David Grant
- Email: hydgr@leeds.ac.uk
- Thesis title: British Jewish volunteers in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39.
- Supervisors: Professor Peter Anderson, Dr Nir Arielli
Profile
I am a first year doctoral researcher working on British Jewish volunteers in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39. I graduated with a BA in History at the University of Essex in 1980 and earned an M.Sc in Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck College in 1989. Following a long career as a secondary school teacher I returned to higher education in 2019 to study an MA in Holocaust Studies at Royal Holloway where I graduated with Distinction in 2021.
Research interests
British volunteers of Jewish descent and the International Brigades
The Spanish Civil War
Spanish Republican prisoners in Nazi Concentration Camps
The British labour movement in the inter-war period.
The Communist Party of Great Britain 1920-1945
Qualifications
- MA Holocaust Studies
- Msc (Econ) Politics and Sociology
- BA History Hons