Dr Claudia Soares is a historian of Modern British and Imperial History currently based at Queen Mary University of London. In January 2022 she will be based at Newcastle University where she will hold a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship and a NUAcT Fellowship.

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Claudia received  her undergraduate degree in Art History and Visual Culture from the University of Manchester, before proceeding to study Victorian History for her Masters. She was awarded her PhD from the History Department at The University of Manchester in 2015. 

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Between 2014 and 2017, Claudia held a range of management roles in charities that worked on issues including gender equality, multiple disadvantage and poverty, mental health, CSE, looked-after children and young people, and missing children and adults.

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In 2017, she was awarded a prestigious British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project 'In Care and After Care: Emotions, Institutions, and Welfare in Britain, Australia, and Canada, c. 1820-1930'. 

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Her first monograph A Home from Home? Children and Social Care in Victorian and Edwardian Britain is under contract with Oxford University Press. She has published recent articles in The History of the Family, History Workshop Journal, Journal of Victorian Culture, Journal of Historical Geography, and Cultural and Social History.