Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite

Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite is an Associate Professor in Twentieth-Century British History at University College London (UCL), based in the Department of History. Her research focuses on class, gender, neoliberalism, and social movements in post-war Britain. She co-edited The Neoliberal Age? Britain since the 1970s (UCL Press, 2021) and authored Class, Politics, and the Decline of Deference in England, 1968-2000 (Oxford University Press, 2018). She collaborates with Dr. Natalie Thomlinson on a study of women’s activism in the 1984-85 miners’ strike, resulting in an exhibition at the National Coal Mining Museum for England.

Teaching includes modules on British history post-1945, queer histories, and twentieth-century ideologies. She supervises PhD projects on class, gender, sexuality, welfare, and housing in modern Britain. External roles include co-editing Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy. Qualifications: PhD from the University of Cambridge (2013), HEA Fellowship (2017).