articles, reviews, etc.
Intellectual history
“Breaking Ranks: C. P. Snow and the Crisis of Mid-Century Liberalism, 1930-1980,” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 41:2-3 (2016): 118-132.
“The Typicalities of the English? Walt Rostow, The Stages of Economic Growth, and Modern British History,” Modern Intellectual History 12 (November 2015): 657-684.
Winner of the Walter D. Love Prize, awarded by the North American Conference on British Studies to the best article by a North American scholar on any aspect or period of British history.
“‘Decline’ as a Weapon in Cultural Politics,” Penultimate Adventures with Britannia, ed. Wm. Roger Louis (London: I. B. Tauris, 2008), pp. 201-214.
“F. R. Leavis, Science, and the Abiding Crisis of Modern Civilization,” History of Science 43 (2005): 161-185.
Urban history
“Urbanism after the Victorian City,” in The Modern British City, eds. Simon Gunn, Peter Mandler, and Otto Saumarez Smith, forthcoming.
“Begrudging Neoliberalism: Housing and the Fate of the Property-Owning Social Democracy,” in The Neoliberal Age? Politics, Economy, Society, and Culture in Twentieth Century Britain, eds. Aled Davies, Ben Jackson, and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (University College London Press, 2021), 319-335.
“Welfare State Modernism and the Politics of Aesthetic Change,” unpublished version of Chapter 3, “Architecture,” Thatcher’s Progress (2019).
“No Escape,” Global Urban History Blog (2019).
“The Page 99 Test: Thatcher’s Progress,” Campaign for the American Reader (2019).
“Whatever Happened to the Property-Owning Social Democracy?”, fifteeneightyfour (2019).
“Pooley, Frederick [Fred] Bernard (1916-1998),” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2019).
“Planning the Urban Future in 1960s Britain,” Historical Journal 54 (2011): 477-507.
Featured in the BBC History Magazine; Walter D. Love prize honorable mention.
Science, literature, and the “Two Cultures”
“The Literature and the Science of ‘Two Cultures’ Historiography,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 39 (2008): 143-150.
“Human Science or a Human Face? Social History and the ‘Two Cultures’ Controversy,” Journal of British Studies 43 (2004): 482-505.
Commendation for the Ivan Slade Prize, awarded by the British Society for the History of Science to the best article on any aspect of the history of science, technology, or medicine over a two-year period.
“Two Cultures, One University: The Institutional Origins of the ‘Two Cultures’ Controversy,” Albion 34 (2002): 606-624.
Interview with the Journal of Cambridge Studies [China] (2009).
“The Role of Dorcas in ‘Roger Malvin’s Burial’,” Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 25 (1999): 8-16.
Reprinted in Short Story Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Short Fiction Writers, vol. 190, ed. Lawrence J. Trudeau (New York: Layman Poupard, 2014), pp. 94-97.
Reviews
David Holland, “Toffee Men, Travelling Drapers and Black-Market Perfumers—South Asian Networks of Petty Trade in Early Twentieth Century Britain,” for Modern British History (2024).
Peter Sloman, Transfer State: The Idea of a Guaranteed Income and the Politics of Redistribution in Modern Britain, for the American Historical Review (2022).
Peter Stansky, Twenty Years On: Views and Reviews of Modern Britain, for Cercles (2021).
Richard J. Williams, Why Cities Look the Way They Do, for Urban History (2021).
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Class, Politics, and the Decline of Deference in England, 1968-2000, for the Journal of Contemporary History (2020).
Simon Gunn and Susan C. Townsend, Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan (2020).
Tom Hulme, After the Shock City: Urban Culture and the Making of Modern Citizenship, for the Journal of British Studies (2020).
Stefan Collini, The Nostalgic Imagination: History in English Criticism, for Cercles (2020).
Michael John Law, 1938: Modern Britain: Social Change and Visions of the Future, for Cultural and Social History (2019).
Elain Harwood, Space, Hope, and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945-1975, for Planning Perspectives (2017).
William Whyte, Redbrick: A Social and Architectural History of Britain’s Civic Universities, for the Journal of Modern History (2017).
Christopher Hilliard, English as a Vocation: The Scrutiny Movement, for the English Historical Review (2014).
Daniel Horowitz, Consuming Pleasures: Intellectuals and Popular Culture in the Postwar World, for the English Historical Review (2014).
The Listener Historical Archive, 1929-1991, for the English Historical Review (2012).
Mike Savage, Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940, for H-Net Reviews (2012).
Jerome Kagan, The Three Cultures: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities in the 21st Century, for Isis (2010).
Frank Trentmann, Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption, and Civil Society in Modern Britain, for the Journal of Modern History (2010).
E. H. H. Green and D. M. Tanner, eds., The Strange Survival of Liberal England, for the Journal of British Studies (2009).
John Ruskin, Selected Writings, ed. Dinah Birch, for The European Legacy (2006).
E. H. H. Green, Thatcher, for Twentieth Century British History (2006).
Mark Bevir, New Labour: A Critique, for the Journal of British Studies (2006).
Interviews, lectures, and other writing
“British History and the Fate of National Historiographies,” Modern British History 35:1 (2024): 18-21.
“Headlines Claim Britain Is Declining. They Aren’t New - but Are Wrong,” Washington Post, 7 October 2022.
“British Conservatives Have Long Won by Dumping Unpopular Prime Ministers,” Washington Post, 3 August 2022.
“On Urbanism and Optimism: Guy Ortolano Interviewed by Alex Campsie,” Renewal 28:3 (2020): 78-82.
“The Peculiarities of the Welfare State,” keynote lecture at the conference “Building Welfare States: New Approaches to Architecture, Community, and Planning in Twentieth Century Britain,” University of Warwick, 23-25 September 2020.
“‘Britain and the World’ in the World of British History,” a presentation on the state of the field presented to the History Department at Brown University (2018).
Tributes to Professor T. W. Heyck: Guardian (2014); with Meredith Veldman, Perspectives (2015).