Dr Kristopher Lovell
@drkristopherlovell.bsky.social
Associate Director - Enterprise.
Formerly Assistant Professor and Course Director (MA History) at Coventry Uni and specialist on war, media and journalism and C20th British politics and society. Deaf.
Formerly Assistant Professor and Course Director (MA History) at Coventry Uni and specialist on war, media and journalism and C20th British politics and society. Deaf.
September is the start of a new academic year and for many final year #History students, it is time to pick a #dissertation topic. There's a whole world of history to choose from so how do you narrow your choices?
Here are some of my tips based on my time as a lecturer.
youtu.be/GURIOd9ZsUY?...
Here are some of my tips based on my time as a lecturer.
youtu.be/GURIOd9ZsUY?...
How to Pick a History Dissertation Topic
YouTube video by Dr Kristopher Lovell
youtu.be
August 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM
September is the start of a new academic year and for many final year #History students, it is time to pick a #dissertation topic. There's a whole world of history to choose from so how do you narrow your choices?
Here are some of my tips based on my time as a lecturer.
youtu.be/GURIOd9ZsUY?...
Here are some of my tips based on my time as a lecturer.
youtu.be/GURIOd9ZsUY?...
On 14 November 1940 the city of Coventry suffered one of the most horrific bombing campaigns of the war.
To find out more, watch this fascinating documentary by Dan Snow starring myself and the fantastic Dr Victoria Taylor.
access.historyhit.com/world-war-tw...
To find out more, watch this fascinating documentary by Dan Snow starring myself and the fantastic Dr Victoria Taylor.
access.historyhit.com/world-war-tw...
The Night The War Came Home: Operation Moonlight Sonata - World War Two - History Hit
Dan Snow visits Coventry to tell the tale of the infamous bombing raid that struck the city on the evening of 14 November 1940, 80 years ago. Featuring Dr Kristopher Lovell and Victoria Taylor.
access.historyhit.com
November 14, 2023 at 9:55 AM
On 14 November 1940 the city of Coventry suffered one of the most horrific bombing campaigns of the war.
To find out more, watch this fascinating documentary by Dan Snow starring myself and the fantastic Dr Victoria Taylor.
access.historyhit.com/world-war-tw...
To find out more, watch this fascinating documentary by Dan Snow starring myself and the fantastic Dr Victoria Taylor.
access.historyhit.com/world-war-tw...
A moonlight, midnight rock concert - an excellent end to Alan Wake 2.
A really fantastic Lynchian story. Visually very impressive. Absurd, dark, serious and funny. The voice performances and acting is brilliant. It would definitely be a strong contender for GOTY.
A really fantastic Lynchian story. Visually very impressive. Absurd, dark, serious and funny. The voice performances and acting is brilliant. It would definitely be a strong contender for GOTY.
November 10, 2023 at 2:24 PM
A moonlight, midnight rock concert - an excellent end to Alan Wake 2.
A really fantastic Lynchian story. Visually very impressive. Absurd, dark, serious and funny. The voice performances and acting is brilliant. It would definitely be a strong contender for GOTY.
A really fantastic Lynchian story. Visually very impressive. Absurd, dark, serious and funny. The voice performances and acting is brilliant. It would definitely be a strong contender for GOTY.
Lots of news today about the Covid Inquiry.
Just a reminder there’s a brilliant edited collection exploring some accounts submitted by the public about their experiences: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
Just a reminder there’s a brilliant edited collection exploring some accounts submitted by the public about their experiences: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
November 1, 2023 at 6:41 PM
Lots of news today about the Covid Inquiry.
Just a reminder there’s a brilliant edited collection exploring some accounts submitted by the public about their experiences: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
Just a reminder there’s a brilliant edited collection exploring some accounts submitted by the public about their experiences: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
Currently I have decorative pictures of Rosa Luxembourg and Constance Markievicz.
Who else do we think belongs on my wall?
Who else do we think belongs on my wall?
October 7, 2023 at 8:52 PM
Currently I have decorative pictures of Rosa Luxembourg and Constance Markievicz.
Who else do we think belongs on my wall?
Who else do we think belongs on my wall?
It’s not September yet.
I don’t care what the diaries and calendars say. There’s been a rounding error somewhere.
It’s not September.
I don’t care what the diaries and calendars say. There’s been a rounding error somewhere.
It’s not September.
September 3, 2023 at 9:23 PM
It’s not September yet.
I don’t care what the diaries and calendars say. There’s been a rounding error somewhere.
It’s not September.
I don’t care what the diaries and calendars say. There’s been a rounding error somewhere.
It’s not September.
“Deaf people don’t go to Uni”, my Mum was told by teachers.
Some wouldn’t talk to me directly. “You need to stop letting him think it’s for him”.
I didn’t listen. Did A-Levels at college. Went to Uni for BA, MA, PhD. This week: my first edited collection.
