Jon Lawrence

Jonathan Mark Lawrence, FRHistS (born 1961) is a British historian. Since 2019, he has been Professor of Modern British History at the University of Exeter.

Early life and education

Born in 1961, he attended King's College, Cambridge; after graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1983, he completed doctoral studies. In 1989, he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree for his thesis "Party Politics and the People: Continuity and Change in the Political History of Wolverhampton, 1815–1914", which was supervised by Gareth Stedman Jones.

Career

Lawrence subsequently taught at University College London and the University of Liverpool before he was appointed a university lecturer in modern British history at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 2004. He was promoted to a senior lectureship in 2006 and to a readership in 2011. In 2017, he moved to the University of Exeter to be an associate professor; he was promoted to be Professor of Modern British History in 2019.

As of 2021, he is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. In 2017, he gave the annual Neale Lecture at University College London on the topic "The Culture Wars of Class in Post-War Britain".

Bibliography

Books

• Lawrence, Jon; Taylor, Miles, eds. (1997). Party, State and Society: Electoral Behaviour in Britain since 1820. Aldershot: Scolar Press. ISBN 9781859280461.
• Lawrence, Jon (1998). Speaking for the People: Party, Language and Popular Politics in England, 1867–1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780511585661.
• Lawrence, Jon; Starkey, Pat, eds. (2001). Child Welfare and Social Action in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: International Perspectives. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. doi:10.5949/UPO9781846312816. ISBN 9780853236863.
• Lawrence, Jon (2009). Electing Our Masters: The Hustings in British Politics from Hogarth to Blair. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199550128.
• Feldman, David; Lawrence, Jon, eds. (2014). Structures and Transformations in Modern British History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511973901. ISBN 9781107679641.
• Lawrence, Jon (2019). Me, Me, Me?: Individualism and the Struggle for Community in Post-War England. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198779537.

Thesis

• Lawrence, Jonathan (1989). Party Politics and the People: Continuity and Change in the Political History of Wolverhampton, 1815–1914 (PhD). University of Cambridge.

