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Research interests

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.

Teaching interests

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)

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

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):

  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities

Education/Academic qualification

History, BA 1st Class Hons, History and Welsh History (Wales)

History (Wales), PhD

External positions

Llafur: the Welsh People’s History Society

Glamorgan County History trustee

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