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Associate Professor Michael J.D. Roberts

Associate Professor Michael J.D. Roberts

BA(Hons), LLB (Sydney), D Phil (Oxford)

Office: W6A 239
Phone: +61 2 9850 8841
Fax: +61 2 9850 8240
Email: mroberts@hmn.mq.edu.au

 

 

Research

Fields of Specialisation
European History since the 18th century with particular interest in English political, religious and cultural history of the 19th century

Supervision
Available to supervise in topics of political, social and cultural history of Britain and western Europe, 1760-1914, and in selected topics of European History since 1945.

Award

2005-8: Awarded ARC Discovery grant for project: 'Cultural Politics in Victorian England'
2006: Elected to Visiting Fellowship at Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge
2005: Awarded Royal History Society's 2004 Whitfield Prize for book Making English Morals,
http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org/grants.htm
2001: Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford
1995: Visiting Fellow, Centre for British Studies, University of Adelaide
1995: Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh

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Selected Publications

Books

  • Making English Morals. Voluntary Association and Moral Reform in England, 1787-1886 (CUP, 2004)

    Book Description
    Campaigns for moral reform were a recurrent and distinctive feature of public life in later Georgian and Victorian England. Anti-slavery, temperance, charity organisation, cruelty prevention, ‘social purity’ advocates, and more - all promoted their causes through mobilisation of citizen volunteer support. This book sets out to explore the world of these volunteer networks, their foci of concern, their patterns of recruitment, their methods of operation, and the responses they aroused. In its exploration of this culture of self-consciously altruistic associational effort, the book provides the first systematic survey of moral reform movements as a distinct tradition of citizen action over this period, as well as casting light on the formation of a middle-class culture torn, in this stage of economic and political nation-building, between acceptance of a market-organised society and unease about the cultural consequences of doing so. This is a revelatory book that is both compelling and accessible.
 Making English Morals. Voluntary Association and Moral Reform in England, 1787-1886

+ numerous articles on 18th and 19th-century English History, political, social and cultural including

 

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Teaching

'Engaging students in structured online discussions', Engaging Students - A podcast series  (LTC, Macquarie University, 2007)

http://www.cpd.mq.edu.au/teaching/engage/roberts

 

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Administration

2007-8 : Deputy Dean, Division of Humanities


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