Steve Poole
Professor - History and Heritage
Arts
University of West of England
United Kingdom
Biography
Professor Steve Poole ​Professor of History and Heritage, Chair, The John Thelwall Society John Thelwall Society, Committee, Southern History Society, Historical Associate, Splash & Ripple Ltd Splash and Ripple, I work and publish broadly on eighteenth and nineteenth century English history from below with an emphasis on crime, protest and the crowd in South Western counties. My most recent book on this theme, co-authored with Nicholas Rogers, is Bristol from Below: Law, Authority and Protest in a Georgian City​. I am also interested in the politics of environmental association, particularly in tidal landscapes and urban waterfronts, and in the impact of affective digital technologies on historical interpretation.In the heritage field I work in partnership with two Bristol-based experience design SMEs, Splash & Ripple and Satsymph, to develop locative mobile and digitally informed approaches to heritage. Project work includes Ghosts in the Garden, at the Holburne Museum (see AHRC highlight feature here) and A Knight's Peril for the National Trust, both with Splash and Ripple.
Research Interest
Arts
Publications
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Poole S. More like savages than men: Foreign sailors and knife crime in nineteenth century Bristol.
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Poole S. ‘For the Benefit of Example’: Crime-Scene Executions in England, 1720–1830. InA Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse 2015 (pp. 71-101). Palgrave Macmillan UK.
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Poole S. Gillray, Cruikshank & Thelwall: visual satire, physiognomy and the Jacobin body. Romantic Circles Praxis Series. 2011.
