Staff Profiles
Dr Richard Allen
Visiting Fellow
- Email: richard.allen@ncl.ac.uk
- Personal Website: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/staff/profile/richardallen.html#background
- Address: School of History, Classics and Archaeology
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Newcastle University, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
Early Modern British and Transatlantic Historian.
Qualifications
Ph.D. Welsh History. Aberystwyth
PGCE (History). Aberystwyth
BA (Joint Hons) History and Welsh History. Aberystwyth
Teaching and Research Career
2020 Visiting Fellow. Australia National University, Canberra. Humanities Research Centre.
2018-2019 Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History, Newcastle University.
2017- Postgraduate Director of Studies for 3 PhD students, School of Theology & Religion. University of Birmingham/Woodbrooke College, Birmingham.
2013–2017 Reader (Assoc. Prof) in Early Modern Cultural History. University of South Wales.
2007–2013 Reader (Assoc. Prof) in Early Modern Cultural History/Head of History (2007– 2011). University of Wales, Newport.
2006–2007 Fulbright-Robertson Visiting Professor of British History, Westminster College, Missouri.
2004–2006 Lecturer in History. Sunderland University.
2002–2004 Lecturer in History. University of Newcastle.
2001–2002 Senior Research Fellow. Northumbria University. Newcastle.
1999– 2000 Senior Lecturer in History. Trinity College, University of Wales.
1997–1999 Head of Department (History). Davies, Laing and Dick College, London.
Memberships
Panel Member: AHRC Peer Review College, 2017–
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, 2003–
Executive Committee Member of the Newspaper and Periodical History Forum of Ireland - http://newspapersperiodicals.org/
Editorial Board. Quaker Studies. http://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/loi/quaker
Member and former President: Friends’ Historical Society, 2015–16
Committee member for the Wales-Pennsylvania digitisation project, 2012–
Historical consultant for the Gunter Mansion (and Recusancy) in seventeenth century Wales.
Representative for Welsh Universities: Steering Committee, HistoryUK, 2009–1
I am a former Fulbright-Robertson Professor of British History at Westminster College, Missouri with research interests in the social, cultural and religious history of Britain and America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, particularly dissenters and emigration to Pennsylvania. I have published widely on Quakerism, migration, and identity. My most recent works are Quaker Communities in Early Modern Wales: From Radicalism to Respectability (2007); the co-authored The Quakers, 1656–1722: The Evolution of an Alternative Community (2018); and several co-edited books: Irelands of the Mind (2008); Faith of Our Fathers: Popular Culture and Belief in Post-Reformation England, Ireland and Wales (2009); and The Religious History of Wales: A Survey of Religious Life and Practice from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day (2013).
I am currently writing Welsh Quaker Emigrants and Colonial Pennsylvania and co-authoring, Quaker Networks and Moral Reform in the North East of England.
Postgraduate Supervision
Successful Completions as Main Supervisor:
- PhD Thesis, Magic and the Supernatural in Eighteenth Century Wales: the world of the Rev. Edmund Jones, 1702–1793 (awarded 2012)
- PhD Thesis, The Heritage Industry in a Politically Devolved Wales (awarded 2014)
- PhD Thesis, Spatio-Temporality and Digital Tourism in UK Industrial UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site (awarded 2016)
- PhD Thesis, ‘Toeing the Scratch’: A historical analysis of the transition of Welsh Prize-Fighting, c.1750–1914;
Current Supervision:
- PhD Thesis, ‘Rural Quakerism’: The Religious Society of Friends in Herefordshire and Worcestershire, c.1650–c.1720 (p/t)
- PhD Thesis, ‘The distribution and ownership of chapbooks and other cheap print in south Wales and its borders, 1640–1730: developmental influences on commerce, religion and education’ (p/t).
Postgraduate Taught 2018-2019
MA in History
Module Leader: The Practice of History
Contributor: Dissertations
Undergraduate Teaching 2018-19
Level 6
Module Leader: British and Irish Migrants: Transatlantic Connections
Level 5
Module Leader:
Order and Disorder in Early Modern Britain and Ireland
The Criminal Atlantic in the Long Eighteenth Century
Level 4:
Module Leader: Evidence and Argument
- Allen RC. ‘A Quiet Nationalist’ – the Pen and Politics of Maurice Walsh (1879–1964). In: O’Hanlon, O; Whelan, A, ed. Freedom of Speech in France, Germany, and Ireland in Time of Conflict. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2020. In Press.
