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Glen O'Hara

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Glen O'Hara (born 1974) is an academic historian, who also writes on politics for a number of publications in the United Kingdom. He is professor of modern and contemporary history at Oxford Brookes University.

Career

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O'Hara completed an undergraduate degree in history at Oxford University between 1993 and 1996, before completing a M.Sc. in Economic and Social History in 1996–1997, during which time he won the Eubule Thelwall Prize for history and the Gladstone Prize for history and politics.[1] Following graduation he briefly worked as a schoolteacher. From 1999 he studied for a PhD in history at University College London under the supervision of Professor Kathleen Burk; he graduated in 2002. In 2001 he was appointed lecturer in economic history at the University of Bristol, where he spent a year before moving to New College, Oxford as lecturer in modern history. In 2005 he moved to become a lecturer at Oxford Brookes, and was promoted to senior lecturer a year later. He became reader in the history of public policy in 2010 and professor of modern and contemporary history in 2013.[2]

Political work

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O'Hara writes on the subject of contemporary politics in the United Kingdom for The Guardian, The Independent, The New European and GQ magazine.[3][4][5][6]

In 2019 he was an advisor to the short lived centrist political party Change UK.[7] In a paper titled: 'What next for the Independent Group? Here's a winning manifesto', O'Hara argued for limited cuts to local government and more devolution coupled with greater focus on cooperative systems for managing public services, rather than full nationalisation. Alongside a 'Third Way' politics in the tradition of New Labour, O'Hara favoured a pro-EU position and the return of full living grants for poorer students to pursue academic study.[8] The party was dissolved later that year after it failed to win seats in local elections, the 2019 United Kingdom general election or the 2019 EU Parliament elections.

Books

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  • The Politics of Water in Post-War Britain (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2017).[9]
  • Governing Post-War Britain: The Paradoxes of Progress (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2012).[10]
  • Britain and the Sea since 1600 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010).[11]
  • Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800—2000 (edited with Tom Crook, London and New York: Routledge, 2011)[12]
  • From Dreams to Disillusionment: Economic and Social Planning in 1960s Britain (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007)[13]

References

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  1. ^ "Oxford Brookes University: Glen O'Hara". Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  2. ^ "Glen O'hara Profile". Linkedin. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  3. ^ "Glen O'hara Profile". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  4. ^ "Glen O'hara Profile". The Independent. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  5. ^ "Glen O'hara Profile". The New European. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  6. ^ "Glen O'hara Profile". GQ. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  7. ^ "Glen O'hara Profile". Twitter. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  8. ^ "What next for the Independent Group? Here's a winning manifesto". The Guardian. 21 February 2019. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  9. ^ Review of The Politics of Water in Post-War Britain:
  10. ^ Reviews of Governing Post-War Britain:
  11. ^ Reviews of Britain and the Sea since 1600:
  12. ^ Reviews of Statistics and the Public Sphere:
  13. ^ Reviews of From Dreams to Disillusionment: