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Harry Bennett Harry Bennett
Role Qualifications & background BA first class hons hist. Loughborough 1989 - PhD Leicester 1993 Professional membership Roles on external bodies
I am one of the trustees of the museum and collections Britannia Royal Naval College. Teaching interests See publications Staff serving as external examiners Research interests Other research Research degrees awarded to supervised students I am currently supervising four research students. I have supervised three Ph.D. students to completion. I have acted as examiner to several others. Grants & contracts Research Grants, Contracts
The research for my first book was supported by a British Academy grant worth £6,000.
2002 - Travel grant by the British Association for American Studies (£250)
2003 - British Academy Small Grant (£1,388) to undertake research in the USA 2003 - Grant (£1,498) from the American Government to set up a research collection on D-Day at the University of Plymouth
Creative practice & artistic projects Publications Books and Book Chapters
Hunting Tirpitz: Royal Navy Operations against Bismarck's Sister Ship, University of Plymouth Press, Plymouth, 2012. G.H. Bennett, The Nazi, The Painter and the Forgotten Story of the SS Road, Reaktion, London, 2012. [ed.] Raiding Support Regiment: A Memoir, University of Plymouth Press, Plymouth, 2011. The RAF's French Foreign Legion: De Gaulle, the British and the Re-Emergence of French Air Power 1940-45, Continuum, 2011. British Naval Aviation in World War II, IB Tauris, London, 2007 Survivors: British Merchant Seamen in the Second World War, Continuum, London, 2007. Destination Normandy: Three American Regiments in Normandy, Praeger, Westport (CT), 2006. (with Dr. R. Bennett, Reader Emeritus, Derby University) Hitler’s Admirals, United States Naval Institute Press, Annapolis (M.D.), 2004 . Roosevelt’s Peacetime Administrations 1933-41: A Documentary History of the New Deal Years, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2004. ‘Women and the Battle of the Atlantic 1939-1945: contemporary texts, propaganda and life writing’ in Gender and Warfare in the Twentieth Century: Textual Representations, ed. Angela Smith Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2004. pp.111-131. ‘Lord Carrington’ in British Foreign Secretaries since 1974, ed. Professor Kevin Theakston, Routledge, London and New York, 2004. pp.115-138. Amerika Presidendid 1945-2000: Hiilguse Illusioonid, Kunst, Tallinn, 2004. An American Regiment in Devon: The 116th Infantry Regiment, Omaha Beach and the Photography of Olin Dows, Flash-Thunder Press, Devon, 2003. ‘British Foreign Policy 1900-1939’ in A Companion to the Twentieth Century, ed. Professor Chris Wrigley, Blackwells, Oxford, 2002. pp.152-166. The American Presidency 1945-2000 - Illusions of Grandeur, Sutton, Stroud and New York, 2000. (with Dr. Marion Gibson, Lecturer in English Literature, Exeter University), The Later Life of Lord Curzon of Kedleston - Aristocrat, Writer, Politician, Statesman - An Experiment In Political Biography, Edwin Mellen Press, New York, 2000. (with Dr. R. Bennett, Reader Emeritus, Derby-Lonsdale College/Derby University), Survivors: British Merchant Seamen in the Second World War, Hambledon, London and Rio Grande, 1999. The Place of the Foreign Secretary in the Making of British Foreign Policy After the First World War, Plymouth International Papers, Plymouth, 1998. ‘Asquith’, pp.113-126 in Kelly, R., and Cantrell, J., Modern British Statesman 1867-1945, Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York, 1997. British Foreign Policy During the Curzon Period, 1919-24, Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1995.
Articles in Refereed Journals (most recent first) G. H. Bennett, 'Exploring the World of the Second and Third Tier Men in the Holocaust: The Interrogation of Friedrich Jeckeln: Engineer and Executioner', Liverpool Law Review, volume 32, number 1, pp.1-18.
‘“Goodbye Mr President”: Presidential Libraries in the United States’, European Journal of American Culture, Volume 22, Number 1, 2003. pp.23-36.
(with R. Bennett) ‘Innovation in the Safety of Life at Sea During the 2nd World War: the Hiker Lifeboat’, South West Soundings, No.49, October 2000. pp.38-39.
‘Lloyd George, Curzon and the Control of British Foreign Policy 1919-1922’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol.45, No.4, December 1999. pp.467-482.
‘The Significance of the 1927 Bosworth By-Election’, Leicestershire Historian, vol 4, No.5. 1997. pp.13-18.
‘The Northampton Labour Party and the Abyssinian Crisis of 1935: The Resignation of Cecil L’Estrange Malone’, Northamptonshire Past and Present, vol. ix, No.3, 1996-97, pp.287-291.
‘Lord Curzon of Kedleston: “Easily misunderstood” and “Easily misrepresented”, The Historian, No. 49, 1996. pp.17-19.
‘”Part of the Puzzle”: Northampton and other Midlands By-Election Defeats for the Conservatives, 1927-29’, Midland History, volXX, 1995. pp.151-173.
‘Healing a Continent? Britain and European Reconstruction 1919-24’, Modern History Review, November 1994. pp.26-28.
‘Britain’s Relations with France After Versailles: The Problem of Tangier, 1919-23’, European History Quarterly, vol.24, 1994. pp.53-84.
‘The Wartime Political Truce and Hopes for Post War Coalition: The West Derbyshire By-election, 1944’, Midland History, vol.XVII, 1992.
Reviews (sample)
Review of Martin Folly, The United States and World War II, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2002. European Journal of American Culture, Volume 22, Number 1, 2003.
Review of Christopher Hewitt, Understanding Terrorism in America: From the Klan to Al Qaeda, London and New York, Routledge, 2002. , European Journal of American Culture, Volume 22, Number 1, 2003. pp.23-36.
Review of Michael Dockrill’s and John Fisher’s The Paris Peace Conference, 1919: Peace Without Victory?, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. In The International History Review, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, vol.XXIV, No.3 September 2002. pp.676-7.
Review of Elspeth Y. O’Riordan’s Britain and the Ruhr Crisis, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. In The International History Review, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, vol.XXIV, No.1 March 2002. p.167.
Other Publications
'The French Few of RAF Fighter Command', BBC History Magazine, Second World War Special, BBC, Bristol, 2010. pp.62-63. Separate articles on Sir Samuel Hoare, Sir J. Austen Chamberlain and the Peace Treaties 1919-1923 in The Reader’s Guide to British History, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, New York, 2003 .
Contributer and Consultant to Plymouth: A People’s History, Plymouth Evening Herald, Plymouth, 1999.
Separate articles on Lord Curzon of Kedleston, and the Locarno Pact (1925) in Leventhal, F.M., [ed.] Twentieth Century Britain: An Encyclopedia, Garland, New York, 1995. Reports & invited lectures The Historical Association - Plymouth Branch - De Gaulle's Sky Pirates: The RAF and the Free French 1940-45, March 2012 The Forgotten Nazi: A Film in a Devon Church and the German Empire in the East, Devon History Society, October 2011. Harvard Coop Bookstore, Cambridge Massachusetts, October 2000 – ‘The Presidency and its ills’
Maritime Studies Seminar, Exeter University, June 2000 – ‘The British Government and the Survival of British Merchant Mariners 1939-45’
Kings College London, January 2000 – ‘The British Government and Shipwrecked Merchant Mariners’
The Historical Association – Plymouth Branch, May 2002 – ‘Presidential Libraries in the United States’
The Historical Association – Exeter Branch, May 2002 – ‘Presidential Libraries in the United States’ Conferences organised NIL Additional information Links |
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