Peer-reviewed articles and chapters

• Lawrence, Jon (1991). "Popular Politics and the Limitations of Party: Wolverhampton, 1867–1900". In Biagini, Eugenio F.; Reid, Alastair J. (eds.). Currents of Radicalism: Popular Radicalism, Organized Labour and Party Politics in Britain, 1850–1914. Cambridge University Press. pp. 65–85. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511522482.005. ISBN 9780511522482.
• Lawrence, Jon; Dean, Martin; Robert, Jean-Louis (1992). "The Outbreak of War and the Urban Economy: Paris, Berlin and London in 1914". Economic History Review. 45 (3): 564–593. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0289.1992.tb02152.x. JSTOR 2598053.
• Lawrence, Jon (1992). "Popular Radicalism and the Socialist Revival in Britain". Journal of British Studies. 31 (2): 163–186. doi:10.1086/386002. JSTOR 175764. S2CID 144220482.
• Lawrence, Jon; Taylor, Miles (1993). "The Poverty of Protest: Gareth Stedman Jones and the Politics of Language – A Reply". Social History. 18 (1): 1–15. doi:10.1080/03071029308567857. JSTOR 4286076.
• Winter, Jay; Lawrence, Jon; Arouiat, Jackie (1993). "The Impact of War on Infant Mortality in London". Annales de Démographie Historique: 329–353. doi:10.3406/adh.1993.1846. JSTOR 44385627. PMID 11623381.
• Lawrence, Jon (1993). "Class and Gender in the Making of Urban Toryism, 1880–1914". The English Historical Review. 108 (428): 629–652. doi:10.1093/ehr/CVIII.428.629. JSTOR 574750.
• Lawrence, Jon (1994). "The First World War and Its Aftermath". In Johnson, Paul (ed.). Twentieth-Century Britain: Economic, Social and Cultural Change. London: Longman. pp. 151–168. ISBN 9780582228177.
• Lawrence, Jon (1997). "The Transition to War in 1914". In Winter, Jay; Robert, Jean-Louis (eds.). Capital Cities at War: London, Paris, Berlin, 1914–1919. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 135–163. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511599613.006. ISBN 9780521668149.
• Lawrence, Jon (1997). "Material Pressures on the Middle Classes". In Winter, Jay; Robert, Jean-Louis (eds.). Capital Cities at War: London, Paris, Berlin, 1914–1919. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 229–254. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511599613.009. ISBN 9780521668149.
• Lawrence, Jon; Taylor, Miles (1997). "Electoral Sociology and the Historians". In Lawrence, Jon; Taylor, Miles (eds.). Party, State and Society: Electoral Behaviour in Britain since 1820. Abingdon: Scolar Press. pp. 1–26. ISBN 9781859280461.
• Lawrence, Jon (1997). "The Dynamics of Urban Politics, 1867–1914". In Lawrence, Jon; Taylor, Miles (eds.). Party, State and Society: Electoral Behaviour in Britain since 1820. Abingdon: Scolar Press. pp. 79–105. ISBN 9781859280461.
• Lawrence, Jon (1999). "The Complexities of English Progressivism: Wolverhampton Politics in the Early Twentieth Century". Midland History. 24 (1): 147–166. doi:10.1179/mdh.1999.24.1.147.
• Lawrence, Jon (2000). "Labour – The Myths It Has Lived By". In Tanner, Duncan; Thane, Pat; Tiratsoo, Nick (eds.). Labour's First Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 341–366. ISBN 9780521037990.
• Lawrence, Jon (2001). "Contesting the Male Polity: The Suffragettes and the Politics of Disruption in Edwardian Britain". In Vickery, Amanda (ed.). Women, Privilege and Power: British Politics, 1750 to the Present. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. pp. 201–226. ISBN 9780804742849.
• Lawrence, Jon; Starkey, Pat (2001). "Child Welfare and Social Action". In Lawrence, Jon; Starkey, Pat (eds.). Child Welfare and Social Action in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: International Perspectives. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. pp. 1–11. ISBN 9780853236863.
• Lawrence, Jon (2003). "Forging a Peaceable Kingdom: War, Violence and the Fear of Brutalisation in Post-First World War Britain". Journal of Modern History. 75 (3): 557–589. doi:10.1086/380238. JSTOR 380238. S2CID 152394527.
• Lawrence, Jon (2003). "Political History". In Berger, Stefan; Feldner, Heiko; Passmore, Kevin (eds.). Writing History: Theory and Practice. London: Hodder Arnold. pp. 183–202. ISBN 9780340761762.
• Lawrence, Jon (2003). "Fascist Violence and the Politics of Public Order in Inter-War Britain: The Olympia Debate Revisited". Historical Research. 76 (192): 238–267. doi:10.1111/1468-2281.00174.
• Lawrence, Jon (2005). "'Why Olympia Mattered'". Historical Research. 78 (200): 263–272. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2281.2005.00341.x.
• Lawrence, Jon (2006). "The Transformation of British Public Politics after the First World War". Past and Present. 190 (1): 185–216. doi:10.1093/pastj/gtj002. JSTOR 3600891.
• Lawrence, Jon (2007). "Public Space, Political Space". In Winter, Jay; Robert, Jean-Louis (eds.). Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin, 1914–1919. Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare. Vol. 2: A Cultural History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 280–312. ISBN 9781107406971.
• Lawrence, Jon; Elliott, Jane (2008). "Parliamentary Election Results Reconsidered: An Analysis of Borough Elections, 1885–1910". Parliamentary History. 16 (1): 18–28. doi:10.1111/j.1750-0206.1997.tb00571.x.
