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Professor Glen O’Hara – New Labour, New Britain? How Much did Tony Blair’s Governments Change the Country?
October 22 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Professor O’Hara was at Oxford University as an undergraduate and a postgraduate between 1993 and 1997, where he won the Gladstone Prize for History and Politics. After working as a journalist at The Independent, he moved back into academia at University College London, where he completed a PhD in 2002. In 2001 he was appointed Lecturer in Economic History at the University of Bristol, where he spent a year before moving to New College, Oxford, as Lecturer in Modern History. He moved to Oxford Brookes in January 2005.