Position:
Senior Lecturer in History.

Departmental Responsibilities:
Admissions tutor, Level One tutor.

Teaching:
At undergraduate level, Kate teaches modules on the Medieval City, Representing the Past, New Directions in History, Radical Cultures and the Middle Class and the City. She also contributes to the MA in Historical Studies.

Research:
Kate’s research interests lie in the areas of Nineteenth-Century British History, particularly social/cultural and urban history. She has investigated in detail the role of new cultural institutions such as museums and art galleries in creating and mediating new forms of authority and leisure. This research has fed into broader interests on the development of material culture in the 19th and 20th century and how this impacted on the development of classed and gendered identities in the wider populace. Kate’s more recent research is on women as donors to museums. She would welcome applications from students with interests in any of these areas.

Selected Publications:

Culture and Class in Public Museums, 1850-1914, Ashgate 2005

‘ ‘Thoroughly Embued with the Spirit of Ancient Greece’ :Symbolism and Space in Victorian Civic Culture’ in Alan Kidd and David Nicholls ed., Gender, Civic Culture and Consumerism: Perspectives on Middle-Class Identity in Britain,1800-1940, (Manchester University Press, 1999).

‘ ‘Civic Pride’ or ‘Far -reaching Utility’? Liverpool Museum c.1860-1914’, Journal of Regional and Local Studies 20:1, 2000

‘ ‘Roughs of Both Sexes’: The Working Class in Victorian Museums and Art Galleries’, in S. Gunn and R.J. Morris, eds., Making Identities: Conflicts and Urban Space, 1800-2000, (Ashgate, 2001).
‘The Middle Classes in Victorian Lincoln’, in A. Walker, ed., Aspects of Lincoln, (Wharncliffe, 2001).

Forthcoming:

Gendered Objects? Material Culture, Domesticity and Knowledge 1850-1914, Manchester University Press

Guest editor, Special issue of Museum History Journal: Collecting and Displaying the British Past, 1850-1920, July 2011 (also contributing an article, ‘Riding with Sir Isaac Newton: family heritage and the things of the past in museum donations, 1880-1914’