My research particularly focuses on the following areas:

Other research interests

Ideological developments within the British Labour tradition over the last two centuries; the history of Lonrho across Africa; notions of civic pride and municipalisation; architecture; psephology and election culture; corruption; political gossip; the history of heckling; political cartoon and caricatures; student politics in 19th and early 20th century Britain; social networks; prosopography.