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Welcome to
my website. I am a Senior Lecturer in Economic
and Social History at the University of Glasgow, an associate member
of the Centre
for Business History in Scotland, and a committee member of the History of Education Society. I am also a Fellow of the Royal
Historical Society, and a member of the editorial board of the journals History of Education and Local Population Studies.
NEW PODCAST: I spoke at the Modern British History seminar series at the Institute of Historical Research, London, on 29 March 2012. An audio recording of this can be downloaded here.
PODCAST: I spoke at the Voluntary Action History seminar series at the Institute of Historical Research, London, on 5 December 2011. The title was '"A Movement that Moves": The Settlement Movement in Britain after the First World War'. Click here to listen (the PowerPoint presentation can also be downloaded from the same page).
Many of my
publications are available on open-access through the University of Glasgow's
ENLIGHTEN database. See:
http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/enlighten/
I am willing
to consider undertaking consultancy and commissions. Please email
me if you would like to discuss any possible projects.
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Shareholder Democracies? Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850, by Mark Freeman, Robin Pearson and James Taylor, was published in January 2012 by the University of Chicago Press.
This was the outcome of an ESRC-funded project at the University of Hull, and is based on the most complete survey of the early corporate economy yet undertaken.
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On Saturday 22 October 2011, I spoke at the launch event of the St Albans District Local History Network at the Verulamium Museum, St Albans. A podcast of my talk, '"Splendid Display; Pompous Spectacle": Historical Pageants in Twentieth-Century St Albans', is available here. |
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My first
book, Social Investigation and Rural England 1870-1914, published in 2003, has been re-issued as a paperback in 2011, by Boydell and Brewer, priced £17.99. It can pre-ordered soon; further details can be found at:
http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewitem.asp?idproduct=13637
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My article 'Seebohm Rowntree and Secondary Poverty 1899-1954' was published in the Economic History Review , vol. 64, pp. 1174-94, in November 2011. The online-early version can be seen here:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2010.00570.x/full |
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My
history of St Albans was published in
2008. It is part of the Carnegie Publishing City and Town Histories
series. It is priced at £20.00 (limited edition hardback)
and £15.95 (softback).
To
order the book, click here.
To see sample pages, click here.
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A collection
of primary sources, edited by me and Gillian Nelson, was also published
in 2008, by the True Bill Press. Vicarious
Vagrants: Incognito Social Explorers and the Homeless in England
1860-1910 contains ten annotated accounts of vagrancy in
the Victorian and Edwardian period, and an editors' introduction,
as well as a full index. Further details can be found here.
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I have published
widely, as a sole and joint author and editor, on various aspects of British
social, economic and business history. For a full list of my publications,
click here.
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