Helen Graham (historian)
Helen Graham (born 1959) is a British historian. She is Professor Emeritus of Modern European History at the Department of History, Royal Holloway University of London. She co-wrote a standard reference work on Spanish cultural studies with Jo Lebanyi, and her introduction to the Spanish Civil War sold more than fifty thousand copies and was translated into five other languages.
Life
[edit]Helen Graham was born in Liverpool in 1959.[1] She earned a DPhil at Oxford. She has worked at the University of Southampton, New York University and most recently Royal Holloway University of London, where she is Professor Emeritus of Modern European History in the Department of History.[2][1]
Her research interests span the social and cultural history of 1930s and 1940s Spain, including the Spanish Civil War; Europe in the inter-war period (1918–1939); comparative civil wars; the social construction of state power in 1940s Spain; women under Francoism; comparative gender history. In 2017 she was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship to research Franco’s prisons between 1936 and 1976.[3]
Graham has work has been published widely, including in the Guardian, Independent on Sunday, History Today, BBC History, Literary Review and the London Review of Books.[4] She has written a number of books, including Spanish Cultural Studies with Jo Labanyi, published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in 1995, which became the standard reference work.[4] The 2005 OUP The Spanish Civil War. A Very Short Introduction sold more than 50,000 copies and was translated into Spanish, German, Portuguese, Greek and Turkish.[4]
Publications
[edit]| Book | Year | Type | Published | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The French and Spanish Popular Fronts: Comparative Perspectives | 1989 | Non-fiction | Cambridge U.P. | with Martin S. Alexander |
| Socialism and War. The Spanish Socialist Party in Power and Crisis 1936-1939 | 1991 | Non-fiction | Cambridge U.P. | |
| Spanish Cultural Studies. An Introduction | 1995 | Non-fiction | Oxford U.P. | with Jo Labanyi |
| Spain 1936. Resistance and revolution. The Flaws in the Front in Opposing Fascism | 1999 | Non-fiction | Cambridge U.P. | eds Tim Kirk & Anthony McElligott |
| The Spanish Republic at War, 1936–1939 | 2002 | Non-fiction | Cambridge U.P. | |
| The Spanish Civil War. A Very Short Introduction | 2005 | Non-fiction | Oxford U.P. | |
| "The memory of murder: mass killing, incarceration and the making of Francoism" | 2008 | Non-fiction | in War Memories, Memory Wars. Political Violence in Twentieth-Century Spain | |
| Interrogating Francoism: History and Dictatorship in Twentieth-Century Spain | 2016 | Non-fiction | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Paper | Year | Type | Published | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Against the State: a genealogy of the Barcelona May Days of 1937" | 1999 | European History Quarterly 29:4 (Oct. 1999) pp. 485–542 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "The War Before the Lights Went Out: An Interview with Helen Graham". The Volunteer. 6 March 2010. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
- ^ "ProfessorHelen Graham - Research - Royal Holloway, University of London". pure.rhul.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 20 December 2014. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
- ^ "Major Research Fellowships 2017". Leverhulme Trust. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
- ^ a b c "Helen Graham Profile". Conflict, Violence, and Terrorism Research Centre. Archived from the original on 7 December 2024. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
