‘Coastal Commons: Custom and the Use of Seaweed in the British Isles, 1700-1900', Simonetta Cavaciocchi ed., Ricchezza del Mare, Ricchezza dal Mare Secc. XIII-XVIII. Atti della ‘Trentasettesima di Studi’ Istituto Internatzionale di Storia Economica ‘F. Datini’, Prato, 11-15 aprile 2005, pp. 343-67.

‘Les Terres en Jouissance Collective en Angleterre, 1700-1850', in Nadine Vivier et Marie-Danielle Demelas, eds., Les Propriétés Collectives Face aux Attaques Liberales (1750- 1914). Europe Occidentale et Amerique Latine (Presse Universitaire de Rennes, 2003), pp. 38-60.

'English Enclosures and British Peasants: Current Debates on Rural Social Structure 1750-1850', Jahrbuch fürWirtschaftsgeschichte (October, 2000), pp. 17-30.

'La Clôture des Terres et la Société Rurale Britannique', in Olivier Challine and F.J. Ruggiu, ed., 'Terre et Paysans', Histoire, Economie et Société (Editions Sedes, Paris), no. 1 (1999), pp. 83-106.

‘”300,000 Little Girls in Lancashire”: Making Cotton in Industrializing England, 1780- 1830, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, October 2007.

‘Custom, Memory and the Use of the Scots Foreshore c. 1700-1900', University of East Anglia, Interdisciplinary Conference on Collective Memory and the Uses of the Past, 7- 10 July 2006.

‘Living off the Land in Industrialization: A Short History of Gathering in Britain, 1700- 1850' Angus Gilbert Memorial Lecture, Laurentian University, November 2005.

AS/HIST 2400 British History, 1485- 1989

AS/HIST 4450 Themes in 18thC British Social History: Custom, Property and Industrialization (2004-5)

AS/HIST 4450 Themes in 18thC British Social History: Food in Britain, 1700-1815 (2005-8)

AS/HIST 6010 British History, 1750-1850

 

Social history of agrarian England 1750-1850: shared land use, petty landholders, rural protest, pastoral economy, hunting and gathering in industrialization. 

Faculty of Arts Research Grant: The Scottish Foreshore 1750-1850 (2000)

Elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (1995- present)

SSHRC Standard Research Grant (1994-97) "Living Off the Land in Industrialization: A Social History of Shared Land Use in Pastoral England, 1750-1850"

Royal Historical Society: Whitfield Prize for British History for Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England 1700-1820 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993, 1994).