Martin D. Pugh (born 1947) is a British historian who specialises in the
women's,
political
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, and
social history
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Social history came to prominence in the 1960s, spreading f ...
of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Britain.
Biography
Pugh has held professorships at
Newcastle University and
Liverpool John Moores University, and is a
fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has written 19 articles for the ''
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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''.
Pugh also sits on the board of
BBC History magazine.
Bibliography
* ''Lloyd George'' (Profiles in Power) (1988)
* ''The March of the Women: A revisionist analysis of the campaign for women's suffrage, 1866-1914'' (2000)
* ''Women and the Women's Movement in Britain, 1914-1999'' (2000)
* ''The Making of Modern British Politics: 1867–1945'', 3rd edition (2002)
* ''We Danced All Night: A Social History of Britain Between the Wars'' (2008)
* ''The Pankhursts: The History of One Radical Family'' (2009)
* ''
Speak for Britain! A New History of the Labour Party'' (2010)
* ''Britain: Unification and Disintegration'' (2012)
* ''State and Society: A Social and Political History of Britain since 1870'' (2012)
* Hurrah for the Blackshirts!': Fascists and Fascism in Britain Between the Wars'' (2013)
* ''State and Society: A Social and Political History of Britain Since 1870'', 5th edition (2017)
* ''Britain and Islam: A History from 622 to the Present Day'' (2019)
References
External links
Official website
1947 births
20th-century British historians
21st-century British historians
Academics of Liverpool John Moores University
Academics of Newcastle University
Alumni of the University of Bristol
Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
Living people
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