World War. Palgrave. Available at: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781349952892.
• Pattinson, J. S. (2017) ‘Fantasies of the “Soldier Hero”: frustrations of the Jedburghs’, in Pattinson, J. S. and Robb, L. (eds) Men, Masculinities and Male Culture in the Second World War. London, UK: Palgrave. doi: 10.1057/978-1-349-95290-8_2.
• Pattinson, J. S. (2016) ‘The twilight war: wartime espionage, 1900-1950’, in Welland, J., Sharoni, S., Steiner, L., and Pedersen, J. (eds) Handbook on Gender and War. Edward Elgar. Available at: https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/handbook-on-gender-and-war.

Research Articles

• Pattinson, J. (2016) ‘‘Shirkers’, ‘Scrimjacks’ and “Scrimshanks”?: British Civilian Masculinity and Reserved Occupations, 1914–45’, Gender and History. Wiley, pp. 709-727. doi: 10.1111/1468-0424.12246.
• Pattinson, J. S., Noakes, L. and Ugolini, W. (2014) ‘Incarcerated Masculinities: Male POWs and the Second World War’, Journal of War and Culture Studies. Intellect, pp. 179-190. doi: 10.1179/1752627214Z.00000000042.
• Pattinson, J. S. (2011) ‘“The Thing That Made Me Hesitate …”: Re-examining Gendered Intersubjectivities in Interviews with British Secret War Veterans’, Women’s History Review. Taylor Francis Online, pp. 245-263. doi: 10.1080/09612025.2011.556322.
• Pattinson, J. S. (2010) ‘“Passing Unnoticed in a French Crowd”: The Passing Performances of British SOE Agents in Occupied France’, National Identities. Taylor Francis Online, pp. 291-308. doi: 10.1080/14608944.2010.500469.
• Pattinson, J. S. and Shepherd, B. (2008) ‘Partisan and Anti-Partisan Warfare in German-Occupied Europe, 1939-1945: Views from Above and Lessons for the Present’, Journal of Strategic Studies. Routledge, pp. 675-693. doi: 10.1080/01402390802197803.
• Pattinson, J. S. (2006) ‘“Playing the daft lassie with them”: Gender, captivity and the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War’, European Review of History. Taylor & Francis, pp. 271-292. doi: 10.1080/13507480600785955.