Academics

Welcome

I am the Senior Tutor at Keble. The central objective of the College is to attract the best students and to make sure they can perform to the absolute best of their abilities whilst here. That statement essentially sums up the responsibilities of my role. I have overall responsibility for the academic affairs of the College and monitoring academic performance, as well as specifically being Tutor for Admissions and also Tutor for Graduates, with the job of looking after the welfare and ensuring the progress of postgraduate students in the College. Undergraduate and graduate students can approach me on any issue to do with academic matters, welfare, or other concerns.

Research Interests

As well as managing academic affairs, I am a historian, with particular interests in poverty and politics in 19th century London and in Australian rural politics.

Recent publications

Books

The Politics of the Poor: The East End of London 1885-1914, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004

Struggle Country: The Rural Ideal in Twentieth Century Australia, Monash University ePress, Melbourne 2005 [edited, with Graeme Davison]

Book Chapters 

'Late Victorian and Edwardian Slum Conservatism: how different were the politics of the London Poor', in M. Cragoe and A. Taylor (eds.), London Politics 1760-1914, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2005

'The politics of rural nostalgia between the wars', in G.Davison and M.Brodie (eds.), Struggle Country: The Rural Ideal in Twentieth Century Australia, Monash University ePress, Melbourne 2005

(With B.Caine), 'Class, Sex and Friendship: the Long Nineteenth Century', in B.Caine (ed.), Friendship: A History, Equinox, London 2010

Journal Articles

'Free trade and cheap theatre: sources of politics for the nineteenth-century London poor', Social History, Vol.28, No.3, Oct. 2003, pp. 346-361

' "A valuable but minority section": The Country Townspeople's League and responses to farmer politics in 1920s Victorian country towns', History Australia, Vol.1, No.1, Dec. 2003, pp. 58-72

'Voting in the Victorian and Edwardian East End of London', Parliamentary History, Vol.23, Part 2, 2004, pp. 225-248

'Friendship, trust, and political influence in poor working-class Britain', History Australia, Vol.3, No.2, Dec. 2006, pp.29-38.