Books and Articles

Review of Ben Hughes' They Shall Not Pass! in the IBMT newsletter, issue 30, Autumn 2011 [read it here]

Review of Hugo García's The Truth about Spain and profile of veteran David Lomon in the IBMT newsletter, issue 29, Spring 2011

Review of Gabriel Jackson's biography of Juan Negrín for The Volunteer, 28:1, March 2011 [read it here]

Review of Daniel Gray’s Homage to Caledonia in Family and Community History, 13:2, November 2010, pp.149-150

Antifascistas (with Jim Jump and Angela Jackson). London: Lawrence & Wishart, 2010

‘Laurie Lee in the International Brigades: Writer or fighter?’ and ‘Three Months in Spain: the British Battalion at Madrigueras and Jarama’ in Jim Jump, ed. Looking Back at The Spanish Civil War. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 2010

Review essay of Michael Petrou’s Renegades in The History Workshop Journal, 68, Autumn 2009, pp.251-259 [read it here]

British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War: The British Battalion in the International Brigades, 1936-1939. London: Routledge, 2004 (hardback) and Warren & Pell, 2007 (paperback) [buy it here]

‘El Batallón Británico de la XV Brigada Internacional,’ Ayer, 56, 2004, pp.165-194

Review of James Hopkins’ Into the Heart of the Fire: The British in the Spanish Civil War in The Journal of Contemporary Iberian History, 13:2, 2000, pp.125-127

'The Cambridge Group' and 'Computing and History', in Kelly Boyd, ed. The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing, London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999


Lectures and Conference Papers

'Cable Street: the road to Spain,' JEECS, Cable Street, London, 25 September & IBMT AGM, London, 1 October 2011

‘Three Months in Spain: The British Battalion at Madrigueras and Jarama,’ at:

  • Shankhill Library, Belfast, 28 July 2011
  • University of Portsmouth, 3 May 2011
  • IBMT AGM, Liverpool, 16 October, 2010
  • People's History Museum, Manchester, 7 August 2010
  • Len Crome Memorial Lecture, Imperial War Museum London, 13 February 2010

'Irish volunteers in the British Battalion,' Irish Labour History Society, Dublin, 21 M ay 2011

'British volunteers in the Spanish Civil War,' Foreign volunteers conference, University of Ottawa, 7 October, 2010

‘The Battle of Jarama,’ Charlie Donnelly Memorial Lecture, CAUM, Madrid, 26 February 2010

‘Myths of the International Brigades,’ Agonía Republicana, Trinity College, Dublin, 15 July 2009

‘British Jews in the International Brigades,’ Spiro Ark, London, 21 November 2007

‘The Spanish Legacy: Experiences of British Members of the International Brigades during the Second World War,’ GWACS War Without Limits conference, Bristol, 19 July 2006

‘Laurie Lee: writer or fighter?’ Len Crome Memorial Lecture, Imperial War Museum, London, 6 March 2004