Welcome
I am a writer and academic in the UK. You can find out more about me here, and read about my latest book, Peace At Last: A Portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918, which was published by Yale University Press in October 2018. Yale University Press also published my biography of Wilfred Owen in 2014. An Associate Professor in English Literature and Head of the English Department at Liverpool Hope University, I live on the Wirral, grew up in the Midlands and studied at St Andrews and Oxford.
‘[a] brilliant portrayal of Britain on the day that peace broke out, when people could believe there was an end to the war to end all wars. He weaves a wonderful tapestry of the mood and events across the country, drawing on a wide range of local and regional newspapers. It is accessible history at its best. […] outstanding’
(The Evening Standard, 8 November 2018)
— Recent news:
- I gave the Chatterton Lecture on Poetry at the British Academy on 1 November.
- The audio of my Chatterton Lecture is now available from the British Academy (and on iTunes).
- I was a studio guest, discussing the Armistice, for the BBC One’s ‘Remembrance Sunday: The Cenotaph‘.
- For the New Statesman I wrote an article on the Armistice, ‘The Armistice Bacchanal’.
- I was interviewed on Songs of Praise (4 November).
- I wrote the lead feature in The Tablet.
- I recently appeared on the podcast The Allusionist, episodes 82 and 91.
- For the November issue of BBC History Magazine I wrote an article about the Armistice.
- I gave a talk in Sheffield at the Off the Shelf Festival of Words on 13 October.
- I gave a talk at Gladstone’s Library on 23 October.
- I was interviewed on BBC Radio Merseyside and BBC Radio London.
- I appeared on Granada Reports, talking about the Armistice.
- Peace at Last was included in the Telegraph‘s ‘what to read’ feature on the year’s best history books (‘Christmas Books 2018’).
- Peace at Last was included in ‘Best Books of 2018: History’ in Gulf News.
- I was interviewed for The Liverpool Echo.
- Peace at Last was reviewed in November’s Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine.
- Peace at Last was reviewed in The Wall Street Journal.
- Peace at Last was reviewed in November’s Literary Review.
- Peace at Last was reviewed in The Spectator.
- Peace at Last was reviewed in The Evening Standard, as ‘Book of the Week’.
- Peace at Last was published as an audiobook on 12 December.
Book Review: “Peace at Last” reminds us that amid the rejoicing on Armistice Day, there was also terrible sadness https://t.co/bZgHVJjr0z
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) November 13, 2018
Discover our October favourites! This month we’ve picked #PeaceAtLast by @guywjc and #TheKremlinLetters by David Reynolds and Vladimir Pechatnov. #WW1 #WW2 #ArmisticeDay #Stalin #Churchill and #Roosevelt. Visit our website to find out more https://t.co/kRBM1465ko pic.twitter.com/79miQchswp
— Yale Books (@YaleBooks) October 10, 2018
It was an honour and a pleasure to give the Chatterton Lecture @BritishAcademy_ yesterday evening. Thank you to the British Academy, and to Robert Crawford for chairing it, and to everyone who came along to hear about Edward Thomas. (Photo by Thomas, from SCOLAR @cardiffuni) pic.twitter.com/U1w0zPkKLA
— Guy Cuthbertson (@guywjc) November 2, 2018
#songsofpraise Sunday 4th November 1:45pm @BBCOne & at https://t.co/m5Ic4Nvw8A Professor Guy Cuthbertson tells Aled Jones about Wilfred Owen’s early life in Birkenhead. pic.twitter.com/yUPW6KeW9H
— BBC Songs of Praise (@BBCSoP) November 3, 2018
‘It is accessible history at its best.’ Thank you @EveningStandard ‘Peace at Last’ reviewed by Robert Foxhttps://t.co/tgIaFiMhtm@YaleBooks @yalepress
— Guy Cuthbertson (@guywjc) November 8, 2018
It was an honour to be part of the BBC’s ‘Remembrance Sunday: The Cenotaph’. Thank you @BBCOne. (The programme is available on iplayer.) https://t.co/IaTqivdcti
— Guy Cuthbertson (@guywjc) November 14, 2018
