Dr Yvonne Cornish
I read for a BA in Modern History at Harris Manchester College, Oxford and then moved over to Wolfson College for my doctorate. I am a modernist and teach papers on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As Director of Studies in History at St Benet's Hall I have responsibility for the History students’ academic needs. I am also Fellow Librarian and the Senior Member of the JCR. I have been living in Oxford with my family since 1997.
At undergraduate level, I teach a range of courses stretching from 1685 to 1924. When teaching the core papers I aim to offer students a range of subjects that move beyond political topics to include social, cultural and economic aspects of history. I take first-year undergraduates for Historiography (Tacitus, Gibbon and Macaulay), British History V 1685-1830, British History VI 1815-1924, and General History IV 1815-1914. For Final Schools, in addition to British History V and VI, I teach General History X 1715-1799 and the Disciplines of History.
