Dr. David E. Martin

B.Sc. (Econ.), Ph.D. (Hull), FRHistS

Honorary Lecturer in Modern History

d.e.martin@sheffield.ac.uk

Major Publications

Biography

David Martin specialises in aspects of British history in the period after 1800. He has written articles on land and politics in the nineteenth century and on the Labour Party in the early twentieth century. An active member of the Society for the Study of Labour History, for several years he was editor of its journal, the Labour History Review. He is a contributor to the first ten volumes of the Dictionary of Labour Biography. Among other works of reference to which he has contributed is the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004). Currently, he is working on a study of Sidney and Beatrice Webb.

Membership of Professional Bodies

• Member of Historical Association
• Member of the Society for the Study of Labour History
• Fellow of The Royal Historical Society

Research

Current Research

A study of Sidney and Beatrice Webb.

Research Interests

The British labour movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; history of economic thought; the nineteenth-century land reform movement.

Public Engagement and Impact

To Follow.

Selected Publications

Books

- Lives of Victorian Political Figures: John Stuart Mill (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009).

- Labour in British Society, 1830-1914, (with D. MacRaild) (Macmillan Press, 2000).

- The History of the City of Sheffield, 1893-1993, 3 volumes (with others) (Sheffield Academic Press, 1993).

- John Stuart Mill and the Land Question, (Hull UP, 1981).

- Ideology and the Labour Movement, (with D. Rubinstein) (Croom Helm, 1979).

Articles and Essays

- 'Labour's Parliamentary Pioneers of 1906', in A. Howarth and D. Hayter (eds), Men who Made Labour: The PLP of 1906 – The Personalities and the Politics (Routledge, 2006), 9-20.

- 'The Genesis of Modern Management Reconsidered', Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, no. 20 (2005), 115-36.

- 'Introduction' to The Palgrave Archive Edition of Writings on Industrial Democracy by Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 3 volumes (Palgave Macmillan, 2003).

- 'The Agricultural Interest and its Critics, 1840-1914', in J. R. Wordie (ed.), Agriculture and Politics in England, 1815-1939, (Macmillan Press, 2000) 128-48.

'Arnold Freeman and the Sheffield Educational Settlement', Transactions of the Hunter Archaeological Society, 20 (1999) 71-80.