Pippa Catterall
Pippa Poppy Catterall (born Peter Paul Catterall in 1961)[1][2] is a British academic historian who, since 2016, has been Professor of History and Policy at the University of Westminster. Her research has focused on twentieth-century history and politics, the mass media, conflict studies and nationalism.
Career
Catterall graduated from
She was a Conservative councillor in the London Borough of Bexley until 2014, where she served as Cabinet Member for Leisure.[4]
Research
Catterall specialises in the history of the twentieth century.[5] She was founding editor of the journal National Identities.[6][7] She has worked in conflict studies and nationalism,[8] and on twentieth-century history, including the history of mass media, and as editor of the diaries of Harold Macmillan.[9] In Northcliffe's Legacy, she explores the role of news media in the "persistence" of popular misunderstandings of Einstein's Theory of relativity.[10]
Publications
- "The State of Literature on Post-War Britain", in Gorst, A., Johnman, L., and Lucas, W. S. (ed.), Post-War Britain 1945–64: Themes and Perspectives (London: Frances Pinter Publishers, 1989), pp. 221–241.
- British History, 1945–1987: An Annotated Bibliography (Oxford: Oxford University Press: 1991).
- "Church decline, secularism and ecumenism", Contemporary Record, 5:2 (1991), pp. 276–290.
- History of Electrex, 1950–1993 (1993).
- "The east of Suez decision", Contemporary Record, 7:3 (1993), pp. 612–653.
- "Symposium: Editing Political Diaries", Contemporary Record, 7:1 (1993), pp. 103–131.
- "Morality and politics: the free churches and the Labour Party between the wars", Historical Journal, 36:3 (1993), pp. 667–685.
- (editor; with J. Obelkevich) Understanding Post-War British Society (London: Routledge, 1994).
- "The party and religion", in Seldon, A., and Ball, S. (ed.), Conservative century: the Conservative Party since 1900 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), pp. 637–670.
- "The battle of Cable Street", Contemporary Record, 8:1 (1994), pp. 105–132.
- (with E. M. Tansey), "Technology transfer in Britain: the case of monoclonal antibodies", Contemporary Record, 9:2 (1995), pp. 409–444.
- (editor; with S. McDougall) The Northern Ireland Question in British Politics (Basingstoke: MacMillan, 1996).
- "Reassessing the impact of yesterday's men", Contemporary British History, 10:4 (1996), pp. 108–138.
- (editor; with E. Tansey, D. Christie, S. Willhoft and L. Reynolds) Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth-Century Medicine, vol. 1 (London: Wellcome Trust, 1997).
- "Engineering and Economic Performance in Britain since 1945", in Clesse, A., and Coker, C. (ed.), The Vitality of Britain (Luxembourg: Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies, 1997), pp. 78–101.
- (with C. Brady) "Managing the core executive", Public Administration, 75:3 (1997), pp. 509–529.
- "Handling the transfer of power: a note on the 1964 origins of the Douglas‐Home rules", Contemporary British History, 11:1 (1997), pp. 76–82.
- "What (if anything) is distinctive about contemporary history?", Journal of Contemporary History, 32:4 (1997), pp. 441–452.
- "'Imagine if Labour won the Election': the Conservative Party's political broadcasts", Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 17:4 (1997), pp. 453–457.
- "Departmental Select Committees", Contemporary British History, 11:3 (1997), pp. 77–98.
- "Cabinet committees in British governance", Public Policy and Administration, 13:4 (1998), pp. 67–84.
- (editor) The Making of Channel 4 (London: Cass, 1999).
- "Management and engineering education in the 1950s and 1960s", Contemporary British History, 13:3 (1999), pp. 10–22.
- (editor; with W. Kaiser and U. Walton-Jordan) Reforming the Constitution: Debates in Twentieth-Century Britain (London: Cass, 2000).
- (editor; with C. Seymour-Ure and A. Smith) Northcliffe's Legacy: Aspects of the British Popular Press, 1896–1996 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000).
- "Foreign and Commonwealth policy in opposition: the Labour Party", in Kaiser, W., and Staerck, G. (ed.), British Foreign Policy 1955–64: Contracting Options (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000), pp. 89–109.
- (with C. Brady) "The Development and Role of Cabinet Committees in Britain", in Rhodes, R. A. W. (ed.), Transforming British Government, vol. 1 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000), pp. 156–175.
