Martin Doherty (historian)

Doherty studied history and politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Queen's University Belfast, Central London Polytechnic (later the University of Westminster) and the University of Kent at Canterbury. Doherty's PhD focused on British public opinion in World War II and Nazi propaganda attempts in Britain. He was appointed to a teaching position at the University of Westminster in 1993 and since 2011 has been head of its Department of History, Sociology and Criminology.^[2]

Doherty's research focuses on wartime propaganda^[3] and nineteenth-century Irish history, with an emphasis on sectarian grievances and propaganda during the Irish War of Independence. His later work has focused on the Troubles and anti-terrorist policy in Northern Ireland. His published works include:^[2]