Contact Information:

• Room: 3.08, third floor, Faculty of Arts Building

• Telephone: 024 7652 3417
• Office Hours: Wednesdays 11:00-12:00 and Fridays 11:00-12:00
• Email: sarah.richardson@warwick.ac.uk 

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
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2011
• Winner of the Arts Faculty Research Impact Award, 2013
• Subject Director for History, Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for History, Classics and ArchaeologyLink opens in a new window, 2008-11
• Foundation Fellow of the Warwick International Higher Education Academy
• Foundation Fellow of the Warwick Institute of Engagement
• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2015
• Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2017

Other Scholarly Activities

• Convenor: Women's History Network
• Chair: Dugdale Society
• External examiner, University of Greenwich, University of Glasgow, University of Southampton
• Founder member of Association for History and Computing, Treasurer of UK branch
• Editorial Board of Women's History Review

Undergraduate Modules Taught

• British Women and the Politics of Italian Unification (HI2F7)
• Gender, History and Politics, 1760-1939 (HI253)
• British Parliamentary and Electoral Politics, 1688-1832 (HI254)
• Georgian Britain (HI284)
• The Victorian City (HI371)
• Crime and Punishment in the Long Nineteenth Century (HI398)

Postgraduate Modules Taught

• Politics and Opinion in Hanoverian Britain
• MA in Local and Regional History

Selected Publications

• (forthcoming) ‘Antecedents to the Organised Women’s Suffrage Movement’ in Krista Cowman (ed.), Routledge Companion to British Women’s Suffrage
• with Natalie Hanley-Smith, Passion, Politics and Parliament (Wiley, 2023) including ‘Dangerous or Goodly Passions: the Role of Emotion in Parliament and Politics’, 1-10
• ‘Writing Women into the Political History of Warwickshire’ in Christopher Dyer (ed.), Changing Approaches to Local History: Warwickshire History and its Historians (Boydell and Brewer, 2022), 239-55
• ‘Parliament as viewed through a woman’s eyes: gender and space in the nineteenth-century Commons’, Parliamentary History, 42 (2019)
• 'Conversations with Parliament: Women and the Politics of Pressure in Nineteenth-Century Britain', Parliamentary History, 37 (2018)

• 'Transforming the Body Politic: Food Reform and Feminism in Nineteenth-Century Britain', in Francesca Scott, Kate Scarth and Ji Won Chung (eds), Picturing Women's Health (Pickering and Chatto, 2014)

• 'A regular politician in breeches: the life and work of Harriet Lewin Grote', in Kyriakos Demetriou, Companion to George Grote (Brill Academic Publishers, 2014)
• The Political Worlds of Women: Gender and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Routledge, 2013)

• with Katie Barclay (eds), Special edition: ‘Performing the Self: Women's Lives in Historical Perspective’, Women’s History Review, 22: 2 (2013)

• '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)
• 'Politics and Gender in the nineteenth century' in Chris Williams (ed.), Blackwell's Companion to Nineteenth Century British History (Blackwell, 2004 and 2006)
• with Sonja Cameron, Using Computers in History (Palgrave, 2005)
• 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)
• '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

• Mapping Women's Suffrage
• 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

• Chloe Challender, 'Institutional intimacy: gender, sexuality and relationships in the nineteenth-century British Parliament' (co-supervision), M4C CDA with the Parliamentary Archives
• Sarah Boote Powell, 'Electoral Politics in three midlands cities'
• Oihane Etayo Ballesteros, ' Women and social and political mobilisation in nineteenth and twentieth century Britain' (co-supervision)
• Dave Steele, 'Crowds in Nineteenth-Century political culture'
• Dr Amy Galvin, 'From Suffragette to Citizen' (collaborative doctoral award with the Parliamentary Archives - co-supervision)
• Dr Natalie Hanley Smith, 'The Menage a trois in early nineteenth century Britain'
• John Wilmot, 'Dispensaries in the West Midlands' (co-supervision)
• Dr Seth Thévoz, 'Clubs and Electoral Politics, 1832-67' (collaborative doctoral award with the History of Parliament)
• Dr Young Hwi Yoon, 'The Abolition of Slavery Movement in the Late Eighteenth Century' (co-supervision)
• Tara Morton, 'The Suffrage Atelier'
• 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)

MPhil

• Debbie Wood, 'Women, Radicalism and Politics in early Nineteenth-century Staffordshire'

MA by Research

• Mark Bennett, 'The US Civil War and the West Riding of Yorkshire'
• Rowan Burrows, 'Chartism and the Press'
• 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'

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