Rate My Professor Martin Francis

Francis's research interests center on twentieth-century British history, particularly gender history with an emphasis on masculinity in modern Europe and the United States, alongside the cultural history of war, emotions, film, and fashion. He also explores histories of British politics. His major publications include the monograph The Flyer: British Culture and the Royal Air Force, 1939–1945 (Oxford University Press, 2008), which was runner-up for the Longman-History Today Prize; Ideas and Policies under Labour, 1945–1951: Building a New Britain (Manchester University Press, 1997); and the co-edited volume The Conservatives and British Society, 1880–1990 (University of Wales Press, 1996). Other notable works encompass Empire, Celebrity and Excess: King Farouk of Egypt and British Culture, 1936–1965 (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021) and articles such as 'Tears, Tantrums and Bared Teeth: The Emotional Economy of Three Conservative Prime Ministers, 1951–1964' (Journal of British Studies, 2002), 'The Domestication of the Male? Recent Research on Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British Masculinity' (Historical Journal, 2002), and 'Attending to Ghosts: Some Reflections on the Disavowals of British Great War Historiography' (Twentieth Century British History, 2014). His scholarship has advanced understandings of political ideologies, emotional histories, and gendered experiences in modern Britain and beyond.