Helen Graham

Helen Graham (born 1959) is a British historian. She is Professor Emeritus of Modern European History at the Department of History, Royal Holloway University of London. She co-wrote a standard reference work on Spanish cultural studies with Jo Lebanyi, and her introduction to the Spanish Civil War sold more than fifty thousand copies and was translated into five other languages.

Life Helen Graham was born in Liverpool in 1959. She earned a DPhil at Oxford. She has worked at the University of Southampton, New York University and most recently Royal Holloway University of London, where she is Professor Emeritus of Modern European History in the Department of History.

Graham has work has been published widely, including in the Guardian, Independent on Sunday, History Today, BBC History, Literary Review and the London Review of Books. She has written a number of books, including Spanish Cultural Studies with Jo Labanyi, published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in 1995, which became the standard reference work. The 2005 OUP The Spanish Civil War. A Very Short Introduction sold more than 50,000 copies and was translated into Spanish, German, Portuguese, Greek and Turkish.

Publications

PaperYearTypePublishedOther"Against the State: a genealogy of the Barcelona May Days of 1937"1999European History Quarterly 29:4 (Oct. 1999) pp. 485–542