Professor David Kent
Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, School of Humanities
Qualifications
MA (Camb), M Ed. (Edin)
Contact
| Email: | dkent5@une.edu.au |
| Room: | E11 G37 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2853 (or +61 2 6773 2853 overseas) |
Awards
Winner NSW Premier's History Prize 2003
Teaching and Supervision
British Social History c1650 - c1850
Research interests
- Popular protest in C18 & C19 Britain
- British labour history and radical movements 1750-1850
- British popular custom and folklore
- Early Australian colonial and convict history
Publications
Books & Monographs
Convicts of the Eleanor: Protest in Rural England , New Lives in Australia, London and Sydney, 2002
From Trench and Troopship: The Experience of the AIF 1914-19, Sydney, 1999
Popular Radicalism and the Swing Riots in Central Hampshire, Winchester, 1997
Joseph Mason: Assigned Convict 1831-37, Melbourne, 1996
Refereed Articles and Book Chapters
High Church Ritual and Rituals of Protest: the 'Riots' at St George-in-the-East, 1859-1960, The London Journal, Vol.32, No. 2, 2007
Frontier Conflict And Aboriginal Deaths: How Do We Weigh The Evidence?, Journal of Australian Colonial History, Vol. 8 , 2006
Power, Protest, Poaching and the Tweed Fisheries Acts of 1857 and 1859: ‘Send A Gunboat!’, Northern History, XLII:2, 2005
[and 33 other refereed articles and chapters]