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Originating in north London, I proceeded via secondary education in the home counties, undergraduate study in the West Country, doctoral study in central Scotland, and varied short-term and hourly contracts and appointments in and around the South East, before arriving in the North East in 2000.

I teach, supervise, and research Britain, and its foreign relations, since the First World War. With degrees in politics and history, I'm interested in contemporary history and its applications, particularly concerning politics and public life, and foreign and security policy.

I'm involved in university recruitment, outreach, widening participation activities, and public engagement including broadcasting and writing on current affairs. For History I host for post-application open days. For the University, I'm deputy chair of the Hardship Committee, work for NCL in Action, and serve as a Public Orator.

My research interests centre on British politics and public life since the First World War, biography, political parties, elections, foreign policy, government, and media. I welcome enquiries for research supervision in these areas.

Term-time office hours

I am on research leave until the end of the 2025-26 academic year.

Roles and Responsibilities

Post-application Open days (History)

Public Orator (University)

NCL in Action (University)

Deputy Chair, Student Hardship Fund (University)

Qualifications

B.A. (Politics), University of Exeter

Ph.D (History), University of Glasgow

Media

Television: BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC News, BBC News 24, BBC Scotland, Sky News, ITN, GB News, UKTV History, Tyne Tees TV, Dene Films, Border TV, More4, Press TV (Iran), Al Jazeera (London), Tokyo Broadcasting System News, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (Japan), FNN News (Japan), TRT World (Turkey), Local News 8 abc (USA), France 24, Nyhetsbolaget Sverige (Sweden), Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (Netherlands), WION TV (India), Woodcut Media/Channel 4, Nederlandse Publieke Omroep (Netherlands), SBA (Saudi Arabia), Euronews (France), Channel NewsAsia (Singapore), ABC (Australia), CNN, Forbes Breaking News (Forbes Newsroom).

Radio: BBC World Service, BBC Radio Four, BBC Radio Five Live, BBC Central News Service, BBC Radio London, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio 缅北禁地, BBC Radio Gloucestershire, BBC Radio Cumbria, BBC Radio Berkshire, BBC Radio Tees, BBC Three Counties Radio, BBC Radio Sunderland, BBC Radio Leeds, BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio Humberside, BBC Radio Stoke, BBC Radio Derby, BBC Radio Coventry and Warwickshire, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, BBC Radio Solent, BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester, BBC Radio Bristol, LBC, Times Radio, Voice of Islam Radio, TalkRADIO, Metro Radio (缅北禁地), Global Radio, Spark Radio (Sunderland), Sputnik Radio UK, Sputnik International, Talksport, National Public Radio (NPR, US), Newstalk (Ireland), Newstalk 93 FM (Jamaica), HOT102 FM (Jamaica), Polskie Radio PR1 (Poland), VIP Radio, SPARK FM, CityTalk FM, China International Radio, HIT107 Adelaide (Australia), Indus News Lahore (Pakistan), RFI (Radio France Internationale), Deutsche Welle (Germany), Polish Public Radio, The World (WGBH Educational Foundation and Public Radio Exchange, US), ABC NewsRadio (Australia).

Online: 'Margaret Thatcher's World', British Scholar Documentary series; National Archives Podcast Series; Ukraine Special Part 3: Britain’s Response to Ukraine, 缅北禁地 30 March 2022; Coronation of Charles III, March 2023; Margaret Thatcher and Grantham, Window Seater, September 2023; The Modern British Political History Podcast, September 2023.

Journalism

Contributor: BBC History Magazine, The Times, The Guardian, The Journal, The Northern Echo, The Evening Chronicle, MSN, The Conversation, History & Policy.

Interviewee: New York Times, New York Daily News, Toronto Star, Christian Science Monitor, Sunday Sun, CSN News, The Economist, The Independent, Daily Mirror, The Sun, News of the World, Sunday Express, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, North East Times, Breathe, Sunday Herald, The Chronicle, Yorkshire Post, 缅北禁地 World, Harpers, Mashable, O Globo (Brazil), Netherlands Press Association, Dziennik (Poland), Wprost (Poland), Pravda (Slovakia), Associated Press, Bloomberg, International Herald Tribune, French Morning London, Folha de S.Paulo (Brazil), Veja (Brazil), Rzeczpospolita (Poland), Yomiuri Shimbun (Japan), Mainichi Shimbun (Japan), To Vima (Greece), L'Avvenire (Italy), LA Croix (France), Nikkei (Japan), The National (UAE), Mediapart (France), Svenska Dagbladet (Sweden), infoLibre (Spain), Dagens Næringsliv (Norway), NRC (Netherlands), The National, PoliticsHome, Libération (France), NHK (Japan), Xinhua News Agency (China), Daily Express, Lusa Agência de Notícias de Portugal, ARD (Germany), Le Devoir (Canada).

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External Examining:

MA Contemporary History and MA in Politics and Contemporary History, King's College London, 2015-19

MA History, University of Winchester, 2015-19

BA History, University of Leeds, 2017-22

BA History, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2022-

MA History, Lancaster University, 2023-

MA Government Studies, King's College London, 2024-

PhD: University of Wales; Queen Mary, University of London; King's College London; Liverpool John Moores University, Australian National University

Selected public engagement:

Margaret Thatcher’s World, The Sydney Institute, Sydney, 1 December 2025

Conservative Homes: Robert Menzies, postwar Britain, and the ends of the Commonwealth, Keynote address, Menzies and the British Commonwealth of Nations: Fifth Annual Conference, Robert Menzies Institute, Melbourne, 27 November 2025

Margaret Thatcher’s World, Brisbane, 24 November 2025

'Global Uncertainty: Catalyst for Innovation or Barrier to Progress?', keynote lecturer and panel chair, NCL in Action, Lloyds Building, London, 21 October 2025

'Global Uncertainty: Catalyst for Innovation or Barrier to Progress?', keynote lecturer, and panel chair, NCL in Action, Civic Centre 缅北禁地, 17 October 2025 

‘Challenges for British foreign policy in 2025’, Teesside Sceptics, Middlesbrough, 10 April 2025

Thatcherism, Royal Grammar School 缅北禁地 History Society,18 March 2025

‘Trump and the World’, Northern Humanists, 缅北禁地, 27 February 2025, 

From MacDonald to Starmer: One Hundred Years of Labour Government, History Society Pub Lecture, Trent House, 4 February 2025

Trump II: the UK and US elections in comparative’, History Society Pub Lecture, The Trent House, 15 November 2024

‘The UK and US elections in comparative focus’, Secular Salon, Durham, 20 October 2024, 

‘Britain and the World in 2024’, 缅北禁地 Convocation 13 July 2024

British Politics in 2024 (lecture), Royal Grammar School, 缅北禁地, 2 May 2024

Windrush: Then and Now, History Society and Caribbean Society Pub Lecture, The Trent House, 23 April 2024.

Gaza, Ukraine, and the Fault Lines in Britain, History Society Pub Lecture, The Trent House, 7 December 2023

Charles III and the future of the monarchy, public lecture, Club at Ibis, West Palm Beach, FL, 3 April 2023

The Special Relationship 1941-1989, public lecture, Club at Ibis, West Palm Beach, FL, 4 April 2023

Charles III and the future of the monarchy, public lecture, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA, 6 April 2023

Class, Culture, and Conflict in Britain, public lecture, Little Penn Coffeehouse, Washington DC: 10 April 2023

Charles III and the future of the monarchy, public lecture, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX, 17 April 2023

Charles III and the future of the monarchy, public lecture, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, 18 April 2023

Britain and the world annual conference, Du Quesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, 19-21 April 2023

The 1918 General Election, Durham Western Front Association, 16 February 2023

The Modern Monarchy, Sunderland Conservative Association, The Gunners Club, Sunderland, 11 January 2023

缅北禁地 Convocation Lecture chair and discussant, Steve Richards, 26 November 2022

The Uncertain Future of the British Monarchy, One Day University (online), 12 October 2022

Britain and the war in Ukraine, Symposium on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 缅北禁地, 11 March 2022 

British Politics in the First World War, Durham Western Front Association, online, 13 January 2022

‘Global Britain, Past, Present and Future’, History Society pub lecture, Trent House, 缅北禁地, 5 October 2021

British history talks, Bede Academy, Blyth, 30 September 2021

‘The Great British Break-Up?’, Arcola Conversations, Arcola Theatre London, 1 May 2021

‘Brexit and the Future on Britain?’, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA, 3 March 2021

‘Where are we now? Brexit and Covid-19: a Panel Discussion’, ESRC/Exeter University, 19 November 2020

Discussant, How Did Thatcher's Children Fare?, British Academy, London, 27 February 2020

Brexit and Democracy (lecture), Boston College, Boston MA, 28 October 2019

Keynote speaker, University of Winchester Department of History Postgraduate Conference, 30 March 2019

Populism and Brexit, Indiana University, USA, 12 April 2018

Invited speaker, Contemporary History Center, Ohio University, 22-3 March 2018

Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College, Darlington, Corbyn in Context, 12 December 2018

Dame Allen's School, 缅北禁地, Brexit and Trump, 28 November 2018

缅北禁地 History Society Public Lecture, Corbyn in Context, 27 November 2018

Carville Primary School and Star of the Sea Primary School, and Heritage Lottery Fund and Cap-a-Pie Theatre Company, First World War talk, 缅北禁地, 24 October 2018

Public lecture, '"The Personnel of Armageddon" - Politicians and Artists, 1914-1919', Laing Gallery, 缅北禁地, 29 November 2017

Invited speaker, 'Margaret Thatcher', Durham University Union, 27 October 2017

The Modern Monarchy, Republic Convention, 缅北禁地, 15 July 2017

Public lecture, 'Brexit and the 2017 General Election', Central Michigan University MI, USA, 24 April 2017

Public lecture, 'Margaret Thatcher and her World', Lewis University IL, USA, 19 April 2017

Public roundtable, 'The Future of the Western Alliance', Idaho State University, Pocatello ID, USA, 14 April 2017

Public lecture, 'Out and into the world? Britain, Europe, America, and the challenges in Brexit', Idaho State University, Pocatello ID, USA, 13 April 2017

Public lecture, 'The Age of Trump and Brexit: the US, Britain, and the World after Brexit', the City Club of Idaho Falls, Idaho Falls ID, USA, 13 April 2017

Public lecture, 'Leadership: Brexit and Trump', University of Central Oklahoma OK, USA, 10 April 2017

Public roundtable, 'Brexit and the EU in the Age of Trump', Southwestern University TX, USA, 5 April 2017

Public lecture, 'Britain and the United States in the Age of Brexit and Trump', McNeese University LA, USA, 3 April 2017

Public lecture, 'Brexit and the Age of Trump', Clemson University SC, USA, 29 March 2017

Public lecture: 15 February 'Brexit: a historical-political perspective', Durham European Law Institute, 16 February 2017

Chair, Insights Public Lectures, 2013 (Vice-Chair 2010-13) http://www.ncl.ac.uk/events/public-lectures

Lecture, Oh! What a Lovely War, Literary and Philosophical Society, 缅北禁地, 14 June 2016

Curated screening, Oh! What a Lovely War, Tyneside Cinema, 7 October 2014

War and Peace: Diplomacy, Espionage and the First World War, The National Archives, The Road to War: At home and abroad – Propaganda and intelligence, 28 June 2014

Introducer, 缅北禁地 College 1914 Project Conference: Cultural Responses to the First World War, 缅北禁地 College, 11 November 2013

Chair, Global Britain Lecture: Professor Patrick Salmon, ‘Thatcher, Europe, and the World’, Maastricht University (UM), 28 May 2013

Lecture, 'The Politics of Bombing Germany: Bomber Command and Civilian Control of the War Effort, 1940-1945', Warkworth and Amble District Royal British Legion, 5 March 2013

Chair, European Union and Global Emergencies Public Debate (Stephen Hughes MEP, Martin Callanan MEP, Fiona Hughes MEP), Durham European Law Institute/ European Union and Global Emergencies Conference, Durham, 9 May 2009

Lecture, Sheppards Irish Auction House, Durrow, Ireland, Edwin Lutyens and Clann McKenna: class, culture, and architecture, 1900-1943, 27 April 2008

The Impact of Bologna and Three-Year Degrees on US Admissions, Washington DC, 2-4 November 2006

Talk to Jesmond Senior Mens Club, 缅北禁地, 16 November 2006

Talk to the Historical Association, Mount School, York, 2 March 2005

Talk to Cryptos, The Reform Club, London, 4 November 2002

Reader/Reviewer:

Routledge, Bloomsbury, Palgrave Macmillan, Blackwell, Cambridge University Press; Labour History Review, Journal of Historical Biography, The Historical Journal, Historical Research, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, The Public Historian, Diplomacy and Statecraft, Contemporary British History, PSA Conservatism group, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Twentieth Century British History, Journal of Cold War Studies, American Historical Review, McGill-Queen's University Press.

Memberships

Royal Historical Society (Fellow)

Workers' Educational Association

Historical Association

Other interests

Cricket, football, music, travel, real ale, wine, spirits.

Current

Undergraduate

Leading:

HIS2323 A History of Contemporary Britain

HIS3220 British Foreign Policy since Suez

Contributing to:

HIS3030 Why History Matters

HIS3020 BA Dissertation

HIS1103 History Lab II

Postgraduate

Contributing to:

HIS8023 MA Dissertation

HIS8104 Ideas and Influences in British History

Supervision:

Michael Walker (PhD), The Workers’ Educational Association, 1909-1949

Omar Hamid (PhD), The Thatcher and Major Governments and the United Nations

Past

Led:

HIS2124 A History of Contemporary Britain

HIS3082 British Politics in the First World War

HIS3088 Labour in Power 1974-79

HIS8011 Thatcherism

Contributed to:

ART8000 Faculty Research Teaching

HIS3008 Reading History (Correlli Barnett, The Lost Victory; Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians)

HIS8105 Reform and Resistance in British History (Abortion Act 1967, Sexual Offences Act 1967)

HIS8024 The Practice of History (Declinism)

HIS8025 Pathways in British History

HIS8061 The Practice of History (Political History and Biography)

HIS8000 Research Methods in History

Supervision

Current:

Omar Hamid (PhD), UK Foreign Policy and the United Nations: Case Studies (1979-1997)

Michael Walker (PhD), Educating “Active Citizens”: The Workers’ Educational Association and Democratising

Adult Education in Britain, 1903-1939.

Tom Gibson (PhD), Industrial Epilogue: Assessing the ‘narrative of decline’ in North East England, c.1960-present

Taylan Paksoy (PhD), Britain and Modern Lebanon (1840-1958): Elite Networks, Agency and Intervention

Past:

John Bagnall (PhD), The Falklands Conflict in International Perspective, 1982-2020

Stephen King (PhD), The Ministerial Career of Tony Crosland, 1964-1977

Andrew Marriott (PhD), Trench Art of the North East: Material Culture, Memory and Perception from the First World War to the Present

Stephen Moore (PhD), Luftwaffe Operations over the United Kingdom after May 1941

William Paxton (PhD), The Decline of Shipbuilding on the North East Coast of England and the West of Scotland during the Interwar Period

Nick Cott (PhD), Liberal Recruits to the Conservative Party, 1918-31

Melinda Sutton (PhD), The Labour Party and Northern Ireland, 1969-97

Collette McKenna (MLitt), A Prime Minister and her Foreign Secretaries, 1979-90

David Thompson (MLitt), The Durham Light Infantry in the First World War

Gordon Beckwith (MLitt), British Defence Policy since 1945

Adam Gillett (MLitt), British Party Politics, 1910-24

Gordon Leigh (MLitt), 缅北禁地 Jewry, 1900-2000

Dean Blackburn (MLitt), The centre-left of British party politics, 1972-87

Gordon Kell (MLitt), Manpower, Empire and Warfare, 1890-22

John Shackleton (MLitt), Trades Unions and the Labour Party, 1906-2009

Lisa Snoxell (MLitt), Women and British politics, 1901-18

Andriana Georgiou (MLitt), Fascism in Britain, 1932-40

Stephen Dippnall (MLitt), The Labour Party and the U.S.A., 1945-2010

Steven Bainbridge (MLitt), The Conservative Party and Thatcherism

David Linden (MLitt), The ‘New Right’ in Britain, 1970-90

Most recent publications include 'Obituarial Lives', a chapter about newspaper political obituaries and what I coin the 'obituarial turn', for (Cambridge). In press are 'Menzies' and Britain's Common Era', for Menzies and the British Commonwealth (Melbourne University Press, forthcoming); and 'Britain and the Australian Embrace' in Britain and the World.

I have two forthcoming monographs: Margaret Thatcher's World (De Gruyter), an international history of Thatcherism, and Reginald McKenna: Statesman among Financiers, 1916-1943 (Routledge), the second (and final) volume of my biography.

I'm writing three chapters (on Douglas Hurd, John Moore, and Norman Tebbit) for a book I'm co-editing called Thatcher's Ministers (Palgrave Macmillan); ‘Changing Conservatism in the 1970s’, in The Routledge Handbook of the Conservative Party, (Routledge, forthcoming); and ‘Donald Trump and Keir Starmer: the Provisional Relationship’, in Keir Starmer and the Politics of Caution: Governing the United Kingdom in the 2020s (Bloomsbury, forthcoming).

In the pipeline are two journal articles: 'When Party Leaders Die: the Deaths and Afterlives of Hugh Gaitskell and John Smith’, and on the film version Oh! What a Lovely War (1969).

I've published on Barack Obama and David Cameron, and Donald Trump and Theresa May, and Trump and Boris Johnson for the . Before that was a chapter on  Britain for a , one on the  for a book marking the , and another on Parliament and the  for a . I've also written about , , the , and the  (in ). Other publications include the first volume of, and articles on British and in the First World War, the , and . I've co-edited two volumes on the British abroad:  and , in the former of which I've a chapter on British mass tourism. In 2014 I was principal investigator for the North East and Cumbria on the AHRC/BBC project . I also interview former MPs for the .

I head , an international research association which has a peer-reviewed , , and an  which alternates between the US and the UK: in 2026 we'll be in Boston MA.

Selected conference papers

Keir Starmer and Donald Trump, Starmer Year One, Anglia Ruskin University, 14 June 2025.

Thatcher's Foreign Secretaries panel, Transatlantic Studies Association annual conference, Lancaster University, 9 July 2024'Douglas Hurd', The UK Conservative Party and 'True' Conservatism', Edinburgh University, 14 January 2023

'Johnsonism and Transatlantic Foreign Policy', Transatlantic Studies Association Conference, University Kent, 6 July 2022.

'Brexit, Covid, Aukus, Ukraine', Britain and the World conference, University of Plymouth, 16 June 2022

'Changing Perceptions of Europe in 20th-Century Britain', Conceptualising Europe: From Antiquity to Modern Times, 缅北禁地, 29 April 2022

‘Global Britain: past, present, and future’, The UK and the World, The 2nd Anglo-American Studies Roundtable at Anglo-American University Prague, 24 September 2021

‘The Member and Their Constituency, 1918-2020’, Political Studies Association, Politics and History Specialist Group Annual Conference, Manchester University, 16 October 2020

Parliament and the Passing of Margaret Thatcher, 40 Years of Thatcherism? University of Derby, 7 June 2019

Britain since 2016, Britain and the World Conference, Kansas City, USA, 12 April 2019

The 1970 General Election, The Heath Premiership: Politics and Policies under Prime Minister Edward Heath, Government, University of Liverpool, 11 July 2018

Political and Cultural Ramifications of Brexit, Pacific Conference on British Studies, UC Santa Barbara, USA, 25 March 2018

Populism and the causes and consequences of Brexit, Baker Peace Conference, Ohio University, USA, 22-3 March 2018

Thatcherism and the Transnationalisation of Conservatism, 1975-1997, Cultures of Conservatism in the United States and Western Europe between the 1970s and 1990s conference, German Historical Institute, London, 14-6 September 2017

“Oh! What a Lovely Adaptation: the movie of the play of the war,” Britain and the World Conference, Austin TX, USA, 7 April 2017

'"A Stone Age head protruding from a Dragoon Guard’s tunic”: imperial tropes in British popular culture since the end of Empire’’, Festschrift Conference in honour of Professor John M. MacKenzie, Burn House, Edzell, 6-10 July 2016

‘When party leaders die’, Breaking Boundaries: Politics, History and the wider inter-disciplinary challenges; University of Birmingham, 29 June 2016

‘International interpretations of Thatcherism, 1981-90’, 27th Annual Conference of the British International History Group, University of Kent, 10-12 September 2015

‘Thatcherism, Reaganomics, and international conservatism’, Rethinking Conservatism and conservatism, workshop, Durham University, 16 June 2015

‘The Thatcher-Reagan Era in a Trans-Atlantic Context, Britain and the World Conference, Austin, USA, 2-4 April 2015

‘Thatcherism beyond Britain’, Centre for the Study of Political Ideologies, Exploring Ideological Translation: An Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Nottingham, 9-11 July 2014

War and Peace: Diplomacy, Espionage and the First World War, The National Archives, 28 June 2014, The Road to War: At home and abroad – Propaganda and intelligence

Urban regeneration and the policy process, 1970-79, The Transformation of Urban Britain since 1945, Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester, 9 July 2013

John Smith and Hugh Gaitskell, Modern British History Conference, Edinburgh University, 11 June 2013

Death and Labour: the cases of Hugh Gaitskell and John Smith, Britain and the World Conference, Austin, USA, 22 March 2013

'The Politics of Bombing: Harris, Sinclair and the RAF bomber offensive', Airpower and Archives Workshop, RAF Museum, Hendon, 22 March 2013

Margaret Thatcher’s World, Conference on Modern British History, University of Stirling, 19 June 1012

‘The Labour Party and Bombing in the Second World War’, British Scholar Conference, Austin, USA, March 2011.

‘South Wales and the General Election of 1918’, University of Wales, Newport, research seminar, 23 March 2011.

‘The 1918 Election’, Années de Gloire – Années de Déclin: le Parti Libéral Britannique, 1906-1924, Colloque International, Université de Rouen, 13-14 January 2011

‘Historicizing British Culture, Nostalgia, and Consciousness in the Twentieth Century’, Chair and Discussant, British Scholar Conference, Austin, USA, 27 March 2010.

‘Barabbas chosen’: war and the cultural shift, 1916-1919; British Scholar Conference, University of Texas at Austin, USA, 20 February 2009.

‘Liberals, War and Peace, 1916-1919’, Southern Conference on British Studies, New Orleans, USA, 10 October 2008.

‘Reginald McKenna: a Study in Ministerial Liberalism’, the 1906 Election and the legacy of the Last Liberal Governments, Colloquium, Institute of Historical Research, London, 1 July 2006.

‘Politicians at War: Crisis and Methodology’, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, University of California, Irvine, USA, 26 March 2006.

‘High Politics in an Age of Devolution’, Northeast Conference on British Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA, 22 October 2005.

‘Bridget Plowden and the IBA’, The History of the Media, 19th Annual Summer Centre for Contemporary British History Conference, Senate House, University of London, 29 June-1 July 2005.

‘S.W.1 and Devolution: the Centre Circumscribing the Periphery’, New Directions in Modern British Political History, c. 1867-2005, Institute for Historical Research, London, 8 April 2005.

'Cann MacKenna in Edwardian Britain’, Fifth Australian Celtic Conference, University of Sydney, Australia, 22 July 2004.

‘The Wartime Career of Josiah Wedgwood’, (Discussant), Second European Conference in First World War Studies, Maison Française, University of Oxford, 23 & 24 June 2003.

‘Reginald McKenna: A Study in Historiography’, Western Conference on British Studies, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA, 5 October 2002.

‘Politicians at War 1915-1916’, at Power, Personality and Persuasion: The Impact of the Individual on British Politics since 1867, University of Manchester, 26 June 2002.

‘The Bank and Midland: City politics between the wars’, at The Power to Influence: The British Government and the City of London, University of Durham, September 2001.

‘The Prism of British Strategy 1915-1916’, Mars in Ascendant: The Great War and the Twentieth Century, Imperial War Museum, August 2001.

‘Pomp and Circumstance: The Diamond Jubilee of 1897’, The 1890s, University of 缅北禁地, July 2001.

Selected talks and lectures

Charles III and the future of the monarchy, public lecture, Club at Ibis, West Palm Beach, FL, 3 April 2023

The Special Relationship 1941-1989, public lecture, Club at Ibis, West Palm Beach, FL, 4 April 2023

Charles III and the future of the monarchy, public lecture, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA, 6 April 2023

Class, Culture, and Conflict in Britain, public lecture, Little Penn Coffeehouse, Washington DC: 10 April 2023

Charles III and the future of the monarchy, public lecture, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX, 17 April 2023

Charles III and the future of the monarchy, public lecture, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, 18 April 2023

Keynote speaker, University of Winchester Department of History Postgraduate Conference, 30 March 2019

Keynote speaker, Thatcher and Thatcherism: New Critical Perspectives, Durham University, 19-20 January 2017

'Margaret Thatcher', Durham University Union, 27 October 2017

Invited panellist with Lord Morgan and Chris Wrigley, The Lloyd George Papers at the Parliamentary Archives, Houses of Parliament, 14 November 2016

Keynote speaker, Durham University History Society Annual Conference, 16 June 2016

Keynote speaker, University of Winchester Department of History Postgraduate Conference, 4 April 2016

Institute of Historical Research, International History Seminar, 24 May 2016

Research seminar, University of Lancaster, Department of Politics, Philosophy, and Religion (PPR), 16 March 2016

Research seminar, University of Winchester, Department of History, 10 March 2016

Research seminar, Keele University, School of Politics, Philosophy, International Relations and Environment (SPIRE), 24 February 2016

Research seminar, University of Worcester, Department of History, 23 February 2016

Research seminar, University of Exeter, Department of History, 18 November 2015

Lecture, Thatcher and Reagan: a Global Relationship, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, USA, 8 April 2015

Lecture and Discussant, The Reagan-Thatcher Era in a Trans-Atlantic Context, Southwestern University, Georgetown, USA, 31 March 2015

Discussant, Thatcher and the Czechs from the 1980s to the Present, Metropolitan University Prague, 19 December 2014

Research seminar, Glasgow Caledonian University, Department of History, 5 March 2014

Research Seminar, Leeds University, Department of History, 31 October 2012.

Chair, Global Britain Lecture, Professor Sir Hew Strachan, “Sea power vs land power: the geopolitics of Germany’s defeat in the First World War”, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10 May 2012

Grants

British Academy Travel Grant, £1000, 2004.

Principal Investigator, Our Place in The First World War, North East and Cumbria, AHRC £30,403, AH/L503964/1 2013

School of History, Classics, and Archaeology, School Research Funding, Presidents and Premiers Conference £1500

Convened events

Britain and the World Conference, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh PA, 20-22 April 2023

Britain and the World Conference, Plymouth University, 14-17 June 2022

Thatcher Network Conference, 缅北禁地, 29-30 July 2021

Britain and the World Conference, online, 16-18 June 2021

Britain and the World Annual Conference, Kansas City, USA, 10-13 April 2019

Britain and the World Annual Conference, Exeter, 21-23 June 2018

Presidents and Premiers, Symposium and edited volume (with Mike Cullinane, Northumbria), 缅北禁地, 26-7 May 2017

Britain and the World Annual Conference, Austin, 6-8 April 2017

Britain and the World Annual Conference, London, 22-4 June 2016

Britain and the World Annual Conference, 缅北禁地, 19-22 June 2014

Political History Network Symposium, 缅北禁地, 26 February 2013

The British Abroad international conference, 缅北禁地, 20-22 April 2010 

• Articles

  • Farr M. . Parliamentary History 2018, 37(1), 133-149.
  • Farr M. . Labour History Review 2012, 77(1), 133-153.
  • Farr M. . Britain and the World 2011, 4(1), 109-141.
  • Farr M. . Cercles: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone 2011, 21, 65-94.
  • Farr M. . BBC History Magazine 2006, 7(10).
  • Farr M. . Journal of Liberal History 2005, (47), 30-35.
  • Farr M. . BBC History Magazine 2002, 43-49.
  • Farr M. . War in History 2002, 9(3), 279-306.

• Authored Books

  • Farr M. . Routledge, 2026. In Preparation.
  • Farr M. Margaret Thatcher's World. De Gruyter, 2026. In Preparation.
  • Farr M. . New York: Routledge, 2007.
  • Lord Henniker, Farr M (ghostwriter). . Thornham: Thornham Books, 2002.

• Book Chapters

  • Farr M. . In: Love G; Toye R, ed. Writing Politics in Modern Britain: Genre and Cultures of Publishing since 1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026, pp.64-84.
  • Farr M. Norman Tebbit. In: Sam Blaxland, Anthony Mullen, Martin Farr, ed. Thatcher's Ministers. Palgrave Macmillan, 2026. In Preparation.
  • Farr M. . In: Zachary Gorman, ed. Robert Menzies and the British Commonwealth. Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Publishing, 2026. In Press.
  • Farr M. Donald Trump and Keir Starmer: the Provisional Relationship. In: Rohan McWilliam, ed. Keir Starmer and the Politics of Caution: Governing the United Kingdom in the 2020s. Bloomsbury, 2026. Submitted.
  • Farr M. John Moore. In: Sam Blaxland, Anthony Mullen, and Martin Farr, ed. Thatcher's Ministers. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. In Preparation.
  • Farr M. Douglas Hurd. In: Sam Blaxland, Anthony Mullen, and Martin Farr, ed. Thatcher's Ministers. Palgrave Macmilan, 2025. In Preparation.
  • Farr M. Changing Conservatism in the 1970s. In: Andrew S. Roe-Crines, ed. The Routledge Handbook on the History of the Conservative Party. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. In Preparation.
  • Farr M. . In: Michael Cullinane and Martin Farr, ed. The Palgrave Handbook of Presidents and Prime Ministers, from Cleveland and Salisbury to Trump and Johnson, 1895-2020. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp.383-415.
  • Farr M. . In: Michael Cullinane and Martin Farr, ed. The Palgrave Handbook of Presidents and Prime Ministers, from Cleveland and Salisbury to Trump and Johnson, 1895-2020. Palgrave Macmilllan, 2022, pp.421-441.
  • Farr M. . In: Cullinane M; Farr M, ed. The Palgrave Handbook of Presidents and Prime Ministers, from Cleveland and Salisbury to Trump and Johnson, 1895-2020. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp.347-381.
  • Farr M. . In: Andrew S. Roe-Crines and Timothy Heppell, ed. Policies and Politics Under Prime Minister Edward Heath. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp.63-86.
  • Farr M. . In: Antony Mullen, David Jeffery, and Stephen Farrall, ed. Thatcherism in the 21st Century: The Social and Cultural Legacy. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp.267-292.
  • Farr M. . In: Stephanie Barczewski, Martin Farr, ed. The MacKenzie Moment and Imperial History: Essays in honour of John M. MacKenzie. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp.121-168.
  • Farr M. . In: Jonathan Davis and Rohan McWilliam, ed. Labour and the Left in the 1980s. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018, pp.44-68.
  • Farr M. . In: Harrison D; Sharpley R, ed. Mass Tourism in a Small World. Wallingford and Boston MA: CABI, 2017, pp.105-117.
  • Farr M. . In: Farr, M., Guégan, X, ed. The British Abroad since the Eighteenth Century: Travellers and Tourists. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2013, pp.117-136.
  • Farr M. ‘British Journalism in World War I’; ‘Reginald McKenna’;‘The Labour Party in World War I’; ‘The Liberal Party in World War I’;‘British Journalism in World War II’; ‘The Conservative Party in World War II’;‘Ernest Bevin’; ‘Clement Attlee’. In: James Ciment, Thaddeus Russell, ed. The Home Front Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara: ABC CLIO, 2006.
  • Farr M. . In: O'Neill, P, ed. Exile and Homecoming. University of Sydney: The Celtic Studies Foundation, 2005, pp.207-224.
  • Farr M. . In: Toye, R., Gottlieb, J, ed. Making Reputations: Power, Persuasion and the Individual in Modern British Politics. London: I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, 2005, pp.29-42.
  • Farr M. . In: Loades, D, ed. Reader’s Guide to British History. New York and London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003.

