
Dr Martin Folly
Senior Lecturer in International History
Marie Jahoda 230
- Email: martin.folly@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 266823
- Politics
- Politics and History
- Social and Political Sciences
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Summary
I studied for my PhD under Donald Cameron Watt and Antony Best at the London School of Economics, and then worked as a research assistant on a project ‘Western Defence and the Origins and Evolution of NATO, 1947 - 1953’ at the West London Institute of Higher Education under Geoffrey Matthews. I then became lecturer in American Studies at WLIHE, and director of Studies for American Studies at Brunel. I am now senior lecturer in History. I am a committee member of the British International Historians Group of the British International Studies Association (BISA), and a member of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). I have also had a long and varied career as an amateur actor and guileful off-spinner.
Qualifications:
- BA (Hons) History, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
- MA Cambridge University
- PhD International History, London School of Economics, University of London
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Responsibility
I am one of the three Vice-Chancellor's Representatives (Academic).
I am an elected member of Senate.
Newest selected publications
Folly, M. (2020) 'From Sevastopol to Sukhumi – and Back Again: British Naval Liaison in Action with the Red Navy in the Black Sea, 1941-45''. War in History, in press. pp. 096834451987197 - 096834451987197. ISSN: 0968-3445 Open Access Link
Folly, M., Roberts, G. and Rzheshevsky, O. (2020) 'Churchill and Stalin. Comrades--in-Arms During the Second World War'. Barnsley, United Kingdom: Pen & Sword Military. ISSN 13: 978-1781590492
Folly, MH. (2017) 'British Attempts to Forge a Political Partnership with the Kremlin, 1942-3'. Journal of Contemporary History, 53 (1). pp. 185 - 211. ISSN: 0022-0094 Open Access Link
Folly, MH. (2016) 'W. Averell Harriman, 1946', inThe Embassy in Grosvenor Square: American Ambassadors to the United Kingdom, 1938-2008. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 64 - 84. ISBN 13: 9780230280625.
Folly, MH. (2012) '‘The impression is growing … that the United States is hard when dealing with us’: Ernest Bevin and Anglo-American relations at the dawn of the cold war'. Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 10 (2). pp. 150 - 166. ISSN: 1754-1018 Open Access Link