Frank Trentmann
(*18 July 1965)
Department of History, Classics and Archaeology
Birkbeck College, University of London
Malet Street
London, WC1E 7HX
Tel: 44 (0) 20 7 431 7883
I am a historian of modern Britain, Germany and the world. My work explores the interplay between material, political and moral transformations. I am Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and also a Professor of at the University of Helsinki and at its Centre for Consumer Society Research. I have written about morality; consumer culture; energy and water; everyday life; trade and globalization. In addition to academic audiences, my research has engaged with a wide range of groups and stakeholders, from government ministries to school children, companies and consumer groups, museums and media.
Before joining Birkbeck, I was Assistant Professor at Princeton University. I was educated at Hamburg University, the London School of Economics (BA), and at Harvard University (MA and PhD).
I was the principal investigator of the AHRC project “Material Cultures of Energy” (2014-17), a member of the EPSRC–ESRC research centre DEMAND (Dynamics of Energy, Mobility and Demand), and from 2002 to 2007, the director of the £5 million Cultures of Consumption research programme, co-funded by ESRC and AHRC.
I have been Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, Visiting Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for History and Economics, as well as a Visiting Professor at Bielefeld University, the University of St Gallen, the British Academy, and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris. In 2012-13 I was Professor of History and Social Science at the University of Manchester (part-time) and Associate at the Sustainable Consumption Institute. In 2014 I was awarded the Moore Distinguished Fellowship at Caltech, in 2017 the Humboldt Prize for Research (Humboldt-Forschungspreis) by the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation. In 2023, I was awarded the Bochum Historians’ Prize.
My new book, Out of the Darkness: The Germans 1942-2022, tells the story of the German people from the Second World War to the present and assesses their moral transformation, and its limits. The book was published in November 2023 by Allen Lane/Penguin (UK) and as Aufbruch des Gewissens: Eine Geschichte der Deutschen von 1942 bis Heute by Fischer (Germany). The American edition will be published in February 2024 with Knopf and with McClelland in Canada, with foreign editions to follow in France (Grasset), the Netherlands (Arbeiderspers), Russia (Corpus), China (Shanghai 99). The book was ranked Number One among the most important political books of 2023 by Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Number One in the top ten non-fiction book list by Die Zeit, ZDF, Deutschlandfunk, taz for December 2023 and for January 2024. It was a Book of the Year in Der Spiegel as well as the Daily Telegraph. For reviews and praise, see https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Darkness-1942-2022-Frank-Trentmann/dp/0241303494 under editorial reviews.
My previous book Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First unfolds the rise of our material world and examines the global challenges of our relentless pursuit of more – from waste and debt to stress and inequality. 690 pages text, 72 illustrations. UK edition: Allen Lane 2016; US edition: HarperCollins 2016; Penguin paperback February 2017. The book has appeared in several foreign editions: German (Herrschaft der Dinge, DVA and Pantheon); Italian (L’impero delle cose, Einaudi); Russian (Eksmo); Turkish (Pegasus Yayinlari); a Complex Chinese translation in Taiwan (Ye-ren); a simplified Chinese translation with Ginkgo in mainland China. Audiobook: audible. Book of the Year: The Times, The Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement; BBC History Magazine; Bloomberg; Exame (Brazil). Shortlisted for the NDR non-fiction prize (Germany). Winner of the Austrian Wissenschaftsbuch/science book prize in 2018 for the best book in the humanities, social sciences and cultural studies. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/559/55961/empire-of-things/9780141028743.html
For articles, interviews and reviews, see: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/empireofthings/
My first book was Free Trade Nation: Consumption, Civil Society and Commerce in Modern Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), recipient of the Whitfield Prize by the Royal Historical Society for the best first book on British history; a Japanese edition appeared with NTT Publishing; for reviews, see http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199567324.do .
Edited collections include: the Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption (Oxford University Press, 2012; editor); Food and Globalization (Oxford: Berg, 2008, with Alexander Nützenadel); Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire, and Transnationalism, c. 1860-1950 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, with Kevin Grant and Philippa Levine); Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives: Historical Trajectories, Transnational Exchanges (Oxford: Berg, 2006, with John Brewer); Time, Consumption, and Everyday Life (Oxford: Berg, 2009, with Elizabeth Shove and Rick Wilk); Work in progress: Economy and environment in the hand of experts (Munich: oekom, 2018 with Anna Barbara Sum and Manuel Rivera); Infrastructures in Practice: The Evolution of Demand in Networked Societies (London: Routledge, 2018, with Elizabeth Shove), and Scarcity in the Modern World: History, Politics, Society and Sustainability, 1800-2075 (London: Bloomsbury, 2019, with Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, John Brewer and Neil Fromer).
My scholarly articles have appeared in major journals, including Past & Present, The Historical Journal, Journal of British Studies, Journal of Historical Geography, and Environment and Planning.
My literary agent is David Godwin, David Godwin Associates, http://www.davidgodwinassociates.com/ ; Philippa@davidgodwinassociates.co.uk .
For contributions to newspapers, magazines, radio, television, please see the listings under “Media” further below.
· Education and Academic Career
· Academic Service
· Awards, Grants and Fellowships
· Teaching and Supervision
· Publications
· Media
· Lectures, Keynotes and Papers
· Conferences and Seminars Organised
EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC CAREER
Present Professor of History, Birkbeck, University of London
Since 2018 Professor of the History of Morality and Consumption, University of Helsinki, and Associate, Centre for Consumer Society Research
2017 Humboldt Prize for Research (Humboldt Forschungspreis), Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation
2014 Moore Distinguished Fellow, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
2014 Spring Visiting Professor, University of St Gallen
2012-13 Professorial Fellow, Sustainable Consumption Institute, Professor of History and Social Science, University of Manchester (part-time)
2011 April Visiting Professor, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
2007-08 Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, European University Institute, Florence
2007-08 Directorial Fellow, Economic and Social Research Council
2002-07 Director, Cultures of Consumption research programme (ESRC, AHRC)
2001 Summer Visiting Professor of Modern History, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
Oct 2000 Lecturer in Modern History, Birkbeck College, University of London
(2001 Senior Lecturer; 2006 Professor of History)
1997-2000 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Princeton University
March 1999 Ph.D. Harvard University, ‘The Erosion of Free Trade: Political Culture and Political Economy in Britain, c. 1897-1932’. Advisor: Prof. Charles S. Maier
1994-97 Tutor, History Department, Harvard University
1991 MA Harvard University
1988 BA First Class Honours, Modern History, LSE/University of London
1985-6 Universität Hamburg, Zwischenprüfung: History (Modern and Ancient)
1984-5 Medical School, Universität Hamburg
1984 Abitur: 1,0. Gymnasium Altona-Hohenzollernring, Hamburg, Germany
ACADEMIC SERVICE
2023-Present Member of the Advisory Board, Leibniz Zentrum für Zeithistorische
Forschung (ZZF), Potsdam (Centre for Contemporary History)
2023-Present Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ), Sweden, Advanced Studies Programme,
Member of the Evaluation Committee
2018-Present Member of the Beirat (Advisory Council) of the German Historical
Institute, London
2019-Present Director of Research and Senior Tutor (Graduate Studies), Birkbeck, HCA
2016-2017 Chair of the panel on history, archaeology and cultural studies in Norway as part of the evaluation of the humanities for the Norwegian Research Council and Norwegian government, HUMEVAL.
