Dr Marc Collinson
Lecturer in Political History

- Article › Research › Not peer-reviewed
- Accepted/In press
Halifax's Political Pioneer: Dame Sara Barker, 1904-1973
Collinson, M., 12 May 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society. 32Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Responding to a Developing Industrial Tragedy: Douglas Houghton MP and Acre Mill, 1971-1974
Collinson, M., 30 Nov 2022, In: Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society. 30 (New Series)Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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‘More than an industrial boon’: Press coverage of Trawsfynydd power station’s construction, 1955-1965
Collinson, M., Oct 2022, In: The Local Historian. 52, 4, p. 359-363 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
- Article › Research › Peer-reviewed
- Published
A southern 'Smethwick'? The Eton and Slough constituency and the 1964 General Election
Collinson, M., 4 May 2024, In: Southern History. 45, p. 84-104Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A ‘fertile ground for poisonous doctrines’? Understanding far-right electoral appeal in the south Pennine textile belt, c.1967-19791
Collinson, M., 2 Apr 2020, In: Contemporary British History. 34, 2, p. 273-298 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Developing the Labour Party’s comprehensive secondary education policy, 1950-1965: Party activists as public intellectuals and policy entrepreneurs
Olsson-Rost, A. & Collinson, M., Oct 2022, In: British Journal of Educational Studies. 70, 5, p. 1-17Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Employing history: Enhancing ‘employability’ in BA history degrees with recorded video presentation assessments
Collinson, M. & Wiliam, M., 2021, In: Innovative Practice in Higher Education. 4, 2, p. 239-262 8.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Inevitable results and political myths? Ilford North’s 1978 by-election
Collinson, M., 2 Jun 2022, In: Parliamentary History. 41, 2, p. 323-341Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Liverpool’s renewed Liberalism: Britain’s third party in post-war Merseyside politics
Collinson, M., Sept 2022, In: Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. 171, 1, p. 9-21Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Loughborough ‘Mansfield Hosiery’ Strike, 1972: Deindustrialisation, Post-war Migration, and Press Interpretation
Collinson, M., Apr 2022, In: Midland HIstory. 47, 1, p. 77-95 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- E-pub ahead of print
“The most astonishing election result since the war”? Re-examining the Leyton By-election of 1965
Collinson, M., 3 Jan 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: The Historian.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Book/Film/Article review › Research › Not peer-reviewed
- Published
Review of Samantha Wolstencroft, The Progressive Alliance and the Rise of Labour, 1903-1922: Political Change in Industrial Britain (Cham, 2018).
Collinson, M., 1 Aug 2020, In: Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. 169Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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Review of Simon Peplow, Race and Riots in Thatcher's Britain
Collinson, M., 2019, In: Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. 168, p. 166-167Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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Review: Phil Child, The Labour Party, Housing, and Urban Transformation: In Place of Squalor
Collinson, M., 20 Dec 2024, In: Town Planning Review. 96, 1, p. 111-2 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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Review: Stephen Catterall and Keith Gildart, Keeping the Faith: A History of Northern Soul
Collinson, M., 30 Aug 2021, In: Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. 170, p. 179-181Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
- Literature review › Research › Peer-reviewed
- Published
Lancashire and the New Liberalism: A half-century retrospective
Collinson, M., Aug 2021, In: Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. 170, 1, p. 7-14Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review › peer-review
- Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary › Research › Not peer-reviewed
- Published
Barker, Sara Elizabeth (Dame)(1904-1973): Labour party official
Collinson, M., 5 Feb 2020, Dictionary of Labour Biography. Gildart, K. & Howell, D. (eds.). London, Vol. XV. p. 4-14 10 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
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JENKINS, ROY HARRIS Baron Jenkins of Hillhead (1920 - 2003), politician and author
Collinson, M., 10 Jul 2023, Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales (NLW)Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
- Published
ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM DAVID (1918-1985), 5th BARON HARLECH: politician, diplomat, media impresario
Collinson, M., 5 Dec 2022, Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales (NLW), 2 p. (Online).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
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Rees, Merlyn (Later Lord Merlyn-Rees) (1920-2006): politician
Collinson, M., 4 Apr 2023, Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales (NLW)Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
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Rogers, George Henry Roland (1906-1983): Labour MP and Spiritualist
Professor Keith Gildart & Collinson, M., 5 Feb 2020, Dictionary of Labour Biography. Gildart, K. & Howell, D. (eds.). London, Vol. XV. p. 209-220 11 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
- Paper › Research › Not peer-reviewed
- Published
'Carefully packed with liberal opinion'? Political tension, agenda politics, and developing an immigration policy in 1960s Britain’
Collinson, M., 4 Apr 2016.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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A Great Possibility Artist? Harold Wilson’s redefinition of Labour immigration policy, 1963-1966’
Collinson, M., 27 Mar 2018.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Immigrants or the Old Folks: The assumption of nationalized politics, the ‘Smethwick effect’, and the reality of demographic and local concerns during the Leyton by-election of 1965
Collinson, M., 31 Mar 2017.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Principle vs. Purchase: Deliberating immigration control within the British Labour party, 1962-1965'
Collinson, M., 7 Dec 2017.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper