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  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
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• Dean.Blackburn@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

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Expertise Summary

My research explores political ideologies and their histories. I am particularly interested in the way that ideologies bestow meaning upon the concepts that we use to understand and describe the world around us.

Teaching Summary

HIST2037 History and Politics

HIST3075 The Rise and Fall of Thatcherism

HIST4058 Past Futures: Reimagining the Twentieth Century.

HIST4019 Exploring English Identities

Research Summary

Time and Chance: The Politics of Temporality in Modern Britain, 1945-2008

I am working on a book project about the politics of time. Drawing upon examples from the post-war period, the book will trace changes in the way that policy makers and intellectuals thought about temporal concepts like progress, decline and crisis.

This project is funded by a British Academy Small Grant.

Selected Publications

• BLACKBURN, DEAN, 2021. Political Studies Review.
• BLACKBURN, DEAN, 2020. Manchester University Press. (In Press.)
• BLACKBURN, D., 2017. British Politics.
• BLACKBURN, D., 2017. Journal of Political Ideologies. 22(2), 116-130

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You can hear me talk about my research supervision here.

I welcome enquiries from prospective doctoral students who are interested in the following:

1. The history of political ideas in Britain
2. Party politics in modern Britain
3. Theoretical approaches to the study of ideologies
4. Class identities in modern Britain

Current Students

Sarah Shepherd, 'The British Labour Party and the Politics of Memory'

Joshua Wright, 'Defection in Post-war British Politics'

Evey Boffey, 'Feminism and Neoliberalism in Contemporary Britain'

Joshua Selley, 'The Black Atlantic? David Walker, Ottobah Cugoano and the Intellectual Politics of Abolition'

Past Students

Past Research

Past Research

In 2020, I published a monograph that explored the political publishing of Penguin Books. Using the publisher's books as a way of tracing political ideas, it claims that the three decades after the Second World War might be best understood as a 'meritocratic moment' in Britain's political development.

• BLACKBURN, DEAN, 2025. Review of Kit Kowol. Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War American Historical Review. 130(4), 1801-1802
• BLACKBURN, DEAN, 2024. Journal of British Studies.
• BLACKBURN, DEAN, 2023. French Journal of British Studies. 28(1), 1-15
• BLACKBURN, DEAN, 2022. Contemporary British History.
• BLACKBURN, DEAN, 2022. Journal of Political Ideologies. 27(3), 347-360
• BLACKBURN, DEAN, 2021. Political Studies Review.
• BLACKBURN, D., 2021. Political Studies Review.
• BLACKBURN, DEAN, 2020. Manchester University Press. (In Press.)
• 2020. Available at: <https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2020/11/12/penguin-books-and-the-meritocracy-trap/>
• BLACKBURN, DEAN, 2018.
• BLACKBURN, D., 2017. British Politics.
• BLACKBURN, D., 2017. Journal of Political Ideologies. 22(2), 116-130
• BLACKBURN, D., 2017.
• BLACKBURN, D., 2017. The Penguin Popular Front The Penguin Collector. 88,
• BLACKBURN, D, 2016. Available at: <http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/inequality-in-conservative-ideology/>
• BLACKBURN, D., 2015. Political Studies. 64(1), 156-172
• BLACKBURN, D., 2013. Penguin Books and the 'marketplace for ideas'. In: BLACK, L., PEMBERTON, H. and THANE, P., eds., Reassessing 1970s Britain Manchester University Press. 224-251
• BLACKBURN, DEAN, 2012. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press. Available at: <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/89470?docPos=3>
• BLACKBURN, D., 2011. Parliamentary Affairs. 64(4), 612-633