History staff
Dr Nigel Copsey, BA (Hons), MA, PhD, FRHistS
Reader in Modern History
Room: M4.19 | T: 01642 384093 | E: n.copsey@tees.ac.uk
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Dr Graham Ford, BA (Hons), PhD
Senior Lecturer in European History; History Programme Leader
Room: M4.06 | T: 01642 384034 | E: g.ford@tees.ac.uk
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Margaret Hems
Section Head, History, School of Arts & Media
Room: M4.21D | T: 01642 384028 | E: m.hems@tees.ac.uk
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Dr Carolyn Kitching, BA (Hons) PhD, FRHistS
Reader in British International History, Chair of the University Research Degrees Sub-Committee.
Room: M4.21B | T: 01642 384070 | E: c.j.kitching@tees.ac.uk
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Dr Rob Lee, BA (Hons), MA, PhD
Tribute to historian Dr Rob Lee
Dr Rob Lee, who died of cancer, aged 50, was a gifted historian, an inspirational teacher and a much-loved colleague.
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Dr Diana Newton, BA (Hons), PhD, FRHistS
Reader in Early Modern British History
Room: M4.16 | T: 01642 384061 | E: d.newton@tees.ac.uk
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Dr Tony Nicholson
Principal Lecturer in History, National Teaching Fellow, Schools of Arts & Media
Room: M4.18 | T: 01642 384039 | E: a.nicholson@tees.ac.uk
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Linda Polley, BA (Hons), MA
Senior Lecturer in History, MA Programme Leader, Schools of Arts & Media
Room: M4.15 | T: 01642 384075 | E: l.polley@tees.ac.uk
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Dr Natasha Vall, BA (Hons), PhD, FRHistS
History Research Team, Admissions Tutor
Room: M4.10 | T: 01642 384062 | E: N.Vall@tees.ac.uk
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Geoff Watkins
Principal Lecturer in History
Room: M4.06 | T: 01642 384043 | E: g.watkins@tees.ac.uk
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Dr Margaret Williamson, BA (Hons), PhD
Senior Lecturer in History, Admissions/First Year Tutor, School Disability Co-ordinator
Room: M4.21c | T: 01642 384073 | E: m.williamson@tees.ac.uk
Research interests
Margaret Williamson’s research interests are in Modern British social history especially women’s history. This stemmed initially from her doctoral research on gender roles and relationships in the ironstone mining communities of East Cleveland between 1918-1964. Her subsequent journal publications drew on the oral history interviews collected for this research and explored a variety of women’s domestic experiences. More recently, she has begun to examine domestic violence in the decades after the Second World War, with a particular focus on judicial attitudes to marital cruelty. Margaret plans to further this research by exploring women’s experience of using the domestic court system.
Research supervision
Margaret welcome enquiries from potential research students in the field of British social history in the 20th century especially the history of women and the family.
Publications
- M Williamson (2003), ‘‘The Iron Chancellors’: the Dynamics of the Domestic Economy in Ironstone Mining Households, 1918-1964’, Journal of Family History 28.
- M Williamson (2003), ‘‘I’m Going to Get a Job at the Factory’: Attitudes to Women’s Employment in a Mining Community’, Women’s History Review 12.
- M Williamson (2000), ‘‘Getting Off at Loftus’: Sex and the Working Class Woman, 1920-1960’, Family and Community History 3.
- M Williamson (1998), ‘‘He Was Good with the Bairns’: Fatherhood in an Ironstone Mining Community 1918–1964’, North East History 32.