Clare Griffiths (historian)

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Clare Victoria Joanne Griffiths, FRHistS, is a historian and academic. Since 2016, she has held the Chair in Modern History at Cardiff University. [1]

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Career

Clare Victoria Joanne Griffiths read modern history at Merton College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She carried on there to complete her doctoral studies under Ross McKibbin's supervision; her DPhil was awarded in 1996 for her thesis "Labour and the countryside: rural strands in the British Labour movement, 1900–1939". Alongside lecturing at the University of Reading, Griffiths then spent four years at Wadham College, Oxford, as Pat Thompson Junior Research Fellow. In 1999, she joined the University of Sheffield as a lecturer, and eventually secured promotion to a senior lectureship. In 2016, she moved to Cardiff University to take up a chair in modern history. [2] [3] [4] [5]

Griffiths's research encompasses aspects of modern British political and cultural history. She is particularly interested in British left-wing politics (especially the Labour Party) in the interwar period, as well as British rural society, politics and political culture between the World Wars, agriculture in interwar Britain, land use and land policy, and interwar Englishness, literature and art. [3]

As of 2018, Griffiths is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS). [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "Professor Clare Griffiths - People - Cardiff University". Cardiff University. Retrieved 2018-07-10.
  2. ↑ "Professor Clare Griffiths", Royal Historical Society. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Professor Clare Griffiths", Cardiff University. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  4. ↑ "Griffiths, Clare" Archived 2018-07-10 at the Wayback Machine , University of Sheffield. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  5. ↑ "Labour and the countryside: rural strands in the British Labour movement, 1900–1939", EthOS (British Library). Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  6. ↑ "Fellows – G" Archived 2018-07-10 at the Wayback Machine (Royal Historical Society). Retrieved 10 July 2018.
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