Hi, I’m Kirsty.
I currently work in the Public Engagement team at The History of Parliament. Prior to this, my background has been in education including qualifications in Teaching and Learning, creating inclusive teaching resources with the Historical Association, and private tutoring. I have also worked and volunteered in ‘digital’ including as a digital ambassador for my course at both my universities, as a Production Assistant and Audio Performer for York Festival of Ideas and Explore York Archives, as a Podcast Developer for Wessex Museums, and I digitised archival documents for multiple projects on ‘Zooniverse’.
I have a BA in History from the University of Chester where I was awarded the Dissertation Prize for my dissertation ‘“For those who are oppressed in song you can protest”: Irish Rebel Music as a counternarrative to British postcolonial discourse’. In 2022, I graduated from the University of York with an MA in Public History, my dissertation looked at the representations of the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’ in English war and military museums. Throughout both degrees, I conducted research on eugenics, nationalism, colonialism, post-genocide reconciliation, political history, and public history in practice.