# Mark Connelly

mark connelly is a professor and former Head of the School of History, at the University of Kent in Canterbury, where he is both a military historian, and the Reuters Lecturer in Media History. He is also the author of a book on the Second World War and the British home front called, We Can Take It!, as well as other books and essays.He took his PhD at Queen Mary & Westfield College.In December 2007, Connelly appeared on the BBC television show The One Show, commenting on the social history of Christmas in the UK. == Books == Christmas: A Social History (London, I.B. Tauris, September 1999) (Editor) Christmas at the Movies: The Representation of Christmas in American, British and European Cinema (London, I.B. Tauris, October 2000) Reaching for the Stars: A New History of Bomber Command in World War II (London, I.B. Tauris, December 2000; 2014) Review, Air and Space Power Journal, Fall 2002 reprint Review. The Journal of Military History, April 2004, v.68, #2 The Great War: Memory and Ritual (Suffolk, Boydell & Brewer, 2002) Review by Janet Watson Twentieth Century British History 2004 15(4):436-438; doi:10.1093/tcbh/15.4.436) British Film Guides: The Charge of the Light Brigade (London, I.B. Tauris, 2003) We Can Take It!