Senior Lecturer, History;
Chairman, Better History Forum

Room: Hel 318

Email: sean.lang@anglia.ac.uk

Telephone: 0845 196 2035
International: +44 1223 363271 ext 2035

Dr Seán Lang is Senior Lecturer in History, specialising in the history of the British Empire. He did his PhD at Anglia Ruskin, focusing on the battle against maternal mortality in nineteenth-century British India, on which he has published. His interests in imperial history range widely, including the social history of empire, imperialism in popular and children's literature, and decolonisation. Seán has also published on nineteenth-century British political history and he is developing his research interests in the development of British constitutional identity from the sixteenth century onwards.

Seán's career spans different sectors of education. He worked for many years in schools and colleges in Cambridge, including nine years as Head of History at Hills Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge. He was also Lecturer in Education at Exeter University for four years. He is Honorary Secretary of the Historical Association and has acted as adviser both to Government and to Opposition, as well as the Council of Europe, on issues related to history and history education. In 2005 he chaired the group that produced the Historical Association's important report on 'History 14-19'. He regularly speaks on matters relating to history on Radio 5 Live and on local radio. He has written textbooks and is joint editor of Twentieth Century History Review for which he writes regularly. He has written three works of popular history in the 'for Dummies' series.

Dr Sean Lang is currently chair of The Better History Group; a small Think Tank of experienced history teachers and lecturers concerned to improve the current position and quality of history in the school curriculum:

Research interests:

• The British Empire, particularly British India Medicine
• Imperialism History in the school curriculum

Dr Lang is currently researching the British crown and India from Queen Victoria to George V and the 'Hitlerisation' of the school history curriculum in England, and in April 2011 he was interviewed by The Daily Telegraph about David Cameron's attitude to imperial Britain.

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