Jon Lawrence Explained
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.
Early life and education
Born in 1961,[1] 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[2] 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.[3]
Career
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[4] and a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 2004.[5] He was promoted to a senior lectureship in 2006[6] and to a readership in 2011.[7] In 2017,[8] [9] he moved to the University of Exeter to be an associate professor; he was promoted to be Professor of Modern British History in 2019.[10]
As of 2021, he is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[11] In 2017, he gave the annual Neale Lecture at University College London on the topic "The Culture Wars of Class in Post-War Britain".[9]
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Books
Thesis
Peer-reviewed articles and chapters
Notes and References
- http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vl(freeText0)=%20Jon%20++%20Lawrence%20%2c+1961-+author.&vl(2084770704UI0)=creator&vl(2084770705UI1)=all_items&fn=search&tab=local_tab&mode=Basic&vid=BLVU1&scp.scps=scope%3a(BLCONTENT)&ct=lateralLinking "Lawrence, Jon, 1961–"
- Cambridge University List of Members up to 31 July 1998 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 458.
- https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/theses-1970-2014/modern-britain-ireland-80-89 "Modern Britain and Ireland – Awarded 1980–1989"
- https://web.archive.org/web/20041118172230/http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/academic_staff/further_details/lawrence.html "Dr Jon Lawrence"
- https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2008-09/special/03/8.html "Emmanuel College"
- https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2005-06/weekly/6036/17.html "Report of the General Board on Senior Academic Promotions"
- https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2010-11/weekly/6235/section2.shtml "Election, Appointments, and Reappointment"
- https://livingwithmachines.ac.uk/introducing-jon-lawrence/ "Introducing Jon Lawrence"
- https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/events/2017/nov/2017-neale-lecture-jon-lawrence-culture-and-class-post-war-britain-16-nov "2017 Neale Lecture: Jon Lawrence on Culture and Class in Post-War Britain, 16 Nov"
- Compare "Professor Jon Lawrence", University of Exeter, archived at the Internet Archive on 5 August 2019, with "Professor Jon Lawrence", University of Exeter, archived at the Internet Archive on 3 December 2019.
- https://files.royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/26142511/RHS-Fellows-L-1.pdf "Fellows – L"
