Mark Connelly (historian)

Mark Connelly (historian)

Mark Connelly is a professor and Head of the School of History, at the University of Kent in Canterbury, where he is both a military historian, and the Reuters Lecturer in Media History..

He is also the author of a book on the Second World War and the British home front called, "We Can Take It!", as well as other books and essays. [ [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/journal_of_military_history/v068/68.2cox02.html Project MUSE ] ] [ [http://tcbh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/citation/15/4/436 Review: The Great War, Memory and Ritual: Commemoration in the City and East London 1916-1939 - WATSON 15 (4): 436 - Twentieth Century British History ] ] [ [http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-9559292_ITM Popular memory and the Second World War. | Contemporary Review (July, 2005) ] ]

He took his PhD at Queen Mary & Westfield College.cite web| url = http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Resources/Theses/tc95.html| title = Theses Completed 1995 | accessdate = 2008-01-10| date = 2005-05-01| publisher = Institute of Historical Research]

In December 2007, Connelly appeared on the BBC television show The One Show, commenting on the social history of Christmas in the UK.

Books

*"Christmas: A Social History" (I.B. Tauris, September 1999)
* (Editor) "Christmas at the Movies: The Representation of Christmas in American, British and European Cinema" (I.B. Tauris, October 2000)
*"Reaching for the Stars: A New Interpretation of Bomber Command in the Second World War" (I.B. Tauris, December 2000)
**Review, "Air and Space Power Journal", Fall 2002 [http://books.google.com/books?id=CqOGC0k1Wa8C&pg=PA120&dq=%22Reaching+for+the+Stars:+A+New+History+of+Bomber+Command+in+World+War+II+%22&sig=qVNJCrYp3HMWrCvn1BWF-WvnBtw reprint]
**Review, [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/journal_of_military_history/v068/68.2cox02.html "Journal of Military History"] v.68 no.2 (2004)
*"The Great War: memory and ritual" (Boydell and Brewer, 2002)
**Review by janet Watson "Twentieth Century British History" 2004 15(4):436-438; doi:10.1093/tcbh/15.4.436)
*"British Film Guides: The Charge of the Light Brigade" (I.B. Tauris, 2003)
*"We Can Take It! Britain and the memory of the Second World War" (Longman/Pearson, 2004)
**Review, [http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-9559292_ITM "Contemporary Review"] July, 2005.
* (ed with D. Welch) "War and the Media: propaganda and reportage, 1900-2003" (I.B. Tauris, 2004)
*"British Film Guides: The Red Shoes" (I.B. Tauris, 2005)
*"Steady the Buffs! The East Kent Regiment and the Great War" (OUP, 2006)

References

External links

* [http://www.kent.ac.uk/history/staff/StaffPages/Connelly.html Official profile] on the University of Kent School of History website
* [http://www.kent.ac.uk/history/staff/staff.html Department of History website] at the University of Kent


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