BA, PhD (UEA), MPhil (Cantab)

Research Fellow, History


Room: Helmore 317

Email: richard.carr@anglia.ac.uk

Telephone: 0845 196 2100
International: +44 1223 363271 ext 2100



Dr Richard Carr's research activity

Dr Richard Carr is a Research Fellow in History and a member of the Labour History Research Unit. His work has primarily focused on the impact of the First World War on interwar British politics, and particularly the Conservative Party during that period. His latest book, Veteran MPs and Conservative Politics in the Aftermath of the Great War, surveys the post-1918 careers of the 448 men who fought in the Great War and subsequently became Tory members of parliament. Articles related to this theme have appeared in Historical Research and Twentieth Century British History in recent years.

With Dr Bradley Hart, he is editing a volume - The Foundations of the British Conservative Party: Essays on Conservatism from Lord Salisbury to David Cameron - to be published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2013. The same collaboration recently produced an article on Old Etonian casualty rates during the Great War and post-war eugenics.

In 2010 he was a By-Fellow at the Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. As well as feeding into his published research, this work helped shape a public lecture on 'Why Tories Won' in November 2012. Previously he served as a post-doctoral lecturer in Modern British Diplomatic History at the University of East Anglia.

Away from academia, in 2012 he published the report Credit Where Credit's Due for the think tank Localis, which received praise from cross-party sources.

Areas of supervision

• modern British history
• British Conservative Party c. 1867 onwards
• impacts of the First World War
• eugenics and fascism in Britain between the wars
• the British Labour party after 1918

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