About
Current:
NTNU Associate Professor
Previous:
Queen Mary University of London Teaching Associate
- HST5391 A Century of Extremes: Germany 1890-1990
- HST4321 Unravelling Britain: British History since 1801
LSE Associate Tutor
- Hy113 From Empire to Independence: The Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century
City University of London Teaching Associate
- IP2022 States and Markets in an Era of Globalisation
University of Sheffield Module Leader (Masters)
- HST674 International Relations and the Early Cold War in Britain
University of Sheffield Deputy Module Convenor
- HST117 The Making of the Twentieth Century
University of Sheffield Associate Tutor
- HST112 Paths from Antiquity to Modernity
- HST117 The Making of the Twentieth Century
- HST119 The Transformation of Britain, 1800 to the present
- HST120 History Workshop
- HST11002 Land of Liberty? Rights in the USA, 1776-2016
- HST202 Historians and History
Education
Ph. D University of Sheffield, 2020
M.A. Twentieth Century History, University of Liverpool, 2013, Distinction
B.A. (Hons) Modern History and Politics, University of Liverpool, 2012, First Class Publications
Articles
- ‘State of the Field: Media History’, History (Forthcoming 2023)
- ‘“That King Over All the Children of Pride, Is the Press—the Press—the Press!”: Rudyard Kipling, the Press, and Empire’, Kipling Journal, 96.390 (2022), pp. 63-73, https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/KJ_390.pdf
- ‘Radical and/or Respectable Revisited: Coverage of Radical Politics in The Times and the Manchester Guardian in Inter-war Britain’, Historical Research, 95-268 (2022), pp. 240-63
- ‘The Young Crusaders’, History Today, 72.1 (January 2022), pp. 12-16, https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/young-crusaders
- ‘The Case for High Wages’, History Today, 69.9 (September 2019), pp. 22-24, https://www.historytoday.com/history-matters/case-high-wages
Book Chapters
- ‘The Political Economy of the Guardian‘, in D. Freedman (ed.), Capitalism’s Conscience: 200 Years of the Guardian (London: Pluto Press, 2021)
- ‘Professional Identity’, in M. Conboy, A. Bingham (eds), The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press: 3: Competition and Disruption, 1900-2017 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020), pp. 227-46
- ‘Free Speech and the British Press: From Popular Culture to Culture War’, in C.L. Riley (ed.), The Free Speech Wars (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020)
Book Reviews
- ‘Gutter Press’. History Today, 72.7 (2022), p. 101, https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/gutter-press
- International Organizations and the Media in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, edited by Jonas Brendebach, Martin Herzer, Heidi J.S. Tworek, H-Net (March 2020), https://networks.h-net.org/node/14542/reviews/6115187/ackerley-brendebach-and-herzer-and-tworek-international-organizations
- Historic Newspapers in the Digital Age: ‘Search All About It!’, by Paul Gooding, Media History, 25.2 (2019), pp. 261-64
- Managing the Economy, Managing the People, by Jim Tomlinson, Reviews in History (2019), https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/2309
- Unemployment and the State in Britain: The Means Test and Protest in 1930s South Wales and North–East England, by Stephanie Ward, Twentieth Century British History, 26.2 (2005), pp. 329-31
Blogs
Projects
Current:
Editor of H-Empire,
https://networks.h-net.org/h-empire
Editor of the H-Empire Blog,
https://networks.h-net.org/node/5293/blog/H-Empire
Member of the JHistory Salon Steering Committee
Previous:
Assistant Editor of
History Matters, the University of Sheffield History Department blog, November 2019-August 2021
Editorial Assistant for: M. Conboy, A. Bingham (eds),
The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press: 3: Competition and Disruption, 1900-2017 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020)
Memberships
Royal Historical Society Early Career Member
