British & Irish Worlds GroupDr Peter Maw
PhD, MA, BALecturer in History
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Contact details: School of Arts & Social Sciences Northumbria University Lipman Building, room 404D Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST phone: +44 (0) 191 243 7344 fax: +44 (0) 191 227 3696 pete.maw@northumbria.ac.uk |
Biography
Peter completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Manchester, before being awarded a one-year ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in 2005-6. He subsequently took teaching posts at Cardiff University and Manchester Metropolitan University and, in 2007, was appointed to a three-year English Heritage Research Fellowship at Manchester Metropolitan University as part of Manchester’s bid to attain a World Heritage Site inscription. Following a short spell at Swansea University, Peter joined Northumbria in 2010.
Qualifications
PhD, University of Manchester, 2005
MA, Economic and Social History, University of Manchester, 2001
BA, University of Manchester, 1999
Teaching Interests
Peter contributes to core and option modules in History.
Research Interests
Peter’s doctoral thesis was on England’s textile export trade to North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His current research interests include: the British-Atlantic World; the textile industries of Lancashire, Yorkshire and surrounding counties; the merchant communities of inland towns in northern England; mercantile migrations between England and North America; and the canal and transport history of North West England. He has received research grants from the Economic and Social Research Council, English Heritage, the Pasold fund, the Chaloner Research Fund, the Gilder Lehrman Institute (New York), and the Library Company of Philadelphia.
Research Students
Peter would welcome enquiries from prospective postgraduate students who want to research any aspect of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British economic and social history or the history of the British-Atlantic World in the same period.
Affiliations and Memberships
Member, Economic History Society
Member, Social History Society
Member, Manchester Centre for Regional History
Publications
Books:
Manchester and the Canal Age: Transport and the Industrial City (Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2012).
Chapters and Articles:
[with Terry Wyke and Alan Kidd] 'Canals, rivers, and the industrial city: Manchester’s industrial waterfront, 1790-1850’, Economic History Review, (forthcoming 2012; available on EarlyView).
'Yorkshire and Lancashire Ascendant: England’s Textile Exports to New York and Philadelphia, 1750-1805', Economic History Review, 63, 3 (2010), pp. 734-768.
[with Terry Wyke and Alan Kidd] 'Water transport in the industrial age: commodities and carriers on the Rochdale Canal, 1804-1855 ’, Journal of Transport History, Vol. 30 (December 2009), pp. 200-228.
[with Terry Wyke and Alan Kidd] 'Warehouses, wharves, and transport Infrastructure in Manchester during the first industrial revolution: the Rochdale Canal Company’s Piccadilly Basin, 1792-1856', Industrial Archaeology Review, XXXI, 1 (May 2009), pp. 20-33.
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