Profile
Dr Aled Davies
Profile
I went to Brynteg Comprehensive School in Bridgend, before taking my first degree in History at the University of Exeter. I then came to Oxford as a postgraduate student, and completed my doctorate in 2014. I subsequently taught and researched at the universities of Bristol and Cambridge, before returning to Oxford in 2019.
College teaching
I teach the following undergraduate papers:
Prelims
o History of the British Isles, 1830-1951
o European and World History, 1815-1914
o 1919: Remaking the World
o Historiography
o Approaches to Economics (Economics; Sociology)
Final Honours School
o History of the British Isles, 1815-1924
o History of the British Isles, 1900-Present
o Europe Divided, 1914-1989
o The Global Twentieth Century, 1930-2003
o Britain in the 1970s
- Research
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I am an historian of the political economy of modern Britain in a global context, with a particular focus on the second half of the twentieth century. I am especially interested in the transformation of the global political economy and its governance between the 1960s and the 1990s, and of Britain's place in this process. This was a period in which the world experienced an intensification of economic globalisation, and it is a period that is commonly characterised as witnessing a shift from something we tend to describe as a ‘social democratic’ model of managed industrial capitalism, to what is often characterised as a ‘neoliberal’ and 'financialised' global capitalist model.
- Select publications
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(with Hugh Pemberton & James Freeman), A Neoliberal Revolution? Thatcherism and the reform of British Pensions (Manchester University Press, 2024)
The City of London and Social Democracy: the political economy of finance in Britain, 1959–1979 (Oxford University Press, 2017)
(ed. with Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite & Ben Jackson), The Neoliberal Age? Britain since the 1970s (UCL Press, 2021)
‘Pension Funds and the Politics of Ownership in Britain, c. 1970–86’, Twentieth Century British History, 30:1 (2019), 81–107
'Right to Buy: the development of a Conservative housing policy, 1945–80’, Contemporary British History, 27:4 (2013), 421–44