2019-Present Member of the Research Committee, School of Social Sciences,
2012-17 History and Philosophy, Birkbeck
2014-Present Director, Eric Hobsbawm Research Studentships, Birkbeck
2019-Present, REF lead (Research Excellence Framework) for Department of History,
2017-18 Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, with responsibility for research
2010-15 strategy, development, grants, publications, environment and impact
2020-22 Member of the Expert Panel, Research Grants, Norwegian Research
2012-15 Council, Oslo
2010-13 Member of the Higher Research Degree Committee, Institute of Historical
Research, School of Advanced Studies, University of London
2010-13 Chair, Advisory Board of SPRG, Sustainable Practices Research Group
(ESRC, Defra, Scottish Government, Universities of Manchester, Edinburgh, Essex, Lancaster, and Leeds)
2010-13 Member of the Advisory Board of CRESC (ESRC Centre for Research on
Socio-Cultural Change)
2010 Member, Programme Committee, Anglo-American Conference of
Historians: “Environment”. Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Studies, University of London
2009-Present External Evaluations for Professorial Appointments, Promotions and
Awards for: Princeton University, Indiana University, Louisiana State
University, University of Missouri
2009-10 Mellon Supervisor, IHR: Yale PhD student Amanda Behm
(Institutionalizing Imperial History)
2002-07 Programme Director, £5 million Cultures of Consumption Research Programme (Economic and Social Research Council; Arts and Humanities Research Council)
2006 Member, Expert Panel, European Commission, Research and Innovation
Funding FP7, Brussels
2005-Present Regular Evaluations of Grant Applications for Leverhulme Trust, ESRC,
Wellcome Trust, AHRC, Humboldt, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft,
Centre for Advanced Study/Berlin, Dutch Research Council; Norwegian Research Council
2001-17 Co-convenor, Modern British History research seminar, Institute of
Historical Research, School of Advanced Studies, University of London
2001-02 Chair, Student/Staff Exchange Committee, Birkbeck College
1998-2000 Co-organizer (with Prof. Mark Mazower) of the Modern European History Colloquium, Princeton University
1997-9 Co-organizer (with Prof. Peter Lake) of the British Studies Seminar,
Princeton University
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Editorial Board Member:
The Journal of British Studies, Twentieth Century British History; Journal of Consumer Policy; History of Retailing and Consumption; Contemporary British History; Recherches Britanniques; Consumption and Society; Revue d'histoire du 19e siècle.
Referee of manuscripts for:
Allen Lane/Penguin, Yale University Press, Princeton University Press, Harvard University Press, University of California Press, Chicago University Press, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Berg, Palgrave Macmillan and others. I have refereed articles for many journals, including Economic History Review, American Historical Review, Historical Journal, Journal of British Studies, British Journal of Sociology, Journal of Global History, Contemporary European History, History and Technology, Contemporary British History, Journal of Consumer Policy, Journal of Consumer Culture, Environment and Planning, Journal of the History of Ideas.
AWARDS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS,
Bochum Historians’ Prize, 2023 (€ 30,000)
Kone Foundation, grant for academic-cultural film project on “Covid Diaries: Everyday Life under Lockdown”, 2021-22 (Spotlight Documentary Film Awards: Bronze Award)
Austrian Science Book Prize, 2018, for the best book in the humanities and social sciences (Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres, awarded by the Austrian ministry of education, research and science), for Herrschaft der Dinge/Empire of Things
Humboldt Prize for Research (Humboldt-Forschungspreis), Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, 2017 (€ 60,000)
Moore Distinguished Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 2014
AHRC Principal Investigator, “Material Cultures of Energy”, April 2014-Dec 2017,
AH/K006088/1, (£916,995)
EPSRC/ESRC research centre “DEMAND: Dynamics of Energy, Mobility and Demand”,
EP/K011723/1, 2013-March 2018, Co-investigator
Leverhulme International Visiting Fellow, Autumn 2013 (£9,998)
Whitfield Prize, Royal Historical Society, 2009 (for Free Trade Nation)
Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, European University Institute, Florence, 2007-08
Directorial Fellow, ESRC, 2007-08, RES-052-27-002 (£ 81,786)
ESRC Research Grant, 154-25-0022: Liquid Politics (£76,115)
ESRC-AHRB Research Grant, L143341002/3: Cultures of Consumption (£1,145,109)
ESRC Research Grant, 000-22-0172: History of Political Communication (£2,293)
King’s College, Cambridge, Centre for History and Economics, Research Fellow, 2000
Churchill College, Cambridge, By-Fellowship, 2000
Princeton University, 250th Anniversary Grant for Teaching, 1998
Leverhulme Trust, Research Fellowship, 1994-6
Scouloudi Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, London, 1993-4
Krupp Foundation Fellow, Harvard University (USA), PhD
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Fellowship (Germany), BA
TEACHING AND SUPERVISION
Birkbeck College, University of London (2000-Present):
BA Courses: The Modern World; The Contemporary World; Modern British History (Survey
Courses); Civil Society; Moral Histories in the Modern World; People and their
Things (Special Subject Courses)
MA Courses: History of Capitalism; Historians’ Craft; The Rise of the Consumer;
Globalization; British Empire and National Identity
MA Core Course: Approaches to History (Material Culture; Economic History; Everyday Life)
Supervision of BA, MA and PhD dissertations
PhD Theses supervised (Birkbeck College, University of London):
‘The Battle Between Thrift and Consumption: Post-war Domestic Mending in Britain’, Marion Lester-Card, in process (started October 2020)
‘Social Statistics, Sati and Politics in early nineteenth-century Britain and Empire’, Guy Beckett,
2019
‘Consultants and the State in Britain, c.1960-90s’, Antonio Weiss, 2017. AHRC and Eric Hobsbawm Studentship, 2017
‘The Merchant Banks, c. 1900-39’, Brian O’Sullivan, 2015. Eric Hobsbawm Studentship
‘The University Age: Decolonisation and Development in Nigeria, 1930-1966’, Tim Livsey, 2014. College studentship
