Dr Janet Phillips (PhD Adelaide)
Senior Lecturer

Postal address:

Department of History
Faculty of Social Sciences
Flinders University
GPO Box 2100
Adelaide SA 5001
Australia

Telephone: (+61) 08 8201 2423
Fax: (+61) 08 8201 3350
E-mail: Janet.Phillips@flinders.edu.au
Location: Room 208, Social Sciences South Building

Dr Phillips is currently working on selected aspects of popular culture, for example, the musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein and the films of Capra and Ford.

Dr Phillips' research interests include Victorian and Edwardian England, especially social and cultural history, war and society in Europe, 1815-1945, and nineteenth century South Africa.

Her publications include:

Liberalism in South Africa, 1948-1963, Oxford, 1971
with Peter Phillips, Victorians at Home and Away, London, 1978
with Peter Phillips, 'History from Below: women's underwear and the rise of women's sport' in the Fall 1993 issue of Journal of Popular Culture (Ohio, USA)
Not Saints but Girls: the first hundred years of St Peter's Collegiate Girls' School, Adelaide, 1994