Senior Lecturer and Director of Postgraduate Teaching, School of Politics, Philosophy, International Relations and Environment, Keele University
I studied History at Clare College, Cambridge, and Contemporary British History at Queen Mary College, University of London. I stayed at Queen Mary to do my PhD and I was a Tutorial Fellow in International History at LSE before coming to Keele.
My research is on post-1945 British history, particularly Britain’s relations with Europe, Britain in the Cold War, British-French relations, and British nuclear weapons policy.
I am currently working on a social and cultural history of the Parachute Regiment, the 1982 Falklands War and its aftermath. My book will be published by Penguin in 2018.
Let's be clear about what 'get Brexit done' really means
Dec 13, 2019 07:23 am UTC| Insights & Views
Boris Johnson has fought the 2019 UK election campaign on the slogan get Brexit done, promising to get his withdrawal agreement through parliament before Christmas and take Britain out of the EU on January 31 2020. This...
How a hung parliament totally changes the game for Brexit
Jun 09, 2017 17:52 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Theresa Mays election gamble has failed but could this lead to a change in the politics of Brexit? Perhaps, but it would take political will. When Theresa May called the election, she calculated that the result would...
Article 50 vote shows Brexit is about politics, not Britain's future
Feb 09, 2017 13:54 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The vote in the House of Commons on whether the British government can trigger Article 50 has been revealing. It showed just how much the current Brexit debate is cast not by the economic and international interests of the...
Canada needs a national strategy for homeless refugee claimants
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