Dr. David E. Martin, B.Sc. (Econ.), Ph.D. (Hull), FRHistS
Honorary Lecturer in Modern History
David Martin retired from the University at the end of September 2010. He can still be contacted via d.e.martin@sheffield.ac.uk
| Biography |
David Martin specialises in aspects of British history in the period after 1800. He has written articles on land and politics in the nineteenth century and on the Labour Party in the early twentieth century. An active member of the Society for the Study of Labour History, for several years he was editor of its journal, the Labour History Review. He is a contributor to the first ten volumes of the Dictionary of Labour Biography. Among other works of reference to which he has contributed is the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004). Currently, he is working on a study of Sidney and Beatrice Webb.
| Membership of Professional Bodies |
- Member of Historical Association
- Member of the Society for the Study of Labour History
- Fellow of The Royal Historical Society
| Research |
Current Research
A study of Sidney and Beatrice Webb.
Research interests
The British labour movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; history of economic thought; the nineteenth-century land reform movement.
| Selected Publications |
- Lives of Victorian Political Figures: John Stuart Mill (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009)
- 'Labour's Parliamentary Pioneers of 1906', in A. Howarth and D. Hayter (eds), Men who Made Labour: The PLP of 1906 – The Personalities and the Politics (Routledge, 2006), 9-20.
- 'The Genesis of Modern Management Reconsidered', Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, no. 20 (2005), 115-36.
- 'Introduction' to The Palgrave Archive Edition of Writings on Industrial Democracy by Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 3 volumes (Palgave Macmillan, 2003)
- Labour and Society in Britain, 1830-1914, (with D. MacRaild) (Macmillan Press, 2000)
- 'The Agricultural Interest and its Critics, 1840-1914', in J. R. Wordie (ed.), Agriculture and Politics in England, 1815-1939, (Macmillan Press, 2000) 128-48
- 'Arnold Freeman and the Sheffield Educational Settlement', Transactions of the Hunter Archaeological Society, 20 (1999) 71-80
- The History of the City of Sheffield, 1893-1993, 3 volumes (with others) (Sheffield Academic Press, 1993)
- John Stuart Mill and the Land Question, (Hull UP, 1981)
- Ideology and the Labour Movement, (with D. Rubinstein) (Croom Helm, 1979)