Declan O'Reilly
London EC1Y 8LT England
Mob: 07404863181
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.declanoreilly.weebly.com
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I am a political and economic historian specialising in comparative international history and globalisation in the world economy since 1600. I have taught history widely at all levels, including Tsarist/Soviet economic history, post 1800 German political and cultural history, British political economic and social history from 1689, European cultural history and modernism, political theory, European economic history 1800-1945, imperial and post imperial history, the cold war and the history of London. At Cambridge and the LSE I studied the economic development of China and Japan and recently I have been developing a course on the economic history of India. In addition I have given conference and seminar papers on subjects as diverse as German business in the Third Reich, French Resistance in WW2, Black American Crime Dramas, German chemists in the Kaiserreich and American political and economic history post 1865. I have also taught international relations theory and international economic development. Finally, I have considerable experience of teaching and managing international students from all across the globe.
Education:
Current and Recent Conference Presentations
The Air Bridge, SOE and Secret War in Poland 1939-45: RAF Conference RAF Museum Hendon, September, 2023.
Eyes on the Prize: Nazi Tax Policy, ‘Cloaking’ and Big Business, the Case of IG Farben: Giving Credit to Dictatorship, Institute of Social Sciences University of Lisbon, Lisbon Portugal, November, 2022.
Making Germany Safe for American Business: IG Farben and the Politics of Deindustrializing Post War Germany. BHC Conference, Mexico City, 2022.
Logistics and Finance; SOE’s Secret war in Poland 1940-45, WW2 Conference, Polish Cultural Institute London, 2019.
Good Law, Bad Politics, the 1971 Industrial Relations Act, (Revised) Contemporary British History Seminar, KCL, 2019
SS Sturmbannführer Horst Kopkow and Post-war British Security Concerns. Early Cold War Conference, Kings College 2018.
Financing Secret War: SOE and Money 1940-45: Special Forces Club London, 2017/Institute for Historical Research, London 2018.
Conjuring Guns and Money from the Sky SOE and Logistics of Secret Warfare in Poland, the Balkans and France 1940-44, Institute for Historical Research London 2017
Good Law, Bad Politics, the 1971 Industrial Relations Act, University of Edinburgh Economic and Social History Seminar, October, 2017
Making Democracy Safe for Business: Ideology & Pragmatism on the Allied Breakup of IG Farben 1942-1949, TSA Democracy Conference University of Alaca de Hernes, Madrid Spain 2015
Seize & Squander: GAF and International Politics 1942-65, Economic History Society Conference Wolverhampton 2015
Interrogating the Gestapo, Horst Kopkow and Post War British Intelligence. Venice, 2014
A Gentleman at Crime; the Literary and Criminal Careers of Donald MacKenzie. Lincoln 2014
The Devils Chemists: IG Farben on Trial, Trans-Atlantic Studies Association Newcastle July 2013.
The Merchant U Boat and the Trans-Siberian Dye Express ,German Blockade Running in Two World Wars, The Trans Atlantic Studies Association Conference University of Cork, July 2012.
Of Money and Morals: Ideology and Pragmatism in the Kennedy Administration's Settlement of the GAF Question 1961-65. Memory &American Foreign Policy, Clinton Centre Conference, University College Dublin, April 2011.
Pearl Witherington’s War, Society For the study of French History: Fitzwilliam College Cambridge, July 2011
IG Farben and the Literature of Conspiracy, Conspiracy Theories Conference, York University, September 2011
Constructing Heroines, Women George Cross Winners and Post war British Consciousness: War and Memory Conference Santander, September 2011.
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Publications:
Monographs:
Makers of Modernity, Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2005
Articles:
Interrogating the Gestapo: Horst Kopkow, the Red Orchestra and Post-war British Intelligence; Journal of Intelligence History, September 2022
Of Money and Morals, Ideology and Pragmatism in the General Aniline and Film Settlement 1961-65, Journal of Economics & Development Studies, Vol 8, No. 4 2020
Vesting GAF Corporation: The Roosevelt Administration’s Decision to Americanise IG Farben’s American Affiliates in World War II, History And Technology, June 2006
Explorer & Excalibur, The Walter Boat and British Post-war Fast Submarine Policy: A Study in Failure? In Martin Edmonds (ed.) One Hundred years of the Trade, CD ISS (2001.)
Between the Nazi Hammer & the Allied Anvil: Cloaking IG Farben s Foreign Property 1938 - 1942. Ian Blanchard (Ed) New Directions in Social & Economic History, New Lees Press 1995.
Confronting the German Chemical Octopus, Burroughs Wellcome and the First World War, Chemical Heritage Spring 2004.
Fritz Haber, Nobel Prize-winner, Chemist, German and Jew; Science and Identity in Germany from the Kaiserreich to Hitler. Chemical Heritage Spring 2005.
Forthcoming
Special Operations Executive and Logistics in Poland,1940-44. In Waldemar Grabowski, ed. Poland and Great Britain in the Second World War, Polish Institute of History, Warsaw, 2023-4
Languages: German.
