Personal profile

Overview

I am Professor of History and director of the University's Heritage Hub. 

I am a historian of protest, social and political movements and contested public spaces in England from the late 18th century to the present day. I also have research interests in 20th century modernist architecture, town and country planning, and landscape change. I am one of the founders of the Rural Modernism research network. 

Publications: 

Contested Commons book cover

Cover for   New Lives, New Landscapes Revisited

Protest and the politics of space and place, 1789-1848

My next journal article, 'The development and policing of political processions in London, 1780-1915', will be published in Historical Research. Recent publications include 'Legal and historical geographies of the Greenham Common protest camps in the 1980s', Journal of Historical Geography, 2023, and 'Chartist studies and Malcolm Chase, a reappreciation', English Historical Review, 2023.

I held a fellowship at the Museum of English Rural Life Fellowship, sponsored by the Open Spaces Society in 2020-21,  https://historyofpublicspace.uk/my-oss-fellowship-at-merl-2021/ 

I was awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship 2018-19 for 'The history of public space in England, 1700-2000'. See the website: http://historyofpublicspace.uk/ 

Press:

I write for a range of publications, including The Modernist, books by the 20th Century Society and Open City London, Tribune, and History Today. I contributed an essay on the history of bins in Joe Lycett's book, Bins (Hurtwood Books, 2023)

I joined the University of Hertfordshire in 2009, following lectureships at the universities of Edinburgh, Bath Spa and Oxford. I read Modern History at St John's College, University of Oxford. I am originally from Rochdale, Greater Manchester. 

Commercial and public engagement

I am the director of the university's Heritage Hub, connecting academics and heritage institutions

I am an editor of the UH Press book series Explorations in Local and Regional History

Education/Academic qualification

Higher Education Teaching, PGCert, HEI: University of Edinburgh

Award Date: 1 Aug 2009

History, DPhil, St John's College, University of Oxford

Award Date: 1 Sept 2005

Historical Research, MSt, St John's College, University of Oxford

Award Date: 2 Sept 2002

Modern History, BA (Hons), St John's College, University of Oxford

Award Date: 2 Jul 2001

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