Professor Mary Vincent
M.A., D.Phil. (Oxon.) FRHistS
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
Professor of Modern European History
Vice President for Education
Ex-officio Member of Senate 2019-
Member of the Research England Advisory Group 2023-
Chair of the Advisory Board, Institute of Historical Research (IHR) 2019-2023
Trustee, IHR Trust 2019-2023
+44 114 222 1003
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- Profile
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My main research interests lie in the history of modern Spain, particularly in the period of the Civil War and the Franco dictatorship (1931-75), I have also published widely in the history of gender.
While my earlier work looked at fascism and political violence, my current focus is on religious violence and the 'culture wars' of twentieth-century Spain.
An article in church burning was published in September 2022, which looks at the emotional effect of iconoclasm, and I am currently completing a monograph on 'Franco's Cusade'. From 2016-18 I held a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship to work on this project.
- Research interests
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Modern Spain, political and religious violence, iconoclasm and violence against objects, the history of gender.
- Publications
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Books
- Promoting Gender Equality in UK History: A Second Report and Recommendation for Good Practice. London: Royal Historical Society.
- The War for Legitimacy in Politics and Culture, 1936-1949. Oxford and New York: Berg.
- Spain, 1833-2002:People and State. OUP Oxford.
Journal articles
- Church Burning: Desecrating and Recreating Sacred Space in Twentieth-Century Spain. Journal of Modern History, 94(3).
- The "martyrdom of things": Iconoclasm and its meanings in the Spanish Civil War. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 2020.
- . Contemporary European History, 29(3), 285-288.
- . Historia y Politica: ideas, procesos y movimientos sociales, 38, 91-127.
- . European History Quarterly, 45(1), 108-131.
- Spain and the shadow of the civil war. History Today, 63(4).
- . The American Historical Review, 116(4), 1202-1203.
- Expiation as Performative Rhetoric in National-Catholicism: The Politics of Gesture in Post-Civil War Spain. PAST & PRESENT, 235-256.
Chapters
- , Catholics and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Global World (pp. 56-74). Routledge
- Religion, The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Spanish Civil War (pp. 257-272).
- In Bouwers E (Ed.), Glaubenskämpfe: Katholiken und Gewalt im 19. Jahrhundert (pp. 289-312). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
- Religion: The idea of catholic Spain, Metaphors of Spain: Representations of Spanish National Identity in the Twentieth Century (pp. 122-141).
- In Doumanis N (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of European History, 1914-1945 Oxford University Press
- Made Flesh? Gender and Doctrine in Religious Violence in Twentieth-Century Spain In de Groot J & Morgan S (Ed.), Sex, Gender and the Sacred Reconfiguring Religion in Gender History (pp. 272-286). John Wiley & Sons
- Religión e identidad nacional In Moreno Luzón J & Núñez Seixas X (Ed.), Ser españoles: Imaginarios nacionalistas en el siglo XX (pp. 207-245). Barcelona: Rba Libros.
- Oxford University Press
- Breaking the Silence? Memory and Oblivion since the Spanish Civil War In Ben-Ze'ev E, Ginio R & Winter J (Ed.), Shadows of War: A Social History of Silence in the Twentieth Century (pp. 47-67). New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Culture and Legitimacy In Conway M & Romijn P (Ed.), The War for Legitimacy in Politics and Culture, 1936-1949 (pp. 147-176). Oxford and New York: Berg.
- La paz de Franco: el concepto de jerarquÃa en la España de la posguerra, Religión y polÃtica en la España contemporánea (pp. 83-105). Madrid: Centro de Estudios PolÃticos y Constitucionales.
Book reviews
- . European History Quarterly, 46(2), 348-349.
- . The Journal of Modern History, 87(1), 214-215.
- The Making of a Female Political Elite in Franco's Spain. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, 116(4), 1202-1203.
- . AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, 112(5), 1616-1617.
- . History, 92(306), 275-275.
Conference proceedings papers
- La masculinidad en la construcción del nacionalcatolicismo después de la Guerra Civil. Feminidades y Masculinidades en la HistoriografÃa de Género (pp 127-160). Granada, 24 September 2015 - 25 September 2015.
- Reparation : the aftermath of iconoclasm in Franco's Spain. Imágenes, devociones y prácticas religiosas: La Europa del Sur (1800-1960) (pp 279-298). Valladolid, 13 September 2017 - 15 September 2017.
- Research group
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Research supervision
I welcome applications from postgraduate students with an interest in the history of Spain as well as those working on civil wars, political violence, modern Catholicism, and the history of gender.
- Current Students
- Completed Students
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- Carla Gutierrez Ramos - Organised Labour and Nationalism in the Long 1970s: Class, Democracy and the Sub-state Nations of Scotland and Galicia
- Joel Baker - 'Anti-politics', infrastructure policy and civil society mobilisations in Spain under the Primo de Rivera dictatorship (1923-1930)
- Imen Neffati - The Politics of Offence in Hara Kiri and Charlie Hebdo 1960-2015
- Sabine Hanke (second supervisor) - National identity and cultural difference in the British and German circus, 1920-1945
- Vicki Pugh - Problem bodies and sideshow space: A study of twentieth century sideshow in Blackpool 1930-1940.
- Stephanie Wright - Franco's 'Mutilated Gentleman': Masculinity and War Disability in Modern Spain, 1936-1976.
- James Yeoman - Print Culture and the Formation of the Anarchist Movement in Spain: 1890-1915.
- Matthew Kerry - Radical Politics in the Spanish Second Republic: Asturias, 1931-1936.
- Ruth Fisher (Hispanic Studies) - Resistance and Survival: Deconstructing the Narratives of Women Political Prisoners after the Spanish Civil War.
- David Lyon (MPhil) - The penitentiary of El Puerto de Santa MarÃa and a Basque Dimension.
- Rebecca Mytton (second supervisor) - Revolutionary Masculinities in the IRA, 1916-1923.
- Hannah Parker (second supervisor) - Voices of the New Soviet Woman: Gender, Emancipation and Agency in Letters to the Soviet State, 1924-1941.
- Ryosuke Yokoe (second supervisor) - Medical understandings of alcohol and the liver in twentieth-century Britain.
- David Page (MPhil, second supervisor) - Pioneers of European Federalism: the New Europe Group and New Britain Movement (1931–1935).
- Grants
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Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship 2016-18
- Teaching interests
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Undergraduate
- HST112 Paths from Antiquity to Modernity
- Professional activities and memberships
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- - Fellow
- - Member of the editorial board
- - Member of the editorial collective
- Historia Contemporánea - Member of the advisory board
Previous administrative roles
- Head of Department (2012-15).
- Vice-President, Royal Historical Society (2013-17)
- Council Member, University of 91Ö±²¥ (2014-17)
- Chair, Senate Academic Assurance Committee (2018-19)
- Elected Member of Senate (2015-19)
- Public engagement
In the media
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- , BBC Radio 4's In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg
- BBC Radio 4's In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg
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