Dr Mark Allen 

Senior Lecturer in Modern History 

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences  

Email:

Mark.Allen@winchester.ac.uk 

Phone:

01962 827158 

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Biography

Mark Allen completed his first degree, in History with Historical Computation, at the University of Hull in 1993. He went on to study for his doctorate in Winchester, completing his research into the impact of the arrival of the railways on Winchester, using an analysis of census material, in 1999. Between 1996 and 1998 he was a Leverhulme-funded Senior Research Officer at the University of Essex, working on classification and coding of birthplaces in the machine-readable 1881 census. He has been lecturing at Winchester since 1999.

Mark's teaching interests are British history from c.1815 up to the 1930s, while his research concentrate on nineteenth-century British social and economic history. He is a historian of the city of Winchester and co-director of The Winchester Project, which aims to trace the property history of Winchester tenements from 1550 to the present day.

Expertise

• Post-medieval Winchester
• Nineteenth and twentieth-century social and economic history of Britain
• History and computing

Publications

An edited CD-ROM (with T.B. James) The 1871 Census of Winchester: An Edition with Introduction and Indices (Wessex Historical Databases, 2007)

with J. Delve, ‘Large-scale integrated historical projects - does Data Warehousing offer any scope for their creation’, History and Computing, 13.3 (Edinburgh: University Press 2006) 301-14.

‘The Midlands’, in P. Clark (ed.) The Lefties' Guide to Britain (London, Politicos, 2005) 143-68 

Mark  is currently working on an article on the effects of the railways on Winchester and editing a volume of essays on the making of modern Winchester since the Reformation, and he will be publishing a paper on the attitude of the Winchester diocese towards the Boer War.

Research Interests

Marks' primary research interest is nineteenth-century British social and economic history, particularly the development and use of censuses.

Research Students

Mark has previously supervised successful PhD projects on a microhistory of the village of Sparsholt near Winchester, and a functional study of the history and archaeology of English provincial lunatic asylums between the passing of the Lunacy Act in 1845 and 1930.

He is the Director of Studies for a current project on a socio-political study of Winchester electors, 1832-86 and am on supervisory teams for two further projects on Holocaust Denial in Britain since 1945 and popular protest in central southern England between c. 1780-1830.

Ongoing research on the Winchester Project involves an analysis of the city’s census enumerators in the nineteenth century.

Funding Awards and Professional Membership

• General Editor of the Portsmouth Record Series
• Editor of Winchester Histories Series for Winchester University Press
• Member of Economic History Society
• Committee Member of Southampton Record Series
• Committee Member of Wessex Centre for History & Archaeology
• Member of Wessex Historical Databases publication panel