J B Priestley and Englishness Journal article nearing completion on Priestley s conception of national identity, disputing current received opinions which identity him with an anti-industrial stereotype, and demonstrating his continuity with the provincial radical tradition. Imagining the Sixties Work is proceeding on a book co-written with Chris Pawling and Chris Goldie, dealing with constructions of 1960s Britain, both contemporary and retrospective, in a range of cultural texts and practices, and the ways in which these have been mobilised in subsequent historical moments. The Protectionist Movement in Britain , Two Hegemonies Conference, Windsor Great Park, 1997. The latter book has since been accepted for publication, while the former has been favourably refereed and awaits the response of Cambridge University Press syndics. Two edited volumes on war and medicine were also submitted for publication.
Research continues on aspects of war and medicine, and medicine and imperialism.
Papers Medicine and Orientalism in British India , Anglo-American Conference of Historians, Institute of Historical Research, London, July. Disease and the Limits of British Power in India , Conference on The New Military History of South Asia , Wolfson College Cambridge, July. Medicine and the Modernization of British Warfare , Scottish School of War Studies and Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Glasgow University, November. First, a study to test Alfred D Chandler Jnr's notion that Britain's business decline post 1870 can be explained in terms of the over-commitment to the personally managed firm. Our investigation questions Chandler's hypothesis that there is a positive relationship between size and efficiency.