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Alison Kay

Alison continues to pursue her double life as entrepreneur and academic specialist in historical entrepreneurship. Since completing her lectureship at Lancaster (2007–2008), her monograph has been published and met with good reviews in Reviews in History, Business History, Enterprise & Society and EH.NET. Alison supplies a history and heritage writing service through her consultancy Alison Kay Research. She is also co-Director of Piction Media, a high–end provider of visual and content media for brands, projects and people.

More Academic Publications

Revealing her assets: Liberating the Victorian businesswoman from the sources, Business Archives: Sources and History 92 (2006), pp.1-16; Retailing, respectability and the independent woman in nineteenth century London in Beachy, R., Craig, B. & Owens, A. (eds), Women, Business and Finance in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Rethinking Separate Spheres (Berg, 2006), pp.152-166; Small business, self-employment and women's work-life choices in nineteenth century London, in Brown, J., Mitch, D. & Van Leeuwen, M. (eds), Origins of the Modern Career (Ashgate, 2004), pp.191-206; A little enterprise of her own. Lodging house keeping and the accommodation business in mid-nineteenth century London, The London Journal 28:2, (2003), pp.41-53; Reaction not retreat: Small business proprietorship and the redundant woman, Economic History Society New Researchers' Papers 2002, pp.93-99. As Parkinson, A.C.

Public History Projects and Journalism

The mumpreneurs of Victorian Britain, Our History (magazine of the National Archives), (forthcoming); The houses in the park: Crystal Palace Park's middle class villas, Our History (magazine of the National Archives), (forthcoming); Villas, values and the Crystal Palace Company, 1852-1911, Crystal Palace Foundation pamphlet, (forthcoming).

Commissioned Book Reviews

Economic History Review, 2010: H. Doe, Enterprising Women and Shipping in the Nineteenth Century (Boydell Press, 2009); Women's History Review, 2010: G. Ulianova, Female Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth-Century Russia (Pickering & Chatto, 2009); Business History, 2008: L. Ugolini, Men and Menswear. Sartorial Consumption in Britain 1880-1939 (Ashgate, 2007); The London Journal, 2008: M. Spence, The Making of a London Suburb (Merlin, 2007); The Victorian, 2007: J. White, London in the Nineteenth Century (Jonathan Cape, 2007); Business History, 2007: H. Barker, The Business of Women (OUP, 2006); The London Journal, 2007: N. Phillips, Women in Business 1780–1850 (Boydell, 2006); Business History, 2006: R.J. Morris, Men, Women and Property in England 1780–1870 (CUP, 2005); The Victorian, 2005: Whelan et al, Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow Workers 1872-1911 (Kyrle Books, 2005); Economic History Review, 2005: R. Sweet and P. Lane, Women and Urban Life in Eighteenth-Century England (Ashgate, 2003); EH.Net, 2003: A. Colli, The History of Family Business 1850-2000 (CUP, 2003); Economic History Review, 2003: V.G. Drackman, Enterprising Women: 250 years of American Business (UNCP, 2002).

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