Louise Heren is social history academic and author, and a television documentary producer/director.
Her latest book, co-authored with Gordon Barclay, Tanks on the Streets? The Battle of George Square, Glasgow 1919 retells the events of Friday 31 January 1919. Using previously unexplored High Court archives, Tanks on the Streets? reveals the myths within Red Clydeside history of this pivotal event that have developed over the past century. She is the author of Sex and Violence in 1920s Scotland published by Bloomsbury which takes a quantitative and qualitative approach to analyse who committed violence against whom, where and how; as well as British Nannies and the Great War: how Norland’s Regiment of Nannies coped with Conflict and Childcare in the Great War, in which she explores the famous nanny-training college's First World War achive to add a new set of women's voices to Greater War history. She has also co-authored Nanny in a Book: the common-sense guide to childcare (Vermilion 2011). She is currently deep in the archives researching material for forthcoming titles within her academic specialism as well as the wider history of women's lived experience of the nineteenth century.
She has produced documentaries for BBC, ITV, Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Sky and Five, on a range of subjects from history to wildlife, action/adventure and science.
As a social historian with a first degree in Scottish History, Louise has graduated for a second time from the University of St. Andrews with a doctorate which explores male violence in Scotland in the interwar period assessing the effect – perceived and real – of men’s Great War exposure to extreme violence and whether evidence of the war could be ascertained through the High Court of Justiciary records during the immediate post-war years.
Louise lives in Wiltshire with her family researching, writing, lecturing and producting documentaries.
Her latest book, co-authored with Gordon Barclay, Tanks on the Streets? The Battle of George Square, Glasgow 1919 retells the events of Friday 31 January 1919. Using previously unexplored High Court archives, Tanks on the Streets? reveals the myths within Red Clydeside history of this pivotal event that have developed over the past century. She is the author of Sex and Violence in 1920s Scotland published by Bloomsbury which takes a quantitative and qualitative approach to analyse who committed violence against whom, where and how; as well as British Nannies and the Great War: how Norland’s Regiment of Nannies coped with Conflict and Childcare in the Great War, in which she explores the famous nanny-training college's First World War achive to add a new set of women's voices to Greater War history. She has also co-authored Nanny in a Book: the common-sense guide to childcare (Vermilion 2011). She is currently deep in the archives researching material for forthcoming titles within her academic specialism as well as the wider history of women's lived experience of the nineteenth century.
She has produced documentaries for BBC, ITV, Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Sky and Five, on a range of subjects from history to wildlife, action/adventure and science.
As a social historian with a first degree in Scottish History, Louise has graduated for a second time from the University of St. Andrews with a doctorate which explores male violence in Scotland in the interwar period assessing the effect – perceived and real – of men’s Great War exposure to extreme violence and whether evidence of the war could be ascertained through the High Court of Justiciary records during the immediate post-war years.
Louise lives in Wiltshire with her family researching, writing, lecturing and producting documentaries.
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