Short biography:
Professor Paul Pickering is Convener of Graduate Studies at the Research School of Humanities. Prior to taking up this post he was a Queen Elizabeth II Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre (2000-4). He was the Convener of Graduate Studies in History at the Australian National University (2002-6). He is Head of the HRC Biography Institute and a member of the Board of the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Paul’s research and teaching interests are very broad. He has published extensively on Australian, British and Irish social, political and cultural history. His books include Chartism and the Chartists in Manchester and Salford (London, 1995); The People's Bread: A History of the Anti-Corn Law League (Leicester, 2000) (with Alex Tyrrell); and Friends of the People: Uneasy Radicals in the Age of the Chartists (London, 2003) (with Owen Ashton); Contested Sites: Commemoration, Memorial and Popular Politics in Nineteenth Century Britain (London, 2004) (with Alex Tyrrell et al) and Unrespectable Radicals? Popular Politics in the Age of Reform (London, 2007) (edited with Michael Davis). Paul’s most recent book is a biography of an Anglo-Irish political leader, Feargus O’Connor: A Political Life (London, 2008). Paul is also a contributor to Elections: Full Free and Fair (Sydney, 2002), Gold: Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia (Cambridge, 2002), Papers for the People (London, 2005); Rediscovering the British World (Calgary, 2005) and Terror: From Tyrannicide to Terrorism in Europe (St Lucia, 2008). His articles have been published by leading journals, both in Australian and overseas, including Past and Present, History, Labour History, Albion, Australian Historical Studies, History Australia, Australian Journal of Politics and History, and the English Historical Review. He has also contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and the Dictionary of Labour Biography.
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Selected Publications:
Books and Monographs
2008 Feargus O'Connor: A Political Life, Merlin Press, London.
2004 Contested Sites: Commemoration, Memorial and Popular Politics in Nineteenth Century Britain. Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot.
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