Newcastle University

Introduction

Roles and Responsibilities

Head of School and Professor of European History

Qualifications

BA, PhD Manchester

Memberships

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Member of the European Academy of Arts and Sciences 

Member of the German History Society

Member of the Research Group in European Urban Culture 

Research Interests

Fascism, particularly in central Europe.

Other Expertise

Urban history and culture of Austria, primarily in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Current Work

The Nazi New Order

Undergraduate Teaching

The Habsburg Empire

The Weimar Republic

Nazi Germany

Reading History: Christopher Browning, Ordinary men

• Kirk T. ‘Nazi Plans for a New Economic Order in Europe’. In: Stefan Karner et al, ed. Epochenbrüche im "kurzen" 20. Jahrhundert". 2013. In Press.
• Kirk T. Ideology and politics in the state that nobody wanted: Austro-Marxism, Austro-Fascism and the First Austrian Republic. Contemporary Austrian Studies 2011, 20, 81-98.
• Kirk T. Neue Sichtweisen zu Gemeinschaft, Autorität und Widerstand gegen den Faschismus in Österreich. In: Berger, H., Dejnega, M., Fritz, R., Prenninger, A, ed. Politische Gewalt und Machtausübung im 20. Jahrhundert Zeitgeschichte, Zeitgeschehen und Kontroversen Festschrift für Gerhard Botz. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2011, pp.235-254.
• Kirk T. Deutsche Kulturpolitik und öffentliche Meinung in Südosteuropa. Die Wiener Presse- und Kulturberichte Südosteuropas. In: Carola Sachse, ed. "Mitteleuropa" und "Südosteuropa" als Planungsraum. Wirtschafts-und kulturpolitische Expertisen im Zeitalter der Weltkriege. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2010, pp.197-218.
• Kirk T, Klusakova L, ed. Cultural Conquests. Prague: Karolinum, 2009.
• Kirk T. The Austrian Historians' Commission. Austrian History Yearbook 2009, 40, 288-299.
• Kirk Tim. New Cultural Orders: War and Cultural Politics in South-Eastern Europe. Etudes Balkaniques 2008, XLIV(4), 219-237.
• Kirk T. Opposition and Accommodation in Nazi Germany: An overview of perspectives. Scottish Association of Teachers of History Yearbook 2008, 22, 55-60.
• Kirk T. Film and Politics in South-east Europe: Germany as 'Leading Cultural Nation', 1933-45. In: Vande Winkel, R; Welch, D, ed. Cinema and the Swastika: The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema. London: Palgrave, 2007, pp.243-252.
• Kirk T. Nazi Germany. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007.
• Kirk T. Fascism and Austrofascism. In: Bischof, G; Pelinka, A; Lassner, A, ed. The Dollfuss/Schuschnigg Era: A Reassessment. New Brunswick, N.J: Transaction Publishers, 2003, pp.10-31.
• Kirk T. Working towards the Reich: the reception of German cultural politics in South-Eastern Europe. In: McElligott, A; Kirk, T, ed. Working Towards the Fuhrer: Essays in Honour of Sir Ian Kershaw. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003, pp.205-223.
• Kirk T. Cassell's Dictionary of Modern German History. London: Cassell, 2002.
• Kirk T, Gee M. Introduction. In: Gee, M; Kirk, T, ed. Printed Matters: Printing, Publishing and Urban Culture in the Modern Period. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002, pp.1-7.
• Kirk T. The Policing of Popular Opinion in Nazi Germany. In: Cavanagh, D; Kirk, T, ed. Subversion and Scurrility: Popular Discourse in Europe from 1500 to the Present. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000, pp.175-189.
• Kirk T. Boehling, R., 'A question of priorities: Democratic reform and economic recovery in postwar Germany', Oxford: Berghahn, 1996. History 1999, 84(275), 564-565.
• Kirk T. Nazi Austria: the limits of dissent. In: Kirk, T; McElligott, A, ed. Opposing Fascism: Community, Authority and Resistance in Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp.133-149.
• Kirk T. Popular Culture and Politics in Imperial Vienna. In: Gee, M; Kirk, T; Steward, J, ed. The City in Central Europe: Culture and Society from 1800 to the Present. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999, pp.159-174.
• Kirk TB. Popular culture and politics in Imperial Vienna. In: M. Gee, T. Kirk and J. Steward, ed. The City in Central Europe from 1800 to the present. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Press, 1999, pp.159-174.
• Kirk T. The rise of national socialism and the working classes in Weimar Germany. Labor History 1999, 40(3), 417-418.
• Kirk T. Nazis and Workers in Hitler’s Homeland. History Today 1996, (July), 36-42.
• Kirk T. Nazism and the Working Class in Austria: Industrial Unrest and Political Dissent in the 'National Community'. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
• Kirk T. The Longman Companion to Nazi Germany. London: Longman, 1995.
• Graml H, Kirk T (trans.). Antisemitism in the Third Reich. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.
• Kirk T. Limits of Germandom, resistance to the Nazi annexation of Slovenia. Slavonic and East European Review 1991, 69(4), 646-667.
• Cook C, Kirk T, Moore B. Sources in European Political History: War and Resistance. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1991.
• Kirk T. Austria. In: Salter, S; Stevenson, J, ed. The Working Class and Politics in Europe and America 1929-1945. London: Longman, 1990, pp.11-40.
• Cook C, Kirk T, Moore B. Sources in European Political History: Diplomacy and International Relations. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989.