Staff profile
Dr Matthew Johnson
Associate Professor (Modern British History)
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| Associate Professor (Modern British History) in the Department of History |
Biography
Matthew Johnson works primarily on modern British political history. He is interested in the impact of war on politics and society, and in militarism as a political and ideological phenomenon in Britain during the twentieth century. Recent published work has explored problems in civil-military relations, the politics of national defence, and the relationship between militarism and left-wing politics.
Matthew's current research project, funded in its early stages by an AHRC Research Fellowship and a Research Grant from the British Academy, challenges traditional assumptions about the ‘civilian’ nature of modern British political culture through a study of military involvement in parliamentary and popular politics during the twentieth century. This project focuses in particular on the activities of ex-servicemen as MPs and parliamentary candidates, and on the ways in which the experience of war influenced debates about citizenship, political representation, and parliamentary authority in modern Britain.
Esteem Indicators
- 2017: Excellence in Learning and Teaching Award:
Publications
Authored book
Chapter in book
- Johnson, M. (2020). ‘A Fighting Man to Fight for You’: The Armed Forces, Ex-Servicemen, and British Electoral Politics in the Aftermath of Two World Wars. In D. Thackeray, & R. Toye (Eds.), Electoral Pledges in Britain since 1918: The Politics of Promises (71-93). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46663-3
- Johnson, M. (2019). Civilian and Military Power (Great Britain and Ireland). In U. Daniel, P. Gatrell, O. Janz, H. Jones, J. Keene, A. Kramer, & B. Nasson (Eds.), 1914-1918-online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Freie Universität Berlin. https://doi.org/10.15463/ie1418.11341
- Johnson, M. (2017). Peace and Retrenchment? The Edwardian Liberal Party, the Limits of Pacifism, and the Politics of National Defence. In A. Gestrich, & H. Pogge von Strandmann (Eds.), Bid for world power? New research on the outbreak of the First World War (201-220). Oxford University Press
- Johnson, M. (2014). Governments, Parliaments and Parties (Great Britain and Ireland). In U. Daniel, P. Gatrell, O. Janz, H. Jones, J. Keene, A. Kramer, & B. Nasson (Eds.), 1914-1918-online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Freie Universität Berlin. https://doi.org/10.15463/ie1418.10324
- Johnson, M. (2014). Militarism in Britain? The Boy Scouts and the War Office before the First World War. In S. J. James (Ed.), Books for Boys. Literacy, Nation and the First World War. Institute of Advanced Study
Journal Article
- Johnson, M. (2023). "Send a Soldier to Parliament": Ex-servicemen, Masculinity, and the Legacies of the Great War in Liberal Electoral and Parliamentary Politics. Journal of British Studies, 62(3), 739 - 766. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2022.233
- Johnson, M. (2023). Lloyd George, the Liberal Crisis, and the Unionist Party during the First World War. Journal of liberal history, 119, 18-29
- Johnson, M. (2015). Leading from the Front: The ‘Service Members’ in Parliament, the Armed Forces, and British Politics during the Great War. The English Historical Review, 130(544), 613-645. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cev118
- Johnson, M. (2014). ‘The Great War and the collapse of the Liberal Party’. British politics review (Trykt utg.), vol. 9, no. 1,
- Johnson, M. (2011). The Liberal Party and the Navy League in Britain before the Great War. Twentieth Century British History, 22(2), 137-163. https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwq055
- Johnson, M. (2008). The Liberal War Committee and the Liberal Advocacy of Conscription in Britain, 1914-1916. Historical Journal, 51(02), 399-420. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x08006766
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