
Dr Tom Hulme
Lecturer
For media contact email comms.office@qub.ac.uk
or call +44(0)2890 973091.
Research Interests
I am a historian of the 20th century, working mainly on Britain. I was awarded my PhD in Urban History from the University of Leicester in 2013. Before taking up my current post, I was an Early Career Lecturer at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London (2015-2016), and a Research Associate at King's College London (2013-2015).
Over the last few years my research has developed in two different strands:
1) Urban culture, especially 1880-1940, and themes such as: civic culture and citizenship; big industrial cities (particularly Manchester and Chicago); local education and school architecture; the relationship between state, society, and the individual; and civic festivals.
2) The place of the past, particularly in the 20th century, with themes such as: historical re-enactment; popular understandings of civic history; and shared ideas of history between the US and Britain.
I am currently writing a monograph with the working title After the Shock City: Urban Culture and the Making of the Modern Citizen (under contract with the Royal Historical Society 'Studies in History' series, Boydell and Brewer), which should appear in 2018 or 2019. This book investigates the theory and reality of civic belonging and governance from the late nineteenth to mid twentieth century, across a range of diverse areas: philosophy; festivals; historical pageants; youth culture; and public housing.
From June 2018-June 2021 I will be the principal investigator on an AHRC-funded project: ‘Voyaging through History: The Meanings of the Mayflower, 1620-2020’. Dr Martha Vandrei (Exeter) is the Co-Investigator, and we are partnered with the British Library + Southampton Mayflower Theatre. This project seeks to trace the 'afterlife' of the voyage across the last four hundred years in Britain by looking at its portrayal in art and literature, as well as civic commemorations. A website with more information will be launched soon; in the meantime, if you are interested, please do get in touch.
You can find me on Twitter and on academia.edu (where I host most of my blogs and other web features).
Teaching
My office hours are 11am-12pm on Wednesday (during term time)
I teach on the following courses:
HIS1002: Exploring History II - The Place of the Past in Britain, c. 1900-1950
HIS1005: History and Society
HIS2018: The Making of Contemporary Britain: 1914 to the present
HIS3077: Dissertation
HIS3128: Sin Cities? Everyday Life in the Modern Metropolis
MHY7035: Debates in History
MH7079: From Blitz to Blair: Exploring post war Britain
I can supervise undergraduate and postgraduate theses on modern British history and modern urban history (c. 1880-1960), especially on topics such as belonging and community, festivals and celebrations, historical re-enactment and pageantry, education and citizenship, and local government and governance.
Willingness to take PhD students
Yes
PhD projects
I am open to PhD applications in the fields of:
- Urban history from the late 19th to mid-20th century in Britain
- The nature of citizenship and belonging
- The place of the past, and especially of historical re-enactment
- Forthcoming
After the Shock City: Urban Culture and the Making of Modern Citizenship
Research output: Book/Report › Book
- Forthcoming
‘Historical pageants, neo-Romanticism, and the city in 1930s Britain’
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
- Forthcoming
New Approaches to Governance and Rule in Urban Europe since 1500
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Frequent Journals
Twentieth Century British History
ISSNs: 0955-2359
Additional searchable ISSN (Electronic): 1477-4674
Oxford University Press
Scopus rating (2017): CiteScore 0.93 SJR 1.07 SNIP 1.652
Journal
History of Education
ISSNs: 0046-760X
Additional searchable ISSN (Electronic): 1464-5130
Routledge
Scopus rating (2017): CiteScore 0.63 SJR 0.388 SNIP 1.024
Journal
Urban History
ISSNs: 0963-9268
Additional searchable ISSN (Electronic): 1469-8706
Cambridge University Press
Scopus rating (2017): CiteScore 0.48 SJR 0.358 SNIP 0.541
Journal
Journal of British Studies
ISSNs: 0021-9371
Additional searchable ISSN (Electronic): 1545-6986
University of Chicago
Scopus rating (2017): CiteScore 0.49 SJR 0.246 SNIP 1.276
Journal
Historical Research
ISSNs: 0950-3471
Additional searchable ISSN (Electronic): 1468-2281
Wiley-Blackwell
Scopus rating (2017): CiteScore 0.29 SJR 0.324 SNIP 0.644
Journal
Voyaging through History: the Meanings of the Mayflower, 1620-2020
Project: Research
Citizenship, modernity and the city: historical re-enactment in Chicago and Manchester in the 1920s and 1930s
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
The Public Historian (Journal)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review
Bloomsbury Academic (Publisher)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review
Contribution to conference papers, events and activities
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