‘Silk and globalisation in eighteenth-century London: commodities, people and connections c.1720-1800’, William Farrell, 2013. College studentship
‘The Sports Shoe: A Social and Cultural History, c. 1870-c.1990’, Thomas Turner, 2013
‘Respectable. Persuaders: the Advertising Industry and British Society, 1900-1939’, Stefan Schwarzkopf, 2008
‘Brewers, Temperance and the 19th Century Drinking Fountain Movement’, Vanessa Taylor,
PhD awarded in 2006. AHRC scholarship
PhD Theses examined:
Sciences Po, Paris (Ines Mosgalik: Nations and Consumer Associations in the Making and Un-
Making of European Electricity Consumers and Norms (EU, Britain, France and Germany, 1973-2009; 2019)
Cambridge (Kayt Button: The National Grid: an Environmental History; 2017)
King’s College, University of London (Galina Shyndriayeva: Matters of scent: Chemistry, luxury
and invention in the European and American perfume industry, 1900-1960; 2017)
Cambridge (Tae Hoon Kim: the Central Electricity Generating Board and the Politics of Power,
1961-89; 2016)
Cambridge (Benjamin Choo: Global Imbalances in Public Discourse, 1943-74; 2015)
Zürich (Eva von Wyl: Ready to Eat! “Amerikanisierung” der Essgewohnheiten in der Schweiz,
2014)
Leicester (Tom Hulme: Civic Culture in 19th century Manchester and Chicago, 2013)
London (Eric DeWald: Vietnamese Tourism in Late-Colonial Central Vietnam, 1917-1945,
SOAS, 2012)
Oxford (Anna Geurts: Dutch travellers in 19th century Europe)
(Ana Maria Otero-Cleves: Consumption in 19th century Colombia; 2011)
Tours (Manuel Charpy: Le théâtre des objets. Espaces privés, culture matérielle et identité
sociale, Paris, 1830-1914; 2010)
London (Joseph Hillier: Water Networks in Modern Britain, UCL 2009)
London (Samuel Smith: The Federation of British Industries and the Gold Standard, 1918-25,
Royal Holloway, 2004)
BA and MA External Examiner:
Manchester University, 2010-12
Post-Doctoral Researchers supervised:
Dr Vanessa Taylor
Dr Anna Carlsson-Hyslop
Dr Hiroki Shin
Dr Riita Matilainen
Teaching at Princeton University (1997-2000):
BA Courses: British History, from the Tudors to Thatcher (co-taught with Prof. Peter Lake);
Western Civilization; History of Human Rights; British Empire and National
Identity
PhD seminar: Modern Britain (Princeton and Columbia University)
Supervision of BA dissertations
Teaching at Harvard University (Tutor in History, 1991-2, 1996-7):
BA Course: “Social and Economic History of Modern Britain” (Teaching Assistant to Prof.
Barry Supple, 1991-2)
BA Junior Seminar: State and Society in Modern Britain and Germany
BA Sophomore Seminar: Sources and Genres of History
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Out of the Darkness: The Germans 1942-2022. 838 pages, 42 illustrations. UK edition November 2023: Allen Lane/Penguin (UK). German edition: Aufbruch des Gewissens: Eine Geschichte der Deutschen von 1942 bis Heute (S. Fischer). The American edition will be published in February 2024 with Knopf and with McClelland in Canada, with foreign editions to follow in France (Grasset), the Netherlands (Arbeiderspers), Russia (Corpus), China (Shanghai 99). The book was ranked Number One among the most important political books of 2023 by Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Number One in the top ten non-fiction book list by Die Zeit, ZDF, Deutschlandfunk, taz for December 2023 and for January 2024. It was a Book of the Year in Der Spiegel as well as the Daily Telegraph. Interviews: Der Spiegel; taz; BBC Radio 3; ARD/NDR (‘DAS !’); Bayerischer Rundfunk; Deutschlandfunk, 22 October 2023; Scobel – YouTube. Podcast: Die Zeit. Reviews in: The Times; London Review of Books; Daily Telegraph; New Statesman; The Spectator; Literary Review; Times Literary Supplement; Süddeutsche Zeitung; Frankfurter Rundschau; Die Welt. For reviews and praise, see https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Darkness-1942-2022-Frank-Trentmann/dp/0241303494 under editorial reviews.
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First. 880 pages, 72 illustrations. UK edition: Allen Lane/Penguin 2016; US edition HarperCollins 2016; Penguin paperback February 2017. Foreign editions: German (Herrschaft der Dinge, DVA and Pantheon); Italian (L’impero delle cose, Einaudi); Russian (Eksmo); Turkish (Pegasus Yayinlari); a Complex Chinese translation in Taiwan (Ye-ren); a simplified Chinese translation with Ginkgo in mainland China. Audiobook: audible. Chosen as Book of the Year by The Times, The Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement; BBC History Magazine; Bloomberg; Exame (Brazil). Shortlisted for the NDR non-fiction prize (Germany). Winner of the Austrian Wissenschaftsbuch/science book prize in 2018 for the best book in the humanities, social sciences and cultural studies. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/559/55961/empire-of-things/9780141028743.html
For articles, interviews and reviews, see: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/empireofthings/
Reviews in: The Times; Independent; Financial Times; NPR (National Public Radio, USA); The Sunday Times; Wall Street Journal; New York Review of Books; TLS
(Times Literary Supplement); Washington Post; TIME magazine; The New Yorker;
Foreign Affairs; The Observer; Guardian; Daily Mail; Evening Standard;The Irish Times; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, La Repubblica, Weekendavisen (Denmark); Svenska Dagebladet (Sweden); NRC Handelsblad (Netherlands); Finmag; The National; Literary Review; History Revealed; Publishers Weekly; Library Journal; Kirkus Review; BBC History Magazine; PopMatters; The Tablet; Ethical Consumer; La Vie des Idées; Economic History Review; Revue D’Histoire Moderne & Contemporaine
Excerpted in The Atlantic; The Independent.
Power, Energy and International Cooperation: A History of the World Energy Council (co-authored with Rebecca Wright and Hiroki Shin), (Munich: oekom, 2019).
Materielle Kultur und Energiekonsum: Verbraucher und ihre Rolle für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung (oekom: Munich, 2016; Carl-von-Carlowitz-Reihe, Band 5 Wissenschaftliche Vorlesungen zur Nachhaltigkeit, herausgegeben vom Rat für Nachhaltige Entwicklung), 68 pages
(Material Culture and Energy Consumption: The Role of Consumers for Sustainable Development – Carl-von-Carlowitz-Series, lecture 5, Council for Sustainable Development, Germany).
