Peter Catterall

Peter Catterall is Reader in the History Department of the University of Westminster, Queen Mary, University of London and also serves as Lecturer in public policy and democracy at the Hansard Society to promote parliamentary democracy. From 1999-2000 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the Westminster Churchill Institute., and then lecturer at Queen Mary University of London.
Catterall is a specialist on the history of the twentieth century, and founding editor of the journal National Identities.
He has worked in conflict studies and nationalism, and for his earlier work on 20th century history, including the history of mass media, and as editor of the diaries of Harold Macmillan. In the widely cited [5] Northcliffe's Legacy, he explores the role of news media in the "persistence" of popular misunderstandings of Einstein's Theory of relativity.

• British history, 1945-1987: an annotated bibliography, Oxford University Press, 1991.
• The Macmillan Diaries, Macmillan, 2003 - 2011.
• Understanding post-war British society, Routledge, 2004.
• Britain and the threat to stability in Europe, 1918–45, Leicester University Press, 1993.
• The Northern Ireland question in British politics, St. Martin's Press, 1996.
• Northcliffe's legacy : aspects of the British popular press, 1896-1996, co-edited with Colin Seymour-Ure and Adrian Smith
• Conservative century: the Conservative Party since 1900, Oxford University Press, 1994
• British foreign policy, 1955-64: contracting options, St. Martin's Press, 2000.