Theatre

Pygamalion by George Bernard Shaw

Director/Designer: Philip Prowse

Chichester Festival Theatre (approximate total audience 48,000)

9 July-27 August 2010

Transferred to Garrick Theatre, London 12 May to 3 September 2011 (approximate total audience 34,000)

Programme Notes: Life at the Kerbstone (Image  and Transcript )

Exhibitions

Performing the Self: Women's Lives in Historical Context, Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick, 10-12 September 2010

For details of the conference which accompanied the exhibition please see here. The opening session was broadcast live by the Knowledge Centre.

See also The Idea of the University, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, June 2010 and a report from the Knowledge Centre.

Exhibition Catalogue

Online Exhibition

Radio

Interview on the historical significance of state funerals on the day of Mrs Thatcher's funeral, Newsday, BBC World Service, 17 April 2013

Interview with Nick Ferrari on Mrs Thatcher and her legacy for women, LBC Radio (London), 9 April 2013 (audience 591,000)

'Votes for Victorian Women', Document presented by Sarah Richardson, BBC Radio 4, 18 March 2013

'The Peterloo Massacre', In Our Time presented by Melvyn Bragg on BBC Radio 4 (audience 2 million)

Interview with Evan Davies and Greg Grandin on model villages, Today Programme, BBC Radio 4 (audience 6.5 million)

Interview with James Naughtie and Lord Douglas Hurd on reading for new Members of Parliament, Today Programme, BBC Radio 4 (audience 6.5 million)

Interview with Sarah Montague on the 1841 Census, Today Programme, BBC Radio 4 (audience 6.5 million)

Interview with Liz Kershaw on the political context of The King's Speech, BBC Coventry and Warwickshire (audience 75,000)

Interview with Vic Minett on the state opening of Parliament, BBC Coventry and Warwickshire (audience 75,000)

Interview with Bob Brolly on whether History should be taught in schools, BBC Coventry and Warwickshire (audience 75,000)

Interview with Mollie Green on the history of the Jubilee, BBC Coventry and Warwickshire (audience 75,000)

Interview with Parizad Nobakht on the Jubilee, BBC World Service, Persian Section

Print and Online Journalism

Editor, Modern History Review

'Petticoat Politicians: Women and the Politics of the Parish in England', Historian, Autumn 2013. See also the Editorial placing the article in context.

'Women voted 75 years before they were legally allowed to in 1918', Daily Telegraph, 18 March 2013 (readership 1.87 million)

'When did women get the vote?', guest blog for The Victorian Commons (part of the research project the 'History of Parliament's House of Commons, 1832-68'), 18 March 2013

'The nation has warmed to the idea of Queen Camilla', Daily Telegraph, 23 November 2010 (readership 1.68 million)

'If women ruled the world...', Daily Express , 16 July 2010 (readership 1.47 million)

'Historiadora: Elizabeth II tentou mostrar monarquia que trabalha', Terra (Brazil), 2 June 2012

Television

Who Do You Think You Are, 19 September 2012, BBC 1 (audience 4.97 million)

Secrets of the Manor House, 22 January 2012, PBS, Pioneer Productions (audience 2 million)

Interview with Sian Williams on the 1841 Census, BBC Breakfast (audience 1.4 million)

Public Policy

'Where are all the women in politics?', History and Policy, 18 March 2013

'Does delaying the state opening of Parliament matter?', History and Policy, 13 September 2010

'Nick Clegg and the not-so-great Reform Act', History and Policy, 20 October 2010

Member of expert group on student contact hours, QAA

Member of expert group on international comparability of international senior secondary education, Ofqual

Member of expert group on A level reform, Department for Education

Community Engagement

The Extraordinary and the Everyday: A Year in the Life of a Rural Community, 1914-5 is a Heritage Lottery Funded Project tracking via an interactive blog, a year in the life of Avon Dassett from the outbreak of war in August 1914.

Avon Dassett community website was part of Stratford-upon-Avon District Council's submission for its successful application for a Beacon Award for Digital Inclusion bringing services and information to small rural communities. The local history section of the website brings together articles and resources developed by and for the local community.

'Nineteenth-century Rural Crime in Avon Dassett'

'Bitham Hall, Avon Dassett and Clonalis House, Castlerea, County Roscommon'

Avon Dassett Digitised Local History Resources

In 2013 the Local History group produced A Chronicle of Avon Dassett written by Jill Burgess and Sarah Richardson

The book was positively reviewed by the Four Shires magazine in March 2014

Digital Media at the University of Warwick

'Grounds for Divorce: How England and Scotland Became Great Britain', with Dr Gabriel Glickman to discuss the debate about Scottish Independence, August 2014

'Have Royal Births changed in 200 Years?', to discuss the birth of Prince George, July 2013

'Women and the Politics of the Parish', guest blog for My-Parish.org, 19 March 2013

'Lost in Duration: Unsung Heroines of the 19th Century', article for the Knowledge Centre (published to mark International Women's Day, 8 March 2013)

'The Monarchy and the Jubilee', Article for the Knowledge Centre

Celebrating Dickens, podcast  on Victorian Britain

'Do-gooders or self-servers', Interview and podcast with the Knowledge Centre

'History in the Digital Age', Interview and podcast  (with Professor Mark Knights) with the Knowledge Centre

'Parliament in crisis: the expenses scandal and its historical context', Podcast (with Dr Joe Hardwick and Professor Mark Knights) and resources with Thinking Aloud

British Parliamentary and Electoral Politics, 1688-1832: a series of podcasts  via Warwick on iTunesU

Georgian Britain: a series of podcasts (with Professor Mark Knights) via Warwick on iTunesU