Professor Marc Mulholland
Featured Publication
The Murderer of Warren Street: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Revolutionary
In December 1854, Emmanuel Barthélemy visited 73 Warren Street in the heart of radical London for the very last time. Within half an hour, two men were dead... This is the true story of one of nineteenth-century London's most notorious murderers and revolutionaries.
The newspapers of Victorian England were soon in a frenzy. Who was this foreigner come to British shores to slay two upstanding subjects? As Oxford historian, Marc Mulholland, has uncovered, Barthélemy was no ordinary criminal. Rather, here was a dedicated activist fighting for the cause of the oppressed worker.
Bourgeois Liberty and the Politics of Fear: From Absolutism to Neo-Conservatism (OUP Oxford, October 2012).
In 1842 Heinrich Heine, the German poet, wrote that the bourgeoisie, 'obsessed by a nightmare apprehension of disaster' and 'an instinctive dread of communism', were driven against their better instincts into tolerating absolutist government. Theirs was a 'politics motivated by fear'. Over the next 150 years, the middle classes were repeatedly accused of betraying liberty for fear of 'red revolution'.
Current DPhil Students
Teaching
I would like to hear from potential DPhil students or any potential Masters students looking at modern Irish history of socialism
I currently teach:
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Prelims |
FHS | Masters |
| History of the British Isles VI | Disciplines | Crisis of Union |
| History of the British Isles VII | Special Subject: Northern Ireland | |
| Historiography | Further Subject: Ireland | |
| General History IV | History of the British Isles: The Victorian Age | |
| Optional Subject: Rise and Crisis of European Socialisms | History of the British Isles: The Multi-Cultural Islands | |
| Optional Subkect: British Radicalism | General History: The European Twentieth Century |