Mark Connelly

This article is about the British historian. For the American playwright, see Marc Connelly. For the politician in British Columbia, Canada, see Mark Matthew Connelly.

Mark Connelly is a professor and former Head of the School of History, at the University of Kent in Canterbury, where he is both a military historian, and the Reuters Lecturer in Media History.

He is also the author of a book on the Second World War and the British home front called, We Can Take It!, as well as other books and essays.

He took his PhD at Queen Mary & Westfield College.

In December 2007, Connelly appeared on the BBC television show The One Show, commenting on the social history of Christmas in the UK.

Books

• Christmas: A Social History (I.B. Tauris, September 1999)
• (Editor) Christmas at the Movies: The Representation of Christmas in American, British and European Cinema (I.B. Tauris, October 2000)
• Reaching for the Stars: A New Interpretation of Bomber Command in the Second World War (I.B. Tauris, December 2000)
  • Review, Air and Space Power Journal, Fall 2002 reprint
  • Review, Journal of Military History v.68 no.2 (2004)
• The Great War: memory and ritual (Boydell and Brewer, 2002)
  • Review by Janet Watson Twentieth Century British History 2004 15(4):436-438; doi:10.1093/tcbh/15.4.436)
• British Film Guides: The Charge of the Light Brigade (I.B. Tauris, 2003)
• We Can Take It! Britain and the memory of the Second World War (Longman/Pearson, 2004)
  • Review, Contemporary Review July 2005.
• (ed with D. Welch) War and the Media: propaganda and reportage, 1900-2003 (I.B. Tauris, 2004)
• British Film Guides: The Red Shoes (I.B. Tauris, 2005)
• Steady the Buffs! The East Kent Regiment and the Great War (OUP, 2006)

External links

• Official profile on the University of Kent School of History website
• Department of History website at the University of Kent