Dr Victoria Hoyle

Victoria Hoyle is a Senior Lecturer in Public History at the University of York. She is a historian of twentieth century child welfare and social care, with a focus on understandings of and responses to child sexual abuse. Between 2017 and 2019 she was the Postdoctoral Research Associate on the MIRRA: Memory-Identity-Rights in Records-Access project at UCL, a project on the memory, identity and recordkeeping needs which was co-produced with care-experienced adults. The co-production of historical knowledge and participatory action methodologies are central to her work. She was formerly an archivist and worked in university and local government. Her first book The Remaking of Archival Values was published by Routledge in 2022. She has published articles in the British Journal of Social Work, Child and Family Social Work, Medical Humanities, the Journal of the History of Medicine and the Allied Sciences, and Archival Science.