I am Professor of History at the University of Hertfordshire. I research:

- popular protest and social movements

- digital mapping with GIS

- local and regional identities and landscapes

- 18th and 19th century British history

- mid-20th century modernist architecture and town and country planning.

My last book, Protest and the Politics of Space and Place, 1789-1848, http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526116703/