Nicholas Barnett

Current positions

Lecturer in History & Politics

Biography

Dr Nicholas Barnett is Lecturer in Contemporary History and Politics, working at Salford since 2019. He previously held full time lectureships at University of Plymouth 2015-17; and Swansea University 2017-19.

Nicholas's current focus in on Class and he has spearheaded the building of an interdisciplinary network on cultures of class involving scholars within University of Salford and external partners. He is currently working on several collaborative projects around this. His previous work examines Cultural encounters between people from different communities in the Post-War World and the Cultural Cold War.

Nicholas holds fellowships status of the Royal Historical Society; Higher Education Academy and is co-editor of the Routledge Studies in Espionage & Culture

He is happy to supervise projects relating to the Cold War; Twentieth Century British History; Globalization; Social History and Class

Areas of Research

Cold War; Cultural History; Social History; Cultural Encounters; 20th Century History; Cultures of Class

Nicholas current research focus in Class and he welcomes contact about the Network for Cultures of Class, for which he is one of the co-leads alongside Dr Tanja Popplereuter and Dr Alexandra Mitchell. He is currently working with Dr Juan Hiriat to publish a graphic history of the Working Class Movement Library.

Teaching Qualifications and Recognitions Publications

Teaching

Programme Leadership:

BA (hons) Contemporary History & Politics
BA (hons) Politics

Current Module Leadership includes

L4
PCH Tutorial Module: The Cold War
Making Public History
International History 1: 1914-39
International History 2: 1945-Present

L5
Regimes & Dictatorships
Memory & Commemoration

L6
Conflict & Photography

Qualifications and Recognitions

Qualifications

Ph.D 'British Culture and the Cold War'
2010 - 2013
M.Res Cultural History
2008 - 2009
BA (hons) History
2004 - 2007

Publications

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