References:
Dr Michael Kandiah, King’s College, London, Bush House, 30 Aldwych London WC2B 4BG, 020 7848 7044, e-mail: [email protected]
Dr Sarah Mckenzie Academic Director INTO UEA London, 102 Middlesex Street, London E17EZ, 0207 059 4400. E-Mail: [email protected]
Prof. Glenn Burgess, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX, 01482 465 633 E-mail: [email protected]
Prof. Lord Peter Hennessey, The Department of History, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK. Tel: 020 7882 8350. Email: [email protected]
Prof. Ray Stokes University of Glasgow, 4 University Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8QQ. (44) 141 330 5186. E-mail: [email protected]
Awards received:
ESRC Studentship 1990-1991
British Academy Studentship 1991-1994
Ellen MacArthur Scholarship, University of Cambridge 1994-95.
DAAD Fellowship, Germany 1992-1993.
Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania 2003-2004
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London EC1Y 8LT England
Mob: 07404863181
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.declanoreilly.weebly.com
Current full CRB Check
I am a political and economic historian specialising in comparative international history and globalisation in the world economy since 1600. I have taught history widely at all levels, including Tsarist/Soviet economic history, post 1800 German political and cultural history, British political economic and social history from 1689, European cultural history and modernism, political theory, European economic history 1800-1945, imperial and post imperial history, the cold war and the history of London. At Cambridge and the LSE I studied the economic development of China and Japan and recently I have been developing a course on the economic history of India. In addition I have given conference and seminar papers on subjects as diverse as German business in the Third Reich, French Resistance in WW2, Black American Crime Dramas, German chemists in the Kaiserreich and American political and economic history post 1865. I have also taught international relations theory and international economic development. Finally, I have considerable experience of teaching and managing international students from all across the globe.
Education:
- 1991- 1997: Pembroke College Cambridge Ph.D. (International History)
- 1990 1991: London School of Economics MSc. (econ.) Economic History.
- 1987 1990: Goldsmiths College University of London BA (Social Science & Administration) 1st.
- 1992: Goethe Institute Berlin
- 1992 -1993: Member of Wirtschafts Kollequim, Free University Berlin
- 2007- 2008: Roehampton University, PG Cert HE.
- 2012-2012: BETC Level 3 Certificate in Management (INTO-UEA)
- 2022-2023: Newham Sixth Form College. (Teaching A level, 17th Century Britain and Medieval African Kingdoms.)
- 2021-2024: Visiting Senior Research Fellow (KCL).
- 2019-2021: Kings College London: (Teaching Fellow Contemporary British History and World Economic History.)
- 2019: Featherstone High School, London (Teacher in Politics and History.)
- 2018: Kings College, London University, Lecturer in History/Politics
- 2017: Dibden Academy School, London, (Lecturer in Politics/Sociology.)
- 2017 - 2018: Anglo-Educational Ltd London. (Lecturer in Modern British History)
- 2016: St Martha’s School Barnet, (Lecturer in Politics)
- 2015 - 2016: Historical Advisor VPRO Television Amsterdam (Assassination of Heydrich Project).
- 2013 - 2018: Editorial Board, British Journal for Military History (BJMH)
- 2013 - 2018: Private Tutor (History, Politics, Social Science)
- 2012-2019: Research Fellow University of East Anglia.
- 2011: Bucknell University, Lecturer in the History of London (Roman Times to the Present)
- 2010 - 2012: University of East Anglia (INTO) City University Graduate Diploma. Programme Manager/Lecturer in International Relations/International Politics.
- 2008: Researcher and oral history interviewer for Theme Traders history project.
- 2008-2010: Foundation for International Education, (International School) London – Lecturer in Globalisation and Modern British History 1689-2009
- 2007-2008: Roehampton University, Lecturer in Modern History, (Weimar Germany, Marxism, War & Social Change, 1914-1923, Making Europe Modern 1890-1900.)
- 2005-2007: Research Fellow Edelstein Centre, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
- 2006: University of Edinburgh, Visiting Lecturer in Modern (post 1945) British History.
- 2006: University of Hull, Lecturer in Economic History, (British/Russian economic history)
- 2005: Roehampton University, Associate Lecturer European history (Art, Culture and Society in Weimar Germany.)
- 2003 - 2004: Charles C. Price Fellow in Polymer History, Beckman Centre. Chemical
- 2003 - 2005: Michigan State University, (Summer Programme) Development of the Modern Medical System.
- 2001 - 2002: Birkbeck College, University of London: Lecturer, Modern British History 1700 -2000.
- 2000 - 2003: Research Fellow, Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London.
- 1999 - 2003: Senior Research Associate, Burroughs-Wellcome History Project. (Leader Prof. Roy Church: University of East Anglia.)
- 1998 - 1999: Middlesex University: Lecturer, Modern German History (Weimar and Nazism) MA Course.
- 1997- 1998: Queen Mary-Westfield College, University of London, Lecturer: British Social & Economic History 1750 1970 Social and Industrial History of Western Europe 1815-1945
- 1997: Research Assistant to Prof. Patrick O’Brien, Director Institute for Historical Research, School of Advanced Study London.
- 1996: Teaching British Social History: Cambridge Summer Schools, Michigan State University James Madison Programme.
