Publications

2023 ‘Paying the price for allies: Britain, the Seven and the EFTA Stockholm negotiations’, Diplomacy and Statecraft 34, no. 3: 516-542

2022 Britain, the Division of Europe and the Creation of EFTA, 1955-60 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) – with Richard T. Griffiths

2021 ‘Deepening ties but unfulfilled hopes: The EFTA dimension of Western Europe’s relations with Tito’s Yugoslavia’, International History Review 44, no. 3: 595-612

2021 ‘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)

2020 ‘Democracy promotion and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA): Four case studies’, EFTA Bulletin: 4–17

2020 Beyond Brussels: Reassessing European Unity in East and West Europe since 1945 (Palgrave Macmillan) – co-edited with Suvi Kansikas

2020 ‘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) – with Suvi Kansikas

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

2019 ‘Transatlantic relations and Finland’s application to the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), 1959–61’, Faravid 48: 65–87

2019 ‘EFTA as a promoter and guarantor of democracy’, EFTA Court Seminar Series 

2018 ‘Ignoring Europe? Reassessing the British Labour Party’s policy towards European integration, 1951–60’, Journal of European Integration History 24, no. 1: 95–114

2017 Harold Wilson, Denmark and the Making of Labour European Policy 1958–1972 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press)

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

2017 ‘Cooperation between British and EFTA trade unions, 1960–77’, Institut d’Études politiques de Strasbourg

2017 Review of Kristian Steinnes, The British Labour Party, Transnational Influences and European Community Membership, 1960–1973, Journal of Contemporary History, 52. no. 1: 182–83

2016 ‘Keeping your friends close: British foreign policy and the Nordek negotiations, 1968–1972’, Contemporary European History, 25, no. 3: 459–80

2016 ‘Why Britain needs the EU – and the EU needs Britain’, Turun Sanomat, 2

2016 ‘Peace through trade liberalisation: The Cold War and EFTA’, New Diplomatic History network conference, University of Copenhagen

2016 ‘The Labour Party and European Integration 1955–60’, University of Helsinki

2015 ‘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 (Baden-Baden: Nomos)

2015 ‘Anglo-Danish relations and European policy in the “long” 1960s’, Rethinking Contemporary British Political History conference, QMUL

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

2014 Review of 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, 311–12

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

2013 ‘Anglo-Danish relations and British foreign policy in the ‘long’ 1960s’, Department of Political History research seminar, University of Turku, Finland

2012 ‘Britain, Denmark and the Question of Europe since 1945’, School of Humanities Research Seminar, University of Gloucestershire, UK

2011 ‘Joining Europe? Socialists from Britain and Scandinavia and the road to the EC’s first enlargement’, International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam

2011 Review of Anita Pollack, Wreckers or Builders? A History of Labour MEPs, Journal of Common Market Studies, 49, no. 2: 491

2011 Review of Geraint Hughes, Harold Wilson’s Cold War: The Labour Government and East West Politics, 1964–1970, Socialist History Journal, 38: 116–19

2010 ‘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: 205-22 – with Oliver Daddow

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

2010 ‘European socialists and the import surcharge’, EU Liaison Committee of Historians, Aarhus University

2010 Review of David Redvaldsen, The Labour Party in Britain and Norway: Elections and the Pursuit of Power, Twentieth Century British History, 24, no. 1: 153–55

2010 Review of 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: 289–91

2010 Review of European Navigator: the Authoritative Multimedia Reference on the History of Europe (www.ena.lu), Reviews in History, no. 951 [co-authored with Christian Salm]

2009 ‘The European narratives of the British Labour party’, EUI, Florence

2009 ‘The British, Danish and Norwegian socialists parties and EFTA’, Institute of Historical Research, London