John Belchem

John Belchem is an emeritus British professor whose work covers popular radicalism in 19th-century Britain, Irish migration, the Isle of Man, and modern history.[1] He has a special interest in the history of Liverpool.[2] He was made a fellow of the Royal Historical Society[3] in 1987 and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.[4]

John Belchem FRHistS, FRSA
Born	May 30, 1948
Occupation	Emeritus Professor of History, University of Liverpool
Academic background
Education	BA (hons) 1970, D.Phil. 1974
Alma mater	University of Sussex
Academic work
Discipline	History

Academic career

Belchem served as head of the School of History, dean of the Faculty of Arts and pro-vice chancellor of the University of Liverpool.[5][1] He is presently vice-president of the Society for the Study of Labour History.[6]

Belchem's 1985 work on Henry Hunt made a "major contribution to our understanding" of political strategies of progressive movements in 19th-century Britain.[7] Industrialization and the Working Class (1990) was viewed as a "lucid and wide-ranging survey of recent works on working-class movements and their context."[8] Popular Radicalism in Nineteenth-Century Britain (1996) was reviewed as an "excellent work" and a "valuable guide" to the literature on Chartism and the origins of the Labour Party.[9] Merseypride (2000), a collection of essays on the history of Liverpool, is considered to be a "valuable work...of a consistently high standard."[10] His Irish, Catholic and Scouse (2007) was noted to have made a "vital contribution to the historiography of the Irish in Britain."[11]

Other activities

Belchem worked on Liverpool's successful bid for UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 2004.[12][13] In 2017,[14] he was appointed to the Liverpool mayor's task force, which assisted in efforts that ensured the city's status was not lost when under review by UNESCO in 2018.[15][16][17]

He was an adviser on Mike Leigh's 2018 film Peterloo.[18]

Selected works

• "Orator" Hunt: Henry Hunt and English Working-Class Radicalism. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 1985.
• Class, Party, and the Political System in Britain, 1867–1914. Oxford, England: Basil Blackwell. 1990.
• Industrialization and the Working Class: The English Experience, 1750–1900. Brookfield, VT: Gower Publishing. 1990.
• Popular Radicalism in Nineteenth-Century Britain. New York, NY: St. Martin's. 1996.
• Merseypride: Essays in Liverpool Exceptionalism. Liverpool, England: Liverpool University Press. 2000. ISBN 9780853237150.
• Irish, Catholic and Scouse: The History of the Liverpool-Irish, 1800-1939. Liverpool, England: Liverpool University Press. 2007. ISBN 9781846311079.
• Before the Windrush: Race Relations in Twentieth-century Liverpool. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. 2014. ISBN 9781846319679.
• John Belchem; Richard Price (2007). Diccionario Akal de Historia del siglo XIX (in Spanish). Translated by Isabel Bennasar Cabrera. ISBN 978-84-460-1848-3.

References

1. "John Belchem - University of Liverpool". www.liverpool.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-11-08.
2. Waller, Philip (2015-08-01). "Before the Windrush: Race Relations in Twentieth-Century Liverpool, by John Belchem". The English Historical Review. 130 (545): 1050–1052. doi:10.1093/ehr/cev152. ISSN 0013-8266.
3. "Current Fellows and Members". RHS. Retrieved 2019-11-09.
4. "Obras de John Belchem". AKAL (in Spanish).
5. "Belchem, John (Charles) 1948– | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2019-11-08.
6. SSLH. "Society officers". Society for the Study of Labour History. Retrieved 2019-11-08.
7. Sykes, Robert (1987). "Review of Orator Hunt, Henry Hunt and English Working-Class Radicalism". Social History. 12 (2): 253–256. ISSN 0307-1022. JSTOR 4285605.
8. Stevenson, John (1994). "Review of Industrialization and the Working Class: The English Experience, 1750-1900". The English Historical Review. 109 (431): 483–484. ISSN 0013-8266. JSTOR 574128.
9. Rule, John (1996). "Review of Popular Radicalism in Nineteenth-Century Britain". The Economic History Review. 49 (4): 840–841. doi:10.2307/2597989. ISSN 0013-0117. JSTOR 2597989.
10. Davies, Sam (2003). "Review of Merseypride: Essays in Liverpool Exceptionalism". The English Historical Review. 118 (476): 539–541. doi:10.1093/ehr/118.476.539. ISSN 0013-8266. JSTOR 3490211.
11. Macpherson, D. A. J. (2008). "Review of Irish, Catholic and Scouse: The History of the Liverpool Irish, 1800-1939". The Economic History Review. 61 (4): 1011–1012. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0289.2008.00447_13.x. ISSN 0013-0117. JSTOR 40057675.
12. Belchem, John. "Redevelopment and conservation have been polarised in Liverpool". Architects Journal. Retrieved 2019-11-28.
13. Wainwright, Oliver (2017-07-01). "'Final warning': Liverpool's Unesco status at risk over docks scheme". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-12-19.
14. "Liverpool creates World Heritage taskforce". Liverpool Express. 2017-10-02. Retrieved 2019-11-08.
15. "Liverpool retains World Heritage status". BBC. 2018-06-26. Retrieved 2019-11-08.
16. "2018 State of Conservation Report by the State Party". UNESCO. 2018. Retrieved 2019-11-28.
17. "2019 State of Conservation Report by the State Party". UNESCO. 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-28.
18. "Peterloo, Professor John Belchem, Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Labour History Society". Nottinghamshire Local History Association. Retrieved 3 January 2020.

External link

• "Professor John Belchem biography" (PDF). Beyond Impacts – Lessons and legacies from researching Liverpool’s European Capital of Culture. University of Liverpool. 2010-03-12. p. 2.