Research

The Centre builds on existing research being carried out by staff across UCL, while also providing a focal point for future initiatives and cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Listed below are some examples of recent research papers by staff across UCL:

• Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, F. (2020). Assembling Cultures: Workplace Activism, Labour Militancy and Cultural Change in Britain's Car Factories, 1945-82. JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORY, 55 (4), 926-928. doi:10.1177/0022009420939472l
• Figueira, F., & Martill, B. (2020). The Brexit Negotiations and Bounded Rationality: Why did Britain Fail to Understand the EU?. Journal of European Public Policy.
• Freeman, M., & Bartie, A., Fleming, L., Hutton, A., Readman, P. (Eds.). (2020). Restaging the past: Historical Pageants, Culture and Society in Modern Britain. UCL Press.
• Bryson, A., Joshi, H., Wilkinson, D., & Wielgoszewska, B. (2020). A Short History of the Gender Wage Gap in Britain. Oxford Review of Economic Policy. doi:10.1093/oxrep/graa046
• Jennings, R. (2019). Gender and the politics of marriage in post-war Australia and Britain. In S. Brady, M. Seymour (Eds.), From sodomy laws to same-sex marriage: international perspectives since 1789. Bloomsbury Academic.
• Korner, A. (2019). ’Britain – the Sicily of Europe?’ Continental Perspectives on Britain’s Amour Propre. Contemporary European History, 28 (1), 23-26. doi:10.1017/S0960777318000723
• Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, F. (2019). Modern Britain, 1750 to the Present. By James Vernon. Twentieth Century British History, 30 (2), 264-284. doi:10.1093/tcbh/hwy055
• Agar, J. E., & Ward, J. (Eds.). (2018). Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain. London, UK: UCL Press.
• Clarke, R., & Youngstein, T. (2017). Cyberattack on Britain’s National Health Service — A Wake-up Call for Modern Medicine. New England Journal of Medicine, 377 (5), 409-411. doi:10.1056/nejmp1706754
• James, M., Kim, H., & Redclift, V. (2016). New racial landscapes: Contemporary Britain and the neoliberal conjuncture.
• Bonacchi, C., Hingley, R., & Yarrow, T. (2016). Exploring Ancient Identities in Modern Britain. Archaeology International. doi:10.5334/ai.1909
• Redclift, V. (2016). New racisms, new racial subjects? The neo-liberal moment and the racial landscape of contemporary Britain [Whole issue]. New Racial Landscapes: Contemporary Britain and the Neoliberal Conjuncture, 1-12.
• Harrison, R. E. (2015). Inside the cinema train: Britain, empire and modernity in the twentieth century. Film History: an international journal, 26 (4), 32-57.
• Pearce, A. (2014). Holocaust consciousness in contemporary Britain. Studies in Cultural History. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203484210
• ​​​​​​​Longley, P. A., Cheshire, J. A., & Mateos, P. (2011). Creating a regional geography of Britain through the spatial analysis of surnames. Geoforum, 42 (4), 506-516. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.02.001
• Dwyer, C. (2010). Multicultural Britain: Current Geographical Debates. In K. Zehner, G. Wood (Eds.), Großbritannien Lesebuch (pp. 159-166). Heidelberg: Springer.
• Tomaney, J. (2010). Contemporary Britain and its regions. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Culture (pp. 79-95). doi:10.1017/CCOL9780521864978.006