Invited Researcher of DEA Programme Stay in France: from October 4th to December 6th, 2022
Barry Doyle studied for his degree and doctorate at the University of East Anglia. He helds a number of temporary posts, including the university of Edinburgh, before moving to the University of Teesside in 1997 and the University of Huddersfield in 2008. In 2011 he helds a Wellcome Research fellowship to study hospital development in northern England and between 2016 and 2020 he was CI on an AHRC project led by Dr Rosemary Cresswell examining First Aid in 20th Century England and France. His current research focuses on colonial hospitals in British and French West Africa.
The projet
Title: French Colonial Healthcare in its Metropolitan Context
The Politics of Hospital Provision in Early Twentieth Century Britain (Routledge 2014)
Urban Politics and Space in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Regional Perspectives (ed.) (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007)
‘Les soins hospitaliers en Grande-Bretagne pendant l’entre-deux-guerres : un marché de la santé ?‘ [Hospital care in interwar Britain: A health market?’] in B. Valat (ed.), Marches de la sante en Europe au XXe siècle (Presses Universitaires du Midi, 2021), 89-112.
With Frank Grombir, Melissa Hibbard & Balazs Szelinger, ’Hospital Provision in Interwar Central Europe: A Review of the Field’, European Review of History, 28/5-6, (2021), 740-64.
With Frank Grombir, Melissa Hibbard & Balazs Szelinger, ‘Crisis, nation and healthcare: Creating hospital systems in inter war Central Europe’ in M. Gorsky, M. Vilar-Rodríguez and J. Pons-Pons (Eds), The Political Economy of the Hospital in History: The Construction, Funding and Management of Public and Private Hospital Systems (University of Huddersfield Press, 2020), 137-180
’Le développement des systèmes hospitaliers dans les nouveaux pays d’Europe centrale pendant l’entre-deux-guerres’, Revue d’histoire de la protection sociale 18/1, (2018), 119-41
‘Healthcare before welfare states: Hospitals in early twentieth century England and France’ Canadian Bulletin of Medical History Vol.33.1 (2016), 174-204.
With Nick Hayes, ‘Eggs, Rags and Whist Drives: Popular Munificence and the Development of Provincial Medical Voluntarism between the Wars’ Historical Research 86:234 (2013), 712-740
With Anthony McElligott, ‘The Rise and Fall of European Municipal Power since 1800’ International Journal of Regional and Local Studies 7/1&2 (2011), 8-35.
‘Labour and hospitals in three Yorkshire towns: Middlesbrough, Leeds, Sheffield, 1919-1938’ Social History of Medicine 23:2 (2010), 374-92.
‘The changing functions of urban government: Councillors, officials and pressure groups, 1835-1950’ in M.J. Daunton (ed.), The Cambridge Urban History of Britain: Volume 3 (CUP, Cambridge, 2000), 287-313.
'The structure of elite power in the early twentieth century city: Norwich 1900-1935' Urban History, 24/2 (Aug. 1997), 179-199.
