Jonathan Mark Lawrence,

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(born 1961) is a British historian. Since 2019, he has been Professor of Modern British History at the

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Early life and education

Born in 1961, he attended

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; after graduating with a

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degree in 1983, he completed

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. In 1989, he was awarded a

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degree for his

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"Party Politics and the People: Continuity and Change in the Political History of Wolverhampton, 1815–1914", which was supervised by

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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 and a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 2004. He was promoted to a senior lectureship in 2006 and to a readership in 2011. In 2017,"2017 Neale Lecture: Jon Lawrence on Culture and Class in Post-War Britain, 16 Nov"
''University College London'', 16 November 2017. Retrieved 7 June 2016. he moved to the University of Exeter to be an associate professor; he was promoted to be Professor of Modern British History in 2019. As of 2021, he is a

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(

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). Retrieved 2 June 2021. In 2017, he gave the annual

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on the topic "The Culture Wars of Class in Post-War Britain".

Bibliography

Books Thesis Peer-reviewed articles and chapters

References

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