Free Trade Nation: Consumption, Civil Society and Commerce in Modern Britain (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2008). Whitfield Prize, Royal Historical Society. Choice Outstanding Academic Book 2008; Book of the Month (Dec. 2008), British Scholar. For reviews see www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199567324 . Japanese edition: フリートレイド・ネイション: イギリス自由貿易の興亡と消費文化 (Free Trade Nation: Igirisu Jiyū Bōeki no Kōbō to Shōhi Bunka) NTT Publishing, Tokyo 2016, with a new preface.
EDITED BOOKS
Scarcity in the Modern World: History, Politics, Society and Sustainability, 1800-2075, co-editor, with Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, John Brewer and Neil Fromer (London: Bloomsbury, 2019).
Introduction (the editors)
‘Energy Shortages and the Reproduction of Social Life:
Resilience, Redistribution and “Normality” in the Twentieth Century’
(co-authored with Hiroki Shin)
Infrastructures in Practice: The Evolution of Demand in Networked Societies (London: Routledge, 2018, with Elizabeth Shove).
‘Introduction’ (with Elizabeth Shove)
‘Disruption in and across time’ (co-authored with Heather Chappells).
Work in progress: Economy and environment in the hand of experts (Munich: oekom, 2018 with Anna Barbara Sum and Manuel Rivera)
Introduction
‘The Social Life of Energy Futures: Experts, Consumers and Demand in the Golden Age of Modernization, c. 1900-1973’ (with Rebecca Wright).
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption, editor (Oxford University Press, 2012).
‘Introduction’
‘The Politics of Everyday Life’, ch. 27.
Time, Consumption, and Everyday Life, edited with Elizabeth Shove and Richard Wilk (Oxford: Berg, 2009).
‘Introduction’ (with E. Shove and R. Wilk)
‘Disruption is Normal: Blackouts, Breakdowns and the Elasticity of Everyday Life’,
pp. 67-84.
Is Free Trade Fair? New Perspectives on the World Trading System, editor (Smith Institute,
London 2009).
Food and Globalization: Consumption, Markets and Politics in the Modern World, edited with
Alexander Nützenadel, (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2008).
Introduction (with Alexander Nützenadel), pp. 1-18
‘Before Fair Trade: Empire, Free Trade, and the Moral Economies of Food in the Modern World’, pp. 253-76.
Governance, Citizens, and Consumers: Agency and Resistance in Contemporary Politics, edited
with Mark Bevir, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
‘Consumption and Citizenship in the New Governance’, with Mark Bevir, pp. 1-22.
‘The Circulation of Rationalities: Consumption, Identity, and Citizenship’, with Mark Bevir, pp. 165-190.
Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire, and Transnationalism, c. 1860-1950, edited with Kevin
Grant and Philippa Levine, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
‘Introduction’, with Kevin Grant and Philippa Levine, pp. 1-15.
‘After the Nation-State: Citizenship, Empire and Global Coordination in the New Internationalism, 1914-1930’, pp. 34-53.
Citizenship and Consumption, edited with Kate Soper, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
‘Introduction’, with Kate Soper. Pp. 1-16.
‘Civic Choices: Retrieving Perspectives on Rationality, Consumption, and Citizenship’, with Mark Bevir, pp. 19-33.
Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives: Historical Trajectories, Transnational Exchanges,
edited with John Brewer, (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006).
‘Introduction: Space, Time, and Value in Consuming Cultures’ (with J. Brewer), pp.1-17.
‘The Modern Genealogy of the Consumer: Meanings, Knowledge, and Identities’, pp. 19-69. (transl. into Finnish as “Kuluttajan kehitys: merkitykset, identiteetit ja poliittiset kytkökset ennen vaurauden aikakautta”, in: Kulutuksen politiikkat arjen muovaajana, eds. Minna Lammi, Johanna Mäkelä, Johanna Varjonen (Helsinki, 2009), pp. 12-43.
The Making of the Consumer: Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World (Editor),
(Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006).
‘Knowing Consumers – Histories, Identities, Practices’, pp. 1-27.
‘From Users to Consumers: Water Politics in Nineteenth-Century London’, with Vanessa Taylor, pp. 53-79.
Food and Conflict in Europe in the Age of the Two World Wars, edited with Flemming Just,
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
‘Food and Conflict in Europe in the Age of the Two World Wars’ (with F. Just), pp. 1-12;
‘Coping with Shortage: The Problem of Food Security and Global Visions of Coordination, c. 1890s-1950’, pp. 13-48.
Civil Society: A Reader in History, Theory and Global Politics (edited with John A. Hall),
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
‘Contests over Civil Society: Introductory Perspectives’, with John Hall, pp. 1-21.
Worlds of Political Economy: Knowledge and Power in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
(edited with Martin J Daunton), (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
‘Worlds of Political Economy: Knowledge, Practices and Contestation’, with Martin Daunton, pp. 1-23.
Markets in Historical Contexts: Ideas and Politics in the Modern World (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2004), edited with Mark Bevir.
‘Markets in Historical Contexts: Ideas, Practices and Governance, with Mark Bevir, pp. 1-24.
‘Civilising Markets: Traditions of Consumer Politics in Twentieth-Century Britain, Japan, and the United States’, with Patricia Maclachlan, pp. 170-201.
(Chinese edition in press).
Critiques of Capital in Modern Britain and America: Transatlantic Exchanges, edited with
Mark Bevir (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).
‘Critique within Capitalism: Historiographical Problems, Theoretical Perspectives’, with Mark Bevir, pp. 1-25.
Paradoxes of Civil Society: New Perspectives on Modern German and British History, (Editor),
(Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2003, 2nd rev. paperback edn. 1st edn 2000).
‘Paradoxes of Civil Society’, pp. 3-46.
‘Civil Society, Commerce, and the “Citizen-Consumer”: Popular Meanings of Free Trade in Modern Britain’, pp. 306-331.
Reprinted in Czech as ‘Paradoxy Občanské Společnosti’, in Sociální Studia (Social Studies Journal), Issue 1 (2005), pp. 15-46.
ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS
‘Rise and Fall: The Power and Morality of Economic Narratives’, in: Journal of Modern European History 21:4 (autumn 2023): 420-23.
‘Getting to grips with energy: fuel, materiality and daily life’ in Science Museum Group Journal 9 (spring 2018), guest editor of special issue; http://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/issues/spring-2018/ .
‘The Evolution of Energy Demand in Britain: Politics, Daily Life and Public Housing in Britain, 1920s-70s’ in The Historical Journal, on-line open access Nov 2017, print version: 2018 (lead author; co-authored with Anna Carlsson-Hyslop).
‘Paths, Detours, and Connections: Consumption and Its Contribution to Latin American History’ (with Ana Maria Otero-Cleves), in Special Journal Issue for Historica Critica: Historia del consumo, no. 65, July-Sept 2017, pp 13-28
‘Liquid Politics: Water and the Politics of Everyday Life in the Modern City’ (with Vanessa Taylor), Past & Present, no. 211 (May 2011), pp. 199-241.
