Rebecca Clifford
Associate Professor
History
Swansea University
United Kingdom
Biography
Dr Clifford is a historian of contemporary Europe, whose principal interest is the memory of the Second World War in the post-war period. She is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Higher Education Academy. She completed a DPhil in Modern History at the University of Oxford in 2008, and held a Junior Research Fellowship at Worcester College, Oxford, before joining the department in 2009.
Research Interest
Social and cultural history of Western Europe in the twentieth century, collective memory of war and of the Holocaust, protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s, oral history, history of emotions.
Publications
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Clifford, R. (2015). Review of Merilyn Moos, Breaking the Silence: Voices of the British Children of Refugees from Nazism. (Oral History No. 43).
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Clifford, R. (2017). Who is a survivor? Child Holocaust survivors and the development of a generational identity. Oral History Forum
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Clifford, R. (in press). Families after the Holocaust: between the archives and oral history. Oral History
