David Geiringer

Biographic Data

ID4212337
NAMEDavid Geiringer
GIVEN NAMESDavid
FAMILY NAMEGeiringer
SIGNATUREGEIRINGER D
AFFILIATIONSQueen Mary University of London
ORCID0000-0001-5110-0878
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Teaching Public History in Britain Today: A Roundtable Discussion

    Open AccessKatie Carpenter, David Geiringer et al.ARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2025

    What is Public History Now?’ This was the question posed by the 2022 AHRC Network led by Julia Laite. The network culminated in a conference of the same name in September 2022, where three attendees met and began to discuss their common experiences. In the summer of 2022, each had been appointed at different universities into newly created permanent lectureships with the same job title: ‘Lecturer in Public History’. Beginning and ending with refl…

  • Biofaiths: Catholic Young Women and the Generation of Sexual Knowledge in Post-war England

    Open AccessDavid GeiringerARTICLEReligion and Gender2025References: 6

    Catholic women growing up in post-war England did so against the backdrop of significant shifts in both sexual and religious culture. This article explores how they made sense of their acquisition of sexual knowledge in the years surrounding the so-called ‘sexual revolution’ of the 1960s. Rather than assuming a passive process of acquisition, it focuses on how Catholic girls and young women negotiated religious, scientific and embodied sources of…

  • The nineties in 1990s Britain: Long-Sighted Temporalities at the Turn of the Millennium

    Open AccessDavid GeiringerARTICLEHistorical Research2025

    Chronological categories of periodization such as decades, centuries and millennia are broadly treated with scepticism by historians. This essay reframes the questions we ask of such categories by exploring their contemporary significance for 'ordinary' historical actors. It focuses on the curious case of 1990s Britain, a decade that, in comparison to the historiographical advents of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, has been slow to emerge as a distin…

  • Beyond the end of history: Rethinking Britain’s nineties

    Open AccessDavid Geiringer, Helen Mccarthy et al.ARTICLEContemporary British History2024References: 25

    Historical scholarship on Britain’s 1990s is in its infancy. Historians have not yet produced the volume of rich empirical work which has transformed recent understandings of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, an absence which this special issue begins to address. This introductory essay outlines existing frameworks for historicising the decade of the 1990s, from the influential ‘Holiday from History’ metanarrative to the idea of a neoliberal consensus,…

  • Anglicanism, Race and the Inner City: Parochial Domesticity and Anti-Racism in the Long 1980s

    Open AccessDavid Geiringer, Alastair OwensARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2022

  • The Pope and the pill: Sex, Catholicism and women in post-war England

    David GeiringerBOOKPope and the Pill2019

    On 25 July 1968, Pope Paul VI shook the world. His encyclical letter Humanae Vitae rejected widespread calls to permit use of the contraceptive pill and deemed artificial contraception ‘intrinsically evil’. The Catholic Church is now commonly identified as the antagonist in a story of sixties sexual revolution – a stubborn stone resisting the stream of sex-positive modernity. There has been little consideration of how Catholic women themselves ex…

  • Christian radicalism in the Church of England and the invention of the British sixties 1957–1970

    David GeiringerARTICLEContemporary British History2019References: 1

    Sam Brewitt-Taylor presents an ambitious and bold re-interpretation of two dominant and habitually interconnected narratives of modern British history: the stories of secularisation and the sixties

  • At Some Point in the 1960s, Hell Disappeared’: Hell, Gender and Catholicism in Post-War England

    David GeiringerARTICLECultural and Social History2018

    This article explores changing understandings of Catholic hell in post-war England, focusing on how questions of sex and gender intersected with beliefs in the afterlife. It uses oral testimony from Catholic laypeople alongside the pronouncements of the clerical hierarchy to challenge the pervasive notion that ‘hell disappeared in the 1960s’. Hell did however, change in constitution during the post-war decades, transforming from a material ‘place…

  • Space, text and selfhood: Encounters with the personal computer in the mass observation project archive, 1991–2004

    James Baker, David GeiringerARTICLEContemporary British History2018Cited by: 4References: 5

    While the advent of the personal computer in 1990s Britain has been well documented by historians of computing and technology, there remains little research on the everyday experience of this phenomenon. In this article, we use material held in The Mass Observation Project (MOP) archive to explore the way men and women in late-modern Britain experienced and understood the changes brought about by personal computing. The reflexive and yet private …

  • Catholic Understandings of Female Sexuality in 1960s Britain

    David GeiringerARTICLETwentieth Century British History2016Cited by: 2

    Recent interpretations of religious change in modern Britain have stressed the importance of a sudden and abrupt 'sexual revolution' during the 1960s. The role the Churches played in bringing about their own demise remains a point of debate, particularly in the case of the Catholic Church. This article attempts to move beyond existing historical disputes over a 'religious crisis' and whether it was rooted in 'internal' causes (problems within the…