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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 Cyber-Secretary of the Social
History Society. I am also a Fellow of the Royal
Historical Society.
NEXT EVENT: I will be speaking in the Voluntary Action History seminar series at the Institute of Historical Research, London, on 5 December 2011. For further details see:
http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/249
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/
This site
gives details of my research interests. My staff page on the 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 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', will be available here soon.
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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 |
My
article 'Muscular Quakerism? The Society of Friends and Youth Organisations
in Britain c.1900-1950' was published in the English Historical Review, vol. 125 (2010), pp. 642-69. For details of the journal, see: http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/ |
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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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