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Dr Michael Winstanley

Senior Lecturer

Degree: BA (Oxon), MA (Lancs) PhD (Lancs)

Research Interests

My interests are broadly in British social and economic history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with specific reference to North West England. I have a particular interest in rural history, the development of retailing, and structure and use of archival resources.

A selection of recent publications

• 'Lord Burghley's map of Lancashire revisited, c.1576-90' Imago Mundi 59.1 (2007), 24-42 with Bill Shannon.
• 'Rural and Urban Poaching in Victorian England', Rural History, 17:2 (2006), 187-212 with Harvey Osborne.
• A Guide to Cumbrian Historical Sources (Lancaster: Centre for North West Regional Studies, Lancaster University, 2006) co-authored with Rob David.
• 'Agriculture and Rural Society, c 1800-1914' in C. Williams (ed.), Companion to British History (Blackwell, 2004).
• 'Retail Property Ownership in Edwardian England' in John Benson and Laura Ugolini (eds.), A Nation of Shopkeepers (I. B. Tauris, 2002).
• 'The Town Transformed, 1815-1914' in Andrew White (ed.), A History of Lancaster (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2001), pp. 173-228.
• With Guinevere Glasfurd, 'History in Cyberspace: challenges and opportunities of Internet-based teaching and learning', in Alan Booth and Paul Hyland (eds.), The Practice of University History Teaching (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000), pp. 85-100.
• 'Temples of Commerce: Revolutions in Shopping and Banking' in Philip Waller (ed.), The English Urban Landscape (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 151-74.
• With J. K. Walton, R. M. Blinkhorn, C. Pooley and D. Tidswell, 'Crime, Migration and Social Changes in North-West England and the Basque Country, c.1870-1930', British Journal of Criminology, 39 (1999), 90-112.
• 'Owners and Occupiers: Property, Politics and Middle-class Formation in Early Industrial Lancashire', in A. Kidd and D. Nicholls (eds.), The Making of the British Middle Class? Studies of Regional and Cultural Diversity since the Eighteenth Century (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1998), pp. 93-112.
• 'Women and the Grocery Trade in Britain, 1851-1911: A Regional Analysis', in E. Royle (ed.), Issues of Regional Identity: In Honour of John Marshall (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998), pp. 154-183.
• 'Industrialisation and the Small Farm: Family and Household Economy in Nineteenth-century Lancashire', Past and Present, 152 (1996), 157-95.

Areas of Research Supervision

Dr Winstanley is interested in hearing from students interested in writing dissertations and theses on topics that would fall under the following headings:

• North West England (most aspects), c. 1780-1914.
• History of Retailing, c. 1850-1950.
• Rural Society in Britain, c. 1850-1939.

Students writing essays and dissertations might be interested in the following guide to the History of the North West on the World Wide Web.

Click here to explore North West History and Archives Research Cluster.

Associated Keywords: Agriculture, Archives, Britain, Business, Cartography, Children, Crime and society, Culture, Cumbria, Digital humanities, History, Lake District, Lancashire, Locality, Nineteenth century, Regions, Seventeenth century, Sixteenth-century, Twentieth century

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