Member Profile
Name:
Professor Alastair Owens
Institution:
Queen Mary University of London
Academic status:
University/college academic
Main discipline:
Geography
Additional disciplines:
History
Other societies:
Economic History Society
Association of Business Historians
Association of Business Historians
Research interests:
I am an historical geographer and social and economic historian working on nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain and have a particular interest in London. Key research themes:
1) historical geographies of home, family and material culture
2) families and wealth: inheritance and the intergenerational transmission of resources, gender and investment practices, household economic strategies and colonial wealth
3) philanthropy and institutional welfare provision in Victorian London
I am one of the editors of the Journal of Victorian Culture and a Trustee of the Ragged School Museum.
1) historical geographies of home, family and material culture
2) families and wealth: inheritance and the intergenerational transmission of resources, gender and investment practices, household economic strategies and colonial wealth
3) philanthropy and institutional welfare provision in Victorian London
I am one of the editors of the Journal of Victorian Culture and a Trustee of the Ragged School Museum.