Wendy Ugolini

Professor Wendy Ugolini is an award-winning historian of the Second World War specialising in ethnicities and identity formation. Educated at the universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh, she is Professor of Second World War Studies at Edinburgh. Her first book, Experiencing War as the 'Enemy Other'. Italian Scottish Experience in World War II, was awarded the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Book Prize. Wendy's research interests focus on the relationship between war and identities in Second World War Britain, with a focus on dualities. Her latest book, Wales in England 1914-1945. A Social, Cultural, & Military History, was published by Oxford University Press in 2024 and long-listed for The Society for Army Historical Research's Templer Medal. Wendy is the co-founder of the Second World War Network (Scotland) funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh.