History (Modern) MA: Who teaches this course

• Staff teaching on this course

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences teaches this course. Students benefit from a lively study environment, thanks to the wide range of postgraduate courses on offer.

Programmes cover everything from English literature and music to human rights and politics.

The Faculty provides a vibrant and forward-thinking environment for study with:

• courses designed in collaboration with industry professionals – keeping you up to date with the latest developments;
• established connections with the London arts and media scene – with a range of guest speakers, professors and lecturers visiting the University; and
• committed and enthusiastic staff – many of whom are expert practitioners as well as leading academics and researchers.

The Faculty's combination of academics and practitioners makes it a unique environment in which to further your studies and your career.

Where is the Faculty based? Most students are based at the University's Penrhyn Road campus, with our music and education courses taught at the Kingston Hill campus.

Professor John Davis

Specialist subjects:

• Anglo-German relations
• British history
• German history
• Prince Albert
• The Great Exhibition
• The Zollverein

Recent publications:

• The Victorians and Germany (Peter Lang, 2007)
• Richard Cobden's German Diaries (Saur, Munich, 2007)
• Divided Estate, Common Heritage: The Franz Bosbach Archives of Windsor and Gotha (Saur, Munich, 2007)

Dr Ilaria Favretto

Title: Professor in Contemporary European History
Email: i.favretto@kingston.ac.uk 

Specialist subjects:

• 20th century Italian history
• 20th century British history
• The European Left
• Protest and industrial conflict in 20th century Europe
• Cultural history

Recent publications:

• 'Red Scare: 'Pericolo Rosso' e Gran Bretagna nel Ventesimo Secolo' (transl: 'Labour and the 'Red Threat' in 20th Century Britain'), in Fulvio Cammarano and Stefano Cavazza (eds), in Il Nemico in Politica. La Delegittimazione dell'avversario nell'Europa Contemporanea (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2010)
• 'The parties of the Centre Left', in James Newell (ed.), Italian Political Elections 2008 (London: Routledge, 2009), pp. 85-101
• Socialism and Social Reform in the Twentieth Century: Cultures of Social Democracy in Historical and Comparative Perspective, co-editor (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006)

Dr Christopher French

Specialist subjects:

• Local and community history
• British urban history
• Sports history

Recent publications:

• 'Who Lived in Suburbia? Surbiton in the Second Half of the 19th Century' in Family and Community History, volume 10, 2 (2007), pp. 93-109
• 'Infant Mortality in the Canbury Area of Kingston upon Thames, 1872-1911' in Continuity and Change, volume 22, 2 (2007), (with Juliet Warren), pp. 253-78
• 'Taking Up 'The Challenge of Micro-history': Social Conditions in Kingston upon Thames in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries' in The Local Historian, volume 36, 1 (2006), pp. 17-28

Dr Keith Grieves

Specialist subjects:

• English rural communities in the nineteenth and twentieth century
• Local and regional history in the twentieth century
• The cultural history of war in the twentieth century: the British experience
• Libraries and the working class reading experience

Recent publications:

• 'Remembering an Ill-fated Venture: The Fourth Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment at Suvla Bay and its Legacy, 1915-1939' in J.Macleod (ed.) Gallipoli; Making History (Frank Cass, 2004)
• 'Depicting the War on the Western Front: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Publication of The British Campaign in France and Flanders' in M.Hammond and S.Towheed (eds.), Publishing in the First World War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
• 'The Propinquity of Place: Home, Landscape and Soldier Poets of the Great War' in J.Meyer (ed.) The First World War and Popular Culture (Brill, 2008)

Dr Marko Attila Hoare

Title: Reader
Email: m.hoare@kingston.ac.uk

Specialist subjects:

• History of South East Europe
• Genocide
• Nationalism

Recent publications:

• ‘Genocide in the Former Yugoslavia Before and After Communism', Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 62, no. 7, September 2010, pp. 1193-1214
• ‘Bosnia-Hercegovina and International Justice: Past Failures and Future Solutions', East European Politics and Societies, vol. 24, no. 2, May 2010, pp. 191-205
• ‘The War of Yugoslav Succession', in Sabrina P. Ramet (ed.), Central and Southeast European Politics Since 1989 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 111-135
• ‘The National Identity of the Bosnian Serbs', in Darko Gavrilović et al., Facing the Past, Searching for the Future: The History of Yugoslavia in the 20th Century (Sremska Kamenica: Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation, Centre for History, Democracy and Reconciliation and the Faculty for European Legal-Political Studies, 2010), pp. 179-204

Dr Sue Hawkins

Specialist subjects:

• Historical aspects of healthcare provision in Britain
• Nursing history
• Women and work in 19th century England
• Oral history as a tool for studying 20th century social history
• Proposography as a tool for studying 19th century communities
• Biography of  the 'common people' in Victorian England

Recent publications:

• Nursing and Women's Labour in the Nineteenth Century (London: Routledge, 2010)
• From Maid to Matron: nursing as a route to social advancement in nineteenth century England, Women's History Review 2010, 19(1), pp. 125 – 143

