Publications
Works in Progress
- Retail Citizenship: Market, State, and the Right to Sell in Modern Britain (book manuscript)
- “‘We Use Our Colour For That’: Selling Racial Authenticity in Pre-Windrush Britain” (article under review)
- “Markets”, chapter in Simon Gunn, Peter Mandler, and Otto Saumarez Smith (eds.), The Modern British City (invited submission)
Peer Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters
- “Where was Entrepreneurship in Post-War Britain?: Freedom, Family, and Choice in Modern British Shopping Cultures”, chapter in Aled
Davies, Ben Jackson, and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (eds.), The Neoliberal Age? Politics, Economy, Society and Culture in late Twentieth Century Britain (UCL Press 2021) Full Book
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- “Cost-Benefit Break Down: Unplannable Spaces in 1970s Glasgow.” Urban History, no. 2 (2019): 309-330 *Winner of the Dyos Prize
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- “Commercial Heritage as Democratic Action: Historicizing the ‘Save the Market’ Campaigns in Bradford and Chesterfield, 1969-1976.” Twentieth Century British History 29, no. 3 (2018): 459-484
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- “Sunday Rites or Sunday Rights? Anglo-Jewish Traders and the Negotiability of the Mid-Century Sabbath.” History of Retailing and Consumption 2, no. 1 (2016): 68-83
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Public Engagement
- “Race and Difference in Local Record Office Archives”, North American Conference on British Studies, June 27, 2017
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- “Sunday Trading Controversies: Private Enterprise Meets Public Oversight”, Connecting Collections Blog Series, The National Archives (UK), May 4, 2017
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- “Who is Afforded (and who can Afford) the Archive?”, Modern British Studies Blog, University of Birmingham, August 6, 2015
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Recent Conference Presentations
- “The Britishness of Small Enterprise in the First Decade of Common Market
Membership,” North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS),
Chicago, Nov. 10-13, 2022
- “The Heritage Politics of J.B. Priestley,” International Conference of Urban
History, European Association of Urban Historians (EAUH), Antwerp,
Sept. 2-5, 2022
- “The Shipper and the Nylon Racketeer: Ethnicity and Difference in the MidCentury Black Market,” Panel organizer for “Decolonization and its
Discontents: Selling Britain at Home and Abroad,” North American
Conference on British Studies (NACBS), online, Nov. 7-8, 14-15, 2020