Selina Todd

Selina Todd, FRHistS (born 1975) is an academic historian focusing on the working-classes in modern Britain. In 2015, she was appointed a Professor of Modern British History at the University of Oxford and, as of 2016, is vice-principal of St Hilda's College, Oxford.

Selina Todd was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1975 and, after schooling at a state comprehensive, she completed her undergraduate degree in history at the University of Warwick. After working in Canada and Cuba, she took a master of arts degree and then a doctor of philosophy degree in history at the University of Sussex.

After holding a Scouloudi Fellowship and Economic and Social Research Council Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research, Todd was elected to the Ottilie Hancock Research Fellowship in History at Girton College, Cambridge, in 2004. The following year, she was appointed a lecturer at Warwick University, and in 2007 took a lectureship in modern British history at the University of Manchester. In 2010, she was appointed a Fellow at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and a lecturer in history at the University of Oxford. In 2015, she was awarded the title of Professor of Modern History by the university. She is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and, as of 2016, is vice-principal of St Hilda's.

Todd's research focuses primarily on the history of the working-class, gender and feminism in modern Britain. Her published works include:

• The People: the Rise and Fall of the Working Class 1910–2010 (London: John Murray, 2014).
• "Class, experience and Britain's Twentieth Century", Social History, 2014
• "Family Welfare and Social Work in Postwar England", English Historical Review, 2014
• "People Matter: the legacy of E.P.Thompson's Making of the English Working Class", History Workshop Journal, 2013
• "Domestic Service and Class Relations in Britain, 1900–1950", Past and Present, 2009
• "Affluence, Class and Crown Street: Reinvestigating the Post-War Working Class", Contemporary British History, 2008, pp. 501–518
• Young Women, Work, and Family in England 1918-1950 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).