Professor James Thompson
M.A.(Columbia), Ph.D.(Cantab.)
Current positions
Professor of Modern British History
Department of History (Historical Studies)Green Representative
Human Resources
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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
Publications
Recent publications
15/10/2024The 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
Review of Martin Thomas and Richard Toye, Arguing about Empire: Imperial Rhetoric in Britain and France, 1882-1956
American Historical Review
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