Professor David Kent

Emeritus Professor - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

David Kent

Phone: +61 2 6773 2853

Email: dkent@une.edu.au

Biography

Awards

Winner NSW Premier's History Prize 2003

Teaching and Supervision

British Social History c1650 - c1850

Qualifications

MA (Camb), M Ed. (Edin)

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

The Kia Ora Coo-Ee:  The Magazine for the Anzacs in the Middle East, 1918, Sydney, 1981

Refereed Articles and Book Chapters

'Sack the bastard!' David Kent (the now vilest man alive), History Australia - Journal of the Australian Historical Association, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2015

Containing Disorder in the 'Age of Equipoise'; troops, trains and the telegraph, Social History, Vol. 38, No.3, 2013

Objectionable Ornaments and Decorations, Australian Religious Studies Review, Vol. 23.1, 2010

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 35 other refereed articles and chapters]