Dr Richard Sheldon

Lecturer in Social and Economic History

Office: 13 Woodland Rd: Consultation hours (PDF)

Phone: +44 (0)117 928 8394

Research interests

British history 1700-1860, especially the history of radicalism and protest movements. The comparative study of famines and famine relief c.1700 to the present; the history of social and economic thought.

Research supervision

I welcome enquiries from prospective students wishing to research any topics linked to my interests.

Teaching

Teaches social and economic history, including the history of economic and social thought. Most of his teaching is on Western Europe between about 1750 and 1870. He is also interested in the philosophy of history and teach this at MA level.

Selected publications

'Practical Economics in Eighteenth-Century England: Charles Smith on the Grain Trade and the Corn Laws 1758-1772', Historical Research available Online Early
Fourteen entries in New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004)
'John Thelwall, The Rights of Man and the Right to Live: Radical Politics, the People and Political Economy', in S. Poole ed., Poetry, Oratory and Popular Politics: the Many Lives of John Thelwall (fortcoming)
'Development, Poverty and Famines: The Record of British Empire', in Mark Duffield and Vernon Hewitt eds., Development and Colonialism (forthcoming, 2008)

Full Publications

Full list of Dr Sheldon's publications held in the University's IRIS publications database.

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