Peter Brooke

Peter is a specialist in the history of radio broadcasting in Zambia and Ghana. He is a Departmental Lecturer in African History and Course Director of the MSc African Studies, and he is a Senior Research Associate at the Department of Communication and Media Studies, University of Johannesburg. Peter came to Oxford from King’s College, London in 2017, where he taught colonial and modern British history. He studied at the University of Cambridge as an undergraduate and MPhil student before taking his doctorate at King’s College, London.

Peter's recent publications have explored the gendered and racialised impact of radio technology, the transnational nature of news audiences, and the iconic status of the radio set in visual culture from the 1930s to the 1980s. His current research project is generously funded by the British Academy / Leverhulme Trust. Peter has also published on British decolonisation in Kenya, Zimbabwe, Yemen and India, and the politics of immigration and race relations in Britain in the 1960s.