Dr Ewan Knox
PhD, MA, DipComEd
Senior Lecturer in History
Programme leader for BA (Hons) History
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Contact details: School of Arts & Social Sciences Northumbria University Lipman Building, room 318 Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST phone: +44 (0) 191 227 4763 fax: +44 (0) 191 227 3696 e.knox@northumbria.ac.uk |
Qualifications
PhD (Edinburgh)
MA (Edinburgh),
Dip.Com.Ed. (Edinburgh)
Teaching Interests
Ewan's teaching interests encompass courses on social history, labour and working class history as well as courses on social protest movements. He is responsible for the following modules:
HI0402: The Transformation of Britain, 1750-1914
HI0502: Building America: Labour, Class and Nation, 1600-1920
HI0501: Barricades and Bullets
HI0510: Employment Skills and Work Placement
HI0617: Community, Power and Everyday Life in Britain, 1750-1920
Research Interests
Ewan's research interests lie in the social history of work, particularly in the area of morbidity and injury in the work environment, as well as death and injury in the nineteenth century railway industry. In addition he has an ongoing interest in the history of the middle class and working class. He would welcome inquiries from individuals contemplating postgraduate study in any of these broad areas.
Publications
'Blood on the tracks: Railway employers and safety in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain', Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 12, Autumn 2001.
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