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Professor of History

Telephone : +44 020 8392 3033
Email : J.Tosh@roehampton.ac.uk
Department : Humanities
Office location : Howard 216

Qualifications

BA (Oxford), MA (Cambridge), PhD (London), FRHistS

Research Interests

Work is continuing on masculinity, emigration and imperialism in 19th century Britain. 

Membership of Professional Bodies

Member of steering committee, History at the Universities Defence Group (1997-2005); member of the History Subject Benchmarking Group (1998-99); Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society (1999-2002).

Teaching Interests

Historiography and historical method; late 19th and early 20th century British social history; the cultural constructions of empire in modern Britain; 'history from below' as a cultural and political practice.

Publications

[co-editor with Michael Roper] Manful Assertions: Masculinities in Britain since 1800, Routledge, 1991
A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England, Yale University Press, 1999; paperback with new Preface, 2007 
The Pursuit of History: Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of Modern History, 4th edition, Longman, 2006
co-editor with K. Hagemann & S. Dudink, Masculinities in Politics and War , Manchester UP, 2004 
Manliness and Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays on Gender, Family and Empire, Longman, 2005 
Why History Matters , Palgrave 2008, advocates the social relevance of history in a broadly based argument addressed to a more general audience.
Stefan Dudink, Karen Hagemann (2004) Masculinities in Politics and War: Gendering Modern History, Manchester University Press, 1-325.
(2003) Masculinity: Men defining Men, Part 2, 1800-1918, Microfilm collection, Marlborough: Adam Matthew, 23 reels.
(2001) Current issues in the history of masculinity, La costruzione dell’identità maschile nell’età moderna, ed. A. Arru (Biblink), 63-78.
(2001) Men in the domestic sphere: a neglected history, La costruzione dell’identità maschile nell’età moderna, ed. A. Arru (Biblink), 47-61.
(2002) Gentlemanly politeness and manly simplicity in Victorian England, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th series, 12, 455-72.