BOOKS
- Socialism, Education and Equal Opportunity: The contemporary legacy of Anthony Crosland (Palgrave, forthcoming).
- Debating Anarchism: A history of action, ideas and movements (Bloomsbury, 2021).
- British Universities in the Brexit Moment (Emerald, 2018). THE review here.
- The Coalition Effect, 2010-2015 (edited with Anthony Seldon, Cambridge University Press, 2015). FT review here.
- The Gove Legacy: Education in Britain after the Coalition (edited, Palgrave Pivot, 2015). Schools Week Education Book of the Year 2015.
ACADEMIC JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
- ‘The never-ending crisis in British higher education’ in Torsten Geelan, Marco Gonzalez-Hernando, and Peter William Walsh (eds.), From Financial Crisis to Social Change: Towards Alternative Horizons (Palgrave, 2018).
- ‘The politics of education revisited: Anthony Crosland and Michael Gove in historical perspective’, London Review of Education, 13:2 (2015), pp. 98-112.
- ‘Conclusion: The Gove legacy in education’ in Finn (ed.), Gove Legacy.
- ‘Education beyond the Gove legacy: The case of higher education’ in Finn (ed.), Gove Legacy.
- ‘Introduction – The Gove ascendancy: Michael Gove as Secretary of State for Education’ in Finn (ed.), The Gove Legacy.
- ‘Conclusion: The net coalition effect’ in Seldon and Finn, Coalition Effect.
- ‘The coalition and the Liberal Democrats’ in Seldon and Finn, Coalition Effect.
- ‘The coming of the coalition and the Coalition Agreement’ in Seldon and Finn, Coalition Effect.
- ‘Bridging the gap: Managing undergraduate expectations in the humanities and social sciences’ in Louis Coiffait (ed.), Blue Skies – 2014 UK edition (Pearson, 2014).
- ‘Constitutional reform since 1997: The historians’ perspective’ (with Anthony Seldon) in Matt Qvortrup (ed.), The British Constitution: Continuity and Change (Hart, 2013).
- ‘Local heroes: war news and the construction of community in Britain, 1914-1918’, Historical Research, 2010. Included in Historical Research’s First World War 100th anniversary Virtual Issue.
- ‘Fighting Different Wars’ [review], Twentieth Century British History, 2005.
- ‘The realities of war’, History Today, 52:8, 2002.
PRESS AND BLOGS (selected TV and radio available via the VIDEO link above)
- ‘Deal or no deal? Britain’s universities face up to their own Brexit dilemmas’, Times Higher Education, 20 November 2018.
- ‘The Brexit moment and British academia’, EuropeNow, 21 September 2018.
- ‘We are the university, and we are the union too’, Times Higher Education, 28 June 2018.
- ‘Why the ghost of grammar schools keeps on haunting us’, The Conversation, 9 September 2016.
- ‘Post-war fantasies and Brexit: The delusional view of Britain’s place in the world’, LSE British Politics and Policy, 21st June 2016. Republished on Democratic Audit on 16 August 2016. Included in LSE British Politics and Policy’s Best of 2016 review.
- ‘Insularity is not the way forward’: Three university vice-chancellors on Brexit’, The Conversation, 13 June 2016.
- ‘Britain no longer has the capacity to make any difference in Syria’, Left Foot Forward, 1st December 2015.
- ‘A Corbyn victory could help redefine what it means to support Labour’, Left Foot Forward, 17th July 2015.
- ‘The battles ahead for Jo Johnson and Nicky Morgan’s education reforms’, The Conversation, 12th May 2015.
- ‘How to improve British politics’, Times Higher Education, 7th May 2015.
- Grand ambitions and coalition realities’, Yorkshire Post, 28th March 2015.
- ‘In Churchill’s shadow’, Liverpool Hope University, 30th January 2015.
- ‘Saving Time?’, Liverpool Hope University, 29th October 2014.
- ‘The death of the “British dream”: Perceptions of declining social mobility in the UK’, You Gov@Cambridge, 22nd October 2013.
- ‘The press and politicians’, YouGov@Cambridge, July 2011.
- ‘One man’s ascension to God’, MotorTorque, April 2011.
- ‘AV and the Lib Dems’, YouGov@Cambridge, April 2011.
- ‘Why Wayne Rooney should leave Everton’, Football365.com, 8th July 2004.
- ‘The new elite’, Guardian, 27th November 2002.
PRIZE ESSAYS
- ‘Celibates in ivory tower find stardom’, 1st prize, Times Higher Education/Palgrave Humanities and Social Sciences Writing Prize, 2001.
