Dr Neil Fleming

Senior Lecturer in Modern History

Institute of Humanities & Creative Arts

Contact Details

email: n.fleming@worc.ac.uk

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Co-Leader, Transnational Studies Research Group

 

Neil Fleming is an historian of Britain, Ireland and empire since the nineteenth century. He has published widely and is currently engaged on a number of projects which include a study of metropolitan imperialism and government policy.

Teaching & Research

Teaching

Neil Fleming joined the University of Worcester in January 2011. He previously held lectureships at Cardiff University, Queen’s University Belfast, and Glasgow Caledonian University, and was the 16th Fulbright-Robertson Visiting Professor of British History, Westminster College, Missouri. His modules at the University of Worcester include:

Empire and Appeasement: British foreign and imperial policy, c. 1918-1945
Victorian Century: Britain, 1832-1901
Twentieth-Century Britain: Conflict, Stability and Change
Ireland since the Famine: Revolution, Partition and Conflict

Current Research

Neil Fleming is co-leader of the Transnational Studies Research Group, University of Worcester.

His research is in modern British History, Irish History, metropolitan imperialism and Media History. He has been awarded stipendiary Research Fellowships at University College Dublin and Queen’s University Belfast to pursue his own research interests. In 2005 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Current research projects include the Conservative right and imperialism, British foreign policy debates, and class and power in Irish Unionism. He has presented his work at seminars in Columbia University, New York; University of Toronto; Institute of Historical Research, London; Boston College; and conferences across the UK and USA.

Dr Fleming has been awarded the Caird Research Fellowship by the National Maritime Museum, London, and the Anderson Fund by the Society for Nautical Research.

Professional Bodies

Fellow, Royal Historical Society

Honorary Research Fellow, Cardiff University

Committee Member, British Fulbright Scholars Association

Member, History & Policy

Member, British International History Group

Member, British Scholar Society

Member, Workers Educational Association

Member, Honourable Society of the Inner Temple

Publications

Books

The Marquess of Londonderry: Aristocracy, Power and Politics in Britain and Ireland (London: I.B. Tauris, 2005).

Charles Stewart Parnell and His Times: A Bibliography (Bibliographies of British Statesmen, 18) (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Press, 2011) (with Alan O’Day).

Ireland and Anglo-Irish Relations since 1800: Critical Essays (3 volumes), 1: The Union to the Land War; 2: Parnell and his Legacy to the Treaty; 3: From the Treaty to the Present (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008) (with Alan O’Day).

The Longman Handbook of Modern Irish History since 1800 (London: Pearson, 2005) (with Alan O’Day).

Articles

‘Extremist politics: ancient and modern’, Political Studies Review, 11 (2013).

‘Cabinet government, British imperial security, and the World Disarmament Conference, 1932–1934’, War in History, 18:1 (2011): 62–84.

‘The press, empire and historical time: the Times and Indian self-government, c.1911-1947’, Media History, 16:2 (2010): 183-198

Echoes of Britannia: television history, empire and the critical public sphere’, Contemporary British History, 25:1 (2010): 1-22

“Incorrigibly plural’: new histories of Ulster and Northern Ireland’, Twentieth Century British History, 21:1 (2010): 110–17.

‘The first government of Northern Ireland, education reform, and the failure of anti-populist unionism, 1921-1925’, Twentieth Century British History, 18:2 (2007): 146-69.

Chapters

‘Education’, in Liam Kennedy and Phillip Ollerenshaw (eds), Ulster since 1600: Politics, Economy, and Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).

‘Gladstone and the Ulster Question’, in D. George Boyce and Alan O’Day (eds), Gladstone and Ireland: Politics, Religion and Nationality in the Victorian Age (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010): 140–61.

(with Alan O’Day) ‘Accommodation, conciliation and cooperation: a Gladstonian legacy’, in D. George Boyce and Alan O’Day (eds), Gladstone and Ireland: Politics, Religion and Nationality in the Victorian Age (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010): 233–55.

‘Leadership, the middle-classes and Ulster unionism since the late nineteenth century’, in Fintan Lane (ed.), Politics, Society and the Middle Class in Modern Ireland (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2009): 212–29.

‘Aristocratic appeasement: Lord Londonderry, Nazi Germany, and the promotion of Anglo-German misunderstanding’, Cardiff Historical Papers, 4 (Cardiff: Cardiff University, 2007): 1–36.

‘Landlords, power and loyalism in late-Victorian Ulster’, in Christine Kinealy and Roger Swift (eds), Politics and Power in Victorian Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006): 143–54.

‘The landed elite, power, and Ulster Unionism’, in D. George Boyce and Alan O’Day (eds), The Ulster Crisis, 1885–1921 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006): 86–104.

‘Old and new Unionism: The seventh Marquess of Londonderry, 1905–1921’, in D.George Boyce and Alan O’Day (eds), Ireland in Transition, 1867–1921 (London: Routledge, 2004): 223–40.

‘Lord Londonderry and Ulster politics, 1921–6’, in Joost Augusteijn, Mary Ann Lyons and Deirdre McMahon (eds), Irish History: A Research Yearbook, 2 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003): 72–80.

External Responsibilities

Dr Neil Fleming has peer reviewed for the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the publishers Palgrave Macmillan and John Wiley, and the journals Twentieth Century British History and Media History. He has published book reviews in Contemporary British History, Journal of British Studies, Twentieth Century British History, British Politics, Reviews in History, Irish Political Studies, Irish Historical Studies, Irish Studies Review and Irish Review. He has spoken about his work on US and UK television and radio.