Staff Profiles
Professor Tim Kirk
Professor of European History
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School of History, Classics and Archaeology
Armstrong Building
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
Background
Introduction
Roles and Responsibilities
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
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
Nazi plans for a new European order and European responses | Faculti
Publications
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Articles
- Kirk T. Dictatorship, Fascism and the Demise of Austrian Democracy. Contemporary Austrian Studies 2016, 25, 111-126.
- Kirk T. Ideology and politics in the state that nobody wanted: Austro-Marxism, Austrofascism, and the First Austrian Republic. Contemporary Austrian Studies 2011, 20, 81-98.
- Kirk T. The Austrian Historians' Commission. Austrian History Yearbook 2009, 40, 288-299.
- 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. New Cultural Orders: War and Cultural Politics in South-Eastern Europe. Etudes Balkaniques 2008, XLIV(4), 219-237.
- Kirk T. Nazis and Workers in Hitler’s Homeland. History Today 1996, (July), 36-42.
- Kirk T. Limits of Germandom, resistance to the Nazi annexation of Slovenia. Slavonic and East European Review 1991, 69(4), 646-667.
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Authored Books
- Kirk T. Nazi Germany. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007.
- Kirk T. Cassell's Dictionary of Modern German History. London: Cassell, 2002.
- 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.
- Cook C, Kirk T, Moore B. Sources in European Political History: War and Resistance. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1991.
- Cook C, Kirk T, Moore B. Sources in European Political History: Diplomacy and International Relations. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989.
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Book Chapters
- Kirk T. Nazi Plans for a New European Order and European Responses. In: Pohl D; Dafinger J, ed. A New Nationalist Europe Under Hitler Concepts of Europe and Transnational Networks in the National Socialist Sphere of Influence, 1933–1945. London: Routledge, 2019, pp.71-92.
- Kirk T. New Economic Orders: Nazi Plans for Post-War Europe and British Responses. In: Karner S; Botz G; Konrad H, ed. Epochenbrüche im 20. Jahrhundert. Beiträge. Vienna: Böhlau, 2017, pp.95-108.
- 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.235-252.
- Kirk T. Deutsche Kulturpolitik und öffentliche Meinung in Südosteuropa. Die Wiener Presse- und Kulturberichte Südosteuropa. 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. 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. 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. 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, 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. 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. 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. Austria. In: Salter, S; Stevenson, J, ed. The Working Class and Politics in Europe and America 1929-1945. London: Longman, 1990, pp.11-40.
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Edited Book
- Kirk T, Klusakova L, ed. Cultural Conquests. Prague: Karolinum, 2009.
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Reviews
- Kirk T. Anton Pelinka, Die Gescheiterte Republik: Kultur und Politik in Österreich 1918-1938 (Vienna: Böhlau, 2017); Gudula Walterskirchen, Die Vlinden Flecken der Geschichte: Österreich 1927-1938 (Vienna: Kremayr & Scheriau, 2017). Contemporary Austrian Studies 2018, 27, 335-337.
- Kirk T. To Walk with the Devil: Slovene Collaboration and Axis Occupation 1941-1945. Central Europe 2016, 13(1-2), 129-130.
- Kirk T. The First World War. Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914-1918 [book review]. Austrian Studies 2016, 24, 222-223.
- Kirk T. Das Dollfuss/Schuschnigg Regime 1933–1938: Vermessung eines Forschungsfeldes, ed. Florian Wenninger and Lucille Dreidemy. English Historical Review 2016, 131(550), 715-716.
- Kirk T. Nazism as Fascism: Violence, Ideology and the Ground of Consent, 1930-1945. English Historical Review 2015, 130(546), 1270-1272.
- Kirk T. The rise of national socialism and the working classes in Weimar Germany. Labor History 1999, 40(3), 417-418.
- 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.