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Dr Nicola Phillips
Lecturer in History, Kingston University.
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Find out more about Dr Nicola Phillips
- Overview
- Qualifications
- Career Highlights
- Research
- Media Highlights
- Conference Highlights
Overview
Dr Phillips, an expert in 18th century history, joined Kingston University in 2007, where she is to be found lecturing on a wide variety of aspects regarding women in history. She currently teaches on gender in early modern Britain and France, and early modern crime and punishment, as well as women in Britain and America between 1840 and 1950.
She is currently working on her second book, which looks at the relationship between an East India Company merchant and his teenage son from 1790 to 1830, over which time the family sought unsuccessfully to prevent the boy falling into a life of delinquency. Her first book, published in 2006, focussed on the legal position, trading networks, business practices and representation of women in business between 1700 and 1850. She is also working on a research project looking at family conflicts between 1700 to 1850 and the way these were managed within in individual families or state legal institutions.
Qualifications
| Year gained |
Subject |
| 2001 |
PhD, Royal Holloway, University of London. |
| 1997 |
MA in Women's History, Royal Holloway, University of London. |
| 1995 |
BA (Hons) History, First Class Honours, University College, Chichester. |
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Career Highlights
| Year |
Position held |
| 2010 |
History lecturer, Kingston University. |
| 2007 - 2010 |
Research Fellow in History, Kingston University. |
| 2003 - 2007 |
Lecturer in Modern British Women's History and co-director of the Bedford Centre for the History of Women, Royal Holloway, University of London. |
| 2002 - 2003 |
Associate lecturer in history, Royal Holloway, University of London. |
| 2001 - 2003 |
Research assistant in School of Education, King Alfred's College, Winchester. |
| 1999 - 2003 |
Associate lecturer in history, University College, Chichester. |
Research
Papers
Phillips, Nicola (2010) Parenting the profligate son: masculinity, gentility and juvenile delinquency in England, 1791-1814.
2 Gender & History, 22(1), pp. 92-108. ISSN (print) 0953-5233
Pullin, Nicola and Spencer, Stephanie (2004) Earning and learning in women's history.3 Women's history review, 13(3), pp. 341-346. ISSN (print) 0961-2025
Pullin, Nicola (2003) "That characteristically English institution": city livery companies, state legislation and women governors of endowed girls' secondary schools in Britain, 1850-1930.4 History of Education Researcher, 71, pp. 40-49. ISSN (print) 1740-2433
'Gender, Trade and Nationalism in Eighteenth-Century Britain' in Women's Hisotry Magazine, 42 (2002), pp.14-21.
Book
Phillips, Nicola (2006) Women in business, 1700-1850.5 Woodbridge, UK : Boydell Press. 312p. ISBN 184383183x
Book Section
Pullin, Nicola (2005) "A heavy bill to settle with humanity": the representation and invisibility of London's principal milliners and dressmakers.6 In: Harris, Beth, (ed.) Famine and fashion: needlewomen in the nineteenth century. Aldershot, UK : Ashgate. pp. 215-228. ISBN 0754608719
Media Highlights
Dr Phillips has been interviewed in a variety of media settings. Most recently she appeared on BBC 1's "The One Show" and has appeared in a series of interviews for BBC Wales and the BBC Radio 4 programme "Women's Hour". She also featured in a BBC Radio 4 series in April 2007, entitled "Kith and Kin". "Mad about the Boy" was one of four episodes tracing the history of the family through four generations and took a look at the research Nicola had carried out on an East India company trader and his wayward son. She has also been interviewed by The Guardian and BBC News on-line.
Conference Highlights
Dr Phillips has presented at conferences in the UK, mainland Europe and the USA.