In Episode 4 Ros and Val talk about their own research looking at the contributions of wives to some of the most important social studies of our time. They’re also joined by Selina Todd, Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford whose research focuses on the history of working-class life and women's lives. She is also the author of the Sunday Times bestseller The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class 1910-2010, and is currently working on a history of social mobility in modern Britain.

Episode Credits

Guests: Selina Todd
Hosts: Ros Edwards and Val Gillies
Producer: Chris Garrington
Music: The Beat of Nature, Olexy 
Artwork: Krissie Brighty-Glover

Episode Resources

• British Sociology: A History - John Scott
• Family and Kinship in East London - Michael Young and Peter Wilmott
• Snakes and Ladders: The Great British Social Mobility Myth - Selina Todd
• The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class 1910-2010 - Selina Todd
• “#ThanksForTyping … and the fieldwork: the role of sociologists’ wives in classic British studies” - Ros Edwards and Val Gillies
• The Dennis Marsden Collection 
• The Papers of Peter and Phyllis Willmott
• Search the hashtag #ThanksforTyping on X (formerly twitter)

Find out more about Thanks for Typing at The Sociological Review.