Mark Connelly

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Mark Connelly is a professor and Head of the School of History, at the University of Kent in Canterbury, where he is both a military historian, and the Reuters Lecturer in Media History. Connelly specialises in the 19th Century and First World War. [1]

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He is also the author of a book on the Second World War and the British home front called, We Can Take It!, as well as other books and essays. [2] [3] [4]

He took his PhD at Queen Mary & Westfield College. [5]

In December 2007, Connelly appeared on the BBC television show The One Show , commenting on the social history of Christmas in the UK.

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  1. "Professor Mark Connelly". School of History - University of Kent. Retrieved 2021-10-16.
  2. Project MUSE
  3. Review: The Great War, Memory and Ritual: Commemoration in the City and East London 1916-1939 - WATSON 15 (4): 436 - Twentieth Century British History
  4. Popular memory and the Second World War|Contemporary Review (July 2005)
  5. "Theses Completed 1995". Institute of Historical Research. 2005-05-01. Archived from the original on 2007-08-19. Retrieved 2008-01-10.