‘The Odd Couple: Consumption and Civil Society’, Recherches Britanniques: Société, culture, politique en Grande-Bretagne du 18ème au 21ème siècle, Vol. I – numéro 1 (2011), pp. 37-51.
‘Consumer Society – RIP’, Contemporary European History 20/1 (2011), pp. 27-31.
‘Crossing Divides: Consumption and Globalization in History’ Journal of Consumer Culture 9/2 (2009), pp. 187-220.
Reprinted in: The Routledge International Handbook of Globalisation Studies, ed. Bryan S. Turner. (New York: Routledge, 2010), pp. 447-69.
‘Materiality in the Future of History: Things, Practices, and Politics’ Journal of British Studies, 48/2 (April 2009), pp. 283-307.
‘The Long History of Contemporary Consumer Society: Chronologies, Practices, and Politics in Modern Europe’, Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 49 (2009), pp. 107-28.
Reprinted in Consumption, ed. Alan Warde, Sage Benchmarks in Culture & Society (2010),
vol. 2, ch. 20.
‘Drought is Normal: The Socio-Technical Evolution of Drought and Water Demand in England and Wales, 1893-2006’, Journal of Historical Geography 35 (2009), pp. 568-91, with Vanessa Taylor, Heather Chappells, and Will Medd.
‘Before “Fair Trade”: Empire, Free Trade, and the Moral Economies of Food in the Modern World’, in Environment and Planning D, 2007, Vol. 25(6) 1079-1102.
Short version reprinted in Food and Globalization, eds. A. Nützenadel and F. Trentmann.
‘Introduction: Citizenship and Consumption’, special issue for Journal of Consumer Culture, (editor), Vol. 7(2) (2007), pp. 147-158.
‘The Politics of Necessity’, special issue for Journal of Consumer Policy, edited with Bronwen Morgan, Vol. 29(4) (2006), pp. 345-35.
‘Beyond Consumerism: New Historical Perspectives on Consumption’, in Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 39(3) (2004), pp. 373-401.
Reprinted in Consumer Behaviour I: Research and Influences, ed. Margaret Hogg, (London: Sage, 2005), pp. 303-329.
Reprinted in Consumption, ed. Alan Warde, Sage Benchmarks in Culture & Society
(2010)
‘Social Justice and Modern Capitalism: British Critiques, Traditions, and Practices’. A special journal issue for the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, The European Legacy, VI, 2 (London: Taylor and Francis, 2001). Co-edited and introduced with Mark Bevir.
‘Political Culture and Political Economy’, Review of International Political Economy, 5:2 (1998), pp. 217-251.
‘Wealth versus Welfare: the British Left between Free Trade and National Political Economy before the First World War’, Historical Research, LXX, 171 (1997), pp. 70-98.
‘The Transformation of Fiscal Reform: Reciprocity, Modernization, and the Fiscal Debate within the Business Community in Early Twentieth-Century Britain’, Historical Journal, XXXIX, 4 (1996), pp. 1005-48.
‘New Sources on an Old Family: The Rothschild Papers at the Special Archive, Moscow’, Financial History Review, 2 (1995), pp. 73-9.
‘Civilisation and its Discontents: English Neo-romanticism and the Transformation of Anti-Modernism in Twentieth-Century Western Culture’, Journal of Contemporary History, XXIX (1994), pp. 583-625.
CHAPTERS
‘Golden girls and silver surfers: a descoberta do consumidor senior no século XX’, in: Diálogo com a economia criativa, v. 6, n. 16 (jan/abr. 2021), pp. 14-26.
‘Under Stress: Civility, Compassion and National Solidarity – the Refugee Crisis in Germany after 1945’ in: States and Nations, Power and Civility: Hallsian Perspectives, ed. Francesco Duina (University of Toronto Press, 2019), pp. 122-46.
‘The Material Politics of Energy Disruption: Managing Shortages Amidst Rising Expectations, Britain 1930s-60s’ (with Hiroki Shin), in: J. Hoppit, A.B. Leonard and D.J. Needham (eds), Money and markets: essays in honour of Martin Daunton (Boydell and Brewer, 2019).
‘Consumer Boycotts in Modern History: States, Moral Boundaries and Political Action’ in: Boycotts: Past and Present, ed. David Feldman (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
‘Die Welt konsumieren’, in: Zukunftswerte: Verantwortung für die Welt von Morgen, ed. Alexander Birken (Göttingen: Steidl, 2018), pp. 314-21.
‘Die Verwandlung der “freien” Zeit’, in Alles, was wichtig wird: 15 Essays zur Zukunft, ed. Referentenagentur Bertelsmann (Munich 2018), pp. 196-215.
‘Material Histories of the World: Scales and Dynamics’in: History after Hobsbawm: Writing the Past for the Twenty-First Century, eds. J. Arnold, M. Hilton and J. Rueger (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 200-21.
‘The road to the 21st century consumer: A historical perspective,’ in: The 21st Century Consumer: Vulnerable, Responsible, Transparent?, eds. Christian Bala and Wolfgang Schuldzinski (Proceedings of the International Conference on Consumer Research (ICCR), Düsseldorf; 2017)
‘The Lessons of War: Reordering the Public and Private Capacities and Dynamics of Consumption’ in: The Consumer on the Home Front: Second World War Civilian Consumption in Transnational Perspective, eds. Hartmut Berghoff, Jan Logemann, and Felix Römer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 331-56.
‘Unstoppable: Consumption after the Boom – Resilience, Adaptation and Renewal’ in:
Vorgeschichte der Gegenwart: Dimensionen des Strukturbruchs nach dem Boom, eds. Anselm Doering-Manteuffel, Lutz Raphael, Thomas Schlemmer (Göttingen, 2016), pp. 293-307.
‘Moving Paradoxes: Materials, People and Ethics in a World in Flux’, in: Moving Around: People, Things and Practices in Consumer Culture, eds. H. Shin, S. Majima and Y. Tanaka (Tokyo, 2015), pp. 17-25.
‘Sustainable consumption in history: ideas, resources and practices’ (with Heather Chappells)
in: Handbook of Research on Sustainable Consumption, eds. Lucia A. Reisch and John Thøgersen (Cheltenham, 2015), pp. 51-70.
‘Past and Present: Historical Perspectives on Inequality and Collective Provision in Modern Consumption’, in: Dale Southerton and Alistair Ulph (eds.), Sustainable Consumption (Oxford, 2014) , pp. 243-76.
‘Political History Matters: Everyday Life, Things and Practices’, in: Willibald Steinmetz, Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey, Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (eds.), Writing Political History Today (Frankfurt/Main, 2013), pp. 397-408.
