Staff profile

About me

I am a historian of nineteenth-century Britain, with an especial interest in political language, behaviour and culture in the age of ‘mass democracy’. 

My Leverhulme-funded project, Meeting the challenge of mass politics in Britain: the Liberal caucus, 1875-1914 explores whether British politics became less participatory as it became more democratic. I am also working on my first monograph, entitled The Liberal Party in Scotland 1800-1900: Political Culture and National Identity in an Age of Crisis, to be published by Edinburgh University Press. 

I am the Modern (post-1707) Editor at the Scottish Historical Review. 

I am organising a conference on Histories of Scottish Politics in the Age of Union, c.1700-1945 in July 2024. 

I completed my PhD at King's College London in 2019, where I also taught on modern British History. In 2020, I won a King's Doctoral Studies prize for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis. Prior to joining Durham, I was College Lecturer in History at Hertford College, University of Oxford, between 2017 and 2021, and Retained Lecturer in History at Exeter College, Oxford, between 2020 and 2021. I taught on modern British and European history, historical methods, and historiography. 

• Modern Britain
• Four nations history
• Political culture
• National identity

• 2022: Parliamentary History Essay Prize: Proxime Accessit in the 2022 Parliamentary History Essay Prize
• 2020: Outstanding Thesis Award: Winner of King's College London-Elsevier Doctoral Studies Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis
• 2015: Royal Historical Society Essay Prize: Winner of the 2015 Royal Historical Society David Berry Prize for best essay on Scottish history 

Book review

• Lloyd-Jones, N. (in press). A Nation of Petitioners: Petitions and Petitioning in the United Kingdom, by Henry Miller. Journal of British Studies,
• Lloyd-Jones, N. (in press). Land Reform in the British and Irish Isles since 1800, edited by Shaun Evans, Tony McCarthy and Annie Tindley. The Welsh History Review,
• Lloyd-Jones, N. (in press). Mapping the State. English Boundaries and the 1832 Reform Act, by Martin Spychal. Journal of British Studies,
• Lloyd-Jones, N. (2023). Finlay, Scottish Nationalism: History, Ideology and the Question of Independence. The Scottish Historical Review, 102(3), 476-478. https://doi.org/10.3366/shr.2023.0639
• Lloyd-Jones, N. (2023). The War of Words: The Electoral Language of British Elections, 1880–1914, by Luke Blaxill. The English Historical Review, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead007
• Lloyd-Jones, N. (2022). "Age of Promises. Electoral Politics in Twentieth Century Britain". By D. Thackeray and R. Toye. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021. xi, 236 pp. £65.00. ISBN 9780198843030. Parliamentary History, 41(3), 514-517. https://doi.org/10.1111/1750-0206.12650
• Lloyd‐Jones, N. (2022). Electoral Pledges in Britain since 1918: The Politics of Promises. Edited by DavidThackeray and RichardToye. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2020. xiii, 327 pp. £99.99. ISBN 97830304666633. Parliamentary History, 41(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/1750-0206.12626
• Lloyd-Jones, N. (2021). ‘Standing up for Scotland’: Nationalist Unionism and Scottish Party Politics, 1884-2014. By David Torrance. Twentieth Century British History, 32(3), 467-469. https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwaa042
• Lloyd-Jones, N. (2021). Pat Thane. Divided Kingdom: A History of Britain, 1900 to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 502. $32.99 (paper). Journal of British Studies, 60(1), 251-252. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2020.183

Chapter in book

• Lloyd-Jones, N. Beyond Westminster: Politics in Scotland and Wales. In T. Crook, R. Gaunt, & K. Rix (Eds.), Routledge Historical Resources. Routledge. Manuscript submitted for publication
• Lloyd-Jones, N., & Scull, M. M. (2018). ‘A new plea for an old subject? Four nations history for the modern period'. In N. Lloyd-Jones, & M. M. Scull (Eds.), Four Nations Approaches to Modern ‘British’ History: A (Dis)United Kingdom? (3-31). (1). Palgrave Macmillan

Edited book

• Lloyd-Jones, N., & Scull, M. M. (Eds.). (2018). Four Nations Approaches to Modern ‘British’ History: A (Dis)United Kingdom?. Palgrave Macmillan

Journal Article

• Lloyd-Jones, N. (in press). Sit Down! Shut Up!: The Politics of Disruption and the 1886 Home Rule Crisis in England. Parliamentary History,
• Lloyd-Jones, N. (2023). “Liberal disaffection such as has not been seen in Scotland”: Home Rule, political organisation and the Liberal party in 1886. The Scottish Historical Review, 102(1), 116-153. https://doi.org/10.3366/shr.2023.0591
• Lloyd-Jones, N. (2020). The 1892 general election in England: Home Rule, the Newcastle programme and positive Unionism. Historical Research, 93(259), https://doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htz009
• Lloyd-Jones, N. (2015). Liberal Unionism and political representation in Wales, c.1886–1893. Historical Research, 88(241), https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12092
• Lloyd-Jones, N. (2014). Liberalism, Scottish Nationalism and the Home Rule Crisis, c.1886–93. The English Historical Review, 129(539), 862-887. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceu209