Dr Jon Lawrence

Senior Lecturer in Modern British Political History

Emmanuel College Cambridge CB2 3AP Tel: (+44) (0)1223 742974 Fax: (+44) (0)1223 334426 jml55@cam.ac.uk

Dr Lawrence works on British social, political and cultural history from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. He is particularly interested in popular politics as a site of interaction between politicians and public. His book on this subject, Electing Our Masters: the Hustings in British Politics from Hogarth to Blair was published by OUP in 2009. To hear him discussing the book with Carolyn Quinn on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Westminster Hour’ click here. His wider interests include the cultural legacy of war in the twentieth century, and the politics of social identity since the Second Reform Act. He hopes one day to get round to writing a history of Britain in the 1970s.

Lectures: Paper I.6 ‘British Political and Constitutional History since 1867’ (Michaelmas and Lent); Paper II.21 ‘The Politics of Gender’ (Michaelmas).

Faculty Classes: Special Subject K: ‘Class, Party and the Politics of Social Identity in England, 1914-1939’; Graduate Training Class: ‘Reading Modern British History’ [with Dr Peter Mandler].

Supervision: Paper I.6 and I.11. Dr Lawrence has extensive experience of supervising dissertation topics in modern British social, political and cultural history at undergraduate, masters and doctoral level, and is keen to hear from students with ideas for new research topics across these fields. He convenes the Faculty Research Seminar in Modern British History.

Chief Publications

• Jon Lawrence and Miles Taylor (eds), Party, State and Society: Electoral Behaviour in Britain since 1820, (Aldershot, 1997), pp. xii, 207.
• Speaking for the People: Party, Language and Popular Politics in England, 1867-1914, (Cambridge, 1998, [pbk., 2002]), pp. xiii, 289
• 'Contesting the Male Polity: the Suffragettes and the Politics of Disruption in Edwardian Britain', in Amanda Vickery (ed.), Women, privilege and power: British politics, 1750 to the present, (Stanford, CA, 2001), pp. 201-26.
• 'Fascist Violence and the Politics of Public Order in inter-war Britain: the Olympia Debate Revisited', Historical Research, 76, 192 (May 2003), pp. 238-67.
• 'Forging a Peaceable Kingdom: War, Violence and the Fear of Brutalisation in Post-First World War Britain' Journal of Modern History, 75, 3 (Sept. 2003). Pp. 557-89.
• ‘The Transformation of British Public Politics after the First World War,’ Past and Present 190 (2006), 186-216.
• Electing Our Masters: The Hustings in British Politics from Hogarth to Blair (March 2009).
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Dr Lawrence joined the History Faculty in October 2004 having previously taught at University College, London, the University of Liverpool and Harvard University. He studied History at King’s College, Cambridge and completed his doctorate in 1989.

He is on the editorial boards of Twentieth-Century British History (OUP) and the Royal Historical Society’s ‘Studies in History’ monograph series.