Below you’ll find a lit of my publications and talks. If you’d like a copy of a particular piece and for some reason you can’t access it, don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Monographs and edited collections

The Labour Party and European Integration: A Biographical Approach (Bristol University Press, 2025) – co-edited with William King [link]

The Unfinished History of European Integration (Amsterdam University Press, 2024) – with Koen van Zon, Alessandra Schimmel, Jorrit Steehouder, Aleksandra Komornicka and Paul Reef [link]

Britain, the Division of Europe and the Creation of EFTA, 1955-1963 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) – with Richard T. Griffiths [link]

European Integration Beyond Brussels: Unity in East and West Europe since 1945 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) – co-edited with Suvi Kansikas [link]

Harold Wilson, Denmark and the Making of Labour European Policy 1958-1972 (Liverpool University Press, 2017) [link]

Peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters

‘Passivity or support? The European Free Trade Association (EFTA), Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War’, Journal of Modern European History (2025) [link]

‘Failed regionalism? The nexus between Nordic cooperation and European integration after 1945’, in R. Harmsen, A. Högenauer and S. Paravantis (eds.), The Benelux, Regional Groupings and the Dynamics of European Integration: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives (Brill, 2025)

‘The roots of “a thousand years of history”: Hugh Gaitskell’s stance on EEC membership’, in M. Broad and W. King (eds.), The Labour Party and European Integration: A Biographical Approach (Bristol University Press, 2025)

‘A biographical approach to the study of Labour and European integration’, in M. Broad and W. King (eds.), The Labour Party and European Integration: A Biographical Approach (Bristol University Press, 2025) – with William King

‘Reflections on a biographical approach to the Labour Party and European integration’, in M. Broad and W. King (eds.), The Labour Party and European Integration: A Biographical Approach (Bristol University Press, 2025) – with William King

‘Paying the price for allies: Britain, the Seven and the EFTA Stockholm negotiations’, Diplomacy and Statecraft 34, no. 3 (2023), 516-42 [link]

‘Deepening ties but unfulfilled hopes: The EFTA dimension of Western Europe’s relations with Tito’s Yugoslavia’, International History Review 44, no. 2 (2022), 595-612 [link]

‘Democracy promotion and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA): Four case studies’, EFTA Bulletin, no. 1 (2021), 4-17 [link]

‘Negotiating “outer Europe”: The Trades Union Congress (TUC), European trade union cooperation and European integration in the 1950s’, History of European Ideas 46, no. 1 (2020), 59-78 [link]

‘Transatlantic relations and Finland’s application to the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), 1959-61’, Faravid no. 48 (2019), 65-87 [link]

‘Recasting the history and politics of European integration “beyond Brussels”’, in M. Broad and S. Kansikas (eds.), European Integration Beyond Brussels: Unity in East and West Europe since 1945 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) [link] – with Suvi Kansikas

‘Ignoring Europe? Reassessing the British Labour Party’s policy towards European integration, 1951-60’, Journal of European Integration History 24, no. 1 (2018), 95-114 [link]

‘Keeping your friends close: British foreign policy and the Nordek negotiations, 1968-1972’, Contemporary European History 25, no. 3 (2016) 459-80 [link]

‘Awkward partners? The British Labour Party and European integration in the 1970s’, in G. Thiemeyer and J. Raflik (ed.), European Political Parties and the First Direct Elections to the European Parliament (Nomos, 2015) [link]

‘Anglo-Nordic relations: past, present, future’, Baltic Rim Economies Quarterly Review, no. 7 (2013) [link]

‘Half remembered quotations from mostly forgotten speeches: the limits of Labour’s European policy discourse’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations 12, no. 2 (2010), 205-22 [link] – with Oliver Daddow

Popular publications

‘EFTA as a promotor and guarantor of democracy’, EFTA Court Seminar Series (2019), online [link]

‘After Brexit: What do we know about EFTA?’, Leiden International Relations Blog (2019), online

‘In the European Union we become like them’, Leidsch Dagblag (2018) [link]

‘Why Britain needs the EU – and the EU needs Britain’, Turun Sanomat (2016), online [link]

 ‘The most unpredictable election in electoral history?’, Centre for Parliamentary Studies (2015), online [link]

Reviews

Kristian Steinnes, The British Labour Party, Transnational Influences and European Community Membership, 1960-1973, Journal of Contemporary History 52, no. 1 (2017), 182-83 [link]

Frédéric Bozo, Marie-Pierre Rey, N. Piers Ludlow and Bernd Rother (eds.), Visions of the End of the Cold War in Europe, 1945-1990, European History Quarterly 44, no. 2 (2014), 311-12 [link]

Anita Pollack, Wreckers or Builders? A History of Labour MEPs, Journal of Common Market Studies, 49 no. 2 (2011), 491 [link]

Geraint Hughes, The Labour Government and East-West Politics, 1964-1970, Socialist History Journal 38 (2011), 116-19 [link]

David Redvaldsen, The Labour Party in Britain and Norway: Elections and the Pursuit of Power, Twentieth Century British History 24, no.1 (2010), 153-55 [link] 

Wolfram Kaiser, Brigitte Leucht and Morten Rasmussen (eds.), The History of the European Union: Origins of a Trans- and Supranational Polity, 1950-72, Journal of Contemporary European Research 6, no. 2 (2010), 289-91 [link] Invited talks, conference participation and event organisation

Invited talks, conference participation and event organisation

‘The contribution of economic integration to ending the Cold War divide’, British International History Group conference, KCL, 2024

Invited speaker, ‘Free trade and the Cold War’, Berlin Economic and Social History group, Humboldt University, 2023

Invited speaker, ‘Going against the tide? Sceptical views and alternative visions of European integration’, German Historical Institute London, 2022

‘Yugoslavia and Western Europe’, Cold War Research Network, 2020

Invited speaker (online), ‘Key moments in European integration – an historical overview’, University of Amsterdam, 2020

Invited keynote (online), EFTA’s 60th anniversary conference, Geneva, 2020

‘How Britain (didn’t) influence(d) EU foreign policy’, Holland House, 2019

‘Brexit: How did we end up here?’, Food for Thought seminar, Leiden Institute of Political Science, 2019

‘The success and limits of sub-regionalism: The Nordic states and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA)’, University of Luxembourg, 2019

‘Britain and the EU: A complicated relationship’, Leids Europafestiva, 2019

‘The Labour Party and the FTA/EFTA debate in the 1950s’, The Place of the International in British Politics since 1918, Queen Mary University of London, 2017

Organiser, ‘Competing Visions: European Integration beyond the EC/EU’, Helsinki University, 2017

‘Peace through trade liberalisation: EFTA as a cold war actor’, New Diplomatic History conference, University of Copenhagen, 2016

Organiser, Diplomacy Series with keynotes by UK and French ambassadors to Finland, 2016

‘The Labour Party and European integration 1955-60’, University of Helsinki, 2016

‘Awkward partners? Labour’s European policy from the 1960s-today’, Shaping the Labour Party’ conference, Bangor University, Wales, 2015

Coordinator, European Integration History Seminar research series, Reading University, 2011-13

‘Joining Europe? Britain, Scandinavia and the EC’s first enlargement’, International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam, 2010

Organiser, ‘European integration and the Cold War, 1945-1989’ conference, Reading University, 2010

Coordinator, International Network of European Social Democracy, 2009-13