Dr John Price

Academic qualifications

BA History, Roehampton University, London, 2005
PhD History, King’s College, University of London, 2010

Teaching

First Year
HT51017A Concepts and Methods in History

Second and third year
HT52031A / HT53031A Lived Histories: Britain in the 19th and 20th Centuries
HT52077A / HT53077A Britain Through the Lens
HT52121A / HT53121A Whose Streets? Social Movements and Public Protest

Administration

Year 1 Tutor

Grants & awards

2009 - AHRC Collaborative Research Training Grant (Student-led)
Funding for a three-day Postgraduate Knowledge Transfer Symposium hosted at
King’s College London, 23-25 June 2009

2009 – Royal Historical Society Postgraduate Research Support Grant
Funding to provide subsidised travel for students attending the AHRC Knowledge Transfer Symposium

2006 – AHRC Doctoral Award
Full-time PhD research funding

Professional activities

Outreach Activities AHRC-funded Postgraduate Knowledge Transfer Symposium
My Hero: Defining and Constructing Non-Military Heroism, King’s College London, 23-25 June 2009 (award holder and organiser)
The symposium featured sixteen academic papers by speakers from an international field covering subjects ranging from the recognition of heroism to physiology and identity. The symposium also, innovatively, included presentations by representatives from leading organizations in the field, including the RNLI and the Royal Humane Society.

King’s College London History Podcast
A fifteen minute podcast, recorded at the Watts Memorial in Postman’s Park, created as part of the History and Memory undergraduate course at KCL (participant)

Television and video output

26 August 2011 – BBC History Magazine Podcast

28 January 2009 – Robert Elms Show, BBC London Radio: Interview regarding the Watts Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice

Radio

Research interests

My PhD research focussed on the topic of ‘everyday’ heroism in Britain in the period 1850-1914 and examined acts of lifesaving bravery performed by otherwise ordinary people. My thesis approached the topic by engaging with the recognition, commemoration and, most importantly, the construction of civilian heroism and employed medals, awards, memorials, monuments and a range of other social and cultural evidence.

My other research interests include: social and political geography in the English landscape; environmental history; English folk music and radicalism; lived histories; class history and the history of the working-classes; historical relevance; the history of public protest; Marxism and Marxist approaches to history.

Selected publications

Books 

• Postman’s Park: G.F. Watts’s Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice (Compton, 2008)

Forthcoming books

• Everyday Heroism in Britain: Victorian Constructions of the Heroic Civilian (Continuum, 2013)

Articles

• ‘Addy, Mark (1840-1890)’ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2010)
• ‘Ayres, Alice (1859-1885)’ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2010)
• ‘‘Heroism in Everyday Life’: the Watts Memorial for Heroic Self Sacrifice’, History Workshop Journal 63:1 (2007), pp. 255-278
• ‘‘Everyday Heroes’: The Memorial Tiles of Postman’s Park’, Journal of the Tiles and Architectural Ceramics Society 10 (2004)