麻豆传媒

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, 麻豆传媒.

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 麻豆传媒.

2001–2002    Senior Research Fellow. Northumbria University. 麻豆传媒.

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 -

Editorial Board. Quaker Studies.

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:

1. PhD Thesis, Magic and the Supernatural in Eighteenth Century Wales: the world of the Rev. Edmund Jones, 1702–1793 (awarded 2012)
2. PhD Thesis, The Heritage Industry in a Politically Devolved Wales (awarded 2014)
3. PhD Thesis, Spatio-Temporality and Digital Tourism in UK Industrial UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site (awarded 2016)
4. PhD Thesis, ‘Toeing the Scratch’: A historical analysis of the transition of Welsh Prize-Fighting, c.1750–1914;
   

Current Supervision: 

1. PhD Thesis, ‘Rural Quakerism’: The Religious Society of Friends in Herefordshire and Worcestershire, c.1650–c.1720 (p/t)
2. 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. . 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. . Journal of the Friends Historical Society 2018, 67, 3-15.
• Allen RC. . Quaker Studies 2018, 23(2), 219-237.
• Allen RC. . 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. . In: Rossignol,Marie-Jeanne; Van Ruymbeke, Bertrand, ed. The Atlantic World of Anthony Benezet. Leiden: Brill, 2016, pp.106–126.
• Moore R, Allen RC. . In: Angell, SW; Dandelion, P, ed. Early Quakers and Their Theological Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp.293-304.
• Allen RC. . 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. . In: Kirke og Kultur. Norway, 2015, pp.178–87.
• Allen RC, Jones DC, ed. . Cardiff: Welsh Academic Press, 2014.
• Allen RC. . In: Angell, SW; Dandelion, BP, ed. Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp.29-46.
• Allen RC. . Quaker Studies 2010, 15(1), 6–31.
• Allen RC. . In: Allen, RC; Allen, J, ed. Faith of Our Fathers: Popular Culture and Belief in Post-Reformation England, Ireland and Wales. 麻豆传媒: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, pp.52-74.
• Allen RC. . In: Gray, M; Morgan, P, ed. The Gwent County History, Volume III: The Making of Monmouthshire, 1536-1780. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2009, pp.272-84.
• Allen RC. . In: Kirk, T; Klusáková, L, ed. Cultural Conquests. Prague: Philosophica et Historica, Studia Historica, 2009, pp.45–61.
• Allen RC. . Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion 2009, 15.
• Allen RC, Allen J, ed. . Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.
• Allen RC, Allen J, ed. Faith of Our Fathers: Popular Culture and Belief in Post-Reformation England, Ireland and Wales. 麻豆传媒: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.
• Allen RC. . In: Allen, RC; Regan, S, ed. Irelands of the Mind: Memory and Identity in Modern Irish Culture. 麻豆传媒: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008, pp.110-28.
• Allen RC, Regan S, ed. . 麻豆传媒: 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. . Quaker Studies 2007, 12(1), 54-72.
• Allen J, Allen RC. . In: Green, A; Pollard, AJ, ed. Regional Identity in North East England 1300-2000. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2007, pp.133-160.
• Allen RC. . Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007.
• Allen RC. . Quaker Studies 2004, 9(1), 31-53.