Dr Nicholas Barnett

School of Arts, Media and Creative Technologies

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Current positions

Lecturer in History & Politics

Biography

Dr Nicholas Barnett is Lecturer in Contemporary History and Politics, working at º£½ÇÂÒÂ× since 2019. He previously held full time lectureships at University of Plymouth 2015-17; and Swansea University 2017-19.

Nicholas's current focus in on Class and he has spearheaded the building of an interdisciplinary network on cultures of class involving scholars within º£½ÇÂÒÂ× and external partners. He is currently working on several collaborative projects around this. His previous work examines Cultural encounters between people from different communities in the Post-War World and the Cultural Cold War.

Nicholas holds fellowships status of the Royal Historical Society; Higher Education Academy and is co-editor of the Routledge Studies in Espionage & Culture

He is happy to supervise projects relating to the Cold War; Twentieth Century British History; Globalization; Social History and Class

Areas of Research

Cold War; Cultural History; Social History; Cultural Encounters; 20th Century History; Cultures of Class

Nicholas current research focus in Class and he welcomes contact about the Network for Cultures of Class, for which he is one of the co-leads alongside Dr Tanja Popplereuter and Dr Alexandra Mitchell. He is currently working with Dr Juan Hiriat to publish a graphic history of the Working Class Movement Library.

Teaching

Programme Leadership:

BA (hons) Contemporary History & Politics
BA (hons) Politics

Current Module Leadership includes

L4
PCH Tutorial Module: The Cold War
Making Public History
International History 1: 1914-39
International History 2: 1945-Present

L5
Regimes & Dictatorships
Memory & Commemoration

L6
Conflict & Photography

Qualifications and Recognitions

Qualifications
  • Ph.D 'British Culture and the Cold War'

    2010 - 2013
  • M.Res Cultural History

    2008 - 2009
  • BA (hons) History

    2004 - 2007

Publications

Publications