Christopher Massey

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Dr. Christopher Massey researches in modern British history and politics and has worked at Teesside University since 2015.

His publications include the official biography of Lord Tom Sawyer, The Man at the Back in 2017, and a monograph published Manchester University Press in 2020 entitled The Modernisation of the Labour Party, 1979-97. His current project investigates the history of steel nationalisation within the Labour Party. Other research outputs have included articles on the Keir Starmer, the Militant Tendency, Labour Party Conference, and nationalisation, alongside the curation of an exhibition at the Middlesbrough Institute for Modern Art on the Life of Lord Tom Sawyer.

Dr. Massey has undertaken a wide variety of media engagements including expert comment for the BBC, Daily Express, Daily Mirror and Al Jazeera, party political content for ITV news and the Evening Gazette, and written content for the Conversation, the I, Fabian Review, LSE, and Northern Echo.

Experience

  • 2024–present
    Principal Lecturer (Learning & Teaching), Teesside University
  • 2021–2024
    Principal Lecturer - Humanities and Social Sciences, Teesside University
  • 2020–2021
    Senior Lecturer in History and Politics, Teesside University
  • 2018–2020
    Lecturer in Politics and History, Teesside University
  • 2015–2018
    Post-Doctoral Researcher, Teesside University

Publications

  • 2024
    In Defence of Steel, Labour History Review
  • 2021
    The Changing of the Praetorian Guard? The Size, Structure and Composition of the Labour Party's National Executive Committee, Political Quarterly
  • 2020
    The Modernisation of the Labour Party, 1979-97, Manchester University Press
  • 2020
    The Labour Party’s Inquiry into Liverpool District Labour Party, Contemporary British History
  • 2020
    A New Era? Keir Starmer’s Labour Leadership, Political Insight
  • 2017
    The Man at the Back: The Life and Journals of Lord Tom Sawyer, Teesside University

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