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Dr Paul Pickering

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Dr Paul Pickering is a Senior Fellow and Convener of Graduate Studies at the Humanities Research Centre. Prior to taking up this post he was a Queen Elizabeth II Fellow at the HRC (2000-4). He was the Convener of Graduate Studies in History at the Australian National University (2002-6). Paul’s research and teaching interests are very broad. He has published extensively on Australian, British and Irish social, political and cultural history. His publications 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). Most recently Paul is a major contributor and co-editor (with Alex Tyrrell) to a collection of essays that addresses the relationship between public memory, heritage and history. This book, Contested Sites: Commemoration, Memorial and Popular Politics in Nineteenth Century Britain, was published by Ashgate Publishing in May 2004. Paul is also a contributor to The Chartist Legacy (London, 1999); Elections: Full Free and Fair (Sydney, 2002), Gold: Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia (Cambridge, 2002), Papers for the People (London, 2005) and Rediscovering the British World (Calgary, 2005). His articles have been published by leading journals, both in Australian and overseas, including Past and Present, History, Labour History, Albion, Australian Historical Studies, 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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