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Sam Wetherell
Senior Lecturer in the History of Britain and the World

Biography

Sam Wetherell is a Senior Lecturer in the History of Britain and the World. Before arriving at York, Sam completed his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, and spent a year as a visiting lecturer at Columbia University.

Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain by Sam Wetherell

Sam specialises in urban history, black British history and histories of culture and art-making. His first book, ‘Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain’ (2020) tells the story of how twentieth century British politics was shaped by the everyday spaces where people live, work and shop. He has also published articles about the history of community arts, the development of urban policy in Britain and the United States and the history of how cities have responded to some of the environmental challenges of deindustrialisation. He is currently working on a history of Liverpool since 1945 that ties together histories of racial inequality, decolonisation, deindustrialization and environmental degradation provisionally titled “The Burden of Obsolescence: Liverpool and the Un-Making of Modern Britain.”  

A collection of Sam’s academic and non-academic writings on culture and politics can be found on his website www.samwetherell.com He welcomes interest from undergraduate and graduate students who work on modern urban history, black British history and British environmental history.

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Dr Sam Wetherell
Department of History
University of York
Vanbrugh College V/A/219
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD

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