‘Consumer Society Revisited: Affluence, Choice and Diversity,’ in: Ralph Jessen and Lydia Langer (eds.), Transformations of retailing in Europe after 1945, (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012), pp. 19-32.
‘Consumers as Citizens: Tensions and Synergies’, in Beyond the Consumption Bubble, eds. Karin Ekström and Kay Glans (London: Routledge, 2011).
‘Multiple Spaces of Consumption: Some Historical Perspectives’, in Consuming Space: Placing Consumption in Perspective, eds. Michael Goodman, David Goodman and Michael Redclift (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010), pp. 41-56.
‘Crossing Divides: Consumption and Globalization in History’, in The Routledge International Handbook of Globalisation Studies, ed. Bryan S. Turner. (New York: Routledge, 2010), pp. 447-69.
‘Foreword’ to Consumption and Generational Change: The Rise of Consumer Lifestyles, eds. Ian Rees Jones, David Ekerdt, Paul Higgs (Transaction Publ., Edison, NJ, 2009), pp. vii – xii.
‘Le consommateur en tant que citoyen : synergies et tensions pour son bien-être et son engagement civique’/ ‘Consumers as Citizens: Synergies and Tensions for Well-Being and Civic Engagement’, in Consommation responsable et bien-être/ Responsible consumption for the well being of all, ed. Gilda Farrell (Strasbourg, Council of Europe publications, 2008), pp. 87-93 reprint in French and English of the chapter originally published in L’Economie politique, no. 39.
‘Le consommateur en tant que citoyen: synergies et tensions entre bien-être et engagement civique’, in: L’Economie politique, no. 39 (July 2008), special issue: “Pour un nouveau modèle de consommation”, pp. 7-20.
‘Kurze Unterbrechung -- Wir Entschuldigen die Störung: Zusammenbruch, Zaesur, und Zeitlichkeit im alltäglichen Konsum’, in Unterwegs in Europa – Beiträge zu einer pluralen europäischen Geschichte, eds. Christina Benninghaus, Sven Oliver Müller, Jörg Requate and Charlotte Tacke (Campus Verlag: 2008), pp. 219-45.
‘The Question of Culture Consumption and Stratification Revisited’, Comment, Sociologica 2/2008: http://www.sociologica.mulino.it/journal/issue/index/Issue/Journal:ISSUE:5
‘The Evolution of the Consumer: Meanings, Identities and Political Synapses Before the Age of
Affluence’, in The Ambivalent Consumer: Questioning Consumption in East Asia and the West, eds. Sheldon Garon and Patricia L. Maclachlan (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006), pp. 21-44.
‘Consumption’, in Europe since 1914: Encyclopaedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction, edited by John Merriman and Jay Winter (Detroit: Charles Scribners Sons, 2006), volume 2, pp. 704-717.
‘The Resurrection and Decomposition of Cobden in Britain and the West: An Essay in the Politics of Reputation’, in Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Liberalism: Richard Cobden Bicentenary Essays, eds. Anthony Howe and Simon Morgan (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), pp. 264-288.
‘The ‘British’ Sources of Social Power: Reflections on History, Sociology, and Intellectual Biography’, in An Anatomy of Power: The Social Theory of Michael Mann, eds. John A. Hall and Ralph Schroeder (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 285-305.
Interview, Economic Sociology, Vol. 7(2) (Feb. 2006), http://econsoc.mpifg.de/
‘The Problem with Civil Society: Putting Modern European History Back into Contemporary Debate’, in Exploring Civil Society: Political and Cultural Contexts, eds. Marlies Glasius, David Lewis, and Hakan Seckinelgin, (London: Routledge, 2004), pp. 26-35.
‘Vergangenheit, Zukunft, und die Inszenierung von Wirklichkeiten: Politische Ökonomie und Politische Kommunikation in Grossbritannien zu Beginn des Zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts’, in:
Wirtschaftsgeschichte als Kulturgeschichte: Dimensionen eines Perspektivenwechsels, eds. Hartmut Berghoff and Jakob Vogel, (Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2004), pp. 405-34.
[‘Past, Future, and the Presentation of Realities: Political Economy and Political Communication in early twentieth century Britain’].
‘Rolf Gardiner’, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), Vol. 21, pp. 427-29. www.oxforddnb.com
‘E.M.H. Lloyd’, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), Vol. 34, pp. 119-121. www.oxforddnb.com
‘Fiscal Politics 1688-1939: Taxation, Free Trade, and Tariff Reform’ in Reader’s Guide to British History, 2 vols., (London and New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003), Vol. 1, pp. 523-29.
‘Leisure and Recreation,’ in Reader’s Guide to British History (London and New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003), Vol. 1, pp.798-802.
‘National Identity and Consumer Politics: Free Trade and Tariff Reform’, in The Political Economy of British Historical Experience, 1688-1914, eds. Patrick O’Brien and Donald Winch (a collection of essays for the centenary of the British Academy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 215-242.
‘Bread, Milk, and Democracy: Consumption and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Britain’, in The Politics of Consumption: Material Culture and Citizenship in Europe and America, eds. Martin Daunton and Matthew Hilton (Oxford and New York: Berg , 2001), pp. 129-63.
‘Civil Society, Commerce, and the ‘Citizen-Consumer’: Popular Meanings of Free Trade in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain’, Center For European Studies (Harvard University), Working Paper Series, No. 66 (summer 1997).
‘The Strange Death of Free Trade: the Erosion of ‘Liberal Consensus’ in Great Britain, c.1903-32’ in Citizenship and Community: Liberals, Radicals and Collective Identities in the British Isles, 1865-1931, ed. E. Biagini (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 219-250.
MEDIA:
Animation Film:
Covid Diaries: Everyday Life under Lockdown (2021-22, with Jukka Gronow and Jess Mountfield); (Spotlight Documentary Film Awards: Bronze Award).
Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhdSL7uVAu8
Vimeo:
Radio:
BBC3 “Green Thinking: Energy” (podcast Nov. 2021 to coincide with COP 26) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0b2774q
BBC Forum
BBC Radio 4 Analysis
BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed
Moncrieff – Newstalk (Ireland)
Newsday, BBC World Service
TRE – Talk Radio Europe
Bloomberg Radio
NPR (National Public Radio)
“This Way Up” (New Zealand)
The Economist radio
Monocle Weekly
WAM/Northeast Public Radio, USA
WATR, Connecticut
Deutschlandfunk
NDR
Bayerische Rundfunk
Radio Bremen
WDR 3 Mosaik
WDR 5 Redezeit
SWR
SR
Television:
BBC TV Ten O’Clock News
ZDF
3sat: Scobel
Arte
ADR/NDR: DAS!
