Person

Reeve, Michael

He was born and raised in Kingston-Upon-Hull, in July 2019, he was awarded a PhD in History at the University of Hull, since 2017, he has also worked as a lecturer at Leeds Beckett University in modern history, and has provided teaching and guest lectures at the University of Hull on the First World War and diaspora histories of the twentieth century. He is now a Lecturer in History at Bishop Grosseteste University, following a two-year tenure as an Academic Skills Tutor at Leeds Beckett University. He's a historian of modern Britain, with research interests in military and civilian resilience, maritime and coastal community/identity and the social and cultural history of the British empire. His recent work has been primarily concerned with responses to the threat of enemy attack on the home front during the First World War (1914-18), utilising a social and cultural approach to a wide array of primary sources, from government memoranda and plans, to printed postcards, film, landscapes and material objects. He is also developing a substantial project related to conceptions of morale in British society and military culture during the twentieth century, including the First World War, Second World War and the Cold War. A concurrent strand is the social-psychological function and cultural significance of smoking for soldiers at the front and civilians at home, where tobacco becomes a means to steel resolve in the face of attack and to stave off pre-attack anxieties