Professional Affiliation

Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Keele University

Expert Bio

Helen Parr is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Keele University. She is author of Britain’s Policy towards the European Community, 1964-7: Harold Wilson and Britain’s World Role (2006) and Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper (2018), which won the Templer Medal Book Prize, the Wellington Medal for Military History, the Longman-History Today Book Prize, and was longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing.