Publications
Books
Aristocracy, Democracy and Dictatorship: The Political Papers of the Seventh Marquess of Londonderry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2022)
Ireland and Partition: Contexts and Consequences (Clemson, SC: Clemson University Press, 2021) (with James H. Murphy)
Histories, Memories and Representations of Being Young in the First World War (Cham: Palgrave, 2020) (with Maggie Andrews and Marcus Morris)
Britannia’s Zealots, Volume I: Tradition, Empire and the Forging of the Conservative Right (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
Charles Stewart Parnell and His Times: A Bibliography (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Press 2011) (with Alan O'Day)
Ireland and Anglo-Irish Relations since 1800: Critical Essays (3 vols, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008) (with Alan O'Day)
The Longman Handbook of Modern Irish History since 1800 (London: Pearson, 2005) (with Alan O'Day)
The Marquess of Londonderry: Aristocracy, Power and Politics in Britain and Ireland (London: I.B. Tauris, 2005; revised edition, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024)
Articles
'Empire, Community, and the Limits of "Sea-Mindedness": The Navy League and Worcester, c. 1896–1914', Midland History, 48:3 (2023): 328–351
'Introduction: New Perspectives on Worcester since the Seventeenth Century', Midland History, 48:3 (2023): 263–270
'Paternalism, Conflict and Decline: The seventh Marquess of Londonderry and the Coal Industry, 1906–1947', Durham County Local History Society Journal, 87 (2023): 7–43
'Women and Lancashire Conservatism between the Wars', Women's History Review, 26:3 (2017): 329-349
'Lancashire Conservatives, Tariff Reform, and Indian Responsible Government', Contemporary British History, 30:2 (2016): 151-176
'Conquest, Empire and the Struggle for Supremacy', War in History, 23:2 (2016): 251-256
'The Imperial Maritime League: British Navalism, Conflict and the Radical Right, c. 1907-1920', War in History, 23.3 (2016): 296-322
'Diehard Conservatives and the Appeasement of Nazi Germany, 1935-1940', History: The Journal of the Historical Association, 100:341 (2015): 412-435
'Political Extremes and Extremist Politics', Political Studies Review, 12:3 (2014): 395-401
'Diehard Conservatism, Mass Democracy, and Indian Constitutional Reform, c. 1918-1935', Parliamentary History, 32:2 (2013): 337-360
'Cabinet Government, British Imperial Security, and the World Disarmament Conference, 1932-1934' War in History, 18:1 (2011): 62-84
"Incorrigibly Plural: New Histories of Ulster and Northern Ireland", Twentieth Century British History, 21:1 (2010): 110-117
'Echoes of Britannia: Television History, Empire and the Critical Public Sphere', Contemporary British History, 25:1 (2010): 1-22
'The Press, Empire and Historical Time: The Times and Indian Self-Government, c.1911-1947', Media History, 16:2 (2010): 183-198
'The First Government of Northern Ireland, Education Reform, and the Failure of Anti-Populist Unionism, 1921-1925', Twentieth Century British History, 18:2 (2007): 146-169
Chapters
‘The Government of India Act 1858’, in Chris Monaghan (ed.), Leading Works in the History of the Constitution (London: Routledge, 2025).
‘Women and the Conservative Monday Club’, in Ruth Davidson, Farah Hussain, Lyndsey Jenkins and Anna Muggeridge (eds), Women, Power and Politics in Britain, 1945–1997 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025).
‘Ulster Unionism and the Irish Convention, 1917–1918’, in Alan Parkinson and Brian M. Walker (eds), Ulster 1912–22: Change, Controversy, Conflict (Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation, 2024): 81-112.
‘Navalism and Masculinity before the First World War’, in Joanne Begiato, Karen Downing, and Johnathan Thayer (eds), Negotiating Masculinities and Modernity in the Maritime World, 1815–1940: A Sailor’s Progress? (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022): 245-265.
'The Conservative Right, Ulster Unionism, and the Partition of Ireland', in N.C. Fleming and James H. Murphy (eds), Ireland and Partition: Contexts and Consequences (Clemson, SC: Clemson University Press, 2021): 283-303.
'Introduction', in N.C. Fleming and James H. Murphy (eds), Ireland and Partition: Contexts and Consequences (Clemson, SC: Clemson University Press, 2021): 1-11.
‘The Navy League, the Rising Generation, and the First World War’, in Maggie Andrews, N.C. Fleming and Marcus Morris (eds), Histories, Memories and Representations of Being Young in the First World War (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020): 97-118.
'Education since the late eighteenth century', in Liam Kennedy and Phillip Ollerenshaw (eds), Ulster since 1600: Politics, Economy, and Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013): 211-227.
'Accommodation, conciliation and cooperation: a Gladstonian legacy', in D. George Boyce and Alan O'Day (eds), Gladstone and Ireland: Politics, Religion and Nationality in the Victorian Age (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010): 233-255 (with Alan O'Day).
'Gladstone and the Ulster Question', in D. George Boyce and Alan O'Day (eds), Gladstone and Ireland: Politics, Religion and Nationality in the Victorian Age (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010): 140-161.
'Leadership, the middle-classes and Ulster unionism since the late nineteenth century', in Fintan Lane (ed.), Politics, Society and the Middle Class in Modern Ireland (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2009): 212-229.
'Introduction’, in N.C. Fleming and Alan O’Day (eds), Ireland and Anglo-Irish Relations since 1800: Critical Essays, Volume III: From the Treaty to the Present (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008): xiii–xxv.
'Aristocratic appeasement: Lord Londonderry, Nazi Germany, and the promotion of Anglo-German misunderstanding', Cardiff Historical Papers, 4 (Cardiff: Cardiff University, 2007): 1-36.
'The landed elite, power, and Ulster Unionism', in D. George Boyce and Alan O’Day (eds), The Ulster Crisis, 1885-1921 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006): 86-104.
'Landlords, power and loyalism in late-Victorian Ulster', in Christine Kinealy and Roger Swift (eds), Politics and Power in Victorian Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006): 143-154.
'Old and new Unionism: The seventh Marquess of Londonderry, 1905-1921', in D. George Boyce and Alan O'Day (eds), Ireland in Transition, 1867-1921 (London: Routledge, 2004): 223-240.
'Lord Londonderry and Ulster politics', 1921-6, in Joost Augusteijn, Mary Ann Lyons and Deirdre McMahon (eds), Irish History: A Research Yearbook, 2 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003): 72-80.
Shorter articles
'The Church of England and Iraq's Assyrian Minority, c. 1920–1939', The British Institute for the Study of Iraq Newsletter, no. 41 (2024): 17–18.
‘Christianity, Empire and Humanitarianism: The Church of England and Iraq’s Assyrians in the 1920s and 1930s’, Monument of Fame: The Lambeth Palace Library Blog (24 May 2024).
‘Lord Londonderry and Sectarian Schooling in Northern Ireland’, History of Education Society Blog (13 May 24).
'Aristocracy, Democracy, and Dictatorship: Latest Camden Volume', Historical Transactions [Royal Historical Society] (20 Sept. 2022)
'History UK Research Impact Workshop 2019', History UK (13 Jan. 2020)
‘The Empire Strikes Back? The British Empire at the Movies’, Real History Magazine,1(2019), 12-13
'Dr Alan O'Day (1940-2017): Historian of Ireland', Perspectives on History: The Magazine of the American Historical Association, 55:9 (2017):46
'The rise of Women Conservatives in inter-war Lancashire', Conservative History Journal, 2:5 (2017): 12-16
'Conservatives, Patriotism and State Intervention: An Edwardian Inheritance', History & Policy (13 Oct. 2016)
'Brexit, the Commonwealth and the Problem of Imperial Nostalgia', History & Policy (8 July 2016)
'The Conservative Right, Europe and Anti-Americanism', History & Policy (22 April 2016)
'Sunday Blues: Conservatives, Religion and Party Identity', History & Policy (31 March 2016)
'Diehard Conservatives: Southern English or Four Nations?', Four Nations History Network Blog (26 Feb. 2016)
'Revolting Grassroots: Conservative Prime Ministers and the Party Membership', History Matters (10 Feb. 2016)
'Brexit Stage Right: Conservative Eurosceptic Campaigns', History Matters (5 Oct. 2015)
'Scaremonger or Patriot? Lionel Horton Smith and War with Germany', British Library Untold Lives Blog (1 Sept. 2015)
'Stanley Baldwin, The Times, and Indian self-government', Conservative History Journal, 2:2 (2013): 8-12
'Tory rebels: The inevitability of backbench revolts', History & Policy (31 May 2012)
'A change of mind? [part 2] Churchill on India', Memo: The Winston Churchill Memorial and Library in the United States, 33 (Winter, 2010): 10-13
'A change of mind? [part 1] Churchill on Ireland', Memo: The Winston Churchill Memorial and Library in the United States, 31 (Summer, 2009): 10-12
'Aristocratic rule? Ulster unionism and Northern Ireland', History Ireland, 15.6 (Nov./Dec., 2007): 26-31
'The Londonderry Herr: Lord Londonderry and the appeasement of Nazi Germany', History Ireland, 13.1 (Jan./Feb., 2005): 31-35
New Ireland, same old heroes, Fortnight, 405 (June 2002): 33
'Lord Londonderry and education reform in 1920s Northern Ireland', History Ireland, 9.1 (Spring, 2001): 36-39