- 1991- 1995: Supervising post 1870 British Social & Economic History at Pembroke College.
Current and Recent Conference Presentations
The Air Bridge, SOE and Secret War in Poland 1939-45: RAF Conference RAF Museum Hendon, September, 2023.
Eyes on the Prize: Nazi Tax Policy, ‘Cloaking’ and Big Business, the Case of IG Farben: Giving Credit to Dictatorship, Institute of Social Sciences University of Lisbon, Lisbon Portugal, November, 2022.
Making Germany Safe for American Business: IG Farben and the Politics of Deindustrializing Post War Germany. BHC Conference, Mexico City, 2022.
Logistics and Finance; SOE’s Secret war in Poland 1940-45, WW2 Conference, Polish Cultural Institute London, 2019.
Good Law, Bad Politics, the 1971 Industrial Relations Act, (Revised) Contemporary British History Seminar, KCL, 2019
SS Sturmbannführer Horst Kopkow and Post-war British Security Concerns. Early Cold War Conference, Kings College 2018.
Financing Secret War: SOE and Money 1940-45: Special Forces Club London, 2017/Institute for Historical Research, London 2018.
Conjuring Guns and Money from the Sky SOE and Logistics of Secret Warfare in Poland, the Balkans and France 1940-44, Institute for Historical Research London 2017
Good Law, Bad Politics, the 1971 Industrial Relations Act, University of Edinburgh Economic and Social History Seminar, October, 2017
Making Democracy Safe for Business: Ideology & Pragmatism on the Allied Breakup of IG Farben 1942-1949, TSA Democracy Conference University of Alaca de Hernes, Madrid Spain 2015
Seize & Squander: GAF and International Politics 1942-65, Economic History Society Conference Wolverhampton 2015
Interrogating the Gestapo, Horst Kopkow and Post War British Intelligence. Venice, 2014
A Gentleman at Crime; the Literary and Criminal Careers of Donald MacKenzie. Lincoln 2014
The Devils Chemists: IG Farben on Trial, Trans-Atlantic Studies Association Newcastle July 2013.
The Merchant U Boat and the Trans-Siberian Dye Express ,German Blockade Running in Two World Wars, The Trans Atlantic Studies Association Conference University of Cork, July 2012.
Of Money and Morals: Ideology and Pragmatism in the Kennedy Administration's Settlement of the GAF Question 1961-65. Memory &American Foreign Policy, Clinton Centre Conference, University College Dublin, April 2011.
Pearl Witherington’s War, Society For the study of French History: Fitzwilliam College Cambridge, July 2011
IG Farben and the Literature of Conspiracy, Conspiracy Theories Conference, York University, September 2011
Constructing Heroines, Women George Cross Winners and Post war British Consciousness: War and Memory Conference Santander, September 2011.
.
Publications:
Monographs:
Makers of Modernity, Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2005
Articles:
Interrogating the Gestapo: Horst Kopkow, the Red Orchestra and Post-war British Intelligence; Journal of Intelligence History, September 2022
Of Money and Morals, Ideology and Pragmatism in the General Aniline and Film Settlement 1961-65, Journal of Economics & Development Studies, Vol 8, No. 4 2020
Vesting GAF Corporation: The Roosevelt Administration’s Decision to Americanise IG Farben’s American Affiliates in World War II, History And Technology, June 2006
Explorer & Excalibur, The Walter Boat and British Post-war Fast Submarine Policy: A Study in Failure? In Martin Edmonds (ed.) One Hundred years of the Trade, CD ISS (2001.)
Between the Nazi Hammer & the Allied Anvil: Cloaking IG Farben s Foreign Property 1938 - 1942. Ian Blanchard (Ed) New Directions in Social & Economic History, New Lees Press 1995.
Confronting the German Chemical Octopus, Burroughs Wellcome and the First World War, Chemical Heritage Spring 2004.
Fritz Haber, Nobel Prize-winner, Chemist, German and Jew; Science and Identity in Germany from the Kaiserreich to Hitler. Chemical Heritage Spring 2005.
Forthcoming
Special Operations Executive and Logistics in Poland,1940-44. In Waldemar Grabowski, ed. Poland and Great Britain in the Second World War, Polish Institute of History, Warsaw, 2023-4
Languages: German.
References:
Dr Michael Kandiah, King’s College, London, Bush House, 30 Aldwych London WC2B 4BG, 020 7848 7044, e-mail: [email protected]
Dr Sarah Mckenzie Academic Director INTO UEA London, 102 Middlesex Street, London E17EZ, 0207 059 4400. E-Mail: [email protected]
Prof. Glenn Burgess, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX, 01482 465 633 E-mail: [email protected]
Prof. Lord Peter Hennessey, The Department of History, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK. Tel: 020 7882 8350. Email: [email protected]
Prof. Ray Stokes University of Glasgow, 4 University Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8QQ. (44) 141 330 5186. E-mail: [email protected]
Awards received:
ESRC Studentship 1990-1991
British Academy Studentship 1991-1994
Ellen MacArthur Scholarship, University of Cambridge 1994-95.
DAAD Fellowship, Germany 1992-1993.
Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania 2003-2004
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