Mark Connelly is a professor and Head of the School of History, at the University of Kent in Canterbury, where he is both a military historian, and the Reuters Lecturer in Media History. Connelly specialises in the 19th Century and First World War.^[1]

He is also the author of a book on the Second World War and the British home front called, We Can Take It!, as well as other books and essays.^[2][3][4]

He took his PhD at Queen Mary & Westfield College.^[5]

In December 2007, Connelly appeared on the BBC television show The One Show, commenting on the social history of Christmas in the UK.

Books

• Christmas: A Social History (London, I.B. Tauris, September 1999)
• (Editor) Christmas at the Movies: The Representation of Christmas in American, British and European Cinema (London, I.B. Tauris, October 2000)
• Reaching for the Stars: A New History of Bomber Command in World War II (London, I.B. Tauris, December 2000; 2014)
  • Review, Air and Space Power Journal, Fall 2002 reprint
  • Review. The Journal of Military History, April 2004, v.68, #2
• The Great War: Memory and Ritual (Suffolk, Boydell & Brewer, 2002)
  • Review by Janet Watson Twentieth Century British History 2004 15(4):436-438; doi:10.1093/tcbh/15.4.436)
• British Film Guides: The Charge of the Light Brigade (London, I.B. Tauris, 2003)
• We Can Take It! Britain and the memory of the Second World War (Harlow, Pearson Longman, 2004)
  • Review, ContemporLongmanary Review July 2005.
• (ed. with D. Welch) War and the Media: propaganda and reportage, 1900-2003 (London, I.B. Tauris, 2004)
• British Film Guides: The Red Shoes (London, I.B. Tauris, 2005)
• Steady the Buffs! The East Kent Regiment and the Great War (Oxford, OUP, 2006)
• The Hardy Boys mysteries, 1927-1979 - A Cultural and Literary History (2008)