Uni was for me.
Some wouldn’t talk to me directly. “You need to stop letting him think it’s for him”.
I didn’t listen. Did A-Levels at college. Went to Uni for BA, MA, PhD. This week: my first edited collection.
Uni was for me.
August 19, 2023 at 10:49 AM
“Deaf people don’t go to Uni”, my Mum was told by teachers.
Some wouldn’t talk to me directly. “You need to stop letting him think it’s for him”.
I didn’t listen. Did A-Levels at college. Went to Uni for BA, MA, PhD. This week: my first edited collection.
Uni was for me.
Some wouldn’t talk to me directly. “You need to stop letting him think it’s for him”.
I didn’t listen. Did A-Levels at college. Went to Uni for BA, MA, PhD. This week: my first edited collection.
Uni was for me.
Danton desperately running up and down the steps to the guillotine trying to reach the 4000 step mark before it’s his turn.
August 9, 2023 at 5:31 PM
Danton desperately running up and down the steps to the guillotine trying to reach the 4000 step mark before it’s his turn.
Hot off the virtual press today! My chapter on “History Happens To Other People? Memory, Myth and History in #RecordCovid19” published with the brilliant De Gruyter.
Other, much better, chapters from the collection should be available too!
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110731002-002
Other, much better, chapters from the collection should be available too!
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110731002-002
Chapter One History Happens To Other People? Memory, Myth and History in #RecordCovid19
Chapter One History Happens To Other People? Memory, Myth and History in #RecordCovid19 was published in RecordCovid19 on page 7.
doi.org
August 9, 2023 at 12:16 PM
Hot off the virtual press today! My chapter on “History Happens To Other People? Memory, Myth and History in #RecordCovid19” published with the brilliant De Gruyter.
Other, much better, chapters from the collection should be available too!
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110731002-002
Other, much better, chapters from the collection should be available too!
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110731002-002
What do you think is the best written history book you’ve read?
Not in terms of argument or analysis, but engagement and readability. What style inspired you or inflamed your mind through its prose?
Just looking for inspiration as I try to bleed on a page and write something worth reading myself!
Not in terms of argument or analysis, but engagement and readability. What style inspired you or inflamed your mind through its prose?
Just looking for inspiration as I try to bleed on a page and write something worth reading myself!
August 3, 2023 at 7:14 PM
What do you think is the best written history book you’ve read?
Not in terms of argument or analysis, but engagement and readability. What style inspired you or inflamed your mind through its prose?
Just looking for inspiration as I try to bleed on a page and write something worth reading myself!
Not in terms of argument or analysis, but engagement and readability. What style inspired you or inflamed your mind through its prose?
Just looking for inspiration as I try to bleed on a page and write something worth reading myself!
Slowly migrating over to Bluesky - if anyone is interested in thoughts about media history, reviews of horror films, or disability activism/awareness, then I’m your person!
If you want insightful comments to improve your life, then I will help find someone else for you to follow.
If you want insightful comments to improve your life, then I will help find someone else for you to follow.
July 19, 2023 at 6:58 PM
Slowly migrating over to Bluesky - if anyone is interested in thoughts about media history, reviews of horror films, or disability activism/awareness, then I’m your person!
If you want insightful comments to improve your life, then I will help find someone else for you to follow.
If you want insightful comments to improve your life, then I will help find someone else for you to follow.
Is there a comedy sketch based on “Real or Cake?” in which someone discovers all their personal relationships were just cake or have I made that up?
“Your partner of 30 years was never real. They were just marzipan! You are unloved, surrounded by false dreams and cake 🎉🎉🎉”
“Your partner of 30 years was never real. They were just marzipan! You are unloved, surrounded by false dreams and cake 🎉🎉🎉”
July 18, 2023 at 4:26 PM
Is there a comedy sketch based on “Real or Cake?” in which someone discovers all their personal relationships were just cake or have I made that up?
“Your partner of 30 years was never real. They were just marzipan! You are unloved, surrounded by false dreams and cake 🎉🎉🎉”
“Your partner of 30 years was never real. They were just marzipan! You are unloved, surrounded by false dreams and cake 🎉🎉🎉”
Saw a handwritten sign for a film viewing:
A S T E R O I D
CITY
I feel that’s a very different Wes Anderson film.
A S T E R O I D
CITY
I feel that’s a very different Wes Anderson film.
July 11, 2023 at 6:35 PM
Saw a handwritten sign for a film viewing:
A S T E R O I D
CITY
I feel that’s a very different Wes Anderson film.
A S T E R O I D
CITY
I feel that’s a very different Wes Anderson film.
If Twitter, or other social media sites, do shut down in the future entirely, how do people think we can we best preserve the rich insights into people’s lives as historians, sociologists, political scientists etc?
Or should we even? Should ephemera be left to be, well, ephemeral?
Or should we even? Should ephemera be left to be, well, ephemeral?
