Catherine Holloway is a PhD candidate at the University of Winchester. Her PhD research explores girls’ education within the secondary technical schools in the post-war period, through oral histories and archival evidence, and examines the extent to which the education received played out on the life course of the girls. Catherine is also researching Anglican women’s activism in the Victorian and Edwardian eras alongside Dr Sue Anderson-Faithful. Catherine is a member of the Centre for the History of Women’s Education at the University of Winchester.

Catherine is the current Richard Aldrich Fellow and Post-graduate Representative for the History of Education Society.