Clare Victoria Joanne Griffiths, FRHistS, is a historian and academic. Since 2016, she has held the Chair in Modern History at

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Career

Clare Victoria Joanne Griffiths read modern history at

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, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She carried on there to complete her

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under Ross McKibbin's supervision; her DPhil was awarded in 1996 for her thesis "Labour and the countryside: rural strands in the British Labour movement, 1900–1939". Alongside lecturing at the University of Reading, Griffiths then spent four years at Wadham College, Oxford, as Pat Thompson Junior Research Fellow. In 1999, she joined the University of Sheffield as a lecturer, and eventually secured promotion to a senior lectureship. In 2016, she moved to

to take up a chair in modern history."Professor Clare Griffiths"
''Cardiff University''. Retrieved 10 July 2018. Griffiths's research encompasses aspects of modern British political and cultural history. She is particularly interested in British left-wing politics (especially the Labour Party) in the interwar period, as well as British rural society, politics and political culture between the World Wars, agriculture in interwar Britain, land use and land policy, and interwar Englishness, literature and art. As of 2018, Griffiths is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS)."Fellows – G"
(Royal Historical Society). Retrieved 10 July 2018.

Selected publications

* ''Labour and the Countryside: The Politics of Rural Britain, 1918–1939'' (Oxford University Press, 2007). * (Co-editor with James J. Nott and William Whyte) ''Classes, Cultures and Politics: Essays on British History for Ross McKibbin'' (Oxford University Press, 2011).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Griffiths, Clare Living people Political historians Alumni of Merton College, Oxford Fellows of Wadham College, Oxford Academics of the University of Reading Academics of the University of Sheffield Academics of Cardiff University Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Year of birth missing (living people)