Dr Peck studied for a BA in History and Politics and an
MSc in Political Theory at the University of Oxford. After
a brief stint working in various charity and media roles
she returned to academia to study an MPhil and then a
PhD at the University of Bristol. On finishing my PhD in
2018 she was appointed as a Teaching Fellow at the
University of Warwick. Dr Peck joined the University of
Birmingham in autumn 2022. Dr Peck is a historian of
memory and communities, with research expertise in
local and family history, the social history of archives,
and the mental afterlife of conflict. She is especially
interested in the ways memory and the representation
of the past shapes individual and collective identities,
with a particular emphasis on the experiences of nonelite
men and women.








