Colin Holmes (British historian)

Colin Holmes (born 1938) is a British author, scholar, and historian. He is an Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Sheffield, where his academic interests include migration, racism, antisemitism, and fascism.^[1]

Academic career

Holmes completed his MA in history at The University of Nottingham in 1964, submitting a dissertation entitled The life and work of H. S. Tremenheere.

He was appointed to a lectureship at the University of Sheffield in the now defunct Department of Economic and Social History under the headship of Sidney Pollard. During the 1970s the two worked closely on producing several volumes of documents covering European Economic History in the modern period.

However, Holmes is best known for his work on English antisemitism and migration.^[2] His book, Anti-Semitism in British Society 1876-1939, published in 1979, proved to be an inspiration for the growth of research into the area of fascism and antisemitism in the interwar period.^{[citation needed]} Holmes has also written influential articles on the British editions of the notorious Protocols of Zion.^{[citation needed]}

In 1988 his work on immigration to Britain was published by Macmillan. John Bull's Island: Immigration and British Society 1871-1971 is a wide ranging study of the main groups of immigrants that have entered Britain and the impact that they have had on British society. A further study was published by Faber & Faber in 1991, A Tolerant Country? Immigrants, Refugees and Minorities in Britain.

He retired from The University of Sheffield in the late 1990s and took up a research professorship at Sunderland University. Holmes still continues with his research, including his long-awaited book on William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw).

Holmes currently serves as editor of the journal Immigrants and Minorities, of which he was the founding editor in 1981.

Publications

Books

• Immigrants and Minorities in British Society. London ; Boston : Allen & Unwin, 1978. ISBN 9780049421608
  • Review, Economic History Review. 32, no. 1: 127-128.
  • Review, International Migration Review, Summer, 1980, vol. 14, no. 2, p. 270-271
• Anti-Semitism in British Society: 1876-1939 (New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1979) ISBN 9780713161892
  • Review, The American Historical Review. 85, no. 4: 887-888.
  • Review, Social History, May, 1981, vol. 6, no. 2, p. 257-259
  • Review Jewish Social Studies, Winter, 1981, vol. 43, no. 1, p. 82-84
  • Review, Jewish Social Studies, Summer - Autumn, 1983, vol. 45, no. 3/4, p. 338-339
• "John Bull's Island: Immigration and British Society, 1871-1971". Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan, 1988. ISBN 9780333282090
  • Review, Economic History Review. 42, no. 4: 612-613.
  • Review, British Journal of Sociology, Dec., 1990, vol. 41, no. 4, p. 582
  • Review, The American Historical Review. 95, no. 5: 1537-1538.
  • Review, International Migration Review, Autumn, 1989, vol. 23, no. 3, p. 736-737
  • Review, English Historical Review, Jan., 1992, vol. 107, no. 422, p. 260-261
• A Tolerant Country?: Immigrants, Refugees, and Minorities in Britain. London: Faber and Faber, 1991. ISBN 9780571154265
• (with Sidney Pollard;) Essays on the Industrial Revolution in Britain :(Aldershot; Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate/Variorum, 2000) ISBN 978-0-86078-794-5
• Migration in European History. The International library of studies on migration, 4. Cheltenham, UK: E. Elgar, 1996. ISBN 9781858984216

Articles

• "Violence and Race Relations in Britain, 1953-1968". Phylon (1960). 36, no. 2: 113-124
• "Bukharin in England". Soviet Studies. 24, no. 1: 86-90. (1972)
• New Light on the Protocols of Zion, Patterns of Prejudice Vol. 11, No. 6 (November–December 1977), pp. 13–21
• The Protocols of Zion of "The Britons", : Patterns of Prejudice :Vol. 12, No. 6 (November–December 1978), pp. 13–19
• "Problems of research: Government files and privileged access." Social history; 6:no.3, p. 333-350.(1981)
• with Srebnik, Henry . "London Jews and British Communism 1935-1945". Science & Society. 61, no. 1: 140.(1997)
• "Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History". English Historical Review. 118, no. 479: 1430-1431. (2003)
• "The Culture of Fascism: Visions of the Far Right in Britain". English Historical Review. 120, no. 489: 1462-1463. (2005) em]]
• "The Ritual Murder Accusation in Britain", in Dundes, Alan (1991). The Blood libel legend: A casebook in anti-Semitic folklore. University of Wisconsin Press, pp. 99–134. ISBN 0-299-13110-6.

References

1. ^ "Professor Colin Holmes MA Nottingham". The University of Sheffield. 2011. http://www.shef.ac.uk/history/staff/colin_holmes. Retrieved 15 March 2011. 
2. ^ Cheyette, Brian (15 April 2010). "English Anti-Semitism: A Counter-Narrative". Yale University. p. 7. http://www.yale.edu/yiisa/bryancheyettepaper41510.pdf. Retrieved 15 March 2011. 

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