Dr Mike Benbough-Jackson
Humanities and Social Science
Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies
Email: M.Benbough-Jackson@ljmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0151 904 1477
Mike has been in and out of educational institutions for most of his life. After studying at four universities in Wales, including Swansea where he gained a PGCE (History), Mike worked as a postgraduate research assistant on a project on processions in urban south Wales at the Board of Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth. At present, Mike is the admissions tutor for History. He lectures on aspects of nineteenth and twentieth-century British and American history. Mike also contributes to team-taught modules at undergraduate and Masters level, is module leader for Revolutions and supervises dissertations and independent studies at Level 6. Mike has varied research interests and has published work on a number of topics ranging from mid-nineteenth century landlord/tenant relations to Merseyside and the First World War. He is interested in personal, local and national identities.
Languages
Welsh
Highlighted publications
Benbough-Jackson M. 2017. Five- Foot- Five Nation: Size, Wales and The Great War Welsh History Review, 28 :618-645 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Benbough-Jackson M. 2016. Dominion Day in Britain, 1900-1919 Hayday M, Blake R. Celebrating Canada Holidays, National Days, and the Crafting of Identities :220-243 University of Toronto Press 9781442627130 Publisher Url
Benbough-Jackson M. 2015. Celebrating a saint on his home ground: St David's day in St Davids diocese during the nineteenth century Religion and Society in the Diocese of St Davids 1485-2011 :157-178 9781409447726
Benbough-Jackson M, Evans N. 2013. Ritual, symbol and politics: Gladstone, Swansea and Wales in 1887. Welsh History Review, 26:3 :454-481 DOI Publisher Url
Benbough-Jackson M. 2011. Cardiganshire and the Cardi, c.1760-c.2000: Locating a place and its people 9780708323946
Benbough-Jackson M. 2009. Welsh migrants and performance in early nineteenth-century Liverpool Transaction of the Histroic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 158 :59-84
Benbough-Jackson M. Nation and Gender: St David, St David’s Day and Masculinity during the Great War O'Leary P, Jenkins B, Ward S. Gender in Modern Welsh History - Perspectives on Masculinity and Femininity in Wales from 1750 to 2000 :147-167 University of Wales Press 9781837720781 Publisher Url Public Url
Journal article
Benbough-Jackson M. 2017. Five- Foot- Five Nation: Size, Wales and The Great War Welsh History Review, 28 :618-645 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Benbough-Jackson M, Evans N. 2013. Ritual, symbol and politics: Gladstone, Swansea and Wales in 1887. Welsh History Review, 26:3 :454-481 DOI Publisher Url
Benbough-Jackson M, Steele M. 2012. Civic pride on an international stage : the Liverpool `Shipperies', 1886 The Local Historian, 3 :180-192
Benbough-Jackson M. 2009. Welsh migrants and performance in early nineteenth-century Liverpool Transaction of the Histroic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 158 :59-84
Benbough-Jackson M. 2008. Celebration and social divergence: Swansea and the Golden Jubilee, 1887. Llafur, 9 :61-71
Benbough-Jackson M. 2003. " A stormy petrel in the Glamorganshire valleys" : John Littlejohns (1862-1942)'. Welsh History Review, 3 :512-533
Benbough-Jackson M. 2003. Ceredigion and the changing visitor gaze c. 1760-2000 Ceredigion, :21-41
Benbough-Jackson M. 2003. "Landlord careless"? Landowners, tenants and agriculture on four estates in west Wales, 1850-75 Rural History: economy, society, culture, 14 :81-98
Chapters
Benbough-Jackson M. 2016. Dominion Day in Britain, 1900-1919 Hayday M, Blake R. Celebrating Canada Holidays, National Days, and the Crafting of Identities :220-243 University of Toronto Press 9781442627130 Publisher Url
Benbough-Jackson M. 2015. Celebrating a saint on his home ground: St David's day in St Davids diocese during the nineteenth century Religion and Society in the Diocese of St Davids 1485-2011 :157-178 9781409447726
Benbough-Jackson M. 2011. Introduction: Merseyside and Culture Merseyside :1-21
Benbough-Jackson M. 2011. Negotiating National Identity during St David's Day Celebrations on Merseyside, 1880-1900 Merseyside :263-290
Benbough-Jackson M. Nation and Gender: St David, St David’s Day and Masculinity during the Great War O'Leary P, Jenkins B, Ward S. Gender in Modern Welsh History - Perspectives on Masculinity and Femininity in Wales from 1750 to 2000 :147-167 University of Wales Press 9781837720781 Publisher Url Public Url
Books (authored)
Benbough-Jackson M. 2015. Merseyside's War Voices of the First World War Amberley Publishing Limited 9781445639338
Benbough-Jackson M, Davies S. 2011. Merseyside: Culture and place 9781443829649
Benbough-Jackson M. 2011. Cardiganshire and the Cardi, c.1760-c.2000: Locating a place and its people 9780708323946
Benbough-Jackson M. 2007. Cardiganshire: The concise history Univ of Wales Pr 9780708321119