Member Profile
Name:
Dr Petros Spanou
Institution:
University of Oxford
Academic status:
University/college academic
Main discipline:
History
Additional disciplines:
Cultural Studies
Other societies:
1. Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
2. Postdoctoral Associate Member, Faculty of History, University of Oxford
3. Member of the International Network for Crimean War Studies
2. Postdoctoral Associate Member, Faculty of History, University of Oxford
3. Member of the International Network for Crimean War Studies
Research interests:
I am an historian of Modern Britain, with a particular interest in religious, intellectual, and cultural history. My research primarily examines how clerical and lay intellectuals addressed complex questions of war and peace which intersected with religion and morality. It focuses on the period between 1851—the year which saw the apogee of the peace movement and of ideas of non-interventionism, liberal internationalism, and free trade—and the outbreak of the First World War. My work draws on visual and material culture, secular and religious newspapers and periodicals (metropolitan and provincial), pamphlets, tracts, parliamentary debates, letters, diaries, poetry, fiction, and sermons.