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Dr Lyndsey Jenkins is a historian specializing in women, politics, and activism. She is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary University of London's School of History and Deputy Director of the Mile End Institute, a Centre for Politics, Policy, and Public Life. Her research focuses on Labour women MPs between 1945–1979 and the suffrage movement. She holds a DPhil from Wolfson College, Oxford, supported by AHRC and the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, with additional funding from the British Federation of Women Graduates and the North American Conference on British Studies.
Previously, she taught at St John's, Mansfield, Magdalen Colleges (Oxford), King's College London, and the University of Reading. She serves as Secretary of the Women's History Network. Before academia, she worked as a civil servant and government speechwriter for ten years, focusing on education, housing, and local government.
Her notable works include Lady Constance Lytton: Aristocrat, Suffragette, Martyr (2015) and Sisters and Sisterhood: The Kenney Sisters (2021). Her research has been featured on BBC radio and exhibitions like the Bodleian Library's From Sappho to Suffrage. She actively engages with public audiences on suffrage and Labour politics.