- Allen RC. Industrial development and community responsibility: the Harford family and south Wales, ca.1768–1842. In: Rogers Healey R, ed. Quakerism in the Atlantic World 1690–1830. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021, pp.224-250.
- Allen RC. “Providing a Moral Compass for British People”: The Work of Joseph Tregelles Price, Evan Rees and The Herald of Peace. Journal of the Friends Historical Society 2018, 67, 3-15.
- Allen RC. 'An Indefatigable Philanthropist': Joseph Tregelles Price (1784–1854) of Neath, Wales. Quaker Studies 2018, 23(2), 219-237.
- Allen RC. Quakers. In: The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions: The Long Eighteenth Century c.1689-c.1828. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2018, pp.77-98.
- Allen RC. Nantucket Quakers and Negotiating the Politics of the Atlantic World. In: Rossignol,Marie-Jeanne; Van Ruymbeke, Bertrand, ed. The Atlantic World of Anthony Benezet. Leiden: Brill, 2016, pp.106–126.
- Moore R, Allen RC. Afterword. In: Angell, SW; Dandelion, P, ed. Early Quakers and Their Theological Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp.293-304.
- Allen RC. Samuel Meredith (1741–1817): American Patriot and Welsh Philanthropist. In: Maurice Jackson and Susan Kozel, ed. Quakers and their Allies in the Abolitionist Cause, 1754-1808. London: Routledge, 2015, pp.73-84.
- Allen RC. The Peace Society and Joseph Tregelles Price (1784–1854) of Neath, Wales. In: Kirke og Kultur. Norway, 2015, pp.178–87.
- Allen RC, Jones DC, ed. The Religious History of Wales: A Survey of Religious Life and Practice from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day. Cardiff: Welsh Academic Press, 2014.
- Allen RC. ‘Restoration Quakerism, 1660–1691'. In: Angell, SW; Dandelion, BP, ed. Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp.29-46.
- Allen RC. ‘Nantucket Quakers and the Milford Haven Whaling Industry, c.1791–1821’. Quaker Studies 2010, 15(1), 6–31.
- Allen RC. ‘An Alarm Sounded to the Sinners in Sion’: John Kelsall, Quakers and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century Wales’. In: Allen, RC; Allen, J, ed. Faith of Our Fathers: Popular Culture and Belief in Post-Reformation England, Ireland and Wales. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, pp.52-74.
- Allen RC. ‘The Administration of Poor Relief’. In: Gray, M; Morgan, P, ed. Gwent County History, vol. III: The making of Monmouthshire. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2009, pp.272-84.
- Allen RC. ‘The making of a Holy Christian Community: Welsh Quaker emigrants to Pennsylvania, c.1680–1750’. In: Kirk, T; Klusáková, L, ed. Cultural Conquests. Prague: Philosophica et Historica, Studia Historica, 2009, pp.45–61.
- Allen RC. ‘The origins and development of Welsh associational life in eighteenth-century Philadelphia’. Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion 2009, 15.
- Allen J, Allen RC, ed. Faith of Our Fathers: Popular Culture and Belief in Post-Reformation England, Ireland and Wales. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.
- Allen RC, Allen J, ed. Faith of Our Fathers: Popular Culture and Belief in Post-Reformation England, Ireland and Wales. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.
- Allen RC. “I’ve come home, and home I’m gonna stay”. The Quiet Man (1952) in Irish-American cinematic history’. In: Allen, RC; Regan, S, ed. Irelands of the Mind: Memory and Identity in Modern Irish Culture. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008, pp.110-28.
- Allen RC, Regan S, ed. Irelands of the Mind: Memory and Identity in Modern Irish Culture. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
- Allen RC, Allen J. ‘Competing identities’: Irish and Welsh migration and the North-East of England’. In: Pollard, AJ; Green, AG, ed. Regional Identities in North-East England 1300–2000. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewe, 2007, pp.133–160.
- Allen RC. “Turning hearts to break off the yoke of oppression”. The travels and sufferings of Christopher Meidel c.1659–c.1715’. Quaker Studies 2007, 12(1), 54-72.
- Allen J, Allen RC. Competing Identities: Irish and Welsh Migration and the North-East of England, 1851-1980. In: Green, A; Pollard, AJ, ed. Regional Identity in North East England c.1300-2000. London: Boydell, 2007, pp.133-159.
- Allen RC. Quaker Communities in Early Modern Wales: From Resistance to Respectability. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007.
- Allen RC. ‘In search of a New Jerusalem. A preliminary investigation into Welsh Quaker emigration to North America c.1660–1750’. Quaker Studies 2004, 9(1), 31-53.