July 11, 2023 at 4:27 PM
If Twitter, or other social media sites, do shut down in the future entirely, how do people think we can we best preserve the rich insights into people’s lives as historians, sociologists, political scientists etc?
Or should we even? Should ephemera be left to be, well, ephemeral?
Or should we even? Should ephemera be left to be, well, ephemeral?
Shameless self-promotional news!!
#RecordCovid19: Historicizing Experiences of the Pandemic has a planned publication date of 21 August 2023.
Lots of interesting chapters from brilliant contributors!
https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783110731002/html?lang=en
#RecordCovid19: Historicizing Experiences of the Pandemic has a planned publication date of 21 August 2023.
Lots of interesting chapters from brilliant contributors!
https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783110731002/html?lang=en
RecordCovid19
RecordCovid19. Historicizing Experiences of the Pandemic provides insights into the experience of the Covid19 pandemic from an historical and sociological perspective. Using the first-hand testimonies...
www.degruyter.com
July 10, 2023 at 10:37 AM
Shameless self-promotional news!!
#RecordCovid19: Historicizing Experiences of the Pandemic has a planned publication date of 21 August 2023.
Lots of interesting chapters from brilliant contributors!
https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783110731002/html?lang=en
#RecordCovid19: Historicizing Experiences of the Pandemic has a planned publication date of 21 August 2023.
Lots of interesting chapters from brilliant contributors!
https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783110731002/html?lang=en
Best horror films or TV shows to cheer you up on a gloomy Sunday? Happy to try any suggestions.
July 9, 2023 at 2:29 PM
Best horror films or TV shows to cheer you up on a gloomy Sunday? Happy to try any suggestions.
Asked to check over some suggestions for minor revisions to a chapter I submitted 18 months ago.
I remember none of it.
I wrote it. But if you’d given me it to read without telling me, I’d have happily critiqued it as if it was someone else’s.
“Who thought this was acceptable?!
Oh wait. Me.”
I remember none of it.
I wrote it. But if you’d given me it to read without telling me, I’d have happily critiqued it as if it was someone else’s.
“Who thought this was acceptable?!
Oh wait. Me.”
July 5, 2023 at 10:41 AM
Asked to check over some suggestions for minor revisions to a chapter I submitted 18 months ago.
I remember none of it.
I wrote it. But if you’d given me it to read without telling me, I’d have happily critiqued it as if it was someone else’s.
“Who thought this was acceptable?!
Oh wait. Me.”
I remember none of it.
I wrote it. But if you’d given me it to read without telling me, I’d have happily critiqued it as if it was someone else’s.
“Who thought this was acceptable?!
Oh wait. Me.”
Reposted by Dr Kristopher Lovell
July 4th is over; spooky season dawns. Happy Halloween y'all
July 5, 2023 at 7:21 AM
July 4th is over; spooky season dawns. Happy Halloween y'all
When it comes to crunch time to meet a deadline what working environment do you prefer:
Complete silence, like you’re composing a symphony in your head?
Or
Work disco, hammering out words to the rhythm?
Complete silence, like you’re composing a symphony in your head?
Or
Work disco, hammering out words to the rhythm?
July 4, 2023 at 1:36 PM
When it comes to crunch time to meet a deadline what working environment do you prefer:
Complete silence, like you’re composing a symphony in your head?
Or
Work disco, hammering out words to the rhythm?
Complete silence, like you’re composing a symphony in your head?
Or
Work disco, hammering out words to the rhythm?
I’m a media historian first and foremost so whilst things are quiet -
With bastions of social media like Facebook and Twitter declining, where do you think the future of social media lies? And what are you hoping changes and what do you want to stay the same?
With bastions of social media like Facebook and Twitter declining, where do you think the future of social media lies? And what are you hoping changes and what do you want to stay the same?
July 3, 2023 at 8:29 AM
I’m a media historian first and foremost so whilst things are quiet -
With bastions of social media like Facebook and Twitter declining, where do you think the future of social media lies? And what are you hoping changes and what do you want to stay the same?
With bastions of social media like Facebook and Twitter declining, where do you think the future of social media lies? And what are you hoping changes and what do you want to stay the same?
Interested in modern history?
Intrigued by media theory?
Fascinated by horror?
Confused by life?
Me too so feel free to follow me.
I don’t have the answers but I can help with the questions.
Intrigued by media theory?
Fascinated by horror?
Confused by life?
Me too so feel free to follow me.
I don’t have the answers but I can help with the questions.
July 3, 2023 at 8:19 AM
Interested in modern history?
Intrigued by media theory?
Fascinated by horror?
Confused by life?
Me too so feel free to follow me.
I don’t have the answers but I can help with the questions.
Intrigued by media theory?
Fascinated by horror?
Confused by life?
Me too so feel free to follow me.
I don’t have the answers but I can help with the questions.