Keith Grieves

Biography

"Keith is currently a reader in history, as well as programme leader of the EdD, in which he also supervises student research proposals and projects. In addition, Keith provides supervision for MPhil and PhD history students and delivers teaching in history education on the BA in primary teaching and PGCE programmes. Between 2000 and 2007 he held the role of Director of Research for the School of Education. He has undertaken research on rural communities in the era of the Great War including landscape and memory; the propinquity of place; woodland as a material and recreational resource; libraries and reading rooms, and the landed military nexus in downland and wealden settings. Keith has published a number of book chapters, journal articles and conference papers on the impact of war on British society in the early twentieth century, including case studies arising from Surrey, Sussex and southern England."

Research Interest

History of rural communities in south-east England in the era of the Great War; history landscape and memory in the era of the First World War; the rural libraries movement history in early twentieth century England; history of woodland as a material and recreational resource in war and peace in the twentieth century.