Glen O’Hara is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Oxford Brookes University. He has previously taught at University College London, the University of Bristol and New College, Oxford. Professor O’Hara is the author of a series of books about recent British history, including The Paradoxes of Progress: Governing Post-War Britain, c.1951-c.1973 (2012) and most recently The Politics of Water in Post-War Britain (2017). Between 2021 and 2024 he was Principal Investigator on the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded ‘In All Our Footsteps: Mapping, Tracking and Experiencing Rights of Way in Post-War Britain’. In 2026 he will publish his next book, New Labour, New Britain? How the Blair Governments Reshaped the Country, with Manchester University Press. Thereafter he will be working on a subsequent volume, Kingdom Come: Visions of the Future in Modern Britain, which Penguin has commissioned for 2029. He is a regular commentator on public affairs in the press, including in The Financial Times, The Guardian and Prospect magazine.
