Professor Brad Beaven
Biography
Brad Beaven is a Professor of Social and Cultural History and joined ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú in 1994. Since 1990, he has published widely on urban popular culture in Britain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His publications include Leisure, Citizenship and Working-Class Men, 1850-1945 (2005, 2009 paperback edn), Visions of Empire: Patriotism, Popular Culture and the City, 1850-1939, (2012, 2017 paperback edn) and Port Towns and Urban Cultures: International Histories of the Waterfont, c. 1700-2000 (eds with Karl Bell and Rob James, 2016). His new book The Devil’s Highway: Urban Anxieties and Subaltern Cultures in London’s Sailortown, c.1850-1900 (Manchester University Press) is forthcoming.
He is Co-Director of the Centre of Port Cities and Maritime Cultures which explores urban and maritime experiences, past and present.
Brad teaches on the History BA (Hons) undergraduate course, specialising in popular culture and the city in the era of empire between 1800 and 1939. He also teaches on the MA in Victorian Gothic (DL) and the History Master of Research course. He has successfully supervised over 20 PhD students researching popular culture, urban and maritime history during the nineteenth and early twentieth cities. Brad is also regularly invited to externally examine PhDs.
He is one of the founding editors of the Palgrave series Global Studies in Social and Cultural Maritime History (with Joanne Begiato and Isaac Land) and serves on the board of Sage’s Coastal Studies and Society Journal that was established by the Centre for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures.
He has been appointed as a member of the ‘Experts Review College’ of the European Science Foundation and served two terms on the AHRC Peer Review College.
Teaching responsibilities
History and Politics (BA Hons)
Victorian Gothic: History, Literature and Popular Culture MA