History: Academic Staff
Contact details for these staff can be found in our profiles area.
Dr Alan Marshall is Head of Department. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has written numerous books and articles on the early modern period which he also teaches. They include: Oliver Cromwell, Soldier: The Military life of a Revolutionary at War (Brassey's , 2004); The Strange Death of Edmund Godfrey (Sutton, 1999); The Age of Faction: Court Politics, 1660-1702 (Manchester University press, 1999). His current research in progress includes work on the mining communities of North-east England, and on seventeenth century military life.
Dr Roberta Anderson is a Senior Lecturer in History whose research interests include the foreign ambassadors at the 17th century English court. Her teaching is in the early modern and medieval social and religious history and has published widely in this area.
Dr Elaine Chalus is a Senior Lecturer in History. An eighteenth-century specialist, she is interested predominantly in social and political culture, the implicit and explicit manoeuvrings of personal and political relationships. She has published widely and has also been involved in a number of television history programmes in an effort to ensure that knowledge of the past reaches the largest possible audience.
Dr Kristin G Doern teaches modern British history from the eighteenth century through to the twentieth century. Her particular areas of expertise are the history of Anglo/American feminism and women's activism in the nineteenth century in general, and changing social structures in relation to religion and social reform movements in particular.
Dr Brian Griffin is a Senior Lecturer in History and, at postgraduate level, Irish Studies. His research is located in the social history and culture of nineteenth and twentieth-century Ireland. He has published on such topics as police and crime, rabies in Ireland, Irish cycling, and the life and writings of Katherine Frances Purdon. Work in progress includes books on Irish cycling and police and crime in Victorian Irish literature, and articles on phrenology in Ireland and anti-Catholicism in nineteenth-century Bath.
Professor Iftikhar Malik teaches international history and teaches on courses on Modern Asia (India, China and Japan), the Muslim World, and the US history. An author of numerous books and research papers, he is a fellow of Royal Historical Society and is also associated with Wolfson College, Oxford. Since 9/11, he has given many media interviews and public lectures on Political Islam, South Asia and Muslim Diaspora.
Professor Fiona Montgomery's main teaching interest is Women's History. Publications include The European Women's History Reader (Routledge, 2002, with C. Collette); Into the Melting Pot (Ashgate, 1997 with C. Collette); Edge Hill University College: a history 1885-1987 (Phillimore, 1997); 'Mary Wollstonecraft' in P. Dematteis and P. Fosl (eds), British Philosophers, 1500-1799 (Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2002); 'Women who dids' in C.J. Parker, Gender and Sexuality in Victorian England (Scholar Press, 1995). In 2001, she gave the Tumelty Memorial Lecture at the University of Glasgow. Current work includes a book on Women's Rights: Feminism and Feminists in Britain c.1780s-1970s for Manchester University Press.
Professor John Newsinger teaches modern history and is the author of numerous books and articles. His most recent works include: Orwell's Politics (1999); United Irishman: The Memoirs of James Hope (2000); British Counterinsurgency: from Palestine to Northern Ireland (2002) and Rebel City: Larkin, Connolly and the Dublin Labour Movement (2004). He has also published studies of science fiction and of the cinema. He teaches on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
Dr Cliff Williamson teaches modern history and teaches courses on Modern British and European, as well as American history. His research interests are on the relationship between the Religious Beliefs and the Politics of Margaret Thatcher, and is currently focussed on a monograph as well as journal articles, the first part to be submitted for publication is on the subject of Thatcherism and Judaism.
Professor Graham Davis (recently retired) is the Course Director for the MA in Irish Studies. He has published widely in journals on Irish Migration History and on the History of Bath. Articles have been published in Britain, Ireland, the United States, Canada, Holland and Spain. His recent book Land!: Irish Pioneers in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas(Texas A and M University Press, 2002) has received two prestigious awards in the USA in 2003 and 2004. He teaches undergraduate courses on English Local History, Victorian Britain, The Irish in Britain, and Bittersweet Liberty: Irish Migration and Settlement Overseas and The American West. He is active in lecturing to local and family history societies, organizes the annual Irish Studies lecture series and Postgraduate Irish Studies conferences. He is also an occasional broadcaster for local and national radio, BBC, HTV and Channel 4 television.