Wendy Ugolini

Dr Wendy Ugolini is a Senior Lecturer in History at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. She is a social and cultural historian of the Second World War, specialising in race, ethnicities and identity formation. She is a Co-Founder of the Second World War Network (Scotland). Wendy teaches on the undergraduate courses 'Britons at War. The construction of identities in the two world wars' and 'War and Memory in the Twentieth Century'.

Wendy’s research focuses on the relationship between war and identities in Twentieth Century Britain. Her interests include:

• Britain & Ireland
• Europe
• Scotland
• Culture
• Gender
• Society
• Twentieth Century & onwards.

Her current research looks at social, cultural, military and political expressions of Welshness in England during the two world wars. Wendy’s monograph, “Wales in England 1914-1945. A Social, Cultural, and Military History of the Two World Wars” will be published by OUP in 2022.

Wendy’s notable outputs include:

• Forsyth, D., & Ugolini, W. (Eds.) (2016). A Global Force: War, Identities and Scotland's Diaspora. Edinburgh University Press.
• Ugolini, W., & Pattinson, J. (2015). Fighting for Britain? Negotiating Identities in Britain During the Second World War. (1 ed.) (British identities since 1707). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0704-7
• Ugolini, W. (2011). Experiencing War as the 'enemy other': Italian Scottish Experience in World War II. Manchester University Press.