Richard Brown

Richard Brown is an Honorary Fellow of The Historical Association and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He taught for thirty-four years and was, when he retired in 2006, Head of History and Citizenship at Manshead School, Dunstable, England. During my career, I played an active role in developing the learning and teaching of History. I was a review-editor of Teaching History during the 1980s and joint editor during the 1990s. My first book was published in 1980, three years after an article on computing and history. In the intervening years, I've published ninety-nine print and Kindle books, over fifty articles on history and teaching history, written radio and television programs 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.

I also manage three successful blogs: The History Zone, which has an extensive collection of material on Chartism and other nineteenth-century topics, and Reconsidering Chartism.

My Authoring History blog provides details of my publications. I have since 2000 written widely on nineteenth-century history. My six-volume study of Nineteenth Century British Society was published in 2011-2012 on Kindle and a supplementary volume Sex, Work and Politics: Women in Britain 1830-1918 came out in May 2012 and an extended version covering the period 1780-1945 was published in September 2014; a third edition was published in 2020. These books formed the basis for my Coping with Change: British Society 1830-1914 and the two volumes covering British Society 1780-1945 published in 2013 and 2018, respectively. I have just completed a five-volume series on British Society 1780-1945, an extended second edition of my Nineteenth Century British Society published over a decade ago.

My Rebellion Quartet, Three Rebellions: Canada 1837-1838, South Wales 1839 and Victoria, Australia 1854, (2010) and Famine, Fenians and Freedom 1840-1882, (2011) and a broader study called Resistance and Rebellion in the British Empire, 1600-1980, (2013) examines colonial resistance in the British Empire especially in Australia and Canada. Second editions of what has become the Rebellion Quartet were published in 2017 and 2018 in print and Kindle versions. The final volume of Ireland 1882-1922 was published in 2023. I am now working on six volumes of essays that I have written in the past half century and now thoroughly revised. The first volume Fellow Feeling? Political Essays was published in April 2024 and three further volumes have ben published to date.

I have published two volumes on Canadian Rebellion 1837-1885, a two-volume study of Settler Australia, 1780-1880 and Peaceful Kingdom, a book of essays on nineteenth century Canadian history. I have completed Reconsidering Chartism, a series of six books that examine the causes and course of Chartism, and its local and global dimensions. I have also maintained my interest in medieval history with new translations of the twelfth-century Life of Louis the Fat and Norman sources on southern Italy from the late eleventh century.