Faculty Postholders
Dr William Whyte
MA MSt DPhil FRHistS
Lecturer (CUF) in History
Email: william.whyte@sjc.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests
My research focuses on Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and more particularly on the history of architecture, education, and religion. Currently I am working on the development of Britain's civic universities; on the relationship between architecture and identity; and on the history of Oxford University Press.
Supervision Interests
I would be very happy to discuss research proposals on British history in the last two hundred years, and would be particularly pleased to see any that closely relate to my own research interests.
Selected Publications:
- 'Building a Public School Community, 1860-1910', History of Education. Vol 32 Number 6 (2003) pp. 601-26
- 'The Intellectual Aristocracy Revisited', Journal of Victorian Culture. Vol 10 (1) (2005) pp. 15-45
- Oxford Jackson: Architecture, Education, Status, and Style 1835-1924. (Oxford, 2006) 268pp.
- 'How do Buildings Mean? Some Issues of Interpretation in the History of Architecture', History and Theory. Vol 45(2) (2006) pp. 153-177
- '"Redbrick's Unlovely Quadrangles": Reinterpreting the Architecture of the Civic Universities', History of Universities. Vol 21 (1) (2006) pp. 151-177
- (ed.) Redefining Christian Britain: post 1945 perspectives . (London, 2007) 308pp.
- 'The Modernist Moment at the University of Leeds, 1957-1977', Historical Journal. Vol 51 (2008) pp. 169-193
- 'The Englishness of English Architecture: modernism and the making of a national International Style, 1927-1957', Journal of British Studies. Vol 48 (2009) pp. 441-465
- 'Restoration and Recrimination: the Temple Church in the nineteenth century' in The Temple Church in London: history, art and architecture. (Woodbridge, 2010) pp. 195-210
- '‘Exceedingly difficult to follow’:the reception of the Berlin competition at 1910 London Conference', Informationen zur modernen Stadtgeschichte. (2010) pp. 28-41
Future Publications:
- 'Modernism, Modernization, and Europeanization in West African Architecture, 1944-1994 ' in Europeanization in the Twentieth Century: Historical Approaches . (Basingstoke, 2010)
- '`The 1910 Royal Institute of British Architects Conference: a focus for international town planning?', Urban History. Vol 37 (2010)
- 'Sacred Space as Sacred Text: church and chapel building in Victorian Britain' in Sacred Text-Sacred Space. (Leiden, 2010)
- (ed.) Classes, Cultures, and Politics: essays for Ross McKibbin . (Oxford, 2011)
- (ed.) Nationalism and the Transformation of Urban Communities 1848-1924 . (London, 2011)
- 'Intellectuals: The Antinomies of Sage Culture' in The Victorian World . (London, 2011)
- (ed.) The Established Church: Past, Present and Future . (London, 2011)
- 'The Clarendon Press,1895-1945' in The History of Oxford University Press, vol. iv: the twentieth century. (Oxford, 2012)
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