Dr Martyn Frampton
Senior Lecturer in History
Location: Arts Two 2.29email: m.frampton@qmul.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7882 8371
Dr Martyn Frampton studied as both an undergraduate and graduate at Cambridge. He received his PhD from Jesus College, where he had previously been awarded the Senior Keller Prize for Distinguished Academic Record, the Schiff Prize for History and the Sir Philip Oppenheimer Prize for Outstanding Academic Performance. He was a Research Fellow at Peterhouse College, Cambridge before joining the Department of History at Queen Mary, University of London in 2009.
Research interests:
Dr Frampton’s area of research intersects with modern British and Irish history. He has written three books on the conflict in Northern Ireland – with specific focus on Irish republicanism. He is currently looking to expand his area of expertise to consider British State responses to the challenge posed by radical Islamism across the twentieth century.
Beyond this, he has an interest in wider issues connected with political violence and terrorism; in particular, their use by non-state actors.
Postgraduate supervision:
Dr Frampton would welcome applications from those interested in examining the modern history of Northern Ireland, Irish republicanism and issues more broadly connected with political violence, insurgency and terrorism, and the response of democracies to those challenges.
Publications:
Books:
Legion of the Rearguard: Dissident Irish Republicanism (Irish Academic Press: Dublin, 2010)
The Long March: The Political Strategy of Sinn Fein 1981-2007 (Palgrave Macmillan: London, 2009)
Talking to Terrorists: Making peace in Northern Ireland and the Basque country (Hurst and Co.: London; and Columbia University Press: New York, 2009)
Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals:
"Embuscades et agents secrets: la <<sale guerre>> des Brittaniques en Irlande du Nord", Critique Internationale, 41, (Octobre-Décembre 2008)
"Sinn Féin and the European Arena: 'Ourselves Alone' or 'Critical Engagement'?", Irish Studies in International Affairs, 16 (2005)
"'Squaring the Circle': The Foreign Policy of Sinn Féin, 1983-1989", Irish Political Studies, 19,2 (Winter 2004)
Articles in Books:
"'Agents and Ambushes': Britain's 'Dirty War' in Northern Ireland", in Samy Cohen (ed.), Democracies at War against Terrorism: A Comparative Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan: New York, 2008), pp. 76-100