Helen Parr

Helen Parr joined Keele in 2004. She previously taught in the International History Department at LSE. She studied History at Clare College, Cambridge, and Contemporary British History at Queen Mary College, University of London.

Her research interests are in the field of contemporary British political and social history. She has worked on Britain’s relations with the EC/EU, the Labour Party and European integration, Britain’s Cold War and nuclear weapons policies and British-French relations.

Her most recent work was a social and cultural history of the Parachute Regiment and the 1982 Falklands War, Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper (Allen Lane, 2018). Our Boys won the Templer Medal Book Prize, the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History, the Longman-History Today Book Prize and was Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing.

It was Book of the Day in the Guardian, the Evening Standard and the Spectator, one of the Guardian’s Ten Biggest Reads of the Autumn in 2018, and a Spectator Book of the Year in 2019.

BOOKS

PUBLICATIONS

Parr, Helen. 01-01-2024. 'The all‐consuming mess of leaving the EU'. The Political Quarterly. DOI > view in repository >

Parr, Helen. 21-12-2022. 'comaw Staff and hms Fearless 1982'. International Journal of Military History and Historiography. DOI > view in repository >

Woodward, Rachel; Benwell, Matthew C.; Neil Jenkings, K.; Natale, Eleonora; Parr, Helen. 03-07-2022. 'Reflections on Conflict and Culture on the 40th Anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas War'. Journal of War & Culture Studies. DOI > view in repository >

Parr, Helen. 03-07-2022. 'Remembering the Falklands war in Britain: From Division to Conviction?'. Journal of War & Culture Studies. DOI > view in repository >

Parr, Helen. 01-05-2019. 'Visions, Votes and Vetoes: The Empty Chair Crisis and the Luxembourg Compromise Thirty Years On'. JOURNAL OF COLD WAR STUDIES. view in repository >

Parr, Helen. 01-08-2018. 'Continental Drift: Britain and Europe from the End of Empire to the Rise of Euroscepticism'. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW. DOI > view in repository >

Parr, Helen. 21-08-2013. ''The Nuclear Myth': Edward Heath, Europe, and the International Politics of Anglo-French Nuclear Co-Operation 1970-3'. INTERNATIONAL HISTORY REVIEW. DOI > view in repository >

PARR, HELEN. 01-05-2013. 'The British Decision to Upgrade Polaris, 1970–4'. Contemporary European History. DOI > view in repository >

Parr, Helen. 11-07-2024. 'Ground Truth: The Moral Component in British Contemporary Warfare (Ed. by Frank Ledwidge, Helen Parr & Aaron Edwards)'. . view in repository >

Parr. 06-09-2018. 'Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper'. . view in repository >

Parr, Helen. . 'Chatham House and the Challenges of Europe'. . view in repository >

Parr, Helen. . 'Shirley Williams: Breaking the Mould?'. . view in repository >

Parr, Helen. . 'Britain as a European nation state'. . view in repository >

Parr, Helen. 11-07-2024. 'Remembering the British soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan'. . view in repository >

Parr, Helen. 14-06-2018. 'European integration'. . DOI > view in repository >

Parr, Helen. 27-07-2015. 'Representations of grief and the Falklands War'. . DOI > view in repository >

Parr, Helen. 01-01-2014. 'National Interest and the Falklands War'. . DOI > view in repository >

Parr, Helen. 29-10-2013. 'Patrick Reilly, 1965–68'. . DOI > view in repository >

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