My research particularly focuses on the following areas:
Clubs and empires - particularly the global dimension of ‘Clubland‘, and the post-colonial legacy of clubs.
The history of the outside financial interests of legislators.
Party political funding.
Winston Churchill; specifically, his political thought.
Other research interests
Ideological developments within the British Labour tradition over the last two centuries; the history of Lonrho across Africa; notions of civic pride and municipalisation; architecture; psephology and election culture; corruption; political gossip; the history of heckling; political cartoon and caricatures; student politics in 19th and early 20th century Britain; social networks; prosopography.