Dr Sarah Richardson

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Academic Profile
  • BA (Hons): University of Manchester
  • MA (Historical Computation): University of Hull
  • PhD: University of Leeds
  • Research assistant, University of Leeds, 1986-88
  • Lecturer, University of Warwick, 1988-2005
  • Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor, University of Warwick, 2005-
  • Winner of a Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence, 2006
  • National Teaching Fellow, 2010
  • Subject Director for History, Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology, 2008-
Other Scholarly Activities
  • External examiner, University of Greenwich, University of Glasgow
  • Founder member of Association for History and Computing, Treasurer of UK branch
  • Editor, Chadwyck-Healy History OnLine
  • Co-editor, History and Computing (1988-98)
  • Visiting Scholar, Institute for Research of Women and Gender, Stanford University, USA (1998)
  • Editor, H-Albion
  • Steering-group Electronic Seminars in History, Institute of Historical Research
  • Steering group TLTP Phase III, CHIC project
  • Member Academic Advisory Board, The National Archives
  • Member, Steering Committee, History Lab Plus
Undergraduate Modules Taught
Postgraduate Modules Taught
Selected Publications
  • with Sonja Cameron, Using Computers in History (Palgrave, 2005)
  • 'Politics and Gender in the nineteenth century' in Chris Williams (ed.), Blackwell's Companion to Nineteenth Century British History (Blackwell, 2004 and 2006)
  • 'Women, Philanthropy and Imperialism in Nineteenth-century Britain' in Helen Gilbert and Chris Tiffin (eds), Burden or Benefit: The Legacies of Benevolence (Indiana University Press, 2008)
  • '"You know your father’s heart”. The Cobden sisterhood and the legacy of Richard Cobden' in Anthony Howe and Simon Morgan (eds), Re-thinking Nineteenth-century Liberalism (Ashgate, 2006)
  • with Kathryn Gleadle, '"The philanthropic economy": Radicalism, women and charity in early nineteenth-century Britain' (forthcoming)
  • with Anna Clark (eds), The History of the Suffrage, 1760-1867 6 vols, (Pickering Chatto, 2000).
  • with Kathryn Gleadle (eds), Women and British Politics, 1760-1860: The Power of the Petticoat (Macmillan, 2000) including my article, '"Well-neighboured houses": the political networks of elite women'.
  • with Richard Hall, The Anglican clergy and Yorkshire politics in the eighteenth century (York, Borthwick papers, 1998)
  • Middle-Class Women and Political Culture in Nineteenth-century Britain (forthcoming)
  • 'The Age of Reform', 'Education and Literacy' and 'Twentieth-century elections' in Simon Hall and John Haywood (eds), The Pengiun Atlas of British and Irish History (Penguin, 2001)
  • with Astrid Wissenburg, 'Developing and disseminating hypermedia course-ware: great expectations' in L Borodkin (ed.) Data Modelling. Modelling History (Moscow, 1997)
  • 'The role of women in electoral politics in Yorkshire during the eighteen-thirties', Northern History, 1996
  • Nominal record linkage and letter-cluster sampling', History and Computing, 1996
Current Research Projects
  • Women and political culture in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century
  • Women and political authority in the late nineteenth century focusing on the papers of the Cobden sisters
  • Electoral politics and the law
  • HumBox - Open Educational Resources for the Humanities
  • It's Good to Talk - Improving student feedback experiences
  • Academic Literacy - part of the Kings-Warwick project on the development of the academic curriculum
Research Students Supervised (PhD, MA)

PhD

  • Seth Thévoz, 'Clubs and Electoral Politics, 1832-67' (collaborative doctoral award with the History of Parliament)
  • Young Hwi Yoon, 'The Abolition of Slavery Movement in the Late Eighteenth Century' (co-supervision)
  • Tara Morton, 'The Suffrage Atelier'
  • Debbie Wood, 'Women, Radicalism and Politics in early Nineteenth-century Staffordshire'
  • Dr Peter Bysouth, 'Small Towns in Nineteenth-century England' (co-supervision)
  • Dr Sarah Hudson, 'Attitudes to Investment Risk amongst West Midland Canal and Railway Company Investors 1700-1850'
  • Dr Jane Adams, 'Health and Health Care in Herefordshire 1780-1850' (co-supervision)
  • Dr Kevin Quigley, 'The Development of U.S. China policy 1959-72'
  • Dr Brian Howman, 'Anti-Slavery Movements in the North-west of England' (co-supervision)

MA

  • Judith Flint, 'Provision for the Poor in Nineteenth-Century Melton Mowbray'
  • David Insull, 'Electoral Politics in Eighteenth-Century Northampton' (co-supervision)
  • Sarah Boote Powell, 'Electoral Politics in Coventry in the Age of Reform'