Mark Connelly

Mark Connelly is a professor and former Head of the School of History, at the University of Kent in Canterbury, where he is both a military historian, and the Reuters Lecturer in Media History.

This article is about the British historian. For the American playwright, see Marc Connelly. For the politician in British Columbia, Canada, see Mark Matthew Connelly.

He is also the author of a book on the Second World War and the British home front called, We Can Take It!, as well as other books and essays.[1][2][3]

He took his PhD at Queen Mary & Westfield College.[4]

In December 2007, Connelly appeared on the BBC television show The One Show, commenting on the social history of Christmas in the UK.

Books
  • Christmas: A Social History (London, I.B. Tauris, September 1999)
  • (Editor) Christmas at the Movies: The Representation of Christmas in American, British and European Cinema (London, I.B. Tauris, October 2000)
  • Reaching for the Stars: A New History of Bomber Command in World War II (London, I.B. Tauris, December 2000; 2014)
  • The Great War: Memory and Ritual (Suffolk, Boydell & Brewer, 2002)
  • British Film Guides: The Charge of the Light Brigade (London, I.B. Tauris, 2003)
  • We Can Take It! Britain and the memory of the Second World War (Harlow, Pearson Longman, 2004)
  • (ed. with D. Welch) War and the Media: propaganda and reportage, 1900-2003 (London, I.B. Tauris, 2004)
  • British Film Guides: The Red Shoes (London, I.B. Tauris, 2005)
  • Steady the Buffs! The East Kent Regiment and the Great War (Oxford, OUP, 2006)

References
  1. Project MUSE
  2. Review: The Great War, Memory and Ritual: Commemoration in the City and East London 1916-1939 - WATSON 15 (4): 436 - Twentieth Century British History
  3. Popular memory and the Second World War|Contemporary Review (July 2005)
  4. "Theses Completed 1995". Institute of Historical Research. 2005-05-01. Archived from the original on 2007-08-19. Retrieved 2008-01-10.
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