Philip Murphy

Philip Murphy is Director of History & Policy at the Institute of Historical Research and Professor of British and Commonwealth History.

His research interests include twentieth-century British and Commonwealth history, including aspects of post-war British decolonization particularly in Africa, and post-war African politics, and the British monarchy and the post-war Commonwealth. He also has an interest in the Conservative party, rightwing politics in Britain, and the European colonial empires since the nineteenth century, as well as intelligence history, MI5 (the Security Service) in the colonial Empire, and the activities of the British, Commonwealth and US intelligence communities.