Professor Senia Paseta

Professor of Modern History

St Hugh's College

01865 (2)74900

senia.paseta@history.ox.ac.uk

I am a political historian of modern Ireland and Britain, with a particular interest in the history of feminism, education, and political activism. I have published on several aspects of women’s history, including the history of feminism, women’s suffrage and women’s education.
My most recent book, Irish Nationalist Women, 1900-1918 (Cambridge, 2013), examines how politically active women worked within nationalist and feminist contexts in early twentieth-century Ireland. I am currently finishing a book on further forms of Irish women's political activism, including unionism, socialism, and women’s suffrage in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I am interested in connections between Irish and British radical politics and have written about the centrality of the Irish Question to the women's suffrage movement across the United Kingdom.

I am co-director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Women's Equality and Inequality, and am project lead for Education and Activism: Women at Oxford, 1878-1920.

See page on St Hugh's College website

Irish Nationalist Women, 1900-1918, Cambridge University Press, 2013

This is a major new history of the experiences and activities of Irish nationalist women in the early twentieth century, from learning and buying Irish to participating in armed revolt. Using memoirs, reminiscences, letters and diaries, Senia Pašeta explores the question of what it meant to be a female nationalist in this volatile period, revealing how Irish women formed nationalist, cultural and feminist groups of their own as well as how they influenced broader political developments.

Senia Paseta (ed.), Uncertain Futures: Essays about the Irish Past for Roy Foster (Oxford University Press, 2016)

This volume has been produced to mark the retirement of Roy Foster from the Carroll Professorship of Irish history at the University of Oxford, and to mark his extraordinary career as a historian, literary critic, and public intellectual. It consists of twenty three essays contributed by many of the leading historians of modern Ireland, including scholars whose work has influenced Roy Foster's own research, leading Irish historians who have influenced and have been influenced by Foster, and younger scholars who were supervised and/or mentored by Roy and whose work he greatly admires.

Inspiring Ireland: Women and the Rising

Century Ireland, 1913-1923

Women's Hour

18 March, 2016

Suffragetto: How a board game helped women win the vote

BBC Arts

8 March, 2018

Financial Times

18 January, 2018

I would like to hear from potential DPhil or any potential Masters students looking at Comparative British and Irish History or Modern Irish political and Social History.

I currently teach:

Prelims	FHS	Masters
British History VI: 1815-1924	British History VI: 1815-1924	Crisis of the Union, 1750-1998
British History VII: Since 1900	British History VII: Since 1900	Women's Life Writing and Historical Change in Britain and Ireland since 1780
Approaches to History	Further Subject: Nationalism, Politics and Culture in Ireland, 1870-1921
Optional Subject: The New Women in Britain and Ireland, 1880-1920	Special Subject: The Northern Ireland Troublers, 1965-85
	Disciplines of History

Professor Senia Paseta

Featured Publication

Irish Nationalist Women, 1900-1918, Cambridge University Press, 2013

Senia Paseta (ed.), Uncertain Futures: Essays about the Irish Past for Roy Foster (Oxford University Press, 2016)

In the Media

Inspiring Ireland: Women and the Rising

Century Ireland, 1913-1923

Women's Hour

Suffragetto: How a board game helped women win the vote

Financial Times

Current DPhil Students

Teaching

Education and Activism: Women in Oxford, 1878-1920

Publications