I am a cultural historian of modern Spain in a transnational context who received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2023. Following this, I worked as a lecturer in history at the University of Chester before finding my way to Loughborough.
My research so far has focused on the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939, with a particular emphasis on the role of foreign fighters and their relationship to the people, places and politics of their host country. In addition to several articles, this research feeds into my recent monograph with Cambridge University Press entitled Making Antifascist War.
More broadly, I work on the cultural history of war including the role of children, gender, cross-cultural contact and frontline violence, with plans for a long-term project looking at wartime encounters in Cuba’s first war of independence of 1868 to 1878. In addition to turning towards an entangled nineteenth-century Atlantic, I have been working on a series of articles dealing with sexuality during Spain’s late-twentieth-century transition to democracy.
I teach a range of courses on British, Atlantic European and World history.
Monographs and edited volumes:
- Making Antifascist War: The International Brigades’ Transnational Encounters with Civil-War Spain, 1936 – 1939 (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
- Making Spanish Identities: A New Transnational History of Modern Spain, C. 1875-1975 (co-edited with Sophie Turbutt and Henry Brown) (Liverpool University Press, forthcoming)
Academic Articles:
- ‘The “Soldiers of Culture” and their “Little Comrades”: The International Brigades and the Children of Civil War Spain, 1936-9’, Contemporary European History, First View (2022), 1-15
- ‘“Emphatically Not Cricket”: British Eyewitness Testimonies of Revolutionary Catalonia, 1936’, International Journal of Iberian Studies, 35:2 (2022), 175-93
- 'Men of Clear Vision: Roy Watts, Fred Sykes, and the Spanish Civil War' (with Henry Brown), Leicestershire Transactions, (2020), 199-236
Book Reviews:
- Review for Arnau González i Vilalta, Josep Puigsech Farrás and Enric Ucelay-Da Cal (eds.), ‘Nuestro hombre en Barcelona: La mirada británica ante la España republicana y en guerra a través del cónsul Norman King (1936-1939)’, Granada: Comares, 2025. 254 pp. ISBN: 978-84-1369-879-3, Revista universitaria de historia military (forthcoming)
- Review for Tom Buchanan, ‘Spain Mad: British Engagement with the Spanish Civil War’, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2024. 256 pp. ISBN: 9781802074550, Hispanic Research Journal (forthcoming)
- Review for Jorge Marco, ‘Paradise in Hell: Alcohol and Drugs in the Spanish Civil War’, Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2024. 250 pp. ISBN 978-1-83772-111-5, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 102 (2025), 120-1