Lecturer in Economic History

Contact Details 

• Email: bpa1@le.ac.uk
• Office: : Attenborough 607
• Office Hours: Semester 2, Monday 1pm-2pm, Friday 3pm-4pm
• Dissertation Office Hour: Tuesday 4pm-5pm

Biography

As an undergraduate I studied history and English literature at the University of Melbourne, where I also completed an MA in history, before beginning my doctoral research at Oxford University under the supervision of Dr Colin Newbury. While completing the doctorate, I was a research officer at the Centre for Metropolitan History in the Institute of Historical Research (1989-91), and then held a series of fixed contracts as a lecturer in economic history at the University of New England in Australia (1992-97). I then moved to London where I was the Lecturer in Australian Studies at the Menzies Centre, now in King’s College London (1997-98), and finally became a lecturer at the University of Leicester in 1998. I was the first Rydon Fellow at the Menzies Centre (1998) and have also been a visiting Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne (2002). 

Research

• Research Interests
• Publications

PhD Supervision

International economy in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries; international debt; the economic history of British settler societies; the London Stock Exchange

Teaching

Undergraduate teaching

HS1000: Making History
HS1011: Making of the Modern World (co-convenor)
HS1100: People and Place (Keynes and his Revolution) (option convenor)
HS2214: Origins of a Global Economy 1788-1914 (convenor)
HS2000: Historical Research Methods (Data Analysis for Historians) (co-convenor)
HS3614: The Imperial Economy: Britain and the Wider World, 1815-1914 (convenor)

Postgraduate teaching

HS7005: Historical Research Methods (Introductory Data Analysis)(option convenor)

Administrative Responsibilities

School Examinations Officer
Member of the School Progress Committee

Member of the School Undergraduate Staff/Student Committee

Convenor, Brown Bag Seminar

Most Recent Publications

1. ‘The London Stock Exchange and the colonial market: a case study of internationalisation and power’, in Christof Dejung and Niels P Petersson (eds), The Foundations of Worldwide Economic Integration: Power, Institutions, and Global Markets, 1850-1930 (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, c. 2012).
2. ‘Making the colonial state: development, debt and warfare in New Zealand, 1853-76’, Australian Economic History Review (forthcoming, c. 2012).
3. ‘Wakefieldian investment and the birth of new societies, c. 1830 to 1930’, in Christopher Lloyd, Jacob Metzer and Richard Sutch (eds), Settler Economies in World History (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2012).
4. ‘Diplomacy by Default: Empire Foreign Policy and the High Commissioners during the 1920s’, in Carl Bridge, Frank Bongiorno and David Lee (eds), The High Commissioners: Australia’s Representatives in the United Kingdom, 1910-2010 (Canberra, 2010), 56-68