Looking at History

Interview with Mark Crail   This interview was originally published on the Chartist Ancestor blog but, although it is referred to ...

Having completed eleven volumes in his series of books on Birmingham, Stephen Roberts has now broadened his horizons into Lincolnshire.  I ...

Those publications with an asterisk (*) were co-written with C.W. Daniels. This list does not include editorials for Teaching History , book...

It’s almost a year since I published second editions of my Rebellion Quartet and I’m hoping that I will write the final volume next year.  I...

NOW PUBLISHED Britain 1780-1945: Reforming Society develops the ideas and chronological scope that I put forward in my earlier studies of B...

Tithes were traditional payments that entitled the Church to a tenth of people’s annual income. Usually the payments were made in kind in t...

Tom Hughes Clerical Errors: A Victorian Series , Volume 2, (Squeaking Chair Books), 2017, £4.65 Kindle edition, £8.99 paperback T...

Richard Brown, Famine, Fenians and Freedom, 1830-1882 , Authoring History, second edition, 2017, £20.37, paperback, ISBN 978-1540352231; ...

First book for 2017 Famine, Fenians and Freedom, 1830-1882 is the second book in the Rebellion Quartet, a series looking at resista...

There have been important change in the Rebellion Trilogy, a series of books that were written between 2004 and 2010 and published in 2010...

Breaking the Habit: A Life of History , Richard Brown, Authoring History, 2016, 175 pp., £7.13, paper, ISBN 9781530295234   In this re...

Chartism: A Global History and other essays , Richard Brown, Authoring History, 2016, 324 pp., £10.96, paper, ISBN 1534981438   This v...

When I retired it was my intention to write a book on Chartism…one volume that distilled much of my teaching of the subject into a ...