Research output per year
Research output per year
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Research activity per year
Thus far, my main interests have been focussed around the problems – and possibilities – generated by the growth of towns and cities in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. What was it like living in the slums of the Victorian industrial city? Can we, as historians, ever know? How did Victorians try to deal with the problems of urban poverty, disease and disorder? How effective were the attempts to ‘civilize’ the urban settlements?
Current research activity
I am currently in the ways in which the hunger and distress that could accompany lengthy industrial disputes in the late Victorian period was understood by contemporaries. On a different matter, I’m also writing a book about the social history of Barry Island as the ‘Playground of South Wales’. These, and other related questions, are currently keeping me awake at night.
Module leader for:
HS1S008 Crime, vice and ‘lowlife’ in Victorian Britain
HS2S60 Poor Lives: Poverty, Welfare and History
HS3S033 Frontiers: A Global History
(with an especial emphasis on the American West)
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
History, BA 1st Class Hons, History and Welsh History (Wales)
History (Wales), PhD
Llafur: the Welsh People’s History Society
Glamorgan County History trustee
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Andrew Croll (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Andrew Croll (Peer reviewer)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review
Andrew Croll (Peer reviewer)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review