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Christine Wise

Christine Wise

Email: c.m.wise@qmul.ac.uk

PhD project

Christine joined Queen Mary as a PhD student in 2023.  She specialises in the history of British women artists in the long nineteenth century.  Her research analyses the impact of activism on women artists involved in the British suffrage movement.  Christine combines this with extensive strategic leadership in academic research libraries and professional qualifications as Chartered Librarian, Chartered Manager and AgilePM Practitioner.

Academic Background

Christine holds the following academic qualifications:

  • MA in History of Art, Birkbeck College University of London, 2022
  • Graduate Diploma in Art History, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 2021
  • MA by Research in Modern British Women’s History, London Guildhall University, 2001
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Library and Information Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast, 1984
  • BA (Hons) English Language and Literature, University of Durham, 1983

Supervisors

Dr Chloe Ward, Department of History, QMUL
Dr Hannah Williams, Department of History, QMUL

Academic Publishing and Presentations

  • “insignificant and undistinguished” : The Artistic Practice of Bertha Newcombe (1857-1947). Paper to the British Association of Victorian Studies (BAVS) Annual Conference, 29-31 August 2023.
  • “A Painter of Some Intelligence”: the Artistic Practice of Bertha Newcombe. The Shavian, Winter 2022, Vol. 15, No.2.
  • Portraits and Paintings: a Day of Discoveries. Blog post, Understanding British Portraits Network, 19 December 2022.
  • A Severed Head on the Stage! Blog post, Kingston University Archive and Special Collections, 27 May 2022.
  • Putting It Together: the Stephen Sondheim Society Poster Collection. Blog post, Kingston University Archive and Special Collections, 7 May 2020.
  • Sources for family history at The Women’s Library. Paper to the Society of Genealogists Annual Conference, 1 September 2001.
  • “Not a Literary Affair.” Paper on the suffrage banner collection at The Women’s Library to the ARLIS/UK & Ireland Annual Conference, 30 June 2001.
  • “There’s Always Been a Women’s Movement This Century.” Paper to the Townswomen’s Guild Federation History Day, 21 June 2001.
  • Virginia Woolf and The Fawcett Library. Paper to the Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, 15 June 2001
  • Going Digital, or, Why Digitise? Paper to the AHDS and the Library Association South West Branch, 16 November 1999.
  • Suffrage Banners at The Fawcett Library. Paper to the Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, April 1999.
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