New Staff
Two new members of staff have been appointed this academic year.
Dr. Adrian Bingham is a social and cultural historian of twentieth-century Britain, with particular interests in gender, sexuality, the media and popular culture. He is the author of a monograph entitled Gender, Modernity, and the Popular Press in Inter-War Britain (2004), and is currently working on another book entitled Family Newspapers? Sex, Private Life and the British Popular Press 1918-1978. He is keen to supervise postgraduate students working on gender and sexuality in modern Britain; the media (especially newspapers) and popular culture; and social and cultural change after 1945.
Dr. Holger Nehring's main research interests lie in the social, political and cultural history of post-World War II Western Europe, with a special emphasis on the social history of the Cold War in Britain and Germany since 1945. The main focus of his research is the relationship between governments and citizens in a variety of areas. He is particularly interested in the comparative and transnational history of protest and social movements in this period (especially in the 1960s and 1970s). He is currently preparing a monograph on the protests against nuclear weapons for publication and has published widely on the history of peace and social movements, e.g. 'The British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons and the Cultures of the Cold War, 1957–64', Contemporary British History 19.2 (2005); 'The Growth of Social Movements', in Paul Addison/Harriet Jones (eds.), A Companion to Contemporary Britain, 1939–2000 (2005); 'Westernisation – a new paradigm for interpreting West European History in a Cold War context', Cold War History 4.2 (2003/04). His next project will examine how various West European societies tried to re-establish "security" after the ravages of the Second World War. Further research interests include the history of political violence and "terrorism" in Western Europe after 1945 and the connections between taxation and political legitimacy.