Dr Aled Davies

Research Interests

My research focuses on the political and economic history of modern Britain. I am particularly interested in the alleged transition from social democracy to neoliberalism in the final third of the twentieth century. 

Publications

The City of London and Social Democracy: the political economy of finance in Britain, 1959–1979 (Oxford University Press: 2017)

The Neoliberal Age? Britain since the 1970s (UCL Press, 2021) [edited with Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite & Ben Jackson]

‘Right to Buy: the development of a Conservative housing policy, 1945–80’, Contemporary British History, 27:4 (2013), 421–44

‘‘Everyman a Capitalist’ or ‘Free to Choose’? Exploring the tensions within Thatcherite Individualism’, Historical Journal, 61:2 (2018), 477–501. [with Hugh Pemberton & James Freeman]

‘Pension Funds and the Politics of Ownership in Britain, c. 1970–86’, Twentieth Century British History, 30:1 (2019), 81–107

‘Fiscal Promises: Tax and spending in British general elections since 1964’ in Richard Toye & David Thackeray (eds.), Electoral Pledges in Britain since 1918: The Politics of Promises, (Palgrave, 2020) [with Peter Sloman]

Teaching

Prelims

BIP 6: History of the British Isles, 1830-1951

EWH 4: Society, Nation and Empire, 1815-1914

Optional Subject: 1919: Remaking the World

Approaches to History

Final Honours School

BIF 6: Power, Politics and the People, 1815-1924 

BIF 7: Changing identities, 1900-present

EWF 13: Europe Divided, 1914-1989

EWF 14: The Global Twentieth Century, 1930-2003

Disciplines of History