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Robert Poole

Guild Research Fellow

School of Humanities, Language and Global Studies

18th-19th-century British history, 'Peterloo' and the radical movement, History of the space age, The Lancashire witches 1612

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PhD History, Lancaster University, 1985 BA Hons History, Lancaster University, 1978

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Poole, Robert ORCID: 0000-0001-9613-6401 (2014) What was whole about the whole Earth? Cold war and scientific revolution. In: The Surveillance Imperative: Geosciences during the Cold War and Beyond. Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology . Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp. 213-235. ISBN 978-1-137-43872-0
Poole, Robert ORCID: 0000-0001-9613-6401 (2015) 2001: A Space Odyssey and the dawn of man. In: Stanley Kubrick: New Perspectives. Black Dog Publishing, London, To follow. ISBN 978 1 908966 42 1
Poole, Robert ORCID: 0000-0001-9613-6401 (2014) Return to Peterloo. Manchester Region History Review, 23 . Carnegie Publishing Ltd, Manchester. ISBN 978-1-85936-225-9
Poole, Robert ORCID: 0000-0001-9613-6401 (2016) 'To the last drop of my blood': politics and melodrama in late Georgian England. In: Performance, Politics and Popular Culture in Nineteenth-century Britain. Studies in Polpular Culture . Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 21-43. ISBN 9780719091698
Poole, Robert ORCID: 0000-0001-9613-6401 (2019) Peterloo: the English Uprising. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780198783466
Poole, Robert ORCID: 0000-0001-9613-6401 (2016) Samuel Bamford, the Radical. Transactions of Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 153 . pp. 116-125.
Poole, Robert ORCID: 0000-0001-9613-6401 (2018) ‘The myth of progress: 2001: A Space Odyssey’. In: Limiting Outer Space: Astroculture After Apollo. Palgrave Macmillan, London. ISBN Hbk: 978-1-137-36915-4; eBook: 978-1-137-36916-1
Poole, Robert ORCID: 0000-0001-9613-6401 (2019) Petitioners and Rebels: Petitioning for Parliamentary Reform in Regency England. Social Science History, 43 (3). pp. 553-579. ISSN 0145-5532
Poole, Robert ORCID: 0000-0001-9613-6401 (2019) The Manchester Observer: biography of a radical newspaper. Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 95 (1). pp. 31-123. ISSN 2054-9318
Poole, Robert ORCID: 0000-0001-9613-6401 (2020) Book review: Freedom’s Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science by Audra J. Wolfe, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019, 312 pp., $29.95/£22, ISBN: 978142142673 [Book Review]. Taylor & Francis.

	Item title	Views
1	‘The myth of progress: 2001: A Space Odyssey’	2582
2	Peterloo: the English Uprising	2098
3	Return to Peterloo	1782
4	2001: A Space Odyssey and the dawn of man	1780
5	Petitioners and Rebels: Petitioning for Parliamentary Reform in Regency England	1669
6	'To the last drop of my blood': politics and melodrama in late Georgian England	1640
7	Samuel Bamford, the Radical	1504
8	What was whole about the whole Earth? Cold war and scientific revolution	1416
9	The Manchester Observer: biography of a radical newspaper	1012
10	Samuel Bamford: La vie d'un radical Anglais au temps de Peterloo	699

Item title

Views

‘The myth of progress: 2001: A Space Odyssey’

2582

Peterloo: the English Uprising

2098

Return to Peterloo

1782

2001: A Space Odyssey and the dawn of man

1780

Petitioners and Rebels: Petitioning for Parliamentary Reform in Regency England

1669