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British historian (born )

Carolyn Kay Steedman, FBA (born 20 March ) is a British historian, specialising in the social and cultural history of modern Britain and exploring labour, gender, class, language and childhood.

Since , she has been Emeritus Professor of History at University of Warwick, where she had previously been a Professor of History since

She's recognized for her work on the concept of archives--particularly the way she responds to Jacques Derrida's idea of the archive.^[1]

Career

Steedman graduated from the University of Sussex with an undergraduate degree in English and American Studies in , and then completed a master's degree at Newnham College, Cambridge, in

She was a teacher from then until , when she joined the Institute of Education in the University of London as a researcher; for the –84 year, she was a Fellow there, before lecturing at the University of Warwick, where she was appointed Senior Lecturer in , Reader in an