- "The British electoral system 1885–1970", Historical Research, 73:181 (2000), pp. 156–174.
- "The British Isles today", in Hall, S., and Haywood, J. (ed.), The Penguin atlas of British and Irish History (London: Penguin, 2000), pp. 276–279.
- "Harold Macmillan and Europe 1950–56: the Cold War, the American context and the British approach to European integration", Cercles, 5 (2002), pp. 93–108.
- (editor) The Macmillan Diaries: the Cabinet Years, 1950–57 (London: Macmillan, 2003).
- "Conclusions: The ironies of 'successful failure'", in Daddow, O. J. (ed.), Harold Wilson and European integration: Britain's second application to join the EEC (London: Cass, 2003), pp. 243–252.
- "Roles and relationships: Dean Acheson, 'British decline' and post-war Anglo-American relations", in Capet, A., and Sy-Wonyu, A. (ed.), The Special Relationship: la 'Relation Spéciale' Entre le Royaumi-Uni et Les États Unis (Rouen: Universite de Rouen, 2003), pp. 109–126.
- "The Prime Minister and his Trollope: reading Harold Macmillan’s reading", Cercles Occasional Papers Series, 1 (2004), pp. 1–20.
- "Twenty-five years of promoting free markets: a history of Economic Affairs", Economic Affairs, 25:4 (2005), pp. 48–57.
- "Identity and integration: Macmillan, “Britishness” and the turn towards Europe", in Millat, G. (ed.), Angleterre ou Albion, Entre Fascination et Répulsion (Lille: Université Lille 3 Charles de Gaulle, 2006), pp. 161–178.
- "The singularity of Suez in Anglo-French relations 1951–64: une entente mal entendue", in Capet, A. (ed.), Britain, France and the Entente Cordiale since 1904 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pp. 124–142.
- "The distinctiveness of British socialism? Religion and the Labour Party c. 1900–1939", in Worley, M. (ed.), The Foundations of the Labour Party (Ashgate, 2009), pp. 131–152.
- (editor; with H. MacMillan) The Macmillan Diaries: Vol. II, Prime Minister and After, 1957–66 (2011).
- "Democracy, cosmopolitanism and national identity in a 'globalising' world", National Identities, 13:4 (2011), pp. 329–347.
- "At the end of the day: Macmillan's account of the Cuban missile crisis", International Relations, 26:3 (2012), pp. 267–289.
- "Slums and salvation", in Husselbee, L., and Ballard, P. (ed.), Free Churches and Society since 1800 (Continuum, 2012), pp. 111–132.
- (editor) The Making of Channel 4 (London: Routledge, 2013).
- "Nonconformity and the labour movement", in Pope, R. (ed.), T. & T. Clark Companion to Nonconformity London (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2013), pp. 459–472.
- "Modifying 'a very dangerous message': Britain, the non-aligned and the UN during the Cuban missile crisis", in Gioe, D., Scott, L., and Andrew, C. (ed.), An International History of the Cuban Missile Crisis: a 50-year Retrospective (London: Routledge, 2014), pp. 72–98.
- "Prime Minister and President: Harold Macmillan’s accounts of the Cuban missile crisis", in Scott, L., and Hughes, R. G. (ed.) The Cuban Missile Crisis: a Critical Appraisal (London: Routledge, 2015), pp. 75–101.
- (editor; with C. J. Morris), Britain and the Threat to Stability in Europe, 1918–45 (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016).
- Labour and the Free Churches, 1918–1939: Radicalism, Righteousness and Religion (London: Bloomsbury: 2016).
References
- ISNI. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
- ^ "Changes of Name". The Gazette (62595): 5337. 22 March 2019.
- ^ "Dr Peter Paul Catterall", University of Westminster. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
- ^ "Consortium of bowls clubs secure £40,000 Olympic legacy funding".
- ^ "Scots on History Track", Times Higher Education, [1]
- ^ Steve Black, "National Identities – Interview with David Kaplan, editor, March 2008, Periodical Radio, [2].
- ^ National Identities Editorial Board
- ^ "Dr Peter Catterall in Kurdistan as part of the DelPHE-Iraq project"
- ^ Clapson, Mark, The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Twentieth Century, Routledge, 2009, p. 178.
- ^ Price, Katy, Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe, University of Chicago Press, 2012, p. 201.