Dr. Timothy Baycroft, B.A. (Mt. Allison), B.Phil. (Louvain), D.E.A. (Paris), Ph.D. (Cantab)
Senior Lecturer in History [19th-20th c. France; Modern French history; nationalism]
Email: t.baycroft@sheffield.ac.uk
Room: Jessop West: 3.13 | Telephone: (0114) 22 22568
Office Hours, Spring 2011-12: Thursdays 11:15-1:00
| Biography |
Timothy Baycroft joined the History Department in Sheffield in 1996.
Timothy Baycroft is an executive member of the Society for the Study of French History (SSFH), and was a visiting Professor at the Centre for Border Studies, at the University of Glamorgan in the spring semester 2006.
| Research |
Current Research
Currently he is working on two projects related to his interests in memory, identity and nationalism. He is editing a book on folklore and nationalism in Europe, and working on a project on comparative European Borders and the theories of indentity formation in Border regions, in collaboration with colleagues at the Centre for Border Studies of the Univeristy of Glamorgan.
Research Interests
His research interests lie in the area of identity and nationalism in modern Europe, and modern France in particular. He has publications on commemoration and memory, border identities, colonial imagery in France and European identity. He has received grants from the AHRB and the British Academy in support of this work. He has jointly directed a research project which compares European nationalisms in the nineteenth century, with a view to revising the traditional model dividing nations simply into those which are 'civic' and those which are 'ethnic'.
Research Supervision
Dr. Baycroft teaches nineteenth and twentieth-century European history at all levels. His current course offerings include a general history of France 1870-1940, final-year documents based courses on the Nazi Occupation of France during the Second World War and the Paris Commune, and postgraduate courses in the comparative cultural history of Europe in the Fin-de-Siècle period and 19th-century British Broadside Ballads. He supervises research students in several areas of modern French and European History, and would welcome enquiries from prospective students in this area.
Current PhD Students
- James Daniel – Freemasonry and the 4th Earl of Carnarvon
- Jennifer Farrar – The Persecution of Freemasons in France, 1940-44
- Justin Olmstead – The Diplomatic build-up to the American entry into the First World War
- Jack Rhoden – Representations of Napoleon III
- Hilary Sheffield – Italian Immigration into France in the Nineteenth Century
| Administrative Roles and Responsibilities |
- Chairman of the History Department Library and Resources Committee
- Chairman of the History Department Staff-Student Committee
- Deputy Director of the Centre for 19th-Century Studies
- Coordinator for the MA in 19th-Century Studies
| Selected Publications |
Books:
- France: Inventing the Nation (Arnold, 2008) [in press]
- What is a Nation? Europe 1789-1914, edited with Mark Hewitson. (OUP, 2006)
- Culture, Identity and Nationalism: French Flanders in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. The Royal Historical Society Studies in History Series. (The Boydell Press, 2004)
- Nationalism in Europe 1789-1945. Cambridge Perspectives in History Series. (CUP, 1998)
Articles:
- 'The Versailles Settlement and Identity in French Flanders', in Diplomacy and Statecraft 16 (2005) pp. 589-602.
- 'The Empire and the Nation: The Place of Colonial Images in the Republican Visions of the French Nation', in Martin Evans, ed. Empire and Culture: The French Experience 1830-1940, (Palgrave, 2004), pp. 148-60.
- 'European Identity', in Social Identities: Multidisciplinary Approaches, Gary Taylor and Steve Spence, eds., (Routledge, 2004), pp. 145-61.
- '"Degrees of Foreignness" and the Construction of Identity in French Border Regions during the Interwar Period,' with Carolyn Grohmann and Paul Lawrence, Contemporary European History, 10, 1 (2001), pp. 51-71.
- 'Changing Identities in the Franco-Belgian Borderland in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries', in French History Vol. 13 No. 4 (December, 1999), pp. 417-38.
- 'Commemorations of the Revolution of 1848 and the Second Republic', in Modern & Contemporary France, Vol. 6 No. 2 (1998), pp. 155-68.
- 'Peasants into Frenchmen? The Case of the Flemish in the North of France 1860-1914', in European Review of History/Revue européenne d'Histoire, Vol. 2 No. 1 (Spring, 1995), pp.31-44.