PG Representatives
The Social History Society Committee contains spaces for two postgraduate representatives. Each representative serves a two year term, and there is an election each year for a replacement.
2022-24: Louise Bell
Louise is a PhD candidate at the University of Leeds and is undertaking an AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with The National Archives. The project explores British state provision of prosthetic limbs in the two world wars, and builds on previous research undertaken during her MSc in Health History (at the University of Strathclyde) – which focussed on limbless men in the First World War and two of the hospitals set up to aid them.
2025-27: Aayushi Gupta
Aayushi Gupta is a part-time PhD candidate in History at Girton College, University of Cambridge. Her research examines the visual practices of British women’s missionary organisations in colonial India between 1850 and 1950.
She is particularly interested in how missionary women used images and objects – such as personal photograph albums, lantern slides, posters, and printed materials – to construct narratives about their work, and how these circulated across mission fields, homes, and fundraising circuits