Department

  • History

    • School

  • School of Arts and Sciences

    • Expertise

  • Modern Britain
  • Political culture
  • Gender
  • British cinema

    • Laura Mayhall is currently working on two projects: a book manuscript entitled Aristocracy and Celebrity in Britain, 1880-1950, under contract with Oxford University Press, and Suffrage in the British Empire, 1760-1960, a five-volume set of documents with editorial commentary under contract with Routledge (London). She is co-editor, with Elizabeth Prevost, of British Murder Mysteries, 1880-1965: Facts and Fictions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022); the author of The Militant Suffrage Movement: Citizenship and Resistance in Britain, 1860-1930 (Oxford University Press, 2003; reissued in paper in 2020); and co-editor, with Ian Christopher Fletcher and Philippa Levine, of Women's Suffrage in the British Empire: Citizenship, Nation, and Race (Routledge, 2000).  Dr. Mayhall teaches graduate courses on the history of the British Empire and on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British political culture.  Every other year she offers HIST603, a graduate course on teaching history at the university level.  She also teaches undergraduate courses on the history of London, British film, the Beatles, and the First and Second World Wars.

    Selected Publications

    • British Murder Mysteries 1880-1965: Facts and Fictions

      British Murder Mysteries 1880-1965: Facts and Fictions

      Laura E. Nym Mayhall and Elizabeth Prevost, ed., British Murder Mysteries 1880-1965: Facts and Fictions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

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    • The Militant Suffrage Movement

      The Militant Suffrage Movement

      Laura E. Nym Mayhall, The Militant Suffrage Movement: Citizenship and Resistance in Britain, 1860-1930 (Oxford University Press, 2003)

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    • Women's Suffrage in the British Empire

      Women's Suffrage in the British Empire

      Ian Christopher Fletcher, Philippa Levine, and Laura E. Nym Mayhall, ed., Women's Suffrage in the British Empire: Citizenship, Nation and Race (Routledge, 2000)

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