Hannah Elizabeth

I am a Research Fellow on the Wellcome funded Carbon Bodies project working with Rebecca Wright. My research focus on the project is the history of fuel poverty in the North East, and I’m particularly interested in how heating and fuel poverty impacted children.

Previously I worked as a Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on my Wellcome funded Early Career Fellowship ‘What’s love got to do with it? Building and maintaining HIV-affected families through love, care and activism in Edinburgh 1981–2016′

Before LSHTM, I worked as a Research Fellow on the Wellcome funded ‘Cultural History of the NHS’ project at the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick, where I researched queer women’s health activism in the British Midlands in the 1990s.

I completed my PhD in 2017 at the University of Manchester, it was titled ‘[Re]inventing Childhood in the Age of AIDS: The Representation of HIV Positive Identities to Children and Adolescents in Britain, 1983-1997’.

I am a historian of health, sexuality and childhood. I have particular expertise in the history of public health, welfare, sex education and HIV/AIDS activism.