Prof Brian Brivati
| Position: | Visiting Professor |
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| School: | Honorary Appointment |
| Email: | Brian.Brivati@kingston.ac.uk |
| Extension: | 62320 |
| Location: | Room Pr-T705, Penrhyn Road |
Profile
Dr Brian Brivati has published extensive work on contemporary British politics with an emphasis on the political history of the British Labour party. His biography of Hugh Gaitskell (Richard Cohen Books, 1996) received 10 book of the year selections. His research and teaching has recently extended to comparative work on genocide and human rights. He speakers regularly for the Holocaust Education Trust. His articles have appeared in the Guardian, the Times, the Financial Times, the Independent on Sunday, the Observer, the New Statesman, Progress, the Fabian Review and Parliamentary Brief. He is a regular broadcaster on political history. Politicos will publish his next book, The End of Decline: the Blair-Brown Governments and Contemporary British History, in summer 2007. He has also written a biography of Lord Goodman (Richard Cohen Books, 1999) and edited The Uncollected Foot: Essays, Old and New, 1953-2003 (Politico's, 2003), Ernest Bevin, single volume edition, by Alan Bullock (Politico's, 2002), Guiding Light: the collected speeches of John Smith (Politico's, 2001), The Labour Party: a Centenary History (Macmillan, 2000), Aneurin Bevan, 1897-1960, single volume edition, by Michael Foot (Victor Gollancz, 1997), and New Labour in Power: precedents and prospects (Routledge, 1997).
Educational and professional qualifications
| 1988 - 1992 | PhD, The Campaign for Democratic Socialism 1960 - 1964 , Dept. of History, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. |
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| 1984 - 1987 | BA in History and Politics , Dept. of History, Queen Mary College, University of London |
Professional experience (post-1990)
| 2005- | Professor of Contemporary History, Director MA Human Rights and Field Leader BA Human Rights |
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| 2001 - 2005 | Professor of Contemporary History and Director of Graduate Studies, Kingston University. |
| 1997 - 2001 | Reader in History, Kingston University. |
| 1996 - 1997 | Senior Lecturer in Modern British History, Kingston University. |
| 1994 - 1996 | Lecturer in Modern British History, Kingston University. |
| 1992 - 1994 | Deputy Director, Institute of Contemporary British History. |
| 1992 - 1993 | Temporary Part-time Lecturer, Dept. of History, Birkbeck College, University of London. |
| 1991 - 1993 | Visiting Lecturer, Faculty of Business, Management and Social Studies, University of Westminster. |
Funding
| 20Leverhulme Trust, John Smith Foundation, Nutfield Foundation and British Academy: Research |
Research outputs
Article
Brivati, Brian (2007) The Blair audit: war, human rights, liberalism. Open Democracy,
Brivati, Brian (2006) Our international interest. Progress,
Brivati, Brian (2004) Honest John. Progress,
Brivati, Brian (2001) Book Review of: Harold MacMillan: aspects of a political life ed. by Richard Aldous and Sabine Lee. Political Studies, 49(1), pp. 151-152. ISSN (print) 0032-3217
Book
Brivati, Brian and Heffernan, Richard, eds. (2000) The Labour Party: a centenary history. Basingstoke : Macmillan Press. 512p. ISBN 0333746503
Brivati, Brian (1999) Lord Goodman. London, U.K. : Richard Cohen Books. 304p. ISBN 1860661564
Brivati, Brian (1996) Hugh Gaitskell. London, U.K. : Richard Cohen Books. 492p. ISBN 1860660738
Brivati, Brian , Buxton, Julia and Seldon, Anthony, eds. (1996) The contemporary history handbook. Manchester, U.K. : Manchester University Press. 488p. ISBN 0719048362
Book Section
Brivati, Brian and Heffernan, Richard (2000) Introduction. In: Brivati, Brian and Heffernan, Richard, (eds.) The Labour Party: a centenary history. Basingstoke : Macmillan Press. pp. 1-7. ISBN 0333746503
Brivati, Brian (2000) Labour's literary dominance. In: Brivati, Brian and Heffernan, Richard, (eds.) The Labour Party : a centenary history. Basingstoke, U.K. : Macmillan. pp. 485-502. ISBN 033374649X
Brivati, Brian (2000) Labour's litery dominance. In: Brivati, Brian and Heffernan, Richard, (eds.) The Labour Party: a centenary history. Basingstoke : Macmillan Press. pp. 485-502. ISBN 0333746503
Brivati, Brian (2000) 'The future Labour offered': industrial modernisation projects in the British Labour Party from Gaitskell to Blair. In: Brivati, Brian and Heffernan, Richard, (eds.) The Labour Party: a centenary history. Basingstoke : Macmillan Press. pp. 346-362. ISBN 0333746503
Brivati, Brian (1999) Crosland as apparatchik. In: Leonard, Dick, (ed.) Crosland and New Labour. Basingstoke, U.K. : Macmillan, in association with Fabian Society. pp. 107-124. ISBN 0333739892
Brivati, Brian (1996) CD-ROM and the historian: information technology and the writing of history. In: Brivati, Brian , Buxton, Julia and Seldon, Anthony, (eds.) The contemporary history handbook. Manchester, U.K. : Manchester University Press. pp. 471-478. ISBN 0719048362
Buxton, Julia (1996) Forwards into history: the liberalisation of eastern Europe. In: Brivati, Brian , Buxton, Julia and Seldon, Anthony, (eds.) The contemporary history handbook. Manchester, U.K. : Manchester University Press. pp. 170-184. ISBN 9780719048357
Brivati, Brian (1996) Introduction. In: Brivati, Brian , Buxton, Julia and Seldon, Anthony, (eds.) The contemporary history handbook. Manchester, U.K. : Manchester University Press. pp. xv-xxiv. ISBN 0719048362
Gorst, Anthony and Brivati, Brian (1996) National archives in the United Kingdon: a case study of the Waldegrave initiative on Public Record Office releases. In: Brivati, Brian , Buxton, Julia and Seldon, Anthony, (eds.) The contemporary history handbook. Manchester, U.K. : Manchester University Press. pp. 272-279. ISBN 0719048362
Bailey, Joe (1996) Postmodernism and postmodernity : a user's guide. In: Brivati, Brian , Buxton, Julia and Seldon, Anthony, (eds.) The contemporary history handbook. Manchester, U.K. : Manchester University Press. pp. 24-33. ISBN 9780719048357
Brivati, Brian (1996) Using contemporary written sources: three case studies. In: Brivati, Brian , Buxton, Julia and Seldon, Anthony, (eds.) The contemporary history handbook. Manchester, U.K. : Manchester University Press. pp. 289-297. ISBN 0719048362
Brivati, Brian (1996) The hedgehog and the fox: the writing of contemporary British political history. In: Brivati, Brian , Buxton, Julia and Seldon, Anthony, (eds.) The contemporary history handbook. Manchester, U.K. : Manchester University Press. pp. 94-106. ISBN 0719048362
Conference or Workshop Item
Brivati, Brian and Spencer, Philip (2007) Teaching and researching comparative mass murder in higher education in the UK. In: Teaching and researching the politics of mass murder & genocide; 22-23 June 2007, Kingston upon Thames, U.K..