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Supervision
See 'Past Research'. Past supervisions include the British Labour Party, the British Communist Party, hostility to Jewish people, 1914-22, refugee Jewish servicemen,1939-45, education in the First World War, the coal industry, 1840-1939, the co-op movement, the hosiery industry, the government and industrial relations, mid twentieth century rural communities, women and philanthropy,and Mau Mau. The PhD students who I am currently supervising are as follows: Barry Johnson Valerie Willcocks Katie Haessly Stephen Lamont (jointly) Warren Dockter | 
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Teaching
The modules I teach reflect some of the major areas of my research interests. My Year 3 undergraduate Special Subject is 'The Great War and its Aftermath: Britain 1914-1929'. My Year 3 option is 'Labour's Rise,Growth and Defeat; Britain, Germany and Russia 1889-1936',acomparative history course which Dick Geary and I developed from 1989. In Year 2 I teach 'From Gladstone to Asquith: Britain 1868-1914,a primarily political history course. In Year 1 I lecture on 'The Origins and Development of the UK Economy Since 1750', an economic and business history course in the Business School. I also give Year 1 lectures on twentieth century European history. My MA modules are 'A.J.P. Taylor' (an historiographical option) and 'Gladstone and Late Victorian Politics: Home and Abroad, 1876-1894'. He has been Director, Assistant Director or Joint Director of UNIBHI ( University of Nottingham International Business History Institute) since 2001.
Publications | Books: single-authored / joint-authored / edited Churchill, London, Haus 2006,166 A. J. P. Taylor: Radical Historian Of Europe, London, I. B. Tauris 2006, viii +439 British Trade Unions Since 1933, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2002, viii +101 (hardback and paperback) Churchill: A Biographical Companion, Santa Barbara, ABC-Clio 2002, xxvi +376 | 
| | Edited collections of essays The Emergence Of European Trade Unionism, Aldershot, Ashgate 2004, xiv +254 (with J-L Robert and A. Prost) A Companion To Early Twentieth Century British History: 1900-1939, Oxford, Blackwell, 2003, xx +578 Editor of Ashgates's Labour History series of books (19 published 1998-2005) Journal articles 'Trade unionists and the Labour Party:the bedrock of success', Revue Francaise De Civilisation Britannique, XV,2, autumn 2009, 59-72. 'Trade Unions and the 1964 General Election', Contemporary British History, 3, 2007, 325-35 ' The branches of the Historical Association, 1906-2006', The Historian, 91, Autumn 2006, 45-57 'Trade Unionism in the United Kingdom in the 1930s and 1940s', New Perspectives On Modern History, 11,3, March 2006, 24-7 'The Portrait of a Branch: The Historical Association and History in Nottingham before the Second World War', The Historian, 90, Spring 2006, 36-9 'Lloyd George and Gladstone', The Historian, 85, Spring 2005, 8-17 'A Widening Embrace: The Pump House People's History Museum', Labour History Review, 70, 3, 2005, 346-50(with M. Walsh) 'The Co-operative Movement', Mitteilungsblatt des Instituts fur sociale Bewegungen, 27, 2002, 103-16 'Woman Power: The Transformation of the Labour Force in the UK and the USA since 1945', ReFRESH, 30, Summer 2001, 1-4 (with M. Walsh) 'Churchill and the Trade Unions', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society,6, 11, 2001 (reprinted in D. Cannadine and R. Quinault, eds, Winston Churchill in the Twenty First Century, Cambridge University Press) | 
| | Essays in edited collections 'The Commemorative Urge: the co-operative movement's collective memory', L. Black and N. Robertson,eds., Consumerism and the Co-operative Movement in Modern British History, Manchester University Press, 2009,157-73 'The European Context: Aspects of the British Labour Movement and Continental Socialism before 1920', M.Worley, ed.,The Foundations of the British Labour Party, Farnham, Ashgate2009, 77-93 'Manchester's historians: archives and industry', J. F. Wilson (ed), King Cotton: A tribute to Douglas A. Farnie, Lancaster, Carnegie Publishing, 2009, 15-37 'Trade unions: Rise and decline', F. Carnevali and J-M Strange,eds., Twentieth Century Britain: Economic, Cultural And Social Change (Harlow, Longman / Pearson 2007), 279-92 'Industrial Relations', N.Crafts, I.Gazely and A. Newell,eds., Work And Pay in the Twentieth Century, (Oxford, Oxford University Press 2007), hardback and paperback. 'Continuidades no trabalho e no status das mulheres desde o final do seculo XIX',Trabalho Livre, J. Furtado and D.C. Libby, eds., Trabalho Escravo Brasil e Europa,Seculos XVIII e XIX, (Sao Paulo, 2006), pp.177-91 'Expression et mise en scene syndicales a l'heure de la communication: une mutation delicate', M,Pigenet, M. Pasture and J-L Robert, eds., L'apogee des syndicalismes en Europe occidentale 1960-1985, Paris, Sorbonne 2005, 227-57 (with M. Pigenet, D. Tartakowsky,G. Deneckere and P. Francois) 'May Days' in J-L. Robert, A. Prost and C.Wrigley, eds., The Emergence of European Trade Unionism, Aldershot, Ashgate,2004,pp 141-65 (with G.Deneckere, M-L Goergen.I Marssolek, D. Tartakowsky). 'The Constraints of the Law' in Robert, Prost and Wrigley,eds.,2004, pp.184-203. 'The Impact of the First World War' in C. Wrigley,ed.,A Companion to Early Twentieth Century Britain , Oxford,Blackwell,2003,pp 502-16. 