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Senior books
I asked the graduating seniors in HIST-UA “Modern Europe” to identify something they’d like to learn more about. NYU kindly helped me buy books on the subject they named, which I gave to them as they submitted their finals. GenAI was not involved in this exercise.
State of the field
On the place of national (British) history in the historical discipline for Modern British History.
On social democracy
“Social democracy, like life, is never static: it is, as it was, a dynamic, evolving, and ultimately - even in these most harrowing of times - hopeful project.” An interview with Renewal.
“Urbanism after the Victorian City”
On the intersection of urban history and intellectual history in The Modern British City, eds. Simon Gunn, Peter Mandler, & Otto Saumarez Smith (Lund Humphries, 2025).
“Peter Mandler and the Special Relationship”
On Peter Mandler’s career mediating between British historians in the US and UK, published in a festschrift upon Mandler’s retirement: Democratising History: Modern British History Inside and Out (2025).
Teaching award
NYU awarded a Teaching Innovation Award to this low-tech approach to assessing learning in large humanities classes.
Reviews (originally in Cercles)
On Peter Stansky, Twenty Year On: Views and Reviews of Modern Britain.
On Stefan Collini, The Nostalgic Imagination: History in English Criticism.
Unpublished paper
“Welfare State Modernism and the Politics of Aesthetic Change,” a standalone version of Chapter 3 of Thatcher’s Progress.