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Chapters In Books:


‘Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must: Political Violence and Insurrection in Early-Victorian Britain’, in B. Bowden (ed) Terror: From Tyrannicide to Terrorism in Europe, 1605-2005, (with a Preface by Geoffrey Robertson Q.C.), University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2008, forthcoming.

‘Betrayal and Exile: A Forgotten Chartist Experience’, in M.T. Davis & P.A. Pickering (eds), Unrespectable Radicals? Popular Politics in the Age of Reform, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, 2007, pp. 201-217.

'Loyalty and Rebellion in Colonial Politics: The Campaign Against Convict Transportation', in P. Buckner and R. D. Francis (eds) Rediscovering the British World, University of Calgary Press, Calgary, 2005, pp. 87-107.

'Mercenary Scribblers and Polluted Quills: The Colonial Chartist Press', in J. Allen and O. Ashton (eds), Papers for the People, Merlin Press, London, 2005, pp. 190-215.

'A Grand Ossification: William Cobbett and the Commemoration of Tom Paine', in P.A. Pickering and A. Tyrrell (eds), Contested Sites: Commemoration, Memorial and Popular Politics in Nineteenth Century Britain, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, 2004, pp. 57-80.

'The Chartist Rites of Passage: Commemorating Feargus O'Connor', in P.A. Pickering and A. Tyrrell (eds), Contested Sites: Commemoration, Memorial and Popular Politics in Nineteenth Century Britain, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, 2004, pp. 101-126.

[with Alex Tyrrell], 'The Public Memorial of Reform', in P.A. Pickering and A. Tyrrell (eds), Contested Sites: Commemoration, Memorial and Popular Politics in Nineteenth Century Britain, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, 2004, pp. 1-23.

'Chartism and the Trade of Agitation in Early Victorian Britain', S. Roberts (ed), The People's Charter: Democratic Agitation in Early Victorian Britain, Merlin Press, London, 2003, pp. 19-34.

'A Wider Field in a New Country: Chartism in Colonial Australia', M. Sawer (ed.), Elections, Full, Free & Fair, Federation Press, Sydney, 2001, pp. 28-44.

'"The Finger of God": Gold and political culture in Colonial New South Wales', I.D. McCalman (ed.), Gold: Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia, Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 21-43.

'"Repeal and the Suffrage": Feargus O'Connor's Irish Mission, 1849-50', O. Ashton & S. Roberts (eds), The Chartist Legacy, Merlin Press, London, 1999, pp. 119-146.


Articles In Refereed Journals:


‘The Highway to Comfort and Independence: A Case Study of Radicalism in the British World’, History Australia, vol. 5. no. 1, April 2008, pp. 0.6.1- 0.6.14.

‘Was the Southern Tree of Liberty an Oak?’, Labour History, no. 92, May 2007, pp. 139-142.

'"Ripe for a Republic": British Radical Responses to the Eureka Stockade', Australian Historical Studies, no. 121, April 2003, pp. 69-90.

'The Hearts of the Millions: Chartism and Popular Monarchism in the 1840s', History, vol. 88, no. 290, April 2003, pp. 227-248.

'Conserving the People's History: Lessons from Manchester and Salford', Humanities Research, vol. VIII, no. 1, 2001, pp. 51-8.

'And Your Petitioners &c': Chartist Petitioning in Popular Politics 1838-48', English Historical Review, vol. 116, no. 466, April 2001, pp. 368-388.

'The Oak of English Liberty: Popular Constitutionalism in New South Wales, 1848-1856', Journal of Australian Colonial History, vol. 3, no. 1, April 2001, pp. 1-27.

'Irish first' Daniel O'Connell, the Native Manufacture Campaign, and Economic Nationalism, 1840-44', Albion, vol. 32, no. 4, Winter 2000, pp. 598-616.

'The Class of 96: A Biographical Analysis of New Coalition Members of the House of Representatives', Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 44, no. 1, March 1998, pp. 95-112.

'"Glimpses of Eternal Truth": Chartism, Poetry and the Young H.R. Nicholls', Labour History, no. 70, May 1996, pp. 53-70.

'Chartism and the "Trade of Agitation" in Early Victorian Britain', History, vol. 76, no. 247, June 1991, pp. 221-237.

'Class Without Words: Symbolic Communication in the Chartist Movement', Past and Present, no. 112, August 1986, pp. 144-162.

[with Robyn Westcott] 'Monuments and Commemorations: A Consideration', Humanities Research, vol. X, no. 2, 2003, pp. 1-8.

[with Stephen Roberts] 'Pills, Pamphlets and Politics: the career of Peter Murray McDouall (1814-1854)', Manchester Region History Review, vol. XI, 1997, pp. 34-43.

[with Alex Tyrrell] '"In the Thickest of the Fight": The Reverend James Scholefield and the Bible Christians of Manchester and Salford', Albion, vol. 26, no. 3, 1994, pp. 461-482.


Reviews, Editorials, Reports and Contributions to Dictionaries:


Review: Di Langmore (ed), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 17, Labour History, forthcoming, 2008.

Review: James Boyce, Van Diemen's Land, Tasmanian Historical Studies, forthcoming, 2008.

Review: Glenn Burgess & Matthew Festenstein (eds), English Radicalism 1550-1850, H-Albion, May 2008.

Review: Ann Curthoys & Marilyn Lake (eds), Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective, Labour History, No. 94, May 2008.

Entry: ‘Alexander Somerville’, Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism, British Library, London, forthcoming, 2008.

Entry: ‘Joseph Livesey’, Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism, British Library, London, forthcoming, 2008.

Entry: ‘John Doherty’, Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism, British Library, London, forthcoming, 2008.

Review: C. Schonhardt-Bailey, From the Corn Laws to Free Trade, History, forthcoming, 2008.

Entry: 'Corn Laws', Oxford Encyclopaedia of the Modern World, Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2008.

Review: Paul Keen (ed), The Popular Radical Press in Britain 1817-1821, Enlightenment and Dissent, No. 23, 2007.

Entry: 'Chartism' in B. Galligan & W. Roberts (eds) Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, 2007.

Entry: 'Reginald Richardson', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, supplement, 2006.

Entry: 'James Scholefield', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, supplement, 2006.

Entry: 'Feargus O'Connor' in Scribner's Encyclopaedia of Europe 1789-1914, Thompson-Gale, 2006.

Entry: 'Robert Peel' in Scribner's Encyclopaedia of Europe 1789-1914, Thompson-Gale, 2006.

Review: Haig Patapan, John Wanna & Patrick Walker (eds), Westminster Legacies: Democracy and Responsible Government in Asia and the Pacific, JAS Review of Books, Issue 44, July 2006.

Review: Kevin Binfield (ed), Writings of the Luddites, History, vol. 91, January 2006, pp. 150-1.

Review: Michael Turner, Independent Radicalism in Early Victorian Britain, Journal of British Studies,vol.44, no. 4, October 2005, p. 8.

Review: Susan Kruss, Calico Ceilings: The Women of Eureka, JAS Review of Books, Issue 34, June 2005.

Review: Alan Atkinson, The Europeans in Australia: Volume 2, Democracy, JAS Review of Books, Issue 31, March 2005.

Review: David Dunstan (ed), Owen Suffolk's Days of Crime and Years of Suffering, JAS Review of Books, Issue 26, August 2004.

Review: Kirsten McKenzie, Scandal in the Colonies, JAS Review of Books, Issue 24, June 2004.

Entry: 'R.J. Richardson', in K. Gildhart, N. Kirk & D. Howell (eds), Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol. XI, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2003, pp. 212-214.

Entry: 'James Scholefield', in K. Gildhart, N. Kirk & D. Howell (eds), Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol. XI, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2003, pp. 251-253.

Entry: 'James Wroe', in K. Gildhart, N. Kirk & D. Howell (eds), Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol. XI, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2003, pp. 292-293.

Conference Report: UK-Australian Labour History Conference, Manchester, Labour History (Australia), no. 85, November 2003, pp. 227-8.

Review: G. Moschonas, In the Name of Social Democracy: The Great Transformation 1945 to the Present and P. Norton (ed) Parliaments and Citizens in Western Europe, Australian Journal of Political Science, 2003.

Review: J. Hirst, Australia's Democracy: A Short History, JAS Review of Books, Issue 10, November 2002.

Review: W.J. Metcalf and E. Huf, Herrnhut: Australia's First Utopian Commune, JAS Review of Books, Issue 6, August 2002.

Editorial: 'Museums of the Future: Beyond East and West', Humanities Research, vol. IX, no. 1, 2002, pp. 1-3.

Review: F. Crowley, Big John Forrest 1847-1918, A Founding Father of the Commonwealth of Australia, JAS Review of Books, Issue 4, Dec 2001- Jan 2002.

Conference Report: Australasian Modern British History Conference, Australian Historical Association Bulletin, no. 92, June 2001, pp. 71-2.

Review: F. Neal, Black '47 Britain and the Famine Irish, Journal of Modern History, vol. 72, no. 4, December 2000, pp. 1013-14.

Review: J. Hewitson, In Far Off Places, Journal of Australian Studies, no. 61, 1999, pp. 203-4.

Review: E. Hopkins, Working Class Self Help in Nineteenth Century England, Albion, Winter 1996.

Review: B. Reay, The Last Rising of the Agricultural Labourers, Labour History, May 1992.


Other Publications:


'The Enourmous Condecension of Posterity Revistied: Labour Heritage and Public Memory', Dissent, NO. 26, Autum/Winter 2008.

'True Believer's Healing Touch', Australian, 10 August 2004.

'Who Counts by Post Code', AQ: Journal of Contemporary Analysis, Vol. 71, Issue 2, March-April 1999.

'Taxing the Poor Man's Loaf', National Library News, April 1999.

'Altruism and Capitalism: through the new Job Network', Social Tracts for Our Times, no. 1, Brotherhood of St Laurence, Melbourne, 1998, pp. 1-23.

'The Job Experiment', Issues in the News, 1999 Edition (Educational CD Rom produced by the Sydney Morning Herald and the Melbourne Age).