'Toil and Turmoil: Trade Unions in a Changing Economy', F.Fernandez-Armeso,ed., England 1945-2000,( London, Folio 2001),pp.215-22 | | | Encyclopaedia dictionary entries and similar 'The Historical Association', 'Making History,' Institute of Historical Research website, 2008 'Labor Movements', 'Strikes', 'Trade Unions' and 'Working Class', J.Winter and J. Merriman, eds., Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction, (New York, Charles Scribner 2006) 'John Desmond Cronin, 1916-1986',K.Gildart and D.Howell,eds., Dictionary of Labour Biography,Vol.12, (Basingstoke, Palgrave 2005),pp.56-63 'Ernest Bevin', 'William Barnes','George Brown' ,'John Bruce Glasier', 'Katharine Bruce Glasier','Arthur Henderson', 'Thomas Mann', 'James Peddie', 'Robert Smillie', and 'Sir Ben Turner', H.C.G. Matthew and B. Harrison, eds., The Oxford Dictionary Of National Biography, 2004 'Unions', J. Mokyr,ed, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, 5, (Oxford, 2003), 153-8 'Clement Attlee', 'Keir Hardie', 'Lloyd George' and 'Harold Wilson', Encarta Encyclopedia 2002, December 2001 'Arthur Henderson' and 'David Lloyd George', K.Laybourn,ed., British Political Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary, (Santa Barbara, ABC-Clio 2001),pp.166-8 and 206-9 'John Arbouthnot Fisher' and 'Horatio Herbert Kitchener', Charles Messenger,ed., Reader's Guide to Military History, (London, Fitzroy Dearborn 2001),pp.169-70 and 293-4 'John Burns' and 'John Robert Clynes', G.Rosen,ed., Dictionary of Labour Biography, (London, Politicos 2001),pp. 93-4 and 124-5
Conferences Conference papers 'Gladstone and Labour', Gladstone Bicentenary Conference, Chester, 9 July 2009 'Anguish and Admiration: William Barnes and Rural Society', William Barnes Society, Dorchester, 27 June 2009 'Labour dealing with Labour: the government's relations with the trade unions', The Second Labour Government Conference, University of Anglia Ruskin, 29 May 2009 'Wars and British Trade Unions 1899-1945', Trade Unions in British History Conference, university of Leeds, 14 May 2009 'The People's Pensions: From Liberal Social Reforms to the Welfare State', The Historical Association Annual Conference, Leicester University, 9 May, 2009. 'Industrial Shutdown and Industrial Heritage', Association of Business Historians conference, Birmingham University, 5 June 2008 'Perspectives on Communities and Networks' (round table contribution), Historical Perspectives Postgraduate conference, Glasgow University, 23 May 2008 'After the great coal strike: the government, management and strikes 1985-92', Economic History conference, Nottingham University, 29 March 2008 'A J P Taylor: Radical Historian of Europe', History research seminar, Leicester University, 30 January 2008 'The commemorative urge: marking the co-operative past', plenary session paper at the 'Taking Stock', Society for the Study of Labour History conference, Pump House Museum, Manchester, 14 March 2005 'Trade unions and the 1964 general election', paper at the 1964 general election conference', Manchester Metropolitan University, 5 November 2004 'Industrial unrest after the 1984-5 miners' strike', paper at ' The Miners' Strike Twenty Years On' conference, University of Northumbria, 12 July 2004 'Strikes in the British coal industry 1985-2000', paper at the annual conference of the Association of Business Historians, Nottingham University, 26 June 2004 'Women and Work in Europe since the 1880s', paper at 'Slavery and Labour' conference, Tiradentes, Brazil, 23 March 2004. 'A J P Taylor and his History', paper at History research seminar, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2 December 2003. 'Trade unions and industrial relations in Europe since 1888', paper at research seminars, Unicamp, 26 March, University of Belo Horizonte, 2 April, and at University of Niteroi,Brazil, 10 April 2003 'AJP Taylor: the Louth connection', paper at the Louth Antiquity Society, Louth, 8 October 2002 'Lloyd George as Social Reformer', paper at History conference, University of Middlesborough, 25 September 2002 'Gladstone and Lloyd George', paper at the Gladstone conference, St Deiniols Library, Hawarden, 14 July 2002. 'History and its public audience', paper at British Academy colloquium, Sheffield University, 16 March 2002 'British trade unions, Centre 42 and culture in the 1960s', paper at the European trade unionism 1960-80 conference, CRMS, Sorbonne, Paris, 2001 'What about the workers? British trade unionism 1825-68', paper at History conference, University of East Anglia, 28 March 2001 'AJP Taylor and European history', paper at research seminar, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 12 February 2001. 'Churchill and the trade unions', paper at the ' Twenty First Century Churchill' conference, Royal Historical Society, London, 12 January 2001 Public lectures 'The People's Pensions: From Liberal Social Reforms to the Welfare State', The Historical Association Annual Conference, Leicester University, 9 May, 2009 'British coal and its strikes, 1985-92', keynote lecture at the Modern British History conference, Strathclyde University, 20 June 2007 'The transformation of Labour 1914-23', keynote lecture at the Centenary of the Labour Party conference, Huddersfield University, 15 November 2006 'AJP Taylor, History and the Historical Association, concluding lecture at the Historical Association's Centenary Day, The Banqueting Hall, Whitehall, London, 19 May 2006 'Gladstone', key-note lecture, annual conference of the Historical Association, Liverpool, 18 April 2004 'Sport and Labour', a keynote lecture at the annual History of Sport conference, Leicester De Montfort University, 26 October 2002 'Churchill and ''the enemy within'' : His struggles with Red Perils', the Tim Curtis Memorial Lecture for 2002, University of Central Lancashire, 14 February, 2002 'William Barnes 1801-2001: A historian's view', the bicentenary public lecture, William Barnes Society, Dorchester, 16 June 2001 Full pre-2001 publication list Top | |
