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Dean Blackburn

Dean BlackburnSeminar Tutor

Email: hixdb@bristol.ac.uk

Research interests

Dean Blackburn's doctoral research interest lies with assessing the shape of centre-left political discourse in Britain over a 50-year period, utilising a body of political literature produced by the publisher Penguin Books between 1937 and 1985. He is particularly interested in the  evolution of British social democratic thought and the relationship between ideology and post-war welfare policies in Britain. This study forms one component of the University of Bristol's AHRC Penguin Archive Project.

Dean has secondary research interests in the history of the British Social Democratic Party.

Publications

‘Penguin Books and the Marketplace for Ideas’ in L. Black, H. Pemberton and P. Thane (eds.), Reassessing 1970s Britain (Manchester University Press, forthcoming).

‘Facing the Future? David Owen and Social Democracy in the 1980s and Beyond’ Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 64, No. 4 (October 2011), pp. 612 – 633.

‘Young, Edward Preston (1913-2003)’ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, May 2012).

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