Professor Anthony Howe - Editor

Prof. Anthony Howe, MA, D.Phil. (Oxon), FRHistS, editor of The Letters of Richard Cobden, has been Professor of Modern History at the University of East Anglia since September 2003, having previously taught for twenty years in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics. Educated at Cheltenham Grammar School and at Wadham College, Oxford, he was a postgraduate student at Nuffield College before teaching Modern History at Oriel College, Oxford. He is the author of The Cotton Masters, 1830-1860 (Oxford, 1984), and Free Trade and Liberal England, 1846-1946 (Oxford, 1997), as well as numerous essays on 19th and early 20th century British history. He is currently editing Annie Cobden Sanderson's Suffragette Prison Diary and preparing an international history of free trade from Adam Smith to globalisation.

Contact details: Arts Room 4.20a, UEA, Tel: +44 (0)1603 593635, a.c.howe@uea.ac.uk

In addition to The Letters of Richard Cobden (vols. 1 and 2), recent publications include:

• ‘Crimea: the First Global War?’, Total Politics (April 2011), 62-4.
• 'Radicalism, free trade, and foreign policy in mid-nineteenth-century Britain', in
• W. Mulligan & B. Simms (eds.) The Primacy of Foreign Policy in British History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 167-80.
• ‘The “Manchester School” and the Landlords: the failure of land reform in Victorian Britain’ in M. Cragoe & P. Readman (eds.), The Land Question in Britain, 1750-1950 (Palgrave Macmillan 2010), 74-91
• ‘British Liberalism and the Legacy of Saint-Simon: the case of Richard Cobden’, History of Economic Ideas, 2009 (2), 107-119
• (with Gordon Bannerman), Battles over Free Trade: Anglo-American Experiences with International Trade, 1776-2006, vol. 2: The Consolidation of Free Trade, 1847-1878 (Pickering & Chatto, 2008)
• (with Mark Duckenfield), Battles over Free Trade: Anglo-American Experiences with International Trade, 1776-2006, vol. 3: The Challenge of Economic Nationalism, 1879-1939 (Pickering & Chatto, 2008)
• ‘The Anti-Corn Law League’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, May 2008
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• 'Free Trade and Global Order' in Duncan Bell ed. Victorian Visions of Global Order (Cambridge, 2007), 26-46
• 'Two Faces of British Power: Cobden versus Palmerston' in D. Brown & M.Taylor eds. Palmerston Studies II (Southampton, 2007), 168-92
• 'Re-forging Britons: Richard Cobden and France' in S. Aprile & F. Bensimon (eds.) La France et L'Angleterre an XIXe siècle, (Paris, 2006), 89-104

Dr Simon Morgan - Research Officer

Biography on Leeds Metropolitan website.

Dr Simon Morgan BA (Oxon), MA (Warwick), D.Phil. (York), has been the full-time research officer for the Letters of Richad Cobden project since April 2002. He completed his DPhil thesis, 'Middle-class Women, Civic Virtue and Identity: Leeds and the West Riding of Yorkshire c.1830 - c.1860' in January 2000. From October 1999 to April 2002 he taught courses in modern British, European and world history at a number of Yorkshire universities. His research interests include women's and gender history; the urban middle classes; the Victorian city; and national and regional identities in the British Isles.

Publications:

• 'Domestic Economy and Political Agitation: Women and the Anti-Corn Law League, 1839-1846', in Kathryn Gleadle and Sarah Richardson (eds.), Women in British Politics, 1750-1850: The Power of the Petticoat (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000).
• 'Seen but not Heard? Women's Platforms, Respectability, and Female Publics in the Mid-Nineteenth Century', Nineteenth-Century Prose, 29, 1 (2002).
• "'A sort of land debatable": Female Influence, Civic Virtue and Middle-Class Identity, c.1830 - c.1860', Women's History Review (June 2004).
• ‘Richard Cobden and British Imperialism', Journal of Liberal History 45 (Winter, 2004-5).
• ‘Cobden and Manchester', Manchester Region History Review XVII, i (2004).
• A Victorian Woman's Place:Public Culture in the Nineteenth Century (London: Tauris, 2007)
   

Dr Gordon Bannerman - Research Associate

Dr Gordon Bannerman, BA, MA, PhD. (University of London), a free lance researcher, was the project's chief researcher between August 2005 and September 2006, having completed his PhD thesis at Kings College London. He jointly edited with Anthony Howe, Mark Duckenfield, and Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, Battles over Free Trade,1776-2006 (four volumes, Pickering & Chatto, 2008).

Publications:

• 'The "Nabob of the North": Sir Lawrence Dundas as government contractor', Historical Research 83 (2010), 102-23.
• Merchants and the Military in eighteenth-century Britain: British Army Contracts and Domestic Supply, 1739-1763 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2007)

The Project Team is also extremely grateful for the extensive assistance of the following:

Professor James Albisetti, Professor of History, University of Kentucky
Dr. Detlev Mares, Institut für Geschichte, Technische Universität Darmstadt
Dr Roberto Romani, University of Teramo, Italy