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Personal Profile For Prof John Newsinger
Senior Lecturer: History. School of Humanities and Cultural Industries.
BA [Hull], MA [Leicester].
Personal Statement:
John is the author of numerous books and articles. His most recent books include: Orwell's Politics (1999); United Irishman: The Memoirs of James Hope (2000); British Counterinsurgency: from Palestine to Northern Ireland (2002); Rebel City: Larkin, Connolly and the Dublin Labour Movement (2004) and The Blood Never Dried: A People's History of the British Empire (2006). He has a chapter on George Orwell and the Holocaust in the Cambridge Companion to George Orwell (2007). At the moment, he is working on a history of the Industrial Workers of the World. He has also published studies of science fiction and of the cinema. He teaches on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
Professional Qualifications:
Membership of Professional Bodies/Subject Associations:
Society for the Study of Labour Hiistory; Irish Labour History Society; Military History Society of Ireland;and the US Military History Society
Teaching Specialism:
Modern History
Key Publications/Exhibitions/Performances:
The Blood Never Dried ( Bookmarks 2006 )
Rebel City ( Merlin 2004 )
British Counterinsurgency ( Palgrave 2002 )
United Irishman (Merlin 2000 )
Orwell's Politics (Palgrave 1999 - 3rd edition 2004 - French translation published 2006)
Shaking the world ( Bookmarks 1999 )
Dangerous men ( Pluto 1997 )
Fenianism in Mid-Victorian Britain ( Pluto 1994 )
five chapters in George Orwell: Enigmatic Socialist ( SP 2005 ) , edited by Paul Flewers
and over thirty refereed articles
Current Scholarship:
Orwell and British Communism ( to be completed )
Memoir Literature of the Indian Mutiny ( to be completed )
Marx, India and the Mutiny ( to be completed )
Orwell and the Problem of Working Class Consciousness ( to be completed )
Book on the Industrial Workers of the World (to be completed)
External Examiners:
PhD for University of Leicester 2002
Other External Roles:
Historical consultant on BBC TV series on Scotland and the Empire
Regular delivery of papers -- guest speaker at the Folkestone Literary Festival in 2006, guest speaker at the Brighton Holocaust Memorial conference and Plenary Speaker at the Socialist historians Conference in London in 2007
Recent Professional Updating:
Last Updated: 12 February 2008.
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