Prof John Charmley
| Job Title | Contact | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Professor of Modern British History |
J dot Charmley at uea dot ac dot uk
Tel: 2795/2284 |
Arts Building 4.09 |
Biography
John Charmley has been Head of the School of History since 2001, and he is also Associate Dean of Faculty for Research. He specialises in modern diplomatic and political history, and created the 'Rise and fall of British Power' and 'Napoleon to Stalin' modules, on which he still lectures. His special subject on Britain and the Ottoman Empire in the C19th reflects his current research interests. He has written 8 books and edited two more, and has written widely for the national press. John is prepared to supervise Ph.D.s in either diplomatic history or the history of the Conservative Party.
Additional Contacts
Key Research Interests
Past Research Projects and Grants
| Project Title | Start Date | End Date | Funding Body | Project Members |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Documents on Conservative Foreign Policy, 1852-1878 | 1/8/2007 | 31/10/2008 | British Academy | John Charmley, Geoffrey Hicks |
| York-Norwich Medieval Studies Graduate Conference 2007 | 1/6/2007 | 31/7/2007 | Arts and Humanities Research Council | N/A |
| The Regimen Sanitatis and its Dissemination in Later Medieval England (Wellcome Prize Studentship: Mr C Bonfield) | 1/10/2003 | 30/9/2006 | Wellcome Trust | John Charmley, Carole Rawcliffe |
| Princess Lieven and British diplomacy 1812-1841 | 1/5/2001 | 31/8/2003 | British Academy | N/A |
| George Ripley & 15th Century Alchemy Fellowship to Dr J Hughes | 1/9/2000 | 31/8/2003 | Wellcome Trust | S Curtis, John Charmley, Carole Rawcliffe, Jonathan Hughes |
| The History of Burroughs Wellcome and the Pharmaceutical Industry to 1939 | 1/10/1999 | 31/8/2004 | Wellcome Trust | John Charmley, Roy Church, E Maughan, D O'Reilly, E Tansey, O Reilly |
| Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine | 1/3/1998 | 30/9/2003 | Wellcome Trust | Edward Acton, John Charmley, Roy Church, Sarah Browne, Alison Thomas, Rory Fulton, R Hayward |
Article
Charmley, John (2003) The Conservative Tradition in Foreign Policy. Conservative History Journal, 1. pp. 6-7.
Charmley, John (2002) Churchill and the American Alliance. Transactions: Royal Historical Society, 6 (11). pp. 353-373.
Book Section
Charmley, John (2011) Neville Chamberlain and the Consequences of Churchillian hegemony. In: Origins of the Second World War: An International Perspective. Continuum , pp. 168-185. ISBN 9781441164438
Charmley, John and Davey, Jennifer (2011) The Invisible Politician: Mary Derby and the Eastern Crisis. In: On the Fringes of Diplomacy. Ashgate, London, pp. 17-34. ISBN 978-1-4094-0119-3
Charmley, John (2011) Chapter III 1922-2010. In: Coalition Government in Modern British Politics. Social Affairs Unit, London, pp. 108-149. ISBN 978-1-904863-58-8
Charmley, John (2011) Traditions of Conservative Foreign Policy. In: Conservatism and British Foreign Policy. Ashgate, London, pp. 215-228. ISBN 978-0754-669296
Charmley, John (2010) Britain and the Ottoman Empire 1830-1880. In: Religion and Diplomacy. New Directions in Diplomatic History, I (1). Republic of Letters, Dordrecht, pp. 61-83. ISBN 978-90-89-035-4
Charmley, John (2010) Unravellling Silk: Princess Lieven, Metternich and Castlereagh. In: A Living Anachronism? European Diplomacy and the Habsburg Monarchy. Bohlau: Vienna, pp. 15-29. ISBN 978320578510
Charmley, John (2008) Castlereagh and France. In: Anglo-French Relations since the Late Eighteenth Century. Routledge, pp. 31-41. ISBN 041539578
Charmley, John (2005) From Splendid Isolation to Finest Hour: Britain as a Global Power, 1900-1950. In: The Foreign Office and British Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century. Routledge, pp. 130-146. ISBN 0714656798
Charmley, John (2003) What if Halifax had become Prime Minister in 1940? In: Prime Minister Portillo and Other Things that Never Happened: A Collection of Political Counterfactuals. Portico's, pp. 35-51. ISBN 1842750690
Charmley, John (2002) Palmerston: Artful old dodger or babe of grace? In: The Makers of British Foreigh Policy from Pitt to Thatcher. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 75-97. ISBN 0333915798
Charmley, John (2001) Chamberlain, Churchill and the End of Empire. In: The Decline of Empires. Wein, pp. 127-135. ISBN 370280384X
Book
Hicks, Geoffrey and Charmley, John, eds. (2012) Documents on Conservative Foreign Policy, 1852-1878 (Volume of annotated documents). The Camden Series, Royal Historical Society . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. (In Press)
Charmley, John (2008) A History of Conservative Politics since 1830. Palgrave Macmillan, p. 304. ISBN 9780333929735
Charmley, John (2005) The Princess and the Politicians: Sex, Intrigue and Diplomacy, 1812-40. Viking, p. 350. ISBN 0670889644
