Richard Brown

Richard Brown taught for thirty-four years and was, until he retired in 2006, Head of History and Citizenship at Manshead School, Dunstable, England. He has published widely on nineteenth century history. His Rebellion Trilogy consisting of Three Rebellions: Canada 1837-1838, South Wales 1839 and Victoria, Australia 1854, Famine, Fenians and Freedom 1840-1882 and Resistance and Rebellion in the British Empire, 1600-1980 were published in 2010, 2011 and 2012. These three books are explored in greater detail on my website: https://sites.google.com/site/lookingathistory/ I have also completed a six volume study of nineteenth century British society in Kindle volumes, a two volume study of Rebellion in Canada, 1837-1885 and a two volume study on the development of Australia between 1780 and 1880. He has maintained his interest in medieval history with a new and now revised translation of the twelfth-century Life of Louis the Fat.

During his career, he 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. His first book was published in 1980, three years after his first article on computing and history. In the intervening years, he has published 52 print and Kindle books, over 50 articles on history and teaching history and countless reviews, written radio and television programmes and acted as 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. Richard manages a very successful blog - The History Zone (http://richardjohnbr.wordpress.com/), which aside from a wide range of sources and material available to the student and researcher for viewing on the site, has an extensive collection of material on Chartism.

I am an Honorary Fellow of The Historical Association and have been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.