Dr Emma Butcher
Dr Emma Butcher is a historian, academic, writer and broadcaster who is an expert in the history of children and war.
She is the Senior Project Officer in Military Sciences at the Royal United Services Institute, the world’s oldest and UK’s leading defence and security think tank.
Emma has also lectured at a variety of universities, including King’s College, London and the University of Leicester.
In 2017, Dr Emma Butcher won a prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Award to research the history of children and war, and was also named as a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker.
Since then, she has published and spoken about child soldiers, the history of children’s war writings, and nineteenth-century warfare through several platforms, including: BBC2, Channel 4, Channel 5, BBC Radio 3, The Guardian, and BBC History Magazine. She has also appeared in an episode of Who Do You Think You Are on BBC 1.
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Dr Emma Butcher holds a PhD in English Literature and a Higher Education Fellowship. Her research focuses on the history of children in armed conflicts between 1789-1970, as well as pre-twentieth century representations of war trauma.
Dr Emma Butcher | Published Work
In 2019, Emma published her first book The Brontës and War: Fantasy and Conflict in Charlotte and Branwell Brontë’s Youthful Writings a book which explores the representations of militarisim and masculinity in Charlotte and Branwell Brontë’s writings. Her second book Children in the Age of Modern War will be published in 2024.
Emma has also published a number of academic papers.
Dr Emma Butcher | Speaking Topics
- – The Brontë’s
- – Children and war
- – Victorian sensation fiction and crime
- – Romantic poetry and essays
- – History of trauma and PTSD
- – Napoleonic Wars (soldiers’ and women’s stories)
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