Martin Conway 

Martin Conway is Professor of Contemporary European History at the Balliol College at the University of Oxford. His research has been principally concerned with European history from the 1930s to the final decades of the twentieth century. In his doctoral thesis, Collaboration in Belgium: Léon Degrelle and the Rexist Movement 1940-1944, he explored the history of the extreme-right movement in Belgium, the Rexist movement, during the Second World War. His continued interest in Belgium resulted in The Sorrows of Belgium: Liberation and Political Reconstruction 1944-47. In his latest book, Western Europe’s Democratic Age (Princeton University Press) Conway asks what happened in the years following World War II to create a democratic revolution in the western half of Europe.