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Biography
Caroline specialises in the social and cultural history of medicine, health and disability in Britain, circa 1660-1918. Her research looks at the complex historical relationship between war, medicine, and social welfare institutions, such as workhouses, hospitals, almshouses and asylums.
She also researches and teaches public history and employability, and works with students to develop their employability skills through participation in research projects and work-informed and work-based learning opportunities.
She joined the History team at Northampton in September 2015. Prior to this, she was the Economic History Society Tawney Research Fellow at the University of London's Institute of Historical Research (IHR).
Research Interests
- British social and cultural history, c. 1660-1918
- Social and cultural history of medicine
- Disability history and historical experience of physical and mental impairment
- Historical experiences of poverty and the poor
- Historical experiences of veterans and military personnel, c. 1600-1918
- Social and cultural history of death and bereavement
- Public history
- Graduate employability and careers guidance information
Funded Research Projects
- 2018-20: 'Employability in History Programmes: An Evaluation of Staff and Student Perspectives' - Research project funded by the East Midlands Centre for History Teaching and Learning. Co-investigator with Dr Andrew Gritt (Nottingham Trent University).
- 2018-19: 'Employability, Placements and Work-Based Learning in History: Sharing Pedagogic Developments and Best Practice' - Research project funded by the East Midlands Centre for History Teaching and Learning. Co-Investigator.
- 2017: ‘“Now Walks Like Others”?: Health, Medicine and Disability in Northampton during the First World War. Research project funded by the AHRC and the University of Hertfordshire Everyday Lives in War: First World War Engagement Centre. Working with the Northampton General Hospital Historical Archive.
- 2015-16: ‘HistoryPin Evaluation’ – evaluation project funded by the University of Hertfordshire Everyday Lives in War: First World War Engagement Centre.
- 2014-15: - ‘Disabled by the state: the Pensioners of the Chest at Chatham and their communities, 1660-1807' - Research project funded by the Economic History Society Tawney Fellowship.
Caroline was previously the AHRC research associate on the BBC collaboration ‘World War One at Home: North East and Cumbria’.
She also coordinated the University of Hertfordshire’s Heritage i-Teams Programme (2015), a collaboration between the University of Hertfordshire and the Institute of Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.
Teaching Interests
Caroline teaches the following modules:
- HIS1023 Health and Healers: An Introduction to the History of Medicine (module leader)
- HIS2003 Research Skills in History (module leader)
- HIS3032 Death and Bereavement in Britain, 1500-1914 (module leader)
- HIS4001 and HIS4003 Single Honour and Joint Honours Dissertations (module leader)
- HIS045 MA History - Medicine and Healing Through the Ages
Previous modules include:
- EDU2029 Education and Heritage (co-taught module with Dr Toby Purser)
- HIS1019 Introduction to Heritage
Caroline coordinates the History degree programmes work-informed and work-based learning programmes. She welcomes enquiries or expressions of interest in these.
External positions
Co-convenor - Institute of Historical Research Public History Seminar Series
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Projects
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Employability, Placements and Work-Based Learning in History: Sharing Pedagogic Developments and Best Practice
16/04/18 → 11/01/19
Project: Research › Non-Profit Organisation
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Asylums at war: Duston War Hospital, 1916-1919
Nielsen, C. L., 18 Jul 2016, East Midlands History and Heritage Magazine, 3, p. 22-24 3 p.Research output: Contribution to Specialist Publication › Magazine
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Disability, Fraud and Medical Experience at the Royal Hospital of Chelsea in the Long Eighteenth Century
Nielsen, C. L., 2014, Britain's Soldiers: Rethinking War and Society 1715-1815. Linch, K. & McCormack, M. (eds.). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, p. 182 201 p.Research output: Contribution to Book/Report › Chapter › peer-review
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"Continuing to Serve"?: Representations of the Elderly Veteran Soldier in the late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Nielsen, C. L., 18 May 2013, Men After War. Cooper, N. & McVeigh, S. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 18-36 18 p.Research output: Contribution to Book/Report › Chapter › peer-review
Activities
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Managing Students in Distress CPD Workshop - UKAT UK Advising and Tutoring and the East Midlands Centre for History Teaching and Learning
Caroline Nielsen (Participant)
28 Jun 2023Activity: Organising a conference or workshop › Teaching
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Personal and Personnel: Army Officers and the News of the Battle of Vitoria 1813
Caroline Nielsen (Author) & Kevin Linch (Author)
21 Apr 2023Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Seminar/Workshop › Research
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History and Employability: From Research to Action
Caroline Nielsen (Speaker) & Andrew Gritt (Speaker)
27 Jun 2019Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Oral presentation › Research
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Teaching Employability in History Degree Programmes: Developing and Sharing Best Practice
Caroline Nielsen (Organiser)
2018 → 2019Activity: Organising a conference or workshop › Teaching
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'"He Had No Means of Getting To Towne": Long-Distance Travel, Discharged Soldiers and Charitable Administration, c. 1682-1790
Caroline Nielsen (Speaker)
Nov 2016 → …Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Invited talk › Research
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War, Society and Culture 1688-1830
Caroline Nielsen (Participant)
Jul 2015 → …Activity: Organising a conference or workshop › Participating in a conference or workshop › Research
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Worn Out by War: Disabled Soldiers and their Pensions
Caroline Nielsen (Speaker)
Dec 2015 → …Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Invited talk › Research
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Identity, Fraud and Economic History: New Approaches
Caroline Nielsen (Organiser)
1 Sept 2015 → 30 Sept 2015Activity: Organising a conference or workshop › Research