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University of Bedfordshire
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Will Coster

Position

Senior Lecturer in History and Education and Course Leader for Disability Studies

Will Coster

Profile

I was educated at the University of York, where I gained a D.Phil in History. There I began research into the history of religion and the family. This provided the basis for work on baptism, childhood, the family and religion in the Tudor and Stuart periods.

Teaching Expertise

  • Education Studies and English Literature, particularly around attitudes to and ideas about childhood and youth and in the areas of film studies.
  • Contribute a historical strand to the Disability Studies course.

Research Interests

  • History of war, religion and society in the past.
  • Contrasting topics of early modern warfare and the history of children’s’ play.

Publications

  • ‘The Armada, war and propaganda’ chapter for S. Doran and T. Freeman, eds, The Tudors in Film. Collection of essay to be published 2008.
  • ‘Social Constructions of Childhood’, and ‘Childhood in Crisis?’, chapters for Childhood And Youth Studies, P. Zwozdiak-Myers, ed., Childhood And Youth Studies, (Learning Matters, 2007)
  • With A. Spicer, ed., Sacred Space in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Contact Details

T: 01234 793172
E: will.coster@beds.ac.uk


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