TV Beijing News, interview on consumerism
"Dzień Dobry TVN", Poland
"The Gadget Buzz", Ireland TV3 and e3
BBC Ideas film “Why do we have so much stuff?”
Articles:
Der Spiegel, 9 December 2023: ‘Mehr Empathie Wagen’ (‘Dare More Empathy’)
“Relevanz der Geschichte”, in: Zeitgeschichte-online, Februar 2022, URL: https://zeitgeschichte-online.de/kommentar/frank-trentmann-teil-1-relevanz-der-geschichte
“Wie wir zu Konsumenten wurden”, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 1 March 2021.
“Consuming at a Distance” in: The New Republic, (ISSN 0028-6583), Vol. 251, No. 9, Issue 5044, September 2020. On-line version: “The Unequal Future of Consumption”, https://newrepublic.com/article/158737/covid-lockdown-unequal-future-consumption (August 2020).
“Britain’s government pretends it can do no wrong. Even in its official history. The same false nostalgia is driving Brexit”, Frank Trentmann, The Washington Post, 15 September 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/09/15/britain-history-nostalgia-brexit/
"Schöngefärbt: Das amtliche britische Handbuch für Einwanderer vermittelt ein Bild der Nation, das wenig mit der historischen Wirklichkeit zu tun hat" by Frank Trentmann, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 8 September 2020,
https://zeitung.faz.net/faz/feuilleton/2020-09-08/schoengefaerbt/502571.html
“Britain First: The official history of the United Kingdom, according to the Home Office”, The Times Literary Supplement, 4 September 2020. On-line version: “How not to be an alien
The official history of the United Kingdom, according to the Home Office”, https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/official-history-of-united-kingdom-according-to-home-office/
(A longer version with full references can be found at:
History/The Historical Association: https://historyjournal.org.uk/2020/09/11/britain-first-the-official-history-of-the-united-kingdom-according-to-the-home-office-a-critical-review/
“Tutto quello che il Covid cambierà nei nostri consume”, La Repubblica, 20 June 2020.
“The Power of Things/De heerschappij van de dingen”, foreword to the exhibition catalogue Object love (2018), curated and edited by Anne Berk, Museum Hedendaagse Kunst, Sittard (Netherlands; German preface to the catalogue for the 2020 exhibition in Leverkusen, Germany at the Museum Morsbroich: Liebes Ding – Object Love).
“The End of Progress”, for “Unlimited” (UBS/Freuds), March 2017, https://www.unlimited.world/unlimited/the-end-of-progress
“Declutter your cupboard if you want, but it won’t save the planet; The Guardian, 6 January 2017, p. 27; repr. in Greek in Avgi, Dec. 2017, https://left.gr/news/xeskartarete-ntoylapi-sas-alla-den-tha-sothei-o-planitis-me-ayto ; and as “Dal materiale all’immateriale” in Aspenia, n. 86, 2019: pp. 252-58, the Italian magazine of the Aspen Institute and Il Sole 24.
“How Humans Became 'Consumers': A History”, The Atlantic, 28 November 2016.
“The Wealth of a Nation”, The Huffington Post, 12 July 2016
“How We Became a World of Consumers”, excerpts from Empire of Things for the Exhibition catalogue Show Me the Money, Museet for Samtidskunst/Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark, 10 February- 6 August 2017.
“The Future is Now” (with Rebecca Wright), article for the programme of the new play “Oil” by Ella Hickson, world premiere at Almeida Theatre, London, 7 Oct-26 Nov 2016
“Putting a girdle ‘round the globe”, History Today, www.historytoday.com (on the 150th anniversary of the transatlantic cable and the exhibition at the Guildhall Art Gallery).
“The Material Self”, for “Unlimited” (UBS/Freuds), July 2016: https://www.unlimited.world/unlimited/the-material-self
Reprinted as “The Ages of Wealth”, in Unlimited, Vol 1 (2016) special issue on “Does Wealth Make Us Rich Any More?), pp. 14-17.
“Five Centuries of Stuff”, History Today, March 2016.
The Atlantic, “Those Wasteful Europeans”, 29 March 2016.
Shelf life – Books interview, Times Higher Education, 21 January 2016.
The Independent – “The Big Read", article "Hey, little spender”, 21 December 2015
‘Dreaming of Kebap’, Neue Politische Literatur 58 (2013), pp. 209-16.
From World Power Conference to World Energy Council: 90 Years of Energy Cooperation, 1923-2013 (with Rebecca Wright and Hiroki Shin; World Energy Council: London, 2013).
“Grande-Bretagne: une unité menacée”, in Constructif, November 2012, no 33, special issue on “Radiographie des classes moyennes”.
Is Free Trade Fair? New Perspectives on the World Trading System (2009); a think-tank publication edited for The Smith Institute; launched at the House of Lords on 27 January 2009. The Smith Institute is a think-tank founded in memory of the Labour leader John Smith. With contributions from Jagdish Bhagwati, Alan Winters, Frank Trentmann, Martin Daunton, Amrita Narlikar, H.-U. Petersman, Harriet Lamb and Ed Mayo. See www.smith-institute.org.uk .
November 2008 News Article on Globalization and Historical Lessons, for Syndicated
International Press, via Project Syndicate, which appeared in 14 languages across the world
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trentmann1
“Water Stress and Sustainability” (with Vanessa Taylor), BBC History Magazine, September 2008, pp. 18-19.
“When Free Trade Meant Democracy”, BBC History Magazine, March 2008, pp. 42-45.
“4 ½ Lessons About Consumption”, http://www.consume.bbk/researchfindings/overview.pdf (2007)
“Hosepipes, history and a sustainable future” (with Vanessa Taylor), History & Policy, http://www.historyandpolicy.org/papers/policy-paper-75.html (2008)
‘Britain’s Caring Consumers’, in Britain Today: The State of the Nation in 2007 (Swindon: The Economic and Social Research Council, 2007).
Blog series “Experts: Past, Present and Future” – a Forum on Expertise about Sustainability, Energy and Development from the 19th Century to the Present. (Co-editor, with the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam (IASS) https://expertspastpresentfuture.net/ (launched April 2017). Joint author of “Experts Reconsidered : Past, Present and Future (Introduction) and “Energy Futures: Through the Looking Glass of “Experts”’ (with Rebecca Wright), https://expertspastpresentfuture.net/energy-futures-through-the-looking-glass-of-experts-b329e0a3afcc
Newspaper/Magazine Interviews with:
Der Spiegel
Die Zeit
Die Welt
taz
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Zeit-Online
Geo
Outdoor-Magazin
Lo Globo
Wiener Zeitung
Blick
ENORM magazine
OXI
Badische Neueste Nachrichten
abfallwirtschaft
Nitro
Corporate Knights, the Magazine for Clean Capitalism
REVIEWS:
A) Academic Journals
B) Magazines and Papers
A) REVIEWS IN ACADEMIC JOURNALS:
Bronwen Everill, Not made by slaves: ethical capitalism in the age of abolition (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2020), in: Economic History Review, 74/2 (May 2021), pp. 569-570.
