Helen Graham (born 1959) is a British historian. She is Professor Emeritus of Modern European History at the Department of History,

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. She co-wrote a standard reference work on Spanish cultural studies with Jo Lebanyi, and her introduction to the Spanish Civil War sold more than fifty thousand copies and was translated into five other languages.

Life

Helen Graham was born in Liverpool in 1959. She earned a DPhil at Oxford. She has worked at the

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and most recently Royal Holloway University of London, where she is Professor Emeritus of Modern European History in the Department of History. Her research interests span the social and cultural history of 1930s and 1940s Spain, including the

Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War () was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republican faction (Spanish Civil War), Republicans and the Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War), Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the Left-wing p ...

; Europe in the inter-war period (1918–1939); comparative civil wars; the social construction of state power in 1940s Spain; women under

Francoism Francoist Spain (), also known as the Francoist dictatorship (), or Nationalist Spain () was the period of Spanish history between 1936 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title . After his death i ...

; comparative gender history. In 2017 she was awarded a

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Major Research Fellowship to research Franco’s prisons between 1936 and 1976. Graham has work has been published widely, including in the ''Guardian, Independent on Sunday, History Today, BBC History,'' ''Literary Review'' and the ''London Review of Books.'' She has written a number of books, including ''Spanish Cultural Studies'' with Jo Labanyi, published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in 1995, which became the standard reference work. The 2005 OUP ''The Spanish Civil War''. ''A Very Short Introduction'' sold more than 50,000 copies and was translated into Spanish, German, Portuguese, Greek and Turkish.

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*http://pure.rhul.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/helen-graham_8fc507aa-5638-40be-ada7-b3865d4689b5.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Graham, Helen Living people Academics of Royal Holloway, University of London British historians Historians of the Spanish Civil War British women historians Year of birth missing (living people) Historians of the Second Spanish Republic Historians of Francoist Spain