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Welcome to
my website. I am a Senior Lecturer in the Department
of Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow, an associate
member of the Centre
for Business History in Scotland, and Cyber-Secretary of the Social
History Society. I am also a Fellow of the Royal
Historical Society.
This site
gives details of my research interests. My staff page on the Department
of Economic and Social History website can be seen here: http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/economicsocialhistory/ourstaff/markfreeman/
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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On
Saturday 17 October 2009, I spoke at a conference organisation by
the Educational Centres Association (ECA), on the theme 'Transforming
Adult Learning - Agents of Change'. My contribution related to the
ECA's extensive archival holdings. For more details, see:
http://www.e-c-a.ac.uk/transforming-adult-learning-agents-of-change/#Top
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I
held a visiting fellowship at the Institute
of Historical Research, London, in 2008-9. A number of publications
will arise from this period of work, including forthcoming articles
in the English Historical Review, History of Education
and Quaker Studies.
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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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A chapter, jointly authored with Robin Pearson and James Taylor,
was published in November 2008:
Mark
Freeman, Robin Pearson and James Taylor, 'Between Madam Bubble and
Kitty Lorimer: women investors in British and Irish stock companies',
in Anne Laurence, Josephine Maltby and Jeanette Rutherford (eds),
Women and Their Money 1700-1950: Essays on Women and Finance
(London: Routledge, 2008), pp. 95-114.
http://www.routledgebusiness.com/books/Women-and-their-money-1700-1950-isbn9780415419765
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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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