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Dr Henry Brown
(he/him)
BA MSt PhD
Lecturer in Modern European History
Research
I am interested in the intersection of war and culture in the twentieth century. My expertise is in the militarisation of antifascist politics in Interwar Europe and the resulting tensions and ambiguities between thought and action. My postgraduate research, which formed the basis of my first article in Contemporary European History, examined the growing ascendancy of military values within the Spanish anarchist movement during the Spanish Civil War (1936-9), despite its long history of antimilitarism. Following this line of enquiry further, my doctoral research explored the efforts of Spanish Republicans at creating an antifascist military culture within the Popular Army – a project which proved rich in ideological, material, and cultural contradictions. Since completing my doctorate, my research has moved into the Spanish Left’s efforts at constructing a counterhegemonic cultural landscape in twentieth-century Spain and the entanglement of these projects with attitudes to race, gender, community, and confessional practice.
Teaching
I am currently teaching a module on modern Jewish history (Jews, Europe and the World) and will be contributing to Making of the Modern World as well as the Dark Twentieth Century.
Biography
Henry Brown completed a BA in War Studies at King’s College London, graduating in 2017. Following an interlude teaching English in Madrid, he read for an MSt in the History of War at the University of Oxford (2019-20), researching a dissertation on the proliferation of martial values and symbols within the anarchist movement during the Spanish Civil War under the supervision of Professor Tom Buchanan. After being awarded a Lord Crewe Graduate Scholarship, he completed his probationary research year at Lincoln College, Oxford, before securing funding from the Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-east England (CHASE) to complete his doctoral research at the University of Kent (2021-24) under the supervision of Dr Mark Lawrence and Dr Mario Draper. He currently lectures in modern European history at Cardiff University and is a fellow of the Institute for Historical Research (IHR). He is a co-founder and co-convener of the Red Europea de la Historia Contemporánea Española (REHCE).
Professional memberships
- IHR Fellow (2024-5)
- British Research Council Fellowship - Kluge Center, Library of Congress (2023)
- Member of the Society for the History of War (SHOW)
- Member of the Association of Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (ASPHS).
Contact Details
Research themes
Specialisms
- 20th Century
- critical military studies
- Modern European History