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Professor Geoffrey Alderman 
Job title: Professor of Politics & Contemporary History
Department: International Studies
Areas of expertise:
- British political and social history since the mid-19th Century
- Contemporary British politics
- History of British industrial relations
- Anglo-Jewish history
- Quality issues in higher education in the UK and the USA
Further details:
Geoffrey Alderman is Michael Gross Professor of Modern History at Buckingham. He was educated at the University of Oxford, from which he holds the degrees of MA, DPhil and DLitt. His many books include:
- British Elections: Myth & Reality (1978)
- The Jewish Community in British Politics (1983)
- Modern Britain (1986)
- London Jewry and London Politics (1989)
- Modern British Jewry (1998)
The author and co-author of twelve monographs and over ninety learned articles on these and related themes, Professor Alderman is also a prolific journalist, writing a regular column for the Jewish Chronicle and contributing articles to the Times Higher Education Supplement and the Education Guardian. He is currently researching the impact of marketisation on quality and standards in British and American universities, the role of Zionism in the history of British Jewry, and the relationship between Thatcherism and the British-Jewish communities. He is much in demand as a speaker both in the UK and internationally. In September 2007 he addressed in Warsaw an audience of eastern European academics and legislators on "The Secret Government of the United Kingdom".
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