Dr Mark Freeman
m.freeman@arts.gla.ac.uk
Room 311
Lilybank House
Tel: +44(0)141 330 2786
Office hours (semester 1, 2008-2009): Thursdays, 1-3 pm
http://www.markfreeman.org.uk/
http://www.corporategovernancehistory.org.uk/
Teaching 2008-9
| Level 2: | Level 2A Economic and Social History of Britain 1770-1914 |
| Honours: | Poverty, Poor Law and Philanthropy : Britain c1790-1885 (semester 1) |
| PGT: | Social Investigation in Britain from Mayhew to Mass-Observation (semester 1) |
I will be on research leave in semester 2 of the academic year 2008-9.
Research interests
Modern British social, economic and business history, especially rural history, poverty and social investigation, history of adult education and Quakerism, and corporate governance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For full details of my research, see http://www.markfreeman.org.uk
I am working with Professor Robin Pearson (University of Hull) and Dr James Taylor (University of Lancaster) on an ESRC-funded project entitled 'Shareholder Democracies? Corporate Governance in Britain 1720-1844'. We are completing a book, for which we have a contract with University of Chicago Press, entitled Shareholder Democracies? Corporate Governance in Britain before 1850. See our website at:
http://www.corporategovernancehistory.org.uk
My popular history of St Albans, published by Carnegie Publishing, is due to appear in November 2008. Click here for details.
Research contribution
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Cyber-secretary, Social History Society
International advisory panel member, Quaker Studies
Editing a special issue of History of Education (volume 38, number 3, forthcoming, 2009) on the theme 'Education and Citizenship in Modern Scotland'. This will contain eight articles, including two by postgraduate students in this department.
Research grants
British Academy Small Research Grant, £2,305: 'The Family and Community Lives of Older People in the 1940s', May 2006-August 2007.
Nuffield Foundation Social Science Small Grants Scheme, £2,173: 'Poverty and Its Investigation in Interwar Britain: Seebohm Rowntree and the Second Social Survey of York', July-September 2002.
Publications
Authored books
Social Investigation and Rural England 1870-1914 (Woodbridge and Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, February 2003). Royal Historical Society, Studies in History new series. ISBN 0 86193 257 9.
http://www.boydell.co.uk/61932579.HTM
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust: A Study in Quaker Philanthropy and Adult Education 1904-1954 (York: William Sessions Ltd., 2004). ISBN 1 85072 310 9.
http://www.markfreeman.corporategovernancehistory.org.uk/quaker.html
With Robin Pearson and James Taylor: Shareholder Democracies? Corporate Governance in British Business before 1850 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming). See http://www.corporategovernancehistory.org.uk/publications.html
St Albans: A History (Lancaster: Carnegie Publishing, forthcoming, 2008). ISBN 1-85936-139-0. EAN 978-1-85936-139-9. Click here for further details.
Edited books
The English Rural Poor 1850-1914 (5 volumes, London: Pickering and Chatto, 2005). ISBN 1 85196 822 9.
http://www.pickeringchatto.com/index.php/pc_site/major_works/the_english_rural_poor_1850_1914
Robin Pearson (chief editor; James Taylor and Mark Freeman, contributing editors), The History of the Company: The Development of the Business Corporation, 1700-1914 (8 volumes, London: Pickering and Chatto, 2006 (vols. 1-4); 2007 (vols. 5-8)). ISBN 1 85196 820 2 (vols. 1-4); 1 85196 821 0 (vols. 5-8). http://www.pickeringchatto.com/index.php/pc_site/major_works/the_history_of_the_company
With Gillian Nelson: Vicarious Vagrants: Incognito Social Explorers and the Homeless in England 1860-1910 (Lambertville, NJ: True Bill Press, forthcoming, 2008). ISBN 978-0-9791116-2-4
http://www.thetruebillpress.com/VicariousVagrants.htm
With Eleanor Gordon and Krista Maglen: Medicine, Law and Public Policy in Scotland 1840-1980: Essays Presented to Anne Crowther (Dundee: Dundee University Press, forthcoming, 2009).
Articles in refereed journals (since 2001)
With Louise Wannell: 'The Family and Community Lives of Older People after the Second World War: New Evidence from York', Local Population Studies (forthcoming, 2009).
With Robin Pearson and James Taylor: 'Technological Change and the Governance of Joint-Stock Enterprise in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Case of Coastal Shipping', Business History, vol. 49 (2007), pp. 573-94.
With Robin Pearson and James Taylor: '"Different and Better?" Scottish Joint-Stock Companies and the Law, c. 1720-1845', English Historical Review, vol. 122 (2007), pp. 61-81.
'The Magic Lantern and the Cinema: Adult Schools, Educational Settlements and Secularisation in Britain, c.1900-1950', Quaker Studies, vol. 11 (2007), pp. 192-203.
With Robin Pearson and James Taylor: '"A Doe in the City": Women Shareholders in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain' , Accounting, Business and Financial History, vol. 16 (2006), pp. 265-91.
'Social Investigation and Folklore Collection in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century England', Folklore, vol. 116 (2005), pp. 51-65.
