Professor Clare Griffiths
Professor of Modern History, Head of History
- griffithscvj@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 5498
- 4.35, John Percival Building, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Biography
Publications
2020
- Griffiths, C. 2020. Broken promises and the remaking of political trust: Debating reconstruction in Britain during the Second World War. In: Thackeray, D. and Toye, R. eds. Electoral Pledges in Britain since 1918: The Politics of Promises. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 95-116., (10.1007/978-3-030-46663-3)
2018
- Griffiths, C. 2018. The politics of neighbourliness: social democracy on the home front in Britain during the Second World War. In: Schattle, H. and Nuttall, J. eds. Making Social Democrats: Citizens, Mindsets, Realities: Essays for David Marquand. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 177-193., (10.7228/manchester/9781526120304.001.0001)
- Griffiths, C. 2018. From 'Dorchester Labourers' to 'Tolpuddle Martyrs': celebrating radicalism in the English countryside. In: Outram, Q. and Laybourn, K. eds. Secular Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland: From Peterloo to the Present. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 59-84.
2017
- Griffiths, C. 2017. The future of village life: welfare, planning and the role of government in rural Britain between the wars. In: Van de Grift, L. and Ribi Forclaz, A. eds. Governing the Rural in Interwar Europe. Routledge Studies in Modern European History Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 93-114.
2016
- Griffiths, C. V. J. 2016. ‘A good walk spoiled’? Golfers and the experience of landscape during the late nineteenth century. In: Bryant, C., Burns, A. and Readman, P. eds. Walking Histories, 1800-1914. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 195-217.
- Griffiths, C. V. J. 2016. Labour can and will make a land fit for heroes to live in. In: Roudaut, E. ed. Affiches politiques britanniques du premier XXe siècle / Early twentieth-century British political posters. Roudaut, E. Paris: Editions mare et martin, pp. 148-153.
- Griffiths, C. 2016. Cobbett's rural rides, politics and Englishness. Cobbett's New Register 11, pp. 31-39.
- Griffiths, C. V. J. 2016. The land needs Labour. In: Roudaut, E. ed. Affiches politiques britanniques du premier XXe siècle / Early twentieth-century British political posters. Roudaut, E. Paris: Editions mare et martin, pp. 154-161.
2015
- Griffiths, C. V. J. 2015. Rural riding: revisiting Cobbett’s countryside in the twentieth century. In: Grande, J. and Stevenson, J. eds. William Cobbett, Romanticism and the Enlightenment: contexts and legacy. London: Pickering and Chatto, pp. 137-156.
- Meek, J., Browning, J., Caseldine, A. E., Forward, A., Griffiths, C. J. and Harris, O. 2015. Investigations at the deserted medieval village at St Ishmael, Carmarthenshire. Archaeology in Wales 54, pp. 91-108.
2012
- Griffiths, C. 2012. Making farming pay: agricultural crisis and the politics of the national interest. In: Sherpherd, J., Davis, J. and Wrigley, C. eds. The Second Labour Government: a reappraisal. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 133-149.
- Griffiths, C. V. J. 2012. Heroes of the reconstruction? Images of British farmers in war and peace. In: Brassley, P., Segers, Y. and Molle, L. V. eds. War, Agriculture, and Food: Rural Europe from the 1930s to the 1950s. Routledge Studies in Modern European History Vol. 18. Routledge, pp. 209-228.
2011
- Griffiths, C. 2011. Farming for the New Britain: images of farmers in war and peace. Rural History Today 21, pp. 4-5.
- Griffiths, C. V. J., Nott, J. J. and Whyte, W. eds. 2011. Classes, cultures and politics: Essays on British history for Ross McKibbin. Oxford University Press.
2010
- Griffiths, C. 2010. Socialism and the land question: public ownership and control in Labour party policy, 1918-1950s. In: Cragoe, M. and Readman, P. eds. The Land Question in Britain, 1750-1950. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 237-256.
2008
- Griffiths, C. V. J. 2008. Savoir gérer un parti: organisation et professionnalisation du parti travailliste britannique des années 1920 aux années 1940. Politix 2008/1(81), pp. 61-80.
2007
- Griffiths, C. V. J. 2007. Labour and the countryside: The politics of rural Britain 1918-1939. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1999
- Griffiths, C. V. J. 1999. G.D.H. Cole and William Cobbett. Rural History 10(1), pp. 91-104. (10.1017/S0956793300001709)
1997
- Griffiths, C. V. J. 1997. Remembering Tolpuddle: rural history and commemoration in the inter-war labour movement. History Workshop Journal 44, pp. 145-169. (10.1093/hwj/1997.44.145)
Teaching
Main teaching areas:
- 19th and 20th century British political, social and cultural history; modern historiography; home front and reconstruction policy during the Second World War; literature and the arts, especially c1900-c1960; 19th and 20th century rural history; national identities; history and commemoration; historical fiction; historical writing.
At Undergraduate level, I offer a second-year module on ‘Urban Visions, Rural Dreams: city and country in Britain and the United States, 1850-2000’, and a third-year module on ‘The Arts in War and Peace: culture and politics in Britain, c.1930-1960’. I also contribute to the first-year modules History in Practice, The Making of the Modern World, and Inventing a Nation, and supervise independent research projects on modern history topics for the second-year module Exploring Historical Debate, and the third-year Dissertation. I teach on our MA programme, contributing to the modules on modern history, and supervising dissertations.
Research supervision:
I welcome enquiries about doctoral research in any of these areas, and particularly: the history of the Labour party and trade unionism in the 20th century; rural politics and policy; agricultural history and the history of food; landscape and identity; the history of the modern countryside; social, cultural and political history of Britain during the Second World War; reading, writing and publishing c.1900-1960; 20th century visual culture and art history.