Dr Tim Rees BA MA Lond DPhil Oxon

Research supervision

Most aspects of the history and politics of Spain from 1808 to the present day. I would be particularly interested in supervising research on Spanish agrarian history, topics related to the Second Republic, Civil War and Franco regime, and on the history of Communist movements in Spain.

Europe from 1750 to the present day, particularly agrarian history, the Communist International

The First World War. I have supervised large numbers of undergraduate and MA students in the area of Britain and the war, and the legacy of war, and would welcome the chance to supervise at doctoral level. I would be interested in supervising research students interested in cultural and social aspects of the war, and particularly in the photographic and artistic responses to the conflict.

Research students

Mark Rothery: Transformation through Adaptation: the English Landed Gentry of Devon, Hertfordshire and Lincolnshire, c. 1870-1939 (completed 2005)

Alex Cattell: The Transformation of Madrid 1959-1975 (in progress)

Samuel Pierce: Political Catholicism during the Spanish Second Republic (in progress)

Research interests

Politics and society in modern Spain. My current research is on the rural origins of civil war in Spain, and on the history of Spanish communism in the era of the Communist International (1919-43).

The agrarian history of Europe. I am currently completing a book that examines modernity in Europe, from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day, from a rural perspective.