'"Britain's Spiritual Life: How Can It Be Deepened?": Seebohm Rowntree, Russell Lavers and the "Crisis of Belief", c. 1946-1954', Journal of Religious History, vol. 29 (2005), pp. 25-42.
With Jonathan S. Davies: 'Education for Citizenship: The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and the Educational Settlement Movement', History of Education, vol. 32 (2003), pp. 303-18.
With Jonathan S. Davies: 'A Case of Political Philanthropy: The Rowntree Family and the Campaign for Democratic Reform', Quaker Studies, vol. 9 (2004), pp. 95-113.
'Victorian Philanthropy and the Rowntrees: The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust', Quaker Studies, vol. 7 (2003), pp. 193-213.
'The Provincial Social Survey in Edwardian Britain', Historical Research, vol. 75 (2002), pp. 73-89.
'"No Finer School than a Settlement": The Development of the Educational Settlement Movement', History of Education, vol. 31 (2002), pp. 245-62.
'Rider Haggard and Rural England: Methods of Social Enquiry in the English Countryside', Social History, vol. 26 (2001), pp. 209-16.
'"Journeys into Poverty Kingdom": Complete Participation and the British Vagrant 1866-1914', History Workshop Journal, vol. 52 (2001), pp. 99-121.
With Zoe Bliss: 'The measurement of interwar poverty: notes on a sample from the second survey of York', History and Computing, vol. 13 (2001, PUBLISHED 2004), pp. 199-205.
'The Agricultural Labourer and the Hodge Stereotype, c. 1850-1914', Agricultural History Review, vol. 49 (2001), pp. 172-86.
http://www.bahs.org.uk/49n2a3.pdf
'Employment in the Islay Distilleries, 1841-1914', Scottish Labour History, vol. 35 (2000, PUBLISHED 2001), pp. 55-67.
Other publications (since 2001)
Quaker Extension c.1905-1930: The Yorkshire 1905 Committee (York: Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, 2008). Borthwick Papers, no. 112. ISBN 978 1 904497 23 3. For sample contents, see: http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/bihr/Publications/BP112sample.pdf
With Robin Pearson and James Taylor: 'Between Madam Bubble and Kitty Lorimer: Women Investors in British and Irish Stock Companies', in Anne Laurence, Josephine Maltby and Jeanette Rutherford (eds), Women and Their Money 1700-1950: Essays on Women and Finance (London: Routledge, 2008), pp. 95-114.
'The Outer London Inquiry Committee 1905-1908: A Study in Edwardian Social Investigation', in Rosemary O'Day (ed.), Social Investigation Re-Investigated: Essays in Honour of David Englander (Aldershot: Ashgate, forthcoming).
With Julian Greaves: 'Review of Periodical Literature Published in 2005: (v) 1850-1945', Economic History Review, vol. 60 (2007), pp. 174-83; 'Review of Periodical Literature Published in 2006: (v) 1850-1945', Economic History Review, vol. 61 (2008), pp. 216-24. We are also writing this review for 2007 (published 2009).
'Brewing and Distilling', 'Settlements', 'Taxation' and 'Thomson, William', in Pendergast, Tom, and Sara Pendergast (eds), James Eli Adams, editor-in-chief, The Encyclopaedia of the Victorian Era (Danbury, Connecticut: Grolier Academic Press, 2004), vol. 1, pp. 157-9; vol. 3, pp. 379-81; vol. 4, pp. 52-4, 85.
'"The Life of Society": The Public Role of the Social Historian', in Pat Hudson (ed.), Living Economic and Social History (Glasgow: Economic History Society, 2001), pp. 98-101.
'Clio-biography' [review of four historians' autobiographies], Cultural and Social History, vol. 1 (2004), pp. 333-40.
Mark Freeman, 'News from the Universities : University of Glasgow', Local Population Studies, vol. 80 (2008), pp. 90-92.
Online: 'Educational Settlements' (2004), The Encyclopedia of Informal Education http://www.infed.org/association/educational_settlements.htm
Online: 'Social Status', 'Urbanisation' and 'Using the Census for Local History': pilot units for the Collection of Historical and Contemporary Census Data and Related Material (CHCC) project 'British History and the Census': http://chcc.arts.gla.ac.uk
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Recent and forthcoming conference papers
'The Rise and Fall of Adult Schools 1860-1950': Institute of Historical Research, London, History of Education research seminar, March 2009 (forthcoming).
With Robin Pearson and James Taylor: 'Transparency and Accountability in British Corporate Governance 1720-1844': Statistics and the Public Sphere conference, Oxford Brookes University, September 2008.
'Muscular Quakerism? British Friends and Character-Training c.1900-1960': School of History, Philosophy and Politics, University of Greenwich, May 2008 (forthcoming). (This paper was also presented at the Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists conference, Birmingham, June 2008.)
With Robin Pearson and James Taylor: 'The Politics of Business: Shareholder Voting Rights in Comparative Perspective 1720-1850': Department of History, University of Exeter Cornwall Campus, seminar series, May 2008.
'The Settlement Movement in Scotland c.1880-1930': Social History Society annual conference, University of Exeter, March-April 2007.
With Robin Pearson and James Taylor: 'The Limitation of Liability in British Joint-Stock Companies 1720-1844': International Economic History Association, XIVth congress, University of Helsinki, Finland, August 2006.