• Lawrence, Jon; Taylor, Miles (2008). "Les Historiens Britanniques Face à la Sociologie Politique". Politix. 81: 13–39. doi:10.3917/pox.081.0013.
• Lawrence, Jon (2010). "Political History". In Berger, Stefan; Feldner, Heiko; Passmore, Kevin (eds.). Writing History: Theory and Practice (2nd ed.). London: Hodder Arnold. pp. 213–231. ISBN 9780340975152.
• Lawrence, Jon (2011). "The Culture of Elections in Modern Britain". History. 96 (324): 459–476. doi:10.1111/j.1468-229X.2011.00529.x. JSTOR 24429247.
• Feldman, David; Lawrence, Jon (2011). "Structures and Transformations in British Historiography". In Feldman, David; Lawrence, Jon (eds.). Structures and Transformations in Modern British History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–23. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511973901.001. ISBN 9780521518826.
• Lawrence, Jon (2011). "Labour and the Politics of Class, 1900–1940". In Feldman, David; Lawrence, Jon (eds.). Structures and Transformations in Modern British History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 237–260. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511973901.011. ISBN 9780521518826.
• Lawrence, Jon (2011). "Paternalism, Class and the British Path to Modernity". In Gunn, Simon; Vernon, James (eds.). The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. pp. 163–180. ISBN 9780520289536.
• Lawrence, Jon; Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Florence (2012). "Margaret Thatcher and the Decline of Class Politics". In Jackson, Ben; Saunders, Robert (eds.). Making Thatcher's Britain. Cambridge University Press. pp. 132–147. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511998164.010. ISBN 9780511998164.
• Lawrence, Jon (2013). "Class, 'Affluence' and the Study of Everyday Life in Britain, c. 1930–1964". Cultural and Social History. 10 (2): 273–299. doi:10.2752/147800413X13591373275411. S2CID 145010972.
• Lawrence, Jon (2014). "Social-Science Encounters and the Negotiation of Difference in Early 1960s England". History Workshop Journal. 77: 215–239. doi:10.1093/hwj/dbt030. JSTOR i40131053.
• Lawrence, Jon (2015). "Public and Private Languages of 'Class' in the Luton By-Election of 1963". In Williams, Chris; Edwards, Andrew (eds.). The Art of the Possible: Politics and Governance in Modern British History, 1885–1997: Essays in Memory of Duncan Tanner. Manchester: Manchester University Press. pp. 188–206. doi:10.7228/manchester/9780719090714.001.0001. ISBN 9780719090714.
• Elliott, J.; Lawrence, Jon (2016). "The Emotional Economy of Unemployment: A Re-Analysis of Testimony from a Sheppey Family, 1978–1983". SAGE Open. 6 (4). doi:10.1177/2158244016669517. hdl:10871/31370.
• Lawrence, Jon (2016). "Inventing the 'Traditional Working Class': A Re-Analysis of Interview Notes from Young and Willmott's Family and Kinship in East London". The Historical Journal. 59 (2): 567–593. doi:10.1017/S0018246X15000515. S2CID 146894981.
• Lawrence, Jon (2017). "Workers' Testimony and the Sociological Reification of Manual/Non-Manual Distinctions in 1960s Britain". Sozial.Geschichte Online. 20: 13–51.
• Elliott, Jane; Lawrence, Jon (2017). "Narrative, Time and Intimacy in Social Research: Linda and Jim Revisited". In Crow, Graham; Ellis, Jaimie (eds.). Revisiting Divisions of Labour: The Impacts and Legacies of a Modern Sociological Classic. Manchester: Manchester University Press. pp. 189–204. doi:10.7765/9781526116239.00017. ISBN 9781526116239.
• Lawrence, Jon (2017). "Languages of Place and Belonging: Competing Conceptions of 'Community' in Mid-Twentieth-Century Bermondsey, London". In Couperus, Stefan; Kaal, Harm (eds.). (Re)Constructing Communities in Europe, 1918–1968: Senses of Belonging Below, Beyond and Within the Nation-State. London: Routledge. pp. 19–44. doi:10.4324/9781315532738. ISBN 9781315532738.
• Lawrence, Jon (2017). "Individualism and Community in Historical Perspective". In Cohen, Shana; Fuhr, Christina; Bock, Jan-Jonathan (eds.). Austerity, Community Action, and the Future of Citizenship in Europe. Bristol: Policy Press. pp. 239–254. doi:10.1332/policypress/9781447331032.001.0001. ISBN 9781447331032.
• Lawrence, Jon (2017). "The People's History and the Politics of Everyday Life since 1945". In Arnold, John H.; Hilton, Matthew; Rüger, Jan (eds.). History after Hobsbawm: Writing the Past for the Twenty-First Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 272–291. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198768784.001.0001. ISBN 9780198768784.
• Lawrence, Jon (2020). "Labour and the Culture Wars of Modern Politics". The Political Quarterly. 91 (1): 31–34. doi:10.1111/1467-923X.12819. hdl:10871/40800. S2CID 213946215.
• Lawrence, Jon (2022). "On Historians' Re-Use of Social-Science Archives". Twentieth Century British History. 33 (3): 432–444. doi:10.1093/tcbh/hwac013.
• Beelen, Kaspar; Lawrence, Jon; Wilson, Daniel C. S.; Beavan, David (2022). "Bias and Representativeness in Digitized Newspaper Collections: Introducing the Environmental Scan". Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. 38: 1–22. doi:10.1093/llc/fqac037.