Professor James Thompson
M.A.(Columbia), Ph.D.(Cantab.)
Current positions
Green Representative
Human ResourcesProfessor 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)
Sexualities (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
Spaces, Places, Custom and Protest in Rural Somerset and Dorset, c. 1780-1867.
Supervisors
Rules of Collective Bargaining 1860-1930
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
01/02/2020The 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
Review of Martin Thomas and Richard Toye, Arguing about Empire: Imperial Rhetoric in Britain and France, 1882-1956
American Historical Review
‘The Lights of the Electric Octopus Have Been Switched Off’
Twentieth Century British History
Posters, advertising and the First World War in Britain
The Edinburgh companion to the First World War and the arts