B.A., M.A. Ph.D. (York)

Professor

Research Interests:

• Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century British Cultural, Social, Military, and Gender History

Teaching Interests:

• British, Indian, Women’s, Cultural, and European History

Publications:

Women and the British Army, 1815-1880, (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2023).

Women, Families and the British Army, Jennine Hurl-Eamon & Lynn MacKay, ed., 6 Volumes (Routledge, 2021). I edited volumes 4 to 6: Volume IV:  From the treaty of Paris in 1815 to the Declaration of War on Russia in 1854, Volume V:  The Crimean War, and Volume VI: Aftermath to 1880.

Respectability and the London Poor, 1780-1870 (Pickering & Chatto: London, 2013).

“Assisters in Conflict: the Charities Helping Soldiers’ Families During the Crimean War”, in Paul Huddie, ed., Where War and Welfare Meet: Military Welfare History from the Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries (Palgrave, forthcoming).

“Making the Case to Reprieve Annette Meyers: Media, Gender and the Law”, Crime, History, and Societies, 26:2, 2022, pp.75-99.

“Refusing the Royal Pardon: Capital Convicts and the Reactions of the Courts and Press in 1789”, The London Journal, vol. 28, no. 2, (2003).

“Moral Paupers: the Poor Men of St. Martin’s, 1815-1819”, Histoire sociale/Social History, vol. XXXIV, no. 67, (May 2001).

“Women, Theft and the Old Baily, 1780-1789,” in Journal of Social History, 32 (Spring, 1999).

“A Cautionary Tale:  the Mendicity Society and Its Clients,” in Left History, 5 (Spring, 1998).

“A Culture of Poverty?  the St. Martin in the Fields Workhouse, 1817,” in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 26 (Autumn, 1996).

“Patrick Colquhoun,” Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 158, British Reform Writers, 1832-1914, (Gale, 1995)

“Henry Mayhew,” Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 190, British Reform Writers, 1832-1914, (Gale, 1998).

Courses Taught

• 54:153 World History to 1500
• 54:154 World History since 1500
• 54:253 Early Modern Europe
• 54:255 Europe in Revolution and Reaction, 1789-1870
• 54:266 Britain to 1688
• 54:267 Britain since 1688
• 54:353 British Cultural History, 1700-1914
• 54:354 Paris & London in the Age of Revolution
• 54:355 Europe in the Age of Total Warfare, 1870-1945
• 54: 385 European Women’s History
• 54:461 Women in an Industrializing Society
• 54:464 The Colonial Experience: British India, 1757-1947