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Professor Roger Richardson

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Professor Richardson came to King Alfred’s in 1977 after time as a senior lecturer at Thames Polytechnic and previous periods of study at Leicester and Manchester Universities. He was appointed Head of the Department of History and Archaeology upon his arrival and continued as Head of History until 1999.

In 1993 he became Professor of History and from 1999 to 2001 he was appointed by the College as Head of Research and the graduate centre. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has several times been a visiting Professor: in 1982 and 1988 at the University of Southern Maine and again between 1994 and 1997 at Southern Oregon. He has been a member of the Council of the Economic History Society and is co-editor of Literature and History.

His research and teaching interests include the history of the English Civil War, historiography and the philosophy of history. He has published extensively upon these subjects. As well as his extensive list of publications Professor Richardson is the general editor of two series for Manchester University Press: History and related disciplines: Select Bibliographies and  Issues in Historiography.

Publications

Books

Articles

  • Date 3 articles in Dictionary of National Biography, 2004
  • 1998 10 articles in D.R. Woolf (ed.) A Global Encyclopaedia of Historical Writing (Garland Publishing)
  • 1997 ‘Political thinking in early modern England’, Clio, Vol 27, 2
  • 1996 ‘The Interregnum’ in Fritze R H & Robinson W B (eds) Historical Dictionary of Stuart England 1603-89 (Greenwood, Westport CT)
  • 1992 ‘Winchester and the Civil War’ in Barker S and Haydon C M (eds) Winchester in History and Literature, Winchester, King Alfred’s College
  • 1991 ‘Changing perspectives on England in the 1650s’ in Festschrift for Professor Ju Hwan Oh, Taegu, Korea
  • 1989 ‘Professor W H Chaloner: Some Recollections’ in J Archer (ed) William Henry Chaloner: A Memoir
  • 1987‘The Social Context of English literature in the Seventeenth Century’, Literature and History
  • 1986‘History Laboratory’, Times Educational Supplement (August)
  • 1986 ‘Paperback History’, Times Educational Supplement (April)
  • 1985 ‘Metropolitan Counties’ in Joan Thirsk (ed), The Agrarian History of England and Wales, vol V, 1640-1750, Cambridge University Press
  • 1985 ‘Literature and History: the identity and purpose of the Journal’, Literature and History
  • 1979 ‘Methodologies of History’, Literature and History, 5:2
  • 1979 ‘List of publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland published in 1978′ (with Channon G and Armstrong J), Economic History Review xxxii
  • 1978 ‘List of publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland published in 1977′ (with Channon G), Economic History Review, xxxi
  • 1977 ‘List of Publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland published in 1976′ (with Channon G), Economic History Review, xxx
  • 1976 ‘List of publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland published in 1975′ (with Channon G), Economic History Review, xxix
  • 1976 ‘Contrasting communities in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England’, Social History, 1
  • 1975 ‘List of publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland published in 1974′ (with Harte N B and Tierney D J), Economic History Review, xxviii
  • 1975 ‘The English Revolution and the Historians’, Literature and History, 1
  • 1974 ‘Religion and reading in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries’, The Local Historian, xi no 1
  • 1973 ‘Puritanism and the ecclesiastical authorities’ in Brian Manning, (ed) Politics, Religion and the English Civil War, Arnold
  • 1972 ‘Wills and will-makers in the sixteenth and seventeenth-centuries’, Local Population Studies, ix