Professor James Thompson
M.A.(Columbia), Ph.D.(Cantab.)
Current positions
Professor of Modern British History
Department of History (Historical Studies)
Contact
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Research interests
Teaching
I contribute to a number of team taught units on both the BA in History and the MA in History. This year I am teaching on:
Political Culture and Communication in Modern Britain (Level 2)
Britain's Long Nineteenth Century (Level 3)
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
News cycle and conflict cycle after 1945: A comparative study
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of HumanitiesDates
04/09/2012 to 04/02/2013
British Historical Statistics Project
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of History (Historical Studies)Dates
01/01/2006 to 31/12/2020
Thesis supervisions
The Political Culture of Anti-Socialism in Britain, 1900-1940
Supervisors
Visions of the Teuton
Supervisors
Creating a new Shanghai : the end of the British presence in China (1949-57)
Supervisors
Imperial Enthusiasts and the Presentation of Empire in Britain
Supervisors
Spaces, Places, Custom and Protest in Rural Somerset and Dorset, c. 1780-1867.
Supervisors
Rules of Collective Bargaining 1860-1930
Supervisors
The Southwark Way of Death
Supervisors
Lighting China’s Coast
Supervisors
Franz Borkenau
Supervisors
The Funeral as an Opportunity for Social Display, 1700 – 1820
Supervisors
Women and Petty Violence in Cheltenham and Exeter, 1880-1909
Supervisors
Commonwealth Defence Cooperation during the Cold War, 1947-1982
Supervisors
Radical socialites or sociable radicals?
Supervisors
Collecting English Magic
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
02/09/2025Geoffrey Crowther, Economics and Anglo-American Futures
Institutions, Individuals and Modern British History: Essays in Honour of Sir David Cannadine
The Image of the Country House in Victorian Political Culture’
Culture, Thought and Belief in British Political Life: Essays in Honour of Jonathan Parry
Review of 'A Nation of Petitioners: Petitions and Petitioning in the United Kingdom, 1780–1918'
Journal of Modern History
The Glasgow Herald
The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press: Volume 2 Expansion and Evolution, 1800-1900
The British left in European perspective, c. 1880–1914
Global Intellectual History
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