Histories from Here
Through our blog series, Histories from Here, the Modern British Studies Association is committed to publishing work that is relevant, accessible, rigorous, respectful and diverse.
We welcome reflections on scholarship relating to modern Britain from a diversity of vantage points and positions – in terms of positionality, career stage, life course, physical location, ideological stance and methodology.
Submissions are based on original research, broadly defined to include work conducted within the academy, heritage sites and bodies, and community organisations.
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Between British and Global History? Researching International Solidarity Movements
Throughout my doctoral research on anti-imperialism and international solidarity politics among the British New Left of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, I have often wrestled with the question of the “umbrella” under which my research falls — ‘modern British history’,…
Notes from the North of Ireland
In January 2015 I took up my first permanent academic job as a lecturer in contemporary British history at Queen’s University Belfast. A few months earlier I had made the trip over from Birmingham, where I had grown up, to house hunt. The taxi from George…