Kristen Jeanveau

Research Interests

  • My research focuses on the creation and dissemination of wartime community press papers. My specific interest is on a series of newspapers created by civilians sheltering in the London Underground during the Blitz and how these publications allowed them to share their experiences with an outside audience, create community, and act as conduit to improve sanitary conditions in the shelter. 

Supervisor

Guest Lectures:

  • History 2201E: Medical Care in the First World War January 2024
  • History 2201E: Queer protest movements in 1970s Canada March 2024

Conference Presentations & Public Talks:

  • Western University McCaffrey Lecture Series: "The London Underground in the Second World War." - 2026

  • University of Edinburgh Reflections on the Second World War: 1945/2025 Conference: “Tube Shelter Newspapers during the Blitz” – 2025

  • “Removed by Censor: letters to the Canadian homefront in the Second World War.” Western University High School History Day session. October 2025.

  • “Letters in wartime: the life and death of Harry G. Dickson, RCAF.” Western University High School History Day session. February 2025.

  • Three Minute Military Thesis Competition, King’s College UK. June 2024.

  • Western University Communities in History Graduate Conference: “The House of Language: Queer Newspapers in 1970s Toronto.” – 2024

  • Western University McCaffrey Lecture Series: “Broken Windows Don’t Mean Broken Hearts: Community Publishing During the Blitz.” - 2024

  • Ball State University Graduate Student Conference: “A Place of Delightful Prospects: Depictions of the Environment in London Underground posters.” – 2023

  • Queen’s & McGill University Graduate Student Conference: “Dreams a lot of the water: Arthur Knight & narratives of the 1918 Llandovery Castle sinking.” - 2023

  • Atrocities in Wartime: Attacks on Hospital Units in the First World War. Western University High School History Day session. October 2023.

  • “Romuald N. Tyminski and his connections to Canada.” Public talk given to the Polish Combatants Association. London, ON. March 2023.

  • History Symposium Three Minute Thesis Competition. February 2023.

  • “Finding Franklin: Tracing the Failed Franklin Expedition in Canada’s Arctic.” Western University High School History Day session. October 2022.

  • “From Dieppe to Juno: Exceptional Destinies” Biography of Capt. Romuald N. Tyminski, exhibited at The Juno Beach Centre, Courselles-sur-Mer, France. April 2022- December 2022.

Media:

  • Active History: Teaching the life of Harry G. Dickson 
  • Western University Gradcast: London Underground Shelters in the Second World War. October 2023
  • CBC Radio London Morning: King's Students Present Research on WW1 and WW2 Soldiers. May 2022

 Awards:

  • Western University Bogol-Szot Award in History $4,500 - 2025
  • William Edgar Travel Funds (Archival Research) $2,700 - 2025
  • King's College UK Three Minute Thesis Winner $300 - 2024
  • Western Society of Graduate Students Peggy Collins Memorial Bursary $1,000 - 2023
  • History Symposium Three Minute Thesis Runner-up $300 - 2023

Archival Research

  • National Archives (UK)

  • Imperial War Museum (UK)

  • Lambeth City Archives (UK)

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