Honorary Visiting Fellow

Contact Details 

• Email: n.d.raven@lboro.ac.uk

Publications

• 'Occupational structures of three north Essex towns: Halstead, Braintree, Great Coggeshall, 1780-1880.Research in Progress', Urban History Newsletter, 12 (Spring, 1992), 2
• 'De-industrialisation and the urban response: the small towns of the North Riding of Yorkshire, c.1790-1840', in R Weedon and A Milne (eds), Aspects of English Small Towns in the 18th and 19th Centuries (Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester, 1993), 46-69
• Joint bibliographer of Urban History, Vols 20 and 22. March 1994
• 'The trade directory: a source for the study of early nineteenth-century urban economies', Business Archives Sources and History, 74 (1997), 13-30.
• 'Industry and the small towns of Derbyshire; evidence from trade directories, c.1790-1850', in J Stobart and P Lane (eds) Urban and Industrial Change in the Midlands, 1700-1840 (Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester, 2000), 67-92.
• 'Trade directories and business size: evidence from the small towns of north Essex, 1851', The Local Historian, 31 (2001), 83-95.
• 'The English county town during the Industrial Revolution: Chelmsford, c.1790-1840', Urban History, 30 (2003), 44-62.
• N Raven and T Hooley, 'Industrial and urban change in the Midlands: a regional survey', J.Stobart and N Raven 'Networks and hinterlands', and J. Stobart and N. Raven, 'Introduction', in J Stobart and N Raven (eds) Towns, Industries, and Regions: Urban and Industrial Change, c.1700-1840 (Manchester University Press, 2004)
• '"A humbler, industrious class of female": women’s employment and industry in the small towns of southern England, c.1790-1840’ in P Lane, N Raven and K Snell (eds), Gender and Wages in England c.1660-1840 (Brewer and Boydell, 2004)

In Preparation

• 'A quiet revolution: industrialisation and the Victorian county town', in The English County Town in the Long Nineteenth Century (Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester)

Book Reviews

• N Goose, Population, economy and family structure in Hertfordshire in 1851. Vol 2 St Albans and its region (Aldenham, University of Hertfordshire Press, 2000), Local Population Studies 66 (Spring, 2001), 84-5
• C Moore, Understanding the Industrial Revolution (London, Routledge, 2000), Urban History 29 (2002), 444
• M Daunton (ed), The Cambridge Urban History of Britain Vol 3 1840-1950 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000), Midland History 27, (2002), 199-202
• D Mills, Rural Community History from Trade Directories (Aldenham, Local Population Studies, 2001), The Local Historian, 32 (2003), 267-8
• CK Rawding, The Lincolnshire Wolds in the Nineteenth Century (History of Lincolnshire Committee, Lincoln, 2001), Midland History (2003)