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Email: mark.donnelly@stmarys.ac.uk
Biography
Dr Mark Donnelly is Associate Professor in History. He is Course Lead for BA History and MA Public History. He is also co-director of the Walpole Centre for Literature, History and Public Pasts. He teaches undergraduate modules on contemporary cultural and political history, public history, collective memory, and the liberal arts. He has supervised numerous PhD students through to successful completion
Mark's books include Liberating Histories (2019) and a revised second edition of Doing History (2021). Both were co-authored with Claire Norton. His edited collection Mad Dogs and Englishness: Popular Music and English Identities was published by Bloomsbury in 2017. He also published Sixties Britain: Culture, Society and Politics in 2005.
He has published numerous articles and essays. His article for a special edition of Rethinking History on the influence of Martin Davies’s ideas will be published in 2025. A chapter on Holocaust-related paperbacks in sixties Britain will also be published in 2025. He is currently editing two multi-authored volumes of essays: Song, Music and Wellbeing for Amsterdam University Press, and the Routledge Handbook of Gender in the 1960s.
PhD supervision
Mark welcomes applications for potential PhD supervision in the fields of history theory, collective memory and contemporary British culture, politics and history.
Research
Research profile
Books
- Routledge Handbook of Gender in the 1960s (co-edited with Sinead McEneaney), Abingdon: Routledge, 2026
- Song, Music and Wellbeing, (co-edited with Richard Mills), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2026
- Liberating Histories (co-authored with Claire Norton) Abingdon: Routledge, 2019
- Mad Dogs and Englishness: Popular Music and English Identities (co-edited with Richard Mills and Lee Brooks) New York: Bloomsbury, 2017
- Doing History (co-authored with Claire Norton) Abingdon: Routledge 2011
- Revised second edition published 2021
- Sixties Britain: Culture, Society and Politics, Harlow: Longman, Pearson, 2005
- Britain in the Second World War, London, Routledge, 1999
Recent peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters in edited books
- ‘The point is, history sells. Martin Davies’s political critique of history and heritage’ (co-authored with Claire Norton). Rethinking History: A Journal of Theory and Practice, forthcoming 2025
- Murder for the Masses: The Holocaust in Paperback in the Long Sixties’, in Dan Stone and Dieter Steinert (eds), Britain and Holocaust Consciousness in the 1960s, London: Bloomsbury, 2025.
- ‘Tales of im/mobility: Unhistorying Migration’, in Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen (ed.) Philosophy of History: Twenty-First Century Perspectives, (London: Bloomsbury, 2020) co-authored with Claire Norton
- ‘Can counter histories disturb the present? REPOhistory’s street signs projects, 1992-1999' Art History and Criticism(2019)
- ‘Public History in Britain’ in Paul Ashton and Alex Trapeznik (eds) What Is Public History Globally? Working with the Past in the Present, London: Bloomsbury Academic (2019)
- ‘Introduction: Englishness, Whose Englishness?’, (co-author Lee Brooks), ‘Mad Dogs and Englishness’: Popular Music and English Identities, Lee Brooks, Mark Donnelly and Richard Mills (eds) (New York: Bloomsbury, 2017)
- Mark Donnelly and Claire Norton (2015): In the Service of Technocratic Managerialism? History in UK Universities, Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1-13, DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2015.1104232, Published online: 10 Nov 2015.
- Claire Norton and Mark Donnelly, "Thinking the past politically: Palestine, power and pedagogy", Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice, 20/2, 2016, 192-216, DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2016.1153307.
- ‘The siege, the book and the film: Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)’, in Alex Macfie (ed) The Fiction of History, Abingdon: Routledge, 2014
- ‘Sixties Britain: The Cultural Politics of Historiography’, in Molly O’Brien Castro and Trevor Harris (eds) Preserving The Sixties, Basingstoke:Palgrave, 2014
- ‘Should We Do Something for the Fiftieth?’ Remembering Auschwitz, Belsen and the Holocaust in Britain in 1995’, in Caroline Sharples (ed.) Britain and the Holocaust: Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2013
- ‘Wholly Communion: truths, histories and the Albert Hall Poetry Reading’, Framework, 52/1&2, 2011