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I currently work at Bradford College, where I
teach History, Sociology at A level and Information Technology at GCSE.
My early years were spent on the shopfloor, mainly in the chemical industry,
which left me with an abiding interest in labour, working class and radical
history (including feminist and green issues). I finally got a chance
to study these formally in 1979, when I gained my first degree at Manchester
Polytechnic. I went on to do an MA in Social History at Lancaster
University, writing my dissertation on Chartism in my home town of Bury.
Currently I am working on a doctorate in historical sociology at the University
of Leeds (the empirical work being on Bolton and Huddersfield in the late
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries). |