Dr Adrian Gregory

Associate Professor of Modern History

Pembroke College

01865 (2)76471

adrian.gregory@history.ox.ac.uk

I studied history at Cambridge and I have been a lecturer and college tutor at Pembroke in Oxford since 1997.

Research Interests

In recent years my main research interest has been global religion in the era of the Great War and I was joint PI on a major AHRC project on this subject form 2015 to 2019. I remain generally interested in world history between 1900 and 1945 and in British history throughout the twentieth century. In the past I have published books and articles on various aspects of the First World War.

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A War of Peoples 1914-1919

A War of Peoples, 1914-1919 provides a new perspective on the First World War, offering a concise narrative of the war from the first military actions in July 1914 until the signing of the peace treaty by Germany in July 1919. Adrian Gregory considers the sources of information available to historians and the ways in which historians have written about the war for over fifty years.

The Last Great War: British Society and the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 2008)

What was it that the British people believed they were fighting for in 1914–18? This compelling history of the British home front during the First World War offers an entirely new account of how British society understood and endured the war. Drawing on official archives, memoirs, diaries and letters, Adrian Gregory sheds new light on the public reaction to the war, examining the role of propaganda and rumour in fostering patriotism and hatred of the enemy.

Britain's Great War

Historical adviser on Britain's Great War, presented by Jeremy Paxman in 2014

Dr Adrian Gregory

Featured Publication

A War of Peoples 1914-1919

The Last Great War: British Society and the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 2008)

In the Media

Britain's Great War

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