John Belchem is an

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British professor whose work covers popular radicalism in 19th-century Britain, Irish migration, the

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, and modern history. He has a special interest in the

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. He was made a fellow of the

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in 1987 and is a fellow of the

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Academic career

Belchem served as head of the School of History,

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of the Faculty of Arts and pro-vice chancellor of the

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. He is presently vice-president of the Society for the Study of Labour History. Belchem's 1985 work on Henry Hunt made a "major contribution to our understanding" of political strategies of progressive movements in 19th-century Britain. ''Industrialization and the Working Class'' (1990) was viewed as a "lucid and wide-ranging survey of recent works on working-class movements and their context." ''Popular Radicalism in Nineteenth-Century Britain'' (1996) was reviewed as an "excellent work" and a "valuable guide" to the literature on

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and the origins of the Labour Party. ''Merseypride'' (2000), a collection of essays on the history of Liverpool, is considered to be a "valuable work...of a consistently high standard." His ''Irish, Catholic and Scouse'' (2007) was noted to have made a "vital contribution to the historiography of the Irish in Britain."

Other activities

Belchem worked on Liverpool's successful bid for

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status in 2004. In 2017, he was appointed to the Liverpool mayor's task force, which assisted in efforts that ensured the city's status was not lost when under review by UNESCO in 2018. He was an adviser on Mike Leigh's 2018 film ''

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Belchem, John 1948 births Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Historians of the United Kingdom 20th-century British historians 21st-century British historians Living people Academics of the University of Liverpool Alumni of the University of Sussex Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire Labor historians