Modern History

The history of modern Europe and Britain has always been central to teaching and research at King’s College London. Past members of the department include Sir Michael Howard (who later founded the department of War Studies and went on to be Regius Professor of History at Oxford), Richard Overy (perhaps the most eminent historian of Nazism and the Second World War in the English-speaking world) and Miles Taylor (now director of the Institute of Historical Research).

Modern History academic staff in the Department of History:

• Dr James Bjork Social history of religion in Modern Europe; Nationalism
• Professor Arthur Burns Religion & Politics in Modern Britain; Hanoverian period; Church of England & Clergy
• Professor Ludmilla Jordanova Modern cultural history; Portraiture & identity since 1600; Science & medicine since 1600
• Dr Ian McBride Northern Ireland since 1920
• Professor David McLean Economic & Diplomatic History of Modern Britain; Education; Medicine
• Dr Niall O'Flaherty The Intellectual History of Britain in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; European Political Ideas
• Dr Paul Readman Modern British political & cultural history; Patriotism; Landscape history; Electoral politics
• Dr Michael Rowe French Revolution & Napoleon; France & Germany; State formation
• Mr AbdoolKarim Vakil 19th & 20th century Portugal; nationalism & identity politics
• Professor Richard Vinen 20th century France; Modern Europe & Britain; Thatcher