The Leverhulme Trust British Press in WW2 Project

Project Team

Dr Sian Nicholas, MA (Cantab), MA (Chapel HIll), DPhil (Oxon), FRHistS, is Principal Investigator on the Leverhulme Trust British Press in WW2 Project.  She is a Senior Lecturer in History at Aberystwyth University, and Co-Director of the Aberystwyth Centre for Media History.  She is a Life Member of the International Association of Media and History (IAMHIST) and an Honorary Associate of the Centre For Media History, Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia.  She was formerly co-editor and now sits on the Advisory Board of the journal Twentieth Century British History.  Her research interests focus on the British mass media, national culture and identity, and the home front experience of the the First and Second World Wars.  She is the author of  The Echo of War: Home Front Propaganda and the Wartime BBC (MUP, 1996), and most recently co-editor (with Tom O'Malley) of Moral Panics, Social Fears and the Media: Historical Perspectives (Routledge, 2013).

 BA (Hons) (Birmingham), PhD (Glamorgan), is Co-Investigator on the Leverhulme Trust British Press in WW2 Project. He is Professor Emeritus of Media Studies at Aberystwyth University, having taught previously at the University of East London and the University of Glamorgan. He is co-founder and co-editor of the journal Media History, and is on the Editorial Board of Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media.  He is Co-Director of the Centre for Media History, Aberystwyth University, and is a Life Member of the International Association of Media and History (IAMHIST) and an Honorary Associate of the Centre For Media History, Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia.  He is a member of the National Council of the Campaign For Press and Broadcasting Freedom and has submitted evidence on media policy to the UK and Welsh governments.. His current and on-going research interests are in the areas of media history in the UK, press history, media policy in the UK, the history of ideas about the media, and the media in Wales.

Dr Marc Wiggam, BA (Hons) (Cardiff), MA (Cardiff), PhD (Exeter), is Research Assistant on the Leverhulme Trust British Press in WW2 Project.  He is a Research Associate in the Department of History and Welsh History, Aberystwyth University.  His research interests include the communication of war through mass media, and civil defence in Britain and Germany during the Second World War. His doctoral research, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, was a comparative study of the social and political effects of the blackout in Britain and Germany during the war.

 

 

Ms Caroline Dale is a PhD student in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, funded by the Leverhulme Trust British Press in WW2 Project.  Before joining the project team she attended Swansea University where she studied History and Italian, followed by an MA in Imperial and Maritime History.  Her research interests are in the social history of the Second World War, in particular its impact on the family.  Her PhD research addresses the social function of newspapers in Britain during the war, with particular focus on representations of the family unit and on the presentation of wartime and post-war social policy, including evacuation and the Beveridge Report, through the pages of the wartime popular press.

 

Mr Kris Lovell is a PhD student in the Department of History and Welsh History, Aberystwyth University, funded by the Leverhulme Trust British Press in WW2 Project.  Before starting his PhD Kris studied for a BA in History followed by an MA in Modern European Political Culture at Aberystwyth. His research interests are in working-class political cultures and in the concept of hero-worship in history. His PhD research addresses how popular newspapers in Britain during the war interacted with the government and a range of political milieux through political reportage and through its own agenda-setting.