Ash Percival-Borley
Ashleigh Percival-Borley is a military and gender historian having just completed an MA in War, Culture and Society and now currently studying an MA in Military History. She is also on the Board of Trustees for the Combined Military Services Museum in Maldon Essex.
Ashleigh Percival-Borley is a military and gender historian having just completed an MA in War, Culture and Society and now currently studying an MA in Military History. She is also on the Board of Trustees for the Combined Military Services Museum in Maldon Essex. Her current research focuses on women’s history in a military context, examining discourses of gender and sexuality and how it interconnects with cultural representations of war in the twentieth century. She has researched widely on the SOE and the women who worked for F Section as secret agents during the Second World War, discussing how these remarkable women have been represented in popular history since 1945.
Ashleigh’s passion for military history derives from her 12-year service in the Royal Army Medical Corp in the British Army, of which she served overseas on conflict and humanitarian operations. Her military service allows her to take a unique perspective on lesser known topics of women’s history and its intersection with military history which she writes about in her blog The Soldier-Historian.
When not studying history, Ashleigh likes to take her daughter out walking, to read with a cup of tea and go rock climbing!