Dr Harvey Osborne
Office: T005
Phone: 01473 338814 (or leave a message with Graham Thirkettle 01473 338489)
Dr Harvey Osborne completed his MA and PhD research at the University of Lancaster, supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (E.S.R.C.), and has been a member of the History team at UCS since 2007.
His teaching and research interests are primarily in British social, economic and cultural history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Teaching and Other Responsibilities:
Course Leader for History
School Co-ordinator for External Relations
British Rural Society 1780-1914|
'Unquiet County': Social Crime and Protest in Rural Suffolk 1815-1876|
Career Planning |(with Dr Carter and Dr Greenacre)
Research Interests and Publications:
Some of Harvey's recent publications include:
"The Development of Salmon Angling in the Nineteenth Century" in Prof. R.W. Hoyle ed., Our Hunting Fathers: Field Sports in England After 1850 (Carnegie Publishing: Lancaster, 2007).
Winstanley, M. J. and Osborne, H. (2006) "Rural and urban poaching in Victorian England", Rural History, 17(2) pp. 187-212.
Harvey has a particular research interest in rural history, centred on crime and protest, the operation of poor relief, the development of field sports and environmental issues, particularly in relation to inland fisheries. He is happy to supervise dissertations on modern British social and cultural history.