Dr Stephen Constantine

Senior Lecturer

Degree: BA, D.Phil, Oxford

Associated research centres and groups: Diasporas, Peripheries and Identities

Current Teaching

Hist345

Hist300

Research Interests

Research Interests

• Migrants and settlers in the British Empire and Commonwealth since 1815.
• Gibraltar since 1704
• Child migration to the empire.
• Interwar Britain.

Recent Publications

• Community and Identity: The Making of Modern Gibraltar since 1704 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009).
• 'The Pirate, the Govenor and the Secretary of State: Aliens, Police and Surveillance in Early Nineteenth-Century Gibraltar', English Historical Review, 123 (2008), 1166-1192.
• 'Child Migration, Philanthropy, the State and the Empire', Institute of Historical Research, History in Focus, 14, October 2008, http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/welfare/articles/constantines.html.
• 'Monarchy and Constructing Identity in "British" Gibraltar', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 34 (2006), 23-44.
• 'Children as Ancestors: Child Migrants and Identity in Canada', British Journal of Canadian Studies, 16 (2003), 150-9.
• 'British Emigration to the Empire-Commonwealth since 1880: From Overseas Settlement to Diaspora?', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 31 (2003), 16-35
• 'The British Government, Child Welfare and Child Migration to Australia after 1945', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 30 (2002), 99-132.
• With Alan Warde, 'Challenge and Change in a New Century', in Andrew White (ed.), A History of Lancaster (2nd edn., Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2001), pp. 229-75.
• 'Migrants and Settlers' in W. Roger Louis and Judith Brown (eds.), The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 4, The Twentieth Century (Oxford: Oxford University 1999), pp. 163-87.
• 'Waving Goodbye? Australia, Assisted Passages, and the Empire and Commonwealth Settlement Acts, 1945-72', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 26 (1998), 176-95.
• (co-ed.), The First World War in British History (Arnold, 1995), including 'Britain and the Empire', pp. 252-78.
• (co-ed.), Edward Gibbon: Memoirs of My Life and Writings (Keele University Press, 1994).
• 'Anglo-Canadian Relations, the Empire Marketing Board, and Canadian National Autonomy between the Wars', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 21 (1993), 357-84.
• (ed.), Dominions Diary: The Letters of E. J. Harding (Ryburn, 1992).
• (ed.), Emigrants and Empire: British Settlement in the Dominions between the Wars (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990), including 'Introduction: Empire Migration and Imperial Harmony', pp. 1-21, and 'Immigration and the Making of New Zealand, 1918-1939', pp. 121-49.

Areas of Research Supervision

Dr Constantine is interested in hearing from students wishing to undertake dissertations and theses on topics that would fall under the following headings:

• Migration history, especially to and from Britain and the British Empire-Commonwealth.
• Other aspects of British Empire-Commonwealth history.
• 20th-century British history.
• Lancaster in the 20th century.

Associated Keywords: Colonialism, History, Imperialism, Migration and diaspora, Nineteenth century

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