Mark Connelly is a
professor
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and Head of the School of
History
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, at the
University of Kent
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in
Canterbury
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, where he is both a military historian, and the Reuters Lecturer in Media History. Connelly specialises in the 19th Century and
First World War
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.
He is also the author of a book on the
Second World War
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and the British
home front
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called, ''We Can Take It!'', as well as other books and essays.
Popular memory and the Second World War, Contemporary Review (July 2005)
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He took his PhD at Queen Mary & Westfield College.
In December 2007, Connelly appeared on the BBC television show ''The One Show
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'', commenting on the social history of Christmas in the UK.
Books
*''Christmas: A Social History'' (London, I.B. Tauris, September 1999)
* (Editor) ''Christmas at the Movies: The Representation of Christmas in American, British and European Cinema'' (London, I.B. Tauris, October 2000)
*''Reaching for the Stars: A New History of Bomber Command in World War II'' (London, I.B. Tauris, December 2000; 2014)
**Review, ''Air and Space Power Journal'', Fall 200
reprint
*''The Great War: Memory and Ritual'' (Suffolk, Boydell & Brewer, 2002)
**Review by Janet Watson ''Twentieth Century British History'' 2004 15(4):436-438; )
*''British Film Guides: The Charge of the Light Brigade'' (London, I.B. Tauris, 2003)
*''We Can Take It! Britain and the memory of the Second World War'' (Harlow, Pearson Longman, 2004)
**Review
''ContemporLongmanary Review''
July 2005.
* (ed. with D. Welch) ''War and the Media: propaganda and reportage, 1900-2003'' (London, I.B. Tauris, 2004)
*''British Film Guides: The Red Shoes'' (London, I.B. Tauris, 2005)
*''Steady the Buffs! The East Kent Regiment and the Great War'' (Oxford, OUP, 2006)
*''The Hardy Boys mysteries, 1927-1979 - A Cultural and Literary History'' (2008)
References
External links
on the University of Kent School of History website
at the University of Kent
Alumni of Queen Mary University of London
Academics of the University of Kent
British historians
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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