PhD Candidate in Modern British History

Chris' doctoral research is supervised by Professor Helen McCarthy and examines the British Council, Britain’s official cultural diplomacy agency since 1934. Taking a long view of its work across the twentieth century, his research applies gender, class and race as analytical categories, aiming to consider both how the internal employment policies of the Council and the work of individual staff affected the cultural image of Britain which it promoted abroad.

Chris took his BA and MA in History at University College London. Before starting his PhD, Chris spent four years working in PR in both the public and private sectors. He is a member of the New York-Cambridge Training Collaboration, a co-convenor of the Cambridge Modern British History Workshop and an editor with Doing History in Public. He also runs the social media channels for the journal Contemporary European History and co-edit its New Voices blog.