Dr Dan Jackson

PhD, MA, BA
Visiting Fellow in History

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Contact details: phone: 0191 424 7771   dan.jackson@southtyneside.gov.uk

 

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Biography

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Born in New Hartley, Northumberland, Dan is a former student at Northumbria University. His undergraduate study of Newcastle’s ‘Garibaldi riots of 1866’ won both the Freemen of the City of Newcastle Prize for Historical Writing and the Sid Chaplin Prize, and his Ph.D. thesis became the basis for Popular Opposition to Irish Home Rule in Edwardian Britain (2009) which has received several positive reviews in the Journal of British Studies, the Historical Journal and the Economic History Review.  Dan also contributed a paper on the martial culture of the North East of England to the bicentenary celebrations of the birth of Lord Armstrong in 2010.  

After leaving academia, Dan joined local government, where he is now Strategic Commissioning Lead at South Tyneside Council.  His study of children’s trust legislation earned him the Outstanding Achievement and Dissertation Prizes at Warwick Business School in 2009.  

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Qualifications

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BA (Hons) History and Sociology (first class), Northumbria University
MA Historical Research (pass with distinction), Liverpool University
Ph.D., Northumbria University
Postgraduate Diploma in Local Government Management, Warwick Business School

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Research Interests

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Dan’s main research interests are:

• Edwardian politics and Irish Home Rule
• Irish migration and anti-Catholicism
• British military history and the martial culture of the North East of England

In social policy, Dan is particularly interested in:

• the transformation of public services
• outcomes-based commissioning
• social regeneration in disadvantaged communities

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Affiliations and Memberships

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Trustee and director of the Linskill and North Tyneside Community Development Trust
Steering group member of the Tynemouth World War One Commemoration Association

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Publications

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Books:
Popular Opposition to Irish Home Rule in Edwardian Britain (Liverpool: LUP, 2009).

Chapters and articles:
[with D.M. MacRaild] 'The Conserving Crowd: mass Unionist demonstrations in Liverpool and Tyneside, 1912-13', D.G. Boyce and A. O'Day (eds), The Home Rule Crisis (Palgrave, 2005).

‘Two black eyes and a broken nose: martial culture in the North East of England’, North East History (2005).

'"Friends of the Union": Liverpool, Ulster, and Home Rule 1910–1914'. Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire & Cheshire, 152 (2003).

‘“Garibaldi or the Pope!'' Newcastle's Irish Riot of 1866’, North East History, 34 (2002)