Dr John Davis

Lecturer (CUF) in Modern History

The Queen's College

Email: john.davis@queens.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests

Dr Davis works on modern London: initially on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but now on the post 1945 period. His recent work has been on race and housing, on anti-motorway protests and on 'failing schools' in the 1960s and 1970s. He has also carried out comparative research recently on London and Berlin, concentrating on squatters and the early women's movement in the two cities.

Selected Publications:

• Reforming London. The London Government Problem, 1855-1900. (Oxford, 1988)
• 'Radical Clubs and London Politics, 1870-1900' in Metropolis London. (1989)
• 'Slums and the Vote, 1867-1900', Historical Research. (1991)
• 'The Borough franchise after 1867', Historical Research. Vol 69 (1996) pp. 306-327
• 'Modern London, 1850-1939' in Capital Histories: A Bibliographical Study of London. (1998) pp. 64-100
• A History of Britain, 1885-1939. (Basingstoke, 1999) 242pp.
• 'Modern London' in The English Urban Landscape. (Oxford, 1999) pp. 125-150
• 'Central Government and the Towns' in The Cambridge Urban History of Britain. Vol 3, 1840-1950 (Cambridge, 2000) pp. 261-286
• ''Rents and Race in 1960s London. New Light on Rachmanism'', Twentieth Century British History. Vol 12(1) (2001) pp. 69-92
• 'London Government 1850-1920: the Metropolitan Board of Works and the London County Council', London Journal. Vol 26 (2001) pp. 47-56
• 'The Inner London Education Authority and the William Tyndale Junior School Affair, 1974-1976', Oxford Review of Education. Vol 28 (2002) pp. 275-298
• ''Simple Solutions to Complex Problems': The Greater London Council and the Greater London Development Plan, 1965-1973' in Civil Society in British History. Ideas, Identities, Institutions.. (Oxford, 2003) pp. 249-274
• 'From GLC to GLA: London Politics from Then to Now' in London From Punk to Blair. (London, 2003) pp. 109-116
• 'Sir Horace Walter Cutler' in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford, 2004)
• 'The London Drug Scene and the Making of Drug Policy, 1965-1973', Twentieth Century British History. Vol 17 (1) (2006) pp. 26-49
• 'Beatrice, Baroness Serota (1919-2002)' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. (Oxford, 2006) pp. www.oxforddnb.comviewarticle77350

Future Publications:

• 'The Urban Poor and the Franchise Factor' in The Political Culture of Modern Britain: Essays in Memory of Colin Matthew. (Oxford, 2006)
• 'The Government of London' in Debating Nationhood and Government in Britain, 1885-1939: Britishness, Devolution and the Language of Nationalism in Wales,Ireland and Scotland. (Manchester, 2006)
• 'Macmillan's Martyr. The Pilgrim Case and the Tory Housing Drive, 1951-9', Planning Perspectives. Vol 21 (2006)
• 'Joseph Firth Bottomley Firth (1842-1889)' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. (Oxford, 2006)
• 'John Lloyd (1833-1915)' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. (Oxford, 2006)

Research Interests and Activities

• Modern Britain and Europe