Dr Colin Phillips
History Subject Leader
Dr Colin Phillips
colin.b.phillips@manchester.ac.uk
Ext: 53093
Room: N.2.12
- Teaching & Research Interests
- Current Undergraduate Teaching
- Postgraduate dissertations supervised
- Publications
Teaching & Research Interests
Colin Phillips is senior lecturer in social and economic history and currently Subject Leader of History in the School of Arts, Histories & Cultures. He teaches early-modern English history, especially social history and urban history. His major research interests are in the regional and local history of north-west England. Current focii are small towns, especially Kendal and Stockport, Cheshire parish registers, the Cumbrian hearth tax, and Sir John Lowther (d.1675) and early English banking. With Dr ADM Phillips (Keele) he is preparing the historical atlas of Stafforshire. He has a long-standing interest in all aspects of charcoal iron making, and is a past president of the Historical Metallurgy Society ( Historical Metallurgy Society). He is a past-president of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire and a member of that Society's council, and of the Council of the Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire.
Current undergraduate teaching
Level 1
Lecturer, and tutor The origins of British industrialisation.1550-1850
Level 3
Economy, society, and government in English provincial towns, 1560-1700 HI3160 (not available 2004/05)
People, work, and wealth in English provincial towns, 1560-1700 HI3650 (not available 2004/05)
Family, gender and house, 1500-1800 HI3170
Level 4
Town and country in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
He is also currently programme director of the MA in the Regional History of North-West England, and contributes to the core course for that programme, and to that for the Early-Modern MA.
Postgraduate dissertations supervised (including joint supervisions)
John R. Cole, "A survey of the Debateable Land and Glen Tarras, c. 1449-1620", M.A., by thesis awarded 1982.
Gillian Smith, "The Minera lead mining industry 1845-1914 and its effects on the local community", M.Phil., awarded 1990.
Margaret Smith, "Land, landowners and the Industrial Revolution in Congleton", M.Phil., awarded 1991.
Caroline De Vere, "The Henrician church in Cheshire", M.Phil. awarded 1994.
J. Pratt, "A study of seventeenth century politics, administration and justice in Wigan", M.Phil., awarded 1995.
J.M. Gratton, "The war effort in Lancashire, 1642-1651", Ph.D. awarded 1998
C.M. Nunn, "The ministry of Henry Newcombe: presbyterianism in S.E.Cheshire, 1648-1662", M.Phil. with distinction awarded 1998
External Supervisions
M.H. Sanders, "The administration of the poor law in the city of Worcester in the eighteenth century", M. Phil Coventry University in collaboration with University College, Worcester, 1999
A.J. Gritt, "Tenant farmers in 19th-century Lancashire", Ph.D. Central Lancashire, 2000
In Progress)
A.J. Craven "Coercion and Cooperation: Lancashire provincial Politics and the Creation of the English Republic 1648-53" (Awaiting viva, November 2004)
Publications (not including reviews)
1970
"County Committees and local government in Cumberland and Westmorland, 1642-1660", Northern History, V, pp. 34-66
1977
"William Wright, Cumbrian Ironmaster", Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, LXXIX, pp. 34-45
"Iron mining in Restoration Furness: the case of Sir Thomas Preston - A comment", Recusant History, XIV, p. 39
"The royalist composition papers and the landed income of the gentry: a note of warning from Cumbria", Northern History, XIII, pp. 161-174
"The Cumbrian iron industry in the seventeenth century" in Trade and transport. Essays in Economic History in honour of T. S. Willan, ed. W. H. Chaloner and B. M. Ratcliffe, pp. 1-34
1978
"The royalist north: the Cumberland and Westmorland gentry, 1642-1660", Northern History, XIV, pp. 169-192
1979
Lowther family estate books 1617-1675 (Surtees Society Publications, CXCI), pp. xxvi + 294
1981
"The population of the Borough of Kendal in 1576", Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, new series,. LXXXI, pp. 57-62
1982
"The Cumbrian bloomery forge in the seventeenth century and forge equipment in the charcoal iron industry", Transactions of the Newcomen Society, LI, pp. 25-40 (with B. G. Awty)
1984
"Town and country: economic change in Kendal, c. 1550-1700", in The transformation of English provincial towns ed. P. Clark, pp. 99-130
1985
Paperback edition of "Town and country: economic change in Kendal, c. 1550-1700", in The transformation of English provincial towns ed. P. Clark, pp. 99-130
"Probate records and the Kendal shoemakers in the seventeenth century", in Probate records and the local community, ed. P. Riden, pp. 29-51
Stockport probate records 1575-1619, edited with Dr. J. H. Smith for the Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, CXXIV, pp. xxiii + 151
1989
"Research in progress: The Cheshire parish register transcription project, 1978-1989", Local Population Studies, no. 43
1991
"Taking the plunge: planning a course on computing for historians", History and Computing 3
1992
"Landlord-tenant relationships, 1642-1660", in The impact of the civil war, ed. R. C. Richardson, Manchester, pp. 224-250
Stockport probate records 1620-1650, edited with Dr. J. H. Smith for the Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, CXXXI, pp. xxviii + 240
1993
"Sir John Lowther of Lowther (d.1637)", Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons, p. 415.
1994
Lancashire and Cheshire from AD 1540 (Longman Regional History of England). 1993. pp. xv+416. With Dr J. H. Smith.
"The plague in Kendal in 1598: some new evidence", Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, new series, XCIV, pp. 135-142
1995
"Orphan and family: bringing up Edward Harpur's orphan daughters, 1650-1666", Historical Research, LXVIII, pp. 286-301.
"The corporation of Kendal under Charles II", Northern History, XXXI, pp.157-177.
1997
Reprint, paperback and hardback, of "The royalist north: the Cumberland and Westmorland gentry, 1642-1660", Northern History, XIV, 1978, in The English civil wars: local aspects, ed. R. C. Richardson, Sutton Publishing, pp. 239-259.
1998
"Colonel Gervase Benson, Captain John Archer, and the corporation of Kendal c.1644 -c.1655", in Soldiers, writers, and statesmen of the English revolution, ed. I. Gentles, J. Morrill, and B. Worden, Cambridge University Press, pp. 183-201.
1999
"Thomas Stuart Willan, 1910-1994", Proceedings of the British Academy, CI, pp. 557-563.
" 'Lord of the towne': urban identity and culture in later Tudor and Stuart Stockport", Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, CXLVIII, pp. 27-58.
2001
New introduction to The boke off recorde of Kirkbie Kendall ed R.S. Ferguson (Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Extra Series, VII, 1892; reprinted Kendal, 2001), pp. xii-xxxvii
2002
Edited with A.D.M. Phillips, A new historical atlas of Cheshire (Chester , 2002), pp. xvi+116
2004
Articles in Oxford DNB:
Gervase Benson (d. 1679), Quaker leader
Edward Burghall (1600-1665), schoolmaster and puritan cleric
The Curwen family of Cumberland (
c.1500-
c.1700)
Sir Daniel Fleming of Rydal (d. 1701)
Sir John Lowther of Lowther (d.1637)
Sir John Lowther of Lowther, 1
st bt (d.1675)