Dr Marisa Linton

Specialist subjects:

• The French Revolution
• The Enlightenment
• The Age of Revolutions
• Women and gender in eighteenth century Britain and France

Recent publications:

• 'Fatal Friendships: The Politics of Jacobin Friendship' in French Historical Studies, 31, 1 (Winter 2008), pp. 51-76
• Conspiracy in the French Revolution, co-editor (University of Manchester Press, 2007)
• The Politics of Virtue in Enlightenment France (Palgrave, 2001)

Dr Andrea Mammone

Specialist subjects:

• European right-wing extremism (especially neo-fascism in Britain, France and Italy)
• Transnational extreme-right networks and cultural/ideological transfer
• French and Italian fascism
• The idea of 'universal fascism'
• Clandestine and terrorist neo-fascist activity in Italy (1943–1951)
• Italian history, politics, society and public memory
• History, memory and identity

Recent publications

Dr Mammone is currently finalising a monograph on transnational fascism and neo-fascism across France and Italy. He is also working on another monograph on the history of Italian neo-fascism (Routledge, Series on Extremism and Democracy, 2011), and has just co-edited two journal editions (Journal of Contemporary European Studies) as well as two forthcoming volumes (Berghahn Books, 2010) on European right-wing extremism. He is the co-editor of Italy Today: The Sick Man of Europe (Routledge, 2010).

Dr Jeremy Nuttall

Specialist subjects:

• British political, social and intellectual history from 1850 to the present
• The history of social democracy and the Labour Party in Britain
• Immigration, race and identity in modern British history

Recent publications:

• Psychological Socialism: The Labour Party and Qualities of Mind and Character, 1931 to the Present (Manchester University Press, 2006)
• 'Labour Revisionism and Qualities of Mind and Character, 1931-79' in English Historical Review, 120, 487 (2005), pp. 667-94
• 'The Labour Party and the Improvement of Minds: the Case of Tony Crosland' in The Historical Journal, 46, 1 (2003), pp. 133-53

Professor Craig Phelan

Specialist subjects:

• Trade Unionism
• US History
• Political Economy

Recent publications:

• Trade Union Revitalisation: Trends and Prospects in 34 Countries (ed) (Peter Lang, 2007)
• The Future of Organised Labour: Global Perspectives (ed) (Peter Lang, 2006)
• Grand Master Workman: Terence Powderly and the Knights of Labor (Greenwood, 2000)

Dr Nicola Phillips

Specialist subjects:

• Gender, law and family relations, 1700-1830
• Eighteenth-century British social, cultural and gender history
• Modern British women's history, 1800-1950
• Women in Business

 Recent publications:

• 'Parenting the Profligate Son: Masculinity, Gentility, and Juvenile Delinquency, 1790-1830', Gender and History 22/1 (April 2010), 92-108
• Women in Business, 1700-1850  (Boydell and Brewer, 2006)
• 'A Heavy Debt to Settle with Humanity? The Representation and Invisibility of London's Principal Milliners', in Beth Harris (ed.), Famine and Fashion: Needlewomen in the Nineteenth Century (Ashgate, 2005), pp. 215-28

Dr John Stuart

Specialist subjects:

• The history of the British Empire and Commonwealth
• The modern history of Sub-Saharan Africa
• The history of British Protestant missions
• The history of the Church in Sub-Saharan Africa

Recent publications:

• 'Beyond Sovereignty?: British Missionaries and Transnationalism, 1890-1950' in Kevin Grant, Philippa Levine and Frank Trentmann (eds.), Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire and Transnationalism, c.1880-1950 (2007)
• 'Empire and Religion in Colonial Botswana: The Seretse Khama Controversy, 1948-56' in Hilary Carey and Hugh McLeod (eds.), Empires of Religion (2008)
• 'William Henry Fitchett: Englishman, Australian, Methodist, Imperialist' (with Ian Welch) in Social Sciences and Missions, 21 (2008)
• 'Dorothea Lehmann and John V. Taylor: Researching Church and Society in Late Colonial Africa' in Patrick Harries and David Maxwell (eds.),  The Secular in the Spiritual: Missionaries and Knowledge in Colonial Africa (2009)

Other information:

John's historical interests range widely, taking in religion and society in Britain and British colonial Africa, mainly from the 1880s to the 1960s. His main research focus at present is on the effects of African 'decolonisation' on Protestant missions and churches in colonial Kenya, Zambia, Malawi and Botswana. He welcomes research students interested in the histories of Christianity, empire and colonialism in Africa.

Juliet Warren

Specialist subjects:

• History and computing
• Local history

Recent publications:

• 'Infant Mortality in the Canbury Area of Kingston upon Thames, 1872-1911' (with Chris French) in Continuity and Change, vol 22, 2007, number 2
• 'Medical Officers of Health and Infant Mortality: The Case of Kingston upon Thames in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries' (with Chris French) in Local Population Studies, No.73, 2004, pp. 61-72