Dr Adrian Gregory

MA, Ph.D.
Lecturer (CUF) in Modern History

Pembroke College

Email: adrian.gregory@pmb.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests

Dr Gregory's research interests lie in twentieth century British and European History with special reference to the World Wars. He is currently working on the social and cultural history of the British Home Front from 1914 to 1919.

Selected Publications:

• The silence of memory: Armistice Day 1919-1946. (Oxford and Providence, 1994) 245pp.
• 'Commemorating the Battle' in The Burning Blue: A New History of the Battle of Britain. (London, 2000) pp. 217-228
• (ed.) Ireland and the Great War: 'A War to Unite us All'? . (Manchester, 2002) 1-7, 113-132pp.
• 'British War Enthusiasm: A reassesment' in Evidence, History and the Great War: Historians and the Impact of 1914-18. (Oxford, 2003) pp. 67-85
• 'Peculiarities of the English? War, Violence and Politics 1900-1939', Journal of Modern European History. Vol 1 (2003) pp. 44-58
• 'Military Service Tribunals: Civil Society in Action, 1916-1918' in Civil Society in British History. (Oxford, 2003) pp. 177-190
• 'A Clash of Cultures: The British Press and the Opening of the Great War' in A Call to Arms: Propaganda, Public Opinion, and Newspapers in the Great War. (Westport and London, 2004) pp. 15-49

Future Publications:

• 'Religious sites and practices' in Capital Cities at War. Vol II (Cambridge, 2006)
• 'The United Kingdom' in Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Great War. (2006)
• 'The Home' in Capital cties at War: London, Paris, Berlin. Vol II (Cambridge, 2006)
• 'Railway stations: gateways and termini' in Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919 (Volume 2: A Cultural History). Vol II (Cambridge, 2007) pp. 23-56, 315-353, 383-427

Research Interests and Activities

• Modern Britain and Europe