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Routledge Education Author of the Month July 2012: Peter Davies

Peter worked at the University of Huddersfield for 20 years between 1991 and 2011, specializing in French and European history, and also the history of sport; cricket in particular. During his work there, he not only wrote 11 books for Routledge, but he also received a £50,000 grant from the HLF/University of Huddersfield in 2004 to study the social history of West Yorkshire cricket and was honored with the University of Huddersfield Teaching Fellowship award.

Peter led a teaching career which was incredibly varied. His specialist subjects included teaching modern European and British history, focussing on the extreme right in France and the French Revolution, modern French and German history, plus the social history of sport.

Peter's new book, the second edition of Enlivening Secondary History is available now!

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  1. Enlivening Secondary History: 50 Classroom Activities for Teachers and Pupils

    2nd Edition

    By Peter Davies, Rhys Davies

    Enlivening Secondary History is the ideal handbook for busy history teachers who want to do something different in their classrooms, but have little time to plan and organise their lessons. Featuring tried-and-tested practical ideas complete with relevant exemplars and step-by-step advice, this...

    Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge

  2. The Routledge Companion to Fascism and the Far Right

    By Peter Davies, Derek Lynch

    Series: Routledge Companions to History

    The Routledge Companion to Fascism and the Far Right is an engaging and accessible guide to the origins of fascism, the main facets of the ideology and the reality of fascist government around the world. In a clear and simple manner, this book illustrates the main features of the subject using...

    Published August 28th 2002 by Routledge

  3. The Extreme Right in France, 1789 to the Present

    From de Maistre to Le Pen

    By Peter Davies

    The Extreme Right in France, 1789 to the Present surveys the history of a fascinating but contentious political and intellectual tradition. Since 1789 the far right has been an important factor in French political life and in different eras has taken on a range of guises including traditionalism,...

    Published February 27th 2002 by Routledge

  4. France and the Second World War

    Resistance, Occupation and Liberation

    By Peter Davies

    France and the Second World War is a concise introduction to a crucial and controversial period of French history - world war and occupation. During World War Two, France had the dramatic experience of occupation by the Germans and the legacy of this traumatic time has lived on until today, to the...

    Published September 27th 2000 by Routledge

  5. The National Front in France

    Ideology, Discourse and Power

    By Peter Davies

    This provocative and non-polemic study explores the value system of the National Front movement in France, and explains the way in which the movement's ideology has been formulated and articulated in the 1980s and 1990s. Also discussing the crucial role of Le Pen, this book provides a fascinating...

    Published March 24th 1999 by Routledge

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