Jon Lawrence

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

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

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

Books

Thesis

Peer-reviewed articles and chapters

References

  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. "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.
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