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Dr Richard Smith

Richard explores media representations of black and Asian troops within multicultural memory and commemoration processes.

Staff details

Teaching

  • MC52014B Media, Modernity and Social Thought
  • MC52063A Media, Memory and Conflict
  • MC53001B Personal Tutored Research (coordinator)

Publications and research outputs

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Research Interests

Richard has written widely on the experience of West Indian troops in both World Wars and the race and gender implications of military service in the British Empire, including Jamaican Volunteers in the First World War: Race, Masculinity and the Development of National Consciousness (2004, 2009). Richard’s current research focuses on representations of black and Asian troops in popular history documentary and the role these images serve within the national memory of multicultural Britain. He also continues to research the black presence in Britain 1900-1945; the role of the mass media in the British Empire, and comparative history approaches to colonial soldiery in modern empires. Richard’s expertise is regularly sought by broadcasters, museums and archives and he is involved in a number of academic and local history initiatives marking the centenary of the First World War. Richard was on the advisory committee for the  project funded by the AHRC, he is a contributing author to  and the  and has recently joined the editorial board of the .