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School of History

Dr George Morris

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

Email: george.morris@qmul.ac.uk

Profile

Dr George Morris studied for his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Cambridge, where he was also an AHRC Postdoctoral Fellow. During his PhD he held visiting fellowships at the Library of Congress and the Huntington Library. He joined Queen Mary University of London in 2024.

His work mainly concerns belief and intimacy in modern Britain. Morris's first book will be a study of Catholic and Anglican confession in nineteenth-century England, and what this intimate practice can tell us about modern Britain more broadly. The next project is also about belief and intimacy, but this time looks at the history of psychical research. An article he published on this subject won the Duncan Tanner Prize.

Research

Publications

'Intimacy in Modern British History’, Historical Journal 64:3 (2021), 796-811.

‘The trance phenomena of Mrs Thompson: mediumship, evidence, and intimacy in early twentieth-century Britain’, Twentieth Century British History 32:4 (2021), 608-629.

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