Newcastle University

Introduction

Matt Perry has taught broadly across Twentieth Century European History. He has research interests in British and French labour and social history, particularly in the fields of protest and social memory. He has also published on questions of general historiography in particular the Marxist school of history.

Research Interests

Twentieth-century French and British history. The history of the protests of the unemployed, particularly in the interwar period. British and French labour history. Social movements and protest. Social memory. Biography, intellectual itineraries and transnationalism. France and the experience of the two world wars.

Current Work

I am currently researching the life of Ellen Wilkinson, Labour MP.

Research Roles

Convenor of the Labour and Society Research Group

Undergraduate Teaching

HIS3022 Jarrow Crusade
HIS3025 May 68
HIS2086 Twentieth Century France
HIS2116 French Communism

Postgraduate Teaching

HIS8041 Love on the Dole a cultural history of unemployment in the 1930s

• Perry M. Bombing Billancourt: Labour Agency and the Limitations of the Public Opinion Model of Wartime France. Labour History Review 2012, 77(1), 49-74.
• Perry M. Memory of War in France, 1914-45: Cesar Fauxbras, the Voice of the Lowly. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
• Perry M, Reiss M, ed. Unemployment and Protest: Two Centuries of Contestation. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011.
• Perry M. Breaking the silence: rationale, protest and identity in the provincial press of the unemployed in France. In: Reiss, M., Perry, M, ed. Unemployment and Protest: Two Centuries of Contestation. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp.285-309.
• Perry M. The myth of the Jarrow Crusade and the making of a local Labour Culture. In: Cowman, K., Packer, I, ed. Radical Cultures and Local Identities. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2010, pp.129-148.
• Perry M. The Calais riot of 5 January 1934 and the Dynamics of Unemployed Contention. Labour History Review 2008, 73(1), 39-59.
• Perry M. Prisoners of Want: The Experience and Protest of the Unemployed in France, 1921-45. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.
• Perry M. The Jarrow Crusade: Protest and Legend. Sunderland: University of Sunderland Press, 2005.
• Perry M. ‘Sans Distinction de Nationalité’? The French Communist Party, Immigrants and Unemployment in the 1930s. European History Quarterly 2004, 34(3), 337-369.
• Perry M. ‘Unemployment Revolutionises the Working Class’: Le Cri des Chômeurs, French Communists and the Birth of the Movement of the Unemployed in France 1931-1932. French History 2002, 16(4), 441-468.
• Perry M. The Jarrow Crusade’s return: the ‘New Labour Party’ of Jarrow and Ellen Wilkinson, MP. Northern History 2002, 34(2), 265-278.
• Perry M. Marxism and History. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002.
• Perry M. The Jarrow Crusade, the National Hunger March and the Labour Party in 1936: a Re-Appraisal. Socialist History 2001, (20), 40-53.
• Perry M. Bread and Work: the experience of unemployment 1918-1939. London, UK: Pluto, 2000.
• Perry M. The Limits of Philanthropy: Sir John Jarvis and the Attempt to Regenerate Jarrow, 1934-39. North East History 2000, (summer), 35-59.
• Baldoli C, Perry M. Bombing and Labour in Western Europe, from 1940 to 1945. Labour History Review 2012, 77(1), 3-9.
• Perry M. Vive la France! Death at Sea, the French Navy and the Great War. French History 2012, 26(3), 344-366.