Hope Wolf was awarded her PhD in 2010. A partnership between IWM and King's College London, her thesis was entitled '‘Something yet unpublished’: Anecdotes in the Imperial War Museum’s Archive of the 1964 BBC Series, The Great War.'
Between 1963 and 1964, the BBC released requests in the national and overseas press for memories of 1914-18, to be featured in a documentary series The Great War (1964). Over 10,000 of the epistolary responses received are held in the IWM archives. Whilst they also include lists, outlines, poems and sketches, the letters are predominantly anecdotal. Hope's thesis engages with this, offering new theoretical perspectives on the anecdotal form, and also speaks to recent work on (auto)biographical, testimonial, literary and historical narrative.
Hope subsequently worked as a Research Associate and Teaching Fellow at King’s College London; as a Graduate Fellow at the Human Rights Consortium (School of Advanced Study); and also the Rosamund Chambers Research Fellow in English at Girton College, Cambridge. She co-edited, with Sebastian Faulks, the book A Broken World: Letters, diaries and memories of the Great War (published by Hutchinson, July 2014).