Elisabeth Kehoe MBA (Insead), MA (London), PhD (London)

Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Historical Research Lecturer, MA in Contemporary British History

Publications

  • ‘The British Museum: the Cultural Politics of a National Institution, 1906-1939’ unpublished PhD thesis (London, 2002)
  • ‘Working Hard at Giving it Away: Lord Duveen, the British Museum and the Elgin Marbles’, in Historical Research Vol 77, Number 198, Nov 2004
  • Fortune’s Daughters: the Extravagant Lives of the Jerome Sisters: Jennie Churchill, Clara Frewen and Leonie Leslie (London: Atlantic, 2004)
  • Ireland’s Misfortune: the Turbulent Life of Kitty O’Shea (London: Atlantic, 2008)

Work in Progress

  • ‘The Dangers of turning to the Public: the Controversial Purchase of the Codex Sinaiticus for the British Museum in 1935’ to be published in Historical Research
  • Red Clare’: the Life of Clare Sheridan, Winston Churchill’s Bolshevik Cousin to be published by Atlantic Books in 2011

Areas of Research Supervision

  • British museums and galleries
  • British national identity and nationalism
  • 19th and 20th C Biography and women’s history

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