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Prof John Charmley

John Charmley
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Director of East Anglian Studies  J dot Charmley at uea dot ac dot uk
Tel: 2795/2284  
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Biography

John Charmley was Head of the School of History from 2002 until 2012; he has been Head of the School of Music since 2009. He is also UEA’s Director of Employability, as well as being Director of the East Anglian Film Archive, and Director of the Centre for East Anglian Studies. He has written nine books and specialises in modern political and diplomatic history. He supervises PhD students on a variety of topics in modern history.

Additional Contacts

Professor John Charmley is President of the Norfolk and Norwich Branch of the Historical Association. From 2011 the Historical Association's journal, History, will be edited by Professor Charmley with Professor Peter Waldron and Dr Emma Griffin as deputy editors.

Key Research Interests

Research interests - modern diplomatic and political history; Britain and the Ottoman Empire in the C19th.

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

Number of items: 16.

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 Foreign 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, Charmley, John and Grosvenor, Bendor, eds. (2012) Documents on Conservative Foreign Policy, 1852-1878 (Volume of annotated documents). RHS Camden Fifth Series, 41 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9780521

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

This list was generated on Fri Apr 5 10:51:40 2013 BST.

Key Responsibilities

Professor Charmley is Head of the School of History and Associate Dean for Enterprise and Engagement.
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