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Dr Timothy Baycroft
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Biography
Timothy Baycroft joined the History Department in Sheffield in 1996. Timothy Baycroft is an executive member of the Society for the Study of French History (SSFH) and the Sheffield branch of the Historical Association, and is an active member of the Sheffield interdisciplinary Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies. He was a visiting Professor at the Centre for Border Studies, at the University of Glamorgan in the spring semester 2006. Research
Current Research Currently he is working on a project on the Lyon Commune of 1870-71, including a comparison with the Paris Commune of 1871, and contextualising it withint the broader movements of the revolutionary Left in France and Europe during the 19th Century.
Research Interests His research interests lie in the area of identity and nationalism in modern Europe, and modern France in particular. He has publications on commemoration and memory, border identities, colonial imagery in France and European identity. He has received grants from the AHRC and the British Academy in support of this work. He has jointly directed research projects comparing European nationalisms in the nineteenth century, in one case with a view to revising the traditional model dividing nations simply into those which are ‘civic’ and those are ‘ethnic’, and in the other to understand the relationship between nationalism and folklore. He is interested in interdisciplinary work, and has engaged in collaboration with musicians in an attempt to come to a better understanding of the relationships between political ideology and changes in music, art and literature.
Research Supervision Dr. Baycroft teaches nineteenth and twentieth-century European history at all levels. His current course offerings include a general history of France 1870-1940, final-year documents based courses on the Nazi Occupation of France during the Second World War and the Paris Commune, and postgraduate courses in the comparative cultural history of Europe in the Fin-de-Siècle period and 19th-century British Broadside Ballads. He supervises research students in several areas of modern French and European History, and would welcome enquiries from prospective students in this area.
Current PhD Students Bernard Wilkin - Allied Propaganda in Occupied France and Belgium during the First World War. Eloise Roberts – Myth-making and national identity: Heine's satires in the context of public discourse on myths of nation in 1840s Germany. Hilary Sheffield - National Identity as determined by Response to Immigration Legislation: A Comparative Study of France and Britain 1880-1914. Justin Olmstead - Acquiring America: The Diplomatic Battle for America, 1914-1917.
Recent PhDs completed Suzannah Rockett - Algeria in France: War and Defeat in Republican Culture. Wilfred Jack Rhoden - Caricatural Representations of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, 1848-1871. Lianbi Zhu - National Holidays and Minority Festivals in Canadian Nation Building. Jennifer Farrar - The Persecution of Freemasonry under Vichy: A reappraisal Tim Brooks - British Propaganda to France, 1940- 1944: Machinery, Method and Message. James Daniel - 4th Earl of Carnarvon.
Selected Publications
Books Folklore and Nationalism in Europe During the Long Nineteenth Century edited with David Hopkin (Brill, 2012) France: Inventing the Nation. (Arnold, 2008) What is a Nation? Europe 1789-1914, edited with Mark Hewitson. (OUP, 2006) Culture, Identity and Nationalism: French Flanders in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. The Royal Historical Society Studies in History Series. (The Boydell Press, 2004) Nationalism in Europe 1789-1945. (CUP, 1998)
Articles ‘National Diversity, Regionalism and Decentralism in France,’ in Joost Augusteijn and Eric Storm, eds., Region and State in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Nation-Building, Regional Identities and Seperatism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 57-68. ‘Nationalism,National Identity and Freemasonry’ Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism 1,1 (2010), pp. 10-22. ‘Border regions and identity’ with David Laven, European Review of History/Revue européenne d'Histoire 15, 3 (June 2008), pp. 255-75. ‘The Versailles Settlement and Identity in French Flanders’ Diplomacy and Statecraft 16 (2005), pp 589-602. ‘The Empire and the Nation: The Place of Colonial Images in the Republican Visions of the French Nation,’ in Martin Evans, ed. Empire and Culture: The French Experience 1830-1940, Palgrave, 2004, pp. 148-60. ‘Commemorations of the Revolution of 1848 and the Second Republic’ in Modern & Contemporary France Vol. 6 No. 2 (1998), pp. 155-68. |
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