Penny Summerfield

Penny Summerfield is Professor Emerita of Modern History at the University of Manchester. She is the author of numerous publications using a range of genres of personal narrative, notably Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives : Discourse and Subjectivity in Oral Histories of the Second World War (1998) and Contesting Home Defence : Men, Women and the Home Guard in the Second World War (2007).

Penny Summerfield is Professor Emerita of Modern History at the University of Manchester. She is the author of numerous publications using a range of genres of personal narrative, notably Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives : Discourse and Subjectivity in Oral Histories of the Second World War (1998) and Contesting Home Defence : Men, Women and the Home Guard in the Second World War (2007). See less