Professor Martin Conway

I am Professor of Contemporary European History at Oxford, and also a Fellow and Tutor in History at Balliol College. Much of my work has concerned issues relating to Europe’s political trajectory from the inter-war years, through to the 1960s, and more recently to the end of the twentieth century. I have published two books on Belgian history of the period: Collaboration in Belgium, which looked at the Rexist movement between 1940 and 1944; and The Sorrows of Belgium, which is a study of Belgian politics of the liberation period, and their legacies for the subsequent history of the country. Alongside, this work, I have written on broader themes in European history, including Catholic politics, issues of political legitimacy, and of Europeanization, and most recently a collectively written book on Europe’s three post-war periods: 1989, 1945, and 1918. I have just completed a book manuscript on Western Europe’s Democratic Age, 1945-68, which will be published by Princeton University Press in the spring of 2020. In my future research, I intend to work on issues of masculinity and political culture in the twentieth century.