Helen McCarthy

Dr Helen McCarthy is a Lecturer in History at Queen Mary, University of London. She studied for her first degree in History at Cambridge, after which she spent a year at Harvard as a Kennedy Scholar. She worked for the think-tank Demos between 2002 and 2004 before moving to the Institute of Historical Research. She held a Junior Research Fellowship at St John’s College, Cambridge, for a year before joining Queen Mary in September 2009. She teaches modern British history, and is now preparing her first book for a general audience, a history of women in the diplomatic service. Women of the World will be published by Bloomsbury in 2014.