Dr Mollie Clarke

About

Mollie is Research Engagement Manager at The National Archives. Her specialisms include the 19th century, cultural history, LGBTQ+ history, research engagement and inclusive research practice.

Research activity

Mollie’s work explores engagement with, and the impact of, research on different audiences and communities. This includes funded work surveying hybrid engagement activities across the Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Academia (GLAMA) sector and a new programme of engagement activities successfully reaching a large and diverse audience (beyond academia).

Mollie also leads on the organisation of The National Archives key research-partnership events: the Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities conference and History and Archives in Practice. She also leads the organisation of the Professional Fellowship scheme, in collaboration with Research Libraries UK.

A Victorianist by trade, Mollie also researches and shares stories about diverse histories from within The National Archives’ collections, foregrounding influential historical women and different queer lived-experiences.

In 2023, she graduated from the University of Roehampton with a Techne-funded PhD in English Literature. Her thesis, a combination of literary, historical, and cultural analysis, explored depictions of female to male cross dressing between 1840 and 1870 to consider how the fluidity of popular culture enabled explorations of gender and sexuality.