Union and Disunion in the Nineteenth Century
This volume examines the nineteenth century not only through episodes, institutions, sites and representations concerned with union, concord and bonds of sympathy, but also through moments of secession, separation, discord and disjunction. Its lens extends from the local and regional, through to national and international settings in Britain, Europe and the United States. The contributors come from the fields of cultural history, literary studies, American studies and legal history.
James Gregory is Associate Professor in Modern British History at the University of Plymouth. Among his publications is The Poetry and the Politics: Radical Reform in Victorian England (2014).
Daniel J.R. Grey is Lecturer in World History since 1800 at the University of Plymouth. Among his recent publications is the co-edited collection Judgment in the Victorian Age (Routledge, 2018), with Annika Bautz and James Gregory.
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55 Transatlantic Trade and Global Cultural Transfers Since 1492
More Than Commodities
Edited by Martina Kaller and Frank Jacob
56 Contesting the Origins of the First World War
An Historiographical Argument
Troy R E Paddock
57 India at 70
Multidisciplinary Approaches
Edited by Ruth Maxey and Paul McGarr
58 1917 and the Consequences
Edited by Gerhard Besier and Katarzyna Stoklosa
59 Reforming Senates
Upper Legislative Houses in North Atlantic Small Powers 1800-present
Edited by Nikolaj Bijleveld, Colin Grittner, David E. Smith and Wybren Verstegen
60 Unsettled 1968 in the Troubled Present
Revisiting the 50 Years of Discussions from East and Central Europe
Edited by Aleksandra Konarzewska, Anna Nakai and Michal Przeperski
61 Marginalized Groups, Inequalities and the Post-War Welfare State
Whose Welfare?
Edited by Monika Bar and Paul van Trigt
62 Union and Disunion in the Nineteenth Century
Edited by James Gregory and Daniel J.R. Grey
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Rachel Egloff is an independent scholar. Her PhD, awarded by Oxford Brookes University in 2019, studied female participation in nineteenth-century discourses on national identity in the context of European international politics, using the case study of the writer Rose Blaze de Bury.
James E.H. Ford is curator at Longleat House and was formerly Consultant Assistant Curator at the Houses of Parliament. His Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded PhD project entitled The Art of Union and Disunion in the Houses of Parliament, 18341928 (University of Nottingham, 2016) explored the visual representation of the four nations in the New Palace of Westminster.
James Gregory is Associate Professor in Modern British History since 1800 at the University of Plymouth. Among his publications is The Poetry and the Politics: Radical Reform in Victorian England (2014).
Daniel J.R. Grey is Lecturer in World History since 1800 at the University of Plymouth. Among his publications is the co-edited collection Judgment in the Victorian Age (Routledge, 2018), with Annika Bautz and James Gregory.
Gary D. Hutchison is a postdoctoral research assistant in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University. His Wolfson Foundation-funded PhD (University of Edinburgh) focussed on the Scottish Conservative party, 18321868.
Margaret Markwick is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter and has published on Anthony Trollope. She is currently exploring the relationship between the Anglican thought and the expression of religious belief in the mid-Victorian novel.
Lawrence T. McDonnell is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Iowa State University and author of Performing Disunion: The Coming of the Civil War in Charleston, South Carolina (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Alison Pedley is a PhD student at the University of Roehampton, studying married women admitted c.18401890 to Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum and other institutions for the murder of their children.
Gordon Pentland is Reader in History at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on the political and cultural history of Scotland and Britain since the French Revolution, and has co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Modern British Political History, 18002000 (2018).
Pearl T. Ponce is Associate Professor in the Department of History, Ithaca College, and author of To Govern the Devil in Hell: The Political Crisis in Territorial Kansas (2014), Kansass War: The Civil War in Documents (2011), and various essays on Civil War and Kansas history.
Karen Rothery is an independent scholar, researching the implementation of the 1834 New Poor Law in Hertfordshire.
Judith Rowbotham is Visiting Research Professor in Law at the University of Plymouth and a director of SOLON: Promoting Interdisciplinary Studies in Law, Crime and History. Her numerous publications include the edited collection, The Windsor Dynasty 1910 to the Present (2016).
Helen Rutherford is Senior Lecturer in Law at Northumbria University, and a doctoral researcher at the University of Newcastle, studying the life and work of the Victorian coroner for Newcastle upon Tyne, John Theodore Hoyle.
Kim Stevenson is Professor of Socio-Legal History at the University of Plymouth. Among her numerous publications are: with D.J. Cox, C. Harris and J. Rowbotham,
