Welcome to my site. It’s designed to promote history as a subject and, in particular, provide me with a forum to put forward some of my own ideas on the subject. On Windows Live from July 2007, the blog migrated to WordPress at the beginning of October 2010. It had already had over 140,000 hits by that time. The link below gives a brief introduction to the blog: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=479162622999
I taught for thirty-four years and was, until I retired in 2006, Head of History and Citizenship at Manshead School. During my career, I played an active role in developing the learning and teaching of the subject and was review-editor of Teaching History during the 1980s and joint-editor during the 1990s. My first book was published in 1980, three years after a first article on computing and history. In the intervening years, I published twenty-five books, over 50 articles on history and teaching history, have written radio and television programmes and acted as an editor for the Cambridge University Press series Perspectives in History and Topics in History and was part of the research team of the Teaching of History Project 1985-1987.
My Three Rebellions: Canada 1837-1838, South Wales 1839 and Victoria, Australia 1854 was published early in 2010. It is now also available on Kindle: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Three-Rebellions-1837-1838-Australia-ebook/dp/B005LY2GPM/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_2 Famine, Fenians and Freedom 1840-1882 was published in November 2011 and a broader study called Resistance and Rebellion in the British Empire, 1600-1980 that will complete a trilogy on colonial resistance to the British Empire will come out later this year. The Rebellion Trilogy is considered in greater detail on my website: https://sites.google.com/site/lookingathistory/ and on a podcast at http://www.facebook.com/video/editvideo.php?v=10150341393228000
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A series of ebooks available on Kindle on Nineteenth Century British Society have recently been published: Economy, Population and Transport, Work, Health and Poverty, Education, Crime and Leisure, Class and Religion and Government. The five volumes have been brought together in Society under Pressure: Britain 1830-1914, a cheaper alternative to purchasing all five. A supplementary volume, Sex, Work and Politics: Women in Britain 1830-1918 was published in May 2012. To view and purchase any of my books click on the following link: http://astore.amazon.co.uk/lookathist-21
I am also working on studies of Canadian Rebellion 1837-1885 and of Chartism. I trained as a medievalist and have maintained my interest in medieval history with a new translation of the twelfth-century Life of Louis the Fat.
Hi Richard, your blog entries and website are required reading for me, especially when you delve into social history and social policy in the nineteenth-century. I’m editor of a magazine called Environmental Health News and, with colleagues, we are putting together a book called Public Health in Edwardian Britain. My magazine has been going since 1895 – http://www.ehn-online.com The book explores the role of inspectors of nuisance/sanitary inspectors in the public health tradition (from Chadwick and Simon on). I’ve found your insights and your way of writing about history incredibly useful, so thanks. The book will have chapters on water, food, housing, the workhouse the asylum, the science of disease and epidemiology – the Stuff of Life. If you would like to have a look at short extract my email address is w.hatchett@virgin.net But in any event thanks again for your prodigious output! Will Hatchett
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