Jon Lawrence | |
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Born | Jonathan Mark Lawrence 1961 (age 63–64) |
Occupation | Historian |
Partner | Jane Elliott |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | King's College |
Thesis | Party Politics and the People: Continuity and Change in the Political History of Wolverhampton, 1815–1914 (1989) |
Doctoral advisor | Gareth Stedman Jones |
Influences | Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams [1] |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | Popular culture,class politics and everyday life |
Institutions | |
Website | edgeofthemoor |
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.
Born in Bristol in 1961, [2] [3] 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 [4] 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. [5]
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 [6] and a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 2004. [7] He was promoted to a senior lectureship in 2006 [8] and to a readership in 2011. [9] In 2017, [10] [11] he moved to the University of Exeter to be an associate professor; he was promoted to be Professor of Modern British History in 2019. [12]
As of 2021, he is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. [13] In 2017, he gave the annual Neale Lecture at University College London on the topic "The Culture Wars of Class in Post-War Britain". [11]
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