About the Centre

The Bedford Centre is situated, alongside the College Archives, in the South Tower of the Founder's Building at Royal Holloway. Facilities include a reading room and seminar room. To make an appointment to use the Archives, please refer to the Archives website.

The Bedford Centre's Director is Professor Amanda Vickery. She is the author of Behind Closed Doors: At home in Georgian England (Yale, October 2009)

Scholars with gender interests include:

• Dr Sarah Ansari, History
• Prof Caroline Barron, History
• Prof Sandra Cavallo, History
• Dr Jane Hamlett, History
• Dr Anna Whitelock, History
• Dr Alex Windscheffel, History
• Prof Judith Hawley, English
• Dr Ruth Livesey, English

The Bedford Centre hosts the MA in Women, Gender, Cultures 1500 to the present, a pathway of the MA in Modern History. For information about the MA contact M.Ockenden@rhul.ac.uk.

The Bedford Centre is the focus for a thriving community of  doctoral research students working on all aspects of the history of gender in Britain, Europe and Asia from medieval bodies to twentieth-century crafts, from emotion, print culture and private writing to seventeenth-century consumers and Victorian fashion, from Georgian masculinity to Edwardian hysteria.

• Amanda Vickery’s postgraduate research students
• Sandra Cavallo’s postgraduate research students

For PhD application forms contact M.Ockenden@rhul.ac.uk