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Jon Lawrence

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Jonathan Mark Lawrence, FRHistS (born 1961) is a British historian. Since 2019, he has been Professor of Modern British History at the University of Exeter.

Early life and education

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Born in 1961,[1] he attended King's College, Cambridge; after graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1983, he completed doctoral studies. In 1989, he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree[2] for his thesis "Party Politics and the People: Continuity and Change in the Political History of Wolverhampton, 1815–1914", which was supervised by Gareth Stedman Jones.[3]

Career

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Lawrence subsequently taught at University College London and the University of Liverpool before he was appointed a university lecturer in modern British history at the University of Cambridge[4] and a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 2004.[5] He was promoted to a senior lectureship in 2006[6] and to a readership in 2011.[7] In 2017,[8][9] he moved to the University of Exeter to be an associate professor; he was promoted to be Professor of Modern British History in 2019.[10]

As of 2021, he is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[11] In 2017, he gave the annual Neale Lecture at University College London on the topic "The Culture Wars of Class in Post-War Britain".[9]

Bibliography

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Books

  • Lawrence, Jon; Taylor, Miles, eds. (1997). Party, State and Society: Electoral Behaviour in Britain since 1820. Aldershot: Scolar Press. ISBN 9781859280461.
  • Lawrence, Jon (1998). Speaking for the People: Party, Language and Popular Politics in England, 1867–1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780511585661.
  • Lawrence, Jon; Starkey, Pat, eds. (2001). Child Welfare and Social Action in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: International Perspectives. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. doi:10.5949/UPO9781846312816. ISBN 9780853236863.
  • Lawrence, Jon (2009). Electing Our Masters: The Hustings in British Politics from Hogarth to Blair. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199550128.
  • Feldman, David; Lawrence, Jon, eds. (2014). Structures and Transformations in Modern British History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511973901. ISBN 9781107679641.
  • Lawrence, Jon (2019). Me, Me, Me?: Individualism and the Struggle for Community in Post-War England. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198779537.

Thesis

Peer-reviewed articles and chapters

References

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  1. ^ "Lawrence, Jon, 1961–", British Library. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
  2. ^ Cambridge University List of Members up to 31 July 1998 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 458.
  3. ^ "Modern Britain and Ireland – Awarded 1980–1989", History Theses 1970–2014: Historical Research for Higher Degrees in the Universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland (British History Online). Retrieved 2 June 2021.
  4. ^ "Dr Jon Lawrence", Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. Archived at the Internet Archive on 18 November 2004.
  5. ^ "Emmanuel College", Cambridge University Reporter, vol. 139, special ed., no. 3 (2 October 2008). Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  6. ^ "Report of the General Board on Senior Academic Promotions", Cambridge University Reporter, vol. 136, no. 27 (17 May 2006). Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  7. ^ "Election, Appointments, and Reappointment", Cambridge University Reporter, vol. 141, no. 39 (3 August 2011). Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  8. ^ "Introducing Jon Lawrence", Living with Machines, 2 April 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  9. ^ a b "2017 Neale Lecture: Jon Lawrence on Culture and Class in Post-War Britain, 16 Nov", University College London, 16 November 2017. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  10. ^ Compare "Professor Jon Lawrence", University of Exeter, archived at the Internet Archive on 5 August 2019, with "Professor Jon Lawrence", University of Exeter, archived at the Internet Archive on 3 December 2019.
  11. ^ "Fellows – L" (Royal Historical Society). Retrieved 2 June 2021.