Mark Connelly is a

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and Head of the School of

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, at the

University of Kent , motto_lang = , mottoeng = Literal translation: 'Whom to serve is to reign'(Book of Common Prayer translation: 'whose service is perfect freedom')Graham Martin, ''From Vision to Reality: the Making of the University of Kent at Canterbury'' ...

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, where he is both a military historian, and the Reuters Lecturer in Media History. Connelly specialises in the 19th Century and

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

. He is also the author of a book on the

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and the British

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called, ''We Can Take It!'', as well as other books and essays.Popular memory and the Second World War, Contemporary Review (July 2005)
/ref> He took his PhD at Queen Mary & Westfield College. In December 2007, Connelly appeared on the BBC television show ''

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'', commenting on the social history of Christmas in the UK.

Books

*''Christmas: A Social History'' (London, I.B. Tauris, September 1999) * (Editor) ''Christmas at the Movies: The Representation of Christmas in American, British and European Cinema'' (London, I.B. Tauris, October 2000) *''Reaching for the Stars: A New History of Bomber Command in World War II'' (London, I.B. Tauris, December 2000; 2014) **Review, ''Air and Space Power Journal'', Fall 200
reprint

*''The Great War: Memory and Ritual'' (Suffolk, Boydell & Brewer, 2002) **Review by Janet Watson ''Twentieth Century British History'' 2004 15(4):436-438; ) *''British Film Guides: The Charge of the Light Brigade'' (London, I.B. Tauris, 2003) *''We Can Take It! Britain and the memory of the Second World War'' (Harlow, Pearson Longman, 2004) **Review
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July 2005. * (ed. with D. Welch) ''War and the Media: propaganda and reportage, 1900-2003'' (London, I.B. Tauris, 2004) *''British Film Guides: The Red Shoes'' (London, I.B. Tauris, 2005) *''Steady the Buffs! The East Kent Regiment and the Great War'' (Oxford, OUP, 2006) *''The Hardy Boys mysteries, 1927-1979 - A Cultural and Literary History'' (2008)

References

External links

on the University of Kent School of History website

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