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Sandra Dunster

Acting Programme Leader BA History

Senior Lecturer in History, VCH Kent Research Fellow
Recent Publications

Tel: 020 8331 8962
Email: s.a.dunster@gre.ac.uk
Office: King Willilam 126

Office Hours

Tuesday 10-11am

Having completed an MA in Local and  Regional History at the University of Nottingham in 1991 Sandra taught part-time in the History department and on the Advanced Certificate in Local and Regional History in the School of Continuing Education.
 

Sandra completed her PhD in History at the University of Nottingham in 2003. Her thesis addressed the roles of women in the the eighteenth century Nottinghamshire elite.

Sandra then worked part-time for the University of Kent, teaching on their Certificate in Combined Studies and  Certificate in the Theory and Practice of Local History programmes. She also taught courses in local history for Kent Adult Education Service and worked with community groups to engage them in researching and sharing their family and community histories. 
Appointed to the VCH Research Fellow post in October 2007, Sandra is currently researching and writing a history of the Medway Towns for the VCH England’s Past for Everyone paperback series, to be published in 2010. An essential component of this project is the  involvement of volunteers from the local community in the research process.

Publications  

‘An independent life? Nottingham Widows, 1594-1650’ Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottingham, 95 (1991).

With A. Henstock and S. Wallwork, ‘Early Modern Nottingham – decline and regeneration: social and economic life’, in J.V. Beckett (ed.), A Centenary History of Nottingham (Manchester,1997).

S. Dunster, ‘Useless and insignificant creatures? Spinsters in the Nottinghamshire upper classes 1720-1820.’, Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottingham, 102 (1998).

With E. Edwards: ‘150 years of local history: local Kentish practice and national trends’ Archaeologia Cantiana, Vol. CXXVII (2007).