Dr Emma Hanna
Senior Lecturer in History
Courses
Headlines in History
Tale of Two Cities: Wealth & Poverty in the Metropolis, 1600-2000
Third Year Dissertation
I joined the University of Greenwich in 2005 after completing my PhD degree at the University of Kent where I began teaching in 2003. Between 2005 and 2007 I was a Research Fellow in the Greenwich Maritime Institute, in addition to teaching on mainstream History programmes covering 18th, 19th and 20th century British and European History.
Research Interests
My research interests include the cultural history of Britain and the two World Wars, particularly the complex relationships between the media, history and historians in representations of the conflicts. My first monograph The Great War on the Small Screen: Representing the First World War in Contemporary Britain, was published by Edinburgh University Press in November 2009.
I am a member of the International Association of Media & History (IAMHIST) and the Western Front Association.
E. Hanna, The Great War on the Small Screen: Representing the First World War in Contemporary Britain, Edinburgh University Press (November 2009)
E. Hanna, 'Representations of the Battle of the Somme in British Television Documentaries', Erin Bell & Ann Gray (eds), Televising History: the past on the small screen, Palgrave Macmillan (May 2010)
E. Hanna, 'Reality-Experiential History Documentaries: The Trench (BBC, 2002) and Britain's Modern Memory of the Frist World War', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 27:4, pp.531-547 (October 2007)
E. Hanna, 'A small screen alternative to stone and bronze: "The Great War" (BBC, 1964)' European Journal of Cultural Studies, 10:1, pp.89-111 (February 2007)
Book Reviews
British Popular Culture and the First World War. Edited by Jessica Meyer. Emma Hanna, Twentieth Century British History 2009; doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwn041
Conference Papers & Invited Talks
July 2006, Imperial War Museum, 90th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme 'Representations of the Battle of the Somme in British Modern Memory' with Historian and former BBC producer Malcolm Brown.
May 2006, Centre for First World War Studies,University of Birmingham 'Representations of the First World War on British Television, 1964-2005'
April 2006, Western Front Association, Essex Branch 'A Monumental Monument: The Great War (BBC, 1964) and Britain's Modern Memory of the First World War'
November 2005, Centre for First World War Studies, University of Birmingham 'The Last Tommy? First World War Veterans on the Small Screen'
July 2005, University of Lincoln, History on Television (AHRC project) 'The Trench (BBC, 2002) and the Challenge of Reality-Experiential Television'
December 2004, University of Kent, First World War Colloquium 'Representations of the Christmas Truce in British Popular Culture'
October 2004, Imperial War Museum, International Association of Media & History 'It's History, but is it True? The First World War on British Television'
December 2003, University of Kent, First World War Colloquium 'Music, Imagery and Memory in The Great War series (BBC, 1964)'