Dr David Monger
Position
Lecturer in Modern European History
extramural
Secretary, Canterbury Historical Assn
Qualifications
BA (Hons) York; MA, PhD (King's College London)
Room
Room 309, level 3, History Building
Contact Details
Phone: +64 (03) 364 2287
Internal Phone: 6287
Email david.monger@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal address
History Department
School of Humanities
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8020
New Zealand
Background
Dr Monger is a historian of modern Britain with a particular specialism in the history of the First World War.
Undergraduate Courses
HIST136 Revolutions and Revolutionaries
HIST239 / 339 War and Society in Europe, 1900-1919
HIST254 / 376 Making Imperial Britain
Graduate Courses
HIST449 Issues in Modern European History
For up-to-date details of David Monger's research interests and publications, please visit his UC Spark.
Research Interests
Interests David Monger studies the history of modern Britain, with particular interests in the social and cultural history of Britain during the First World War and the history of British patriotism and national identity, and wider interests in the perception and articulation of other forms of identity.
Research His major research has focused on the impact of the First World War on ideas of patriotism and national identity. His PhD thesis, ‘The National War Aims Committee and British patriotism during the First World War', examined the role of a Parliamentary committee established in mid-1917 to conduct morale-maintaining domestic civilian propaganda. It was particularly concerned with examining the forms of language used by propagandists to define patriotic conduct, and proposed that patriotism was a purposive language, used to persuade people of specific things. David is currently in the process of producing a monograph based on his thesis research, to be published by Liverpool University Press and entitled Patriotism and Propaganda in First World War Britain: the National War Aims Committee and civilian morale.
David is able to supervise research in:
(1) Modern British history topics since c.1800: especially aspects of the social, cultural or political history of Britain c. 1870-1945;
(2) First World War topics: cultural, social, military, political themes.
(3) British and/or European ideas of national identity.
Recent Publications
Soldiers, Propaganda and Ideas of Home and Community in First World War Britain', Cultural and Social History, Vol. 8, no. 3 (September 2011), pp. 331-54.
Sporting Journalism and the Maintenance of British Servicemen's Ties to Civilian Life in First World War Propaganda', Sport in History, Vol. 30 No. 3 (Sept. 2010), pp. 374-401.
' "No mere silent commander"? Sir Henry Horne and the mentality of command during the First World War', Historical Research, Vol. 82, no. 216 (May 2009), pp. 340-59.