• Digital or Visual Media

  • Farr M. . London: History of Parliament Trust, 2015. audio files 2 WAV 48 kHz 24 bit stereo.
  • Farr M. Interview with Sir Philip Goodhart. London: History of Parliament Trust, 2012. audio file 1 WAV 44 kHz 16 bit stereo.

• Edited Books

  • Farr M, Guegan X, ed. . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
  • Farr M, Guegan X, ed. . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

• Editorials

  • Farr M. . Britain and the World 2026, 19(1), 1-13. In Press.
  • Farr M. . Britain and the World 2025, 18(1), 1-10.
  • Farr M. . Britain and the World 2023, 16(1), 1-10.
  • Farr M. . British Scholar 2010, III(2), 187-190.

• Notes

  • Farr M. . 2018.
  • Farr M. . The Extraordinary Gertrude Bell 2015, 39-40.

• Online Publications

  • Farr M. . London: The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited, 2026. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . London: The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited, 2026. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . London: The Conversation Trust, 2026. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . The Conversation, 2025. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited, 2025. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . London: The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited, 2025. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . London: The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited, 2025. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . London: The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited, 2025. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . London: The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited, 2025. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . London: The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited, 2025. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . London: The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited, 2025. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . London: The Conversation, 2025. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . The Conversation, 2024. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . London: The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited, 2024. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . The Conversation, 2024. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited: The Conversation, 2023. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . The Conversation Trust, 2021. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . The Conversation, 2021. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . London: The Conversation, 2021. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited, 2020. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . The Conversation Trust Ltd: The Conversation, 2020. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . The Conversation Trust, 2019. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . The Conversation, 2019. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . The Conversation Trust, 2019. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . The Conversation Trust Ltd, 2018. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . London: The Conversation, 2018. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . The Conversation, 2018. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . London, UK: History & Policy, 2017. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . 2017. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . The Conversation, 2017. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . London: The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited, 2017. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . 2016. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . London: King’s College London, 2016. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . Politics and History: Politics and History specialist group of the UK Political Studies Association, 2016. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . 2015. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . 2015. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . The Conversation, 2015. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . The Conversation Trust, 2015. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . United States: H-Net, 2013. Available at: .
  • Farr M. . London, UK: British Scholar Society, 2011. Available at: .

• Reviews

  • Farr M. The Labour Government of 1924. Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 2026. Submitted.
  • Farr M. Everyday Politics, Ordinary Lives. American Historical Review 2026. Submitted.
  • Farr M. . War in History 2026. In Press.
  • Farr M. . H-Diplo 2023, 9-17.
  • Farr M. . Britain and the World 2022, 15(2), 188-190.
  • Farr M. . Parliaments, Estates, & Representation 2022, 42(2), 206-207.
  • Farr M. . Britain and the World 2020, 13(1), 92-95.
  • Farr M. . English Historical Review 2019, 134(570), 1352-1354.
  • Farr M. . Britain and the World 2015, 8(2), 251-254.
  • Farr M. . Diplomacy and Statecraft 2015, 26(4), 751-753.
  • Farr M. . Gender & History 2013, 25(1), 197-198.
  • Farr M. . Britain and the World 2013, 6(2), 311-313.
  • Farr M. . BBC History Magazine 2012, (3), 73.
  • Farr M. . Reviews in History 2012, (review no. 1259).
  • Farr M. . Parliamentary History 2012, 31(2), 258-260.
  • Farr M. . Journal of British Studies 2011, 50(4), 1013-1014.
  • Farr M. . BBC History 2010.
  • Farr M. . Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought 2010, 1(1), 125-127.
  • Farr M. . British Scholar 2009, 2(1), 165-167.
  • Farr M. . Contemporary British History 2006, 20(2), 285-286.
  • Farr M. . Contemporary British History 2005, 19(2), 268-270.
  • Farr M. . Contemporary British History 2005, 19(3), 407-408.
  • Farr M. . Contemporary British History 2004, 18(1), 152-154.
  • Farr M. . War in History 2004, 11(4), 461-463.
  • Farr M. . Contemporary British History 2002, 152-154.
  • Farr M. . Continuity and Change 2001, 16(3), 443-449.

• Scholarly Editions

  • Farr M. . Research Methods for Primary Sources 2021. Marlborough: Adam Matthew Digital.
  • Farr M. . Research Methods for Primary Sources 2021. Marlborough: Adam Matthew Digital.
  • Farr M. . Research Methods for Primary Sources 2021. Marlborough: Adam Matthew Digital.