Newcastle University

Roles and Responsibilities

Member, University Public Lectures Committee
Member, HASS BGP Management Committee

Qualifications

BA(Hons) University of Northumbria, 1988
Dip.CG University of Northumbria, 1989
PhD University of Northumbria, 1993

Previous Positions

Associate Lecturer in History, University of Northumbria, 1991-1999

Memberships

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Society for the Study of Labour History
Co-operative Archive Committee
North East Labour History Society
North East England Historical Institute (NEEHI)
Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society
Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne
North East Teaching and Learning Network

Honours and Awards

AHRC Research Fellowship, 2007

Research Interests

Victorian society and politics; nineteenth-century British radicalism, especially Chartism; The Victorian press; Modern British History with reference to the North East of England;

Current Work

I am preparing a study of the Catholic Press, Irish nationalism and the Labour Party, 1900-1920 

I am currently writing a study of Mazzini and his publications in British radical journals, 1848-55 as a contribution to Nick Carter (ed), Britain, Ireland and the Italiam Risorgimento (forthcoming,Palgrave)

I have recently published an article on George Julian Harney and the Democratic Review in a Special issue of Labour History Review which I co-edited with Owen R Ashton:  Radicals, Chartists, and Internatiionalism, 78.1 (2013).

My work on John Boyle O'Reilly is currently in press and will appear in  Jack Rhoden, Ingrid Hansen, Erin Snyder eds, Poetry, Art and Politics

I have contributed 13 entries to Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor (eds) Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism (British Library, 2010), including two new entries on the North East press and the Catholic Herald (see http://c19index.chadwyck.com/marketing/aboutdncj.jsp)

Future Research

I am working on the life and career of the Irish nationalist and Catholic press magnate Charles Diamond MP(1858-1934
Postgraduate Supervision

I welcome proposals from postgraduates who are interested in any aspect of Victorian society and politics, from a national or a regional perspective.I would be particularly interested in projects which focus upon the history of the popular press or the Irish in Britain.

In 2012 my MLitt student David Lowther graduated with Distinction; he is now working on an AHRC funded PhD studentship examining the work of John Gould. In 2011 my postgraduate student, Marcella Sutcliffe was awarded a doctorate for her study of British radicals and Italian nationalists.

My current postgraduate students are:

Tanju Sen (MPhil:Women in 19th C. Bengal)
Susan Beaumont (PhD: Women and early banking in Newcastle upon Tyne)

David Lowther (AHRC funded PhD: Reinterpreting the Darwinian Revolution)

Peter Wright (Mlitt: Thomas Briggs and the campign for the 'free breakfast table, 1868-1874')

Esteem Indicators

Director, North East England Historical Institute [NEEHI]

Head of History, 2009-2012
Vice Chair, Society for the Study of Labour History 2008-2011
Editor, Labour History Review, 2007-2011
Editorial Advisory Board Member,Northern History.
A Director of BUTTRESS (Tyne and Wear Buildings' Preservation Trust).
Member of the Co-operative Archives Trust,Holyoake House, Manchester.

Projects

• Inspirational Women of North-East England: Past, Present, Future
  Project Leader(s): Professor Helen Berry

Undergraduate Teaching

HIS 3080 Victorian Society, 1832-1884
HIS 3079 Popular Politics and Reform, 1811-1850
HIS 2037 Progress and Plenty? British History 1815-1914
HIS 2112 Outsiders: Minorities in Modern Europe
HIS 3000 Reading History
HIS 3020 Writing History (Dissertation)

Postgraduate Teaching

HIS 8105 Reform and Resistance in British History

HIS8025 Pathways in British History 

HIS 8037 The British Press [MA in British History]
MA Dissertations

• Allen J, Campbell A, McIlroy J, ed. Histories of Labour: National and Transnational Perspectives. Monmouth: Merlin Press, 2010.
• Allen J, Chase MS. Britain 1750-1900. In: Allen, J; Campbell, A; McIlroy, J, ed. Histories of Labour; National and International Perspectives. Monmouth: Merlin Press, 2010, pp.64-98.
• Allen J, Allen RC, ed. Faith of Our Fathers: Popular Culture and Belief in Post-Reformation England, Ireland and Wales. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.
• Allen J. Keeping the Faith: The Catholic Press in Victorian Britain and the preservation of Celtic identity. In: Allen, RC; Regan, S, ed. Irelands of the Mind: Memory and Identity in Modern Irish Culture. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008, pp.32-49.
• Allen J. 'High days and Holy days': St Patrick’s Day in the North East of England, c.1850–1900. In: Allen, J., and Allen, R, ed. Faith of Our Fathers: Popular Culture and Belief in Post-reformation England, Ireland and Wales. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, pp.137-156.
• Allen J. Joseph Cowen and Popular Radicalism on Tyneside, 1829-1900. London: Merlin Press, 2007.
• Allen J, Allen RC. Competing Identities: Irish and Welsh Migration and the North-East of England, 1851-1980. In: Green, A; Pollard, AJ, ed. Regional Identity in North East England c.1300-2000. London: Boydell, 2007, pp.133-159.
• Allen J, Ashton OR. New Directions in Chartist Studies. Labour History Review 2009, 74(I), 1-6.
• Allen J, Ashton O, ed. Papers for the People: A Study of the Chartist Press. London: Merlin Press, 2005.
• Allen J, Buswell R. Rutherford's Ladder : The Making of Northumbria University, 1871-1996. Newcastle upon Tyne: Northumbria University Press, 2005.
• Allen J. Newcastle Courant; Newcastle Daily Chronicle; Northern Liberator; Democratic Review; English Republic; Irish Tribune;Northern Tribune; Charles Diamond; W.J.Linton; Joseph Cowen; Thomas Doubleday. In: Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor, ed. Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism. London: British Library, 2008.
• Allen J. 'Keeping the Faith': the Catholic press and the preservation of Celtic identity in Britain in the late nineteenth century. In: O'Neill, P, ed. Exile and Homecoming : Papers from the Fifth Australian Conference of Celtic Studies, University of Sydney, July 2004. University of Sydney: The Celtic Studies Foundation, University of Sydney, 2005, pp.78-91.
• Ashton, O.R.,and Hugman, Joan. ‘Letters from America: George Julian Harney, Boston USA and Newcastle upon Tyne, 1863-1888’. Proceedings, Massachusetts Historical Society 1996, 105, 165-184.
• Hugman J. Print and Preach : The Entrepreneurial Spirit of Nineteenth-Century Newcastle. In: Colls, R., Lancaster, B, ed. Newcastle upon Tyne: A Modern History. Chichester: Phillimore and Co. Ltd, 2001, pp.113-132.
• Hugman,Joan. ‘Joseph Cowen and the Blaydon Co-operative Society: A North East Model’. In: Lancaster,B.; and Maguire,P, ed. Towards a Co-operative Commonwealth. Manchester: Cooperative Union Limited, 1996.
• Allen J. George Crawshay, (1821-1886). In: H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, ed. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Hugman,Joan. ‘Public Art, Public Space and the Fin de Siècle North’. Northern Review. A Journal of Regional and Cultural Affairs 1997, 4(summer), 1-9.
• Allen J. Joseph Cowen and Popular Radicalism on Tyneside, 1829-1900. London, UK: Merlin Press, 2007.