Frank Bösch, ed., A History Shared and Divided: East and West Germany since the 1970s,
Jennifer Walcoff Neuheiser, trans., (Berghahn Books: Oxford, 2018), in: European History Quarterly 49/3 (2019), pp. 497-9.
Kocka, Jürgen, Capitalism: A Short History (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016), in: American Historical Review, 122/5 (Dec 2017), pp. 1576-7.
Sedlmaier, Alexander, Consumption and Violence: Radical Protest in Cold-War West Germany (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014), in: European History Quarterly 47/1 (2017), pp. 180-2.
“Dreaming of Kebap” review article on Maren Möhring, Fremdes Essen: Die Geschichte der ausländischen Gastronomie in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (München: Oldenbourg, 2012), in: Neue Politische Literatur 58/2 (2013), pp. 209-16.
Daloz, Jean-Pascal. The Sociology of Elite Distinction: From Theoretical to Comparative Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2010), in : Journal of Consumer Culture 11 (2) (July 2011), pp. 282-284.
Haynes, Douglas, Abigail McGowan, Tirthankar Roy, and Haruka Yanagisawa, eds. Towards a History of Consumption in South Asia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), Economic & Political Weekly , XLV/29, 17 July 2010, pp. 67-68.
“Anglo-Worlds and Other Worlds: Empire, Status, and the Allure of Goods” – comment on Gary Magee’s and Andrew Thompson’s Empire and Globalisation: Neworks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, c. 1850-1914 (Cambridge 2010), British Scholar, III/1 (September 2010), pp. 145-51.
Martin Daunton, State and Market in Victorian Britain (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2008); pp. 341, in English Historical Review, cxxv. 517 (Dec. 2010), pp. 1557-9.
Kolleen M. Guy, When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003; 2007 paperback), 245 pp, in Revue d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, vol. 55 no. 4 (Oct-Dec 2008), pp. 210-212.
Avner Offer, The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), in Journal of Modern History, 80 (June 2008), pp. 416-19.
Tammy C. Whitlock, Crime, Gender and Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century
England (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005) in American Historical Review, Vol. 112, No. 1 (2007), 273-274.
Shahrooz Mohajeri, 100 Jahre Berliner Wasserversorgung und Abwasserentsorgung 1840-1940 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005), in Business History, Vol. 49, No. 1 (2007): 124-126.
Clive Edwards, Turning Houses into Homes: A History of the Retailing and Consumption of Domestic Furnishings (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), in Economic History Review, Vol. 59, No. 1 (2006): 230-231.
Jose Harris, ed. Civil Society in British History: Ideas, Identities, Institutions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), in Social History, Vol. 30, No. 3 (2005): 386-388.
Gareth Stedman Jones, An End to Poverty? A Historical Debate (London: Profile Books, 2004) at www.historyandpolicy.org. and in Journal of Liberal History, Vol. 49 (Winter 2005-6): 38-42.
Kai-Uwe Hellmann, Soziologie der Marke (Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Suhrkamp, 2003), in Journal of Consumer Policy, Vol. 28, No. 2 (2005): 237-242.
Andreas Rödder, Die radikale Herausforderung: Die politische Kultur der englischen Konservativen zwischen ländlicher Tradition und industrieller Moderne, 1846-1868 (Munich: Oldenbourg Verlag, 2002), in Journal of Modern History, Vol. 77, No. 1 (2005): 176-178.
Sonya O. Rose, Which People’s War?: National Identity and Citizenship in Wartime Britain, 1939-1945 in Albion, Vol. 36, No. 3 (2004): 557-558.
Detlef Briesen, Warenhaus, Massenkonsum und Sozialmoral: zur Geschichte der Konsumkritik im 20. Jahrhundert (Frankfurt/Main: Campus, 2001), in Journal of Consumer Culture, Vol. 3, No. 2, (2003): 264-269.
Christiane Lamberty, Reklame in Deutschland 1890-1914: Wahrnehmung, Professionalisierung und Kritik der Wirtschaftswerbung (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2001), in Journal Consumer Culture, Vol. 3, No. 2, (2003): 264-269.
Shelley Baranowski and Ellen Furlough (eds.), Being Elsewhere: Tourism, Consumer Culture, and Identity in Modern Europe And North America (Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press, 2001), in Journal of Consumer Culture, Vol. 3, No. 1, (2003): 142:144.
Belinda J. Davis, Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2000), in Food and Foodways, Vol. 9, No. 2, (2001): 137-39.
G. R. Searle, Morality and the Market in Victorian Britain (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), in Journal of Economic History, Vol. 60, No. 2, (2000): 565-566.
Harvey Taylor, A Claim on the Countryside (Edinburgh: Keele University Press, 1998), in Victorian Studies, Vol. 42, No. 3, (spring 1999/2000): 515-16.
Anthony Howe, Free Trade and Liberal England, 1846-1946 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), in Twentieth Century British History, X, 2 (1999): 244-47.
Peter Mandler, The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), in Social History, XXIV (1999): 95-8.
Jens Jäger, Gesellschaft und Photographie: Formen und Funktionen der Photographie in Deutschland und England 1839-1860 (Opladen: Leske & Budrich, 1996), in Albion, (1998): 344-5.
Meredith Veldman, Fantasy, the Bomb, and the Greening of Britain: Romantic Protests, 1945-1980 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1994), in Historical Journal, XXXVIII (1995): 793-5.
Karl Rohe, Gustav Schmidt, Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann (eds)., Deutschland--Grossbritannien--Europa: Politische Traditionen, Partnerschaft und Rivalität (Bochum: Universitätsverlag Dr.N.Brockmeyer, 1992) in Contemporary Record, VII (1993): 719-21.
‘Gentlemen and Players: the Leisure of British Modernity’, Contemporary Record, VII (1993): 685-92.
B) REVIEWS IN MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS:
Times Literary Supplement:
“A Third Reich, as I See It”: Politics, Society, and Private Life in the Diaries of Nazi Germany, 1933-1939, Indiana University Press, by Janosch Steuwer.
Bystander Society: Conformity and Complicity in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Oxford University Press, by Mary Fulbrook. 15 December 2023.
The Spectator:
Possessed: Why We Want More Than We Need, by Bruce Hood (London: Allen Lane, 2019),
21 September 2019.
Rethink: The surprising history of new ideas, by Steven Poole (Random House Books, 2016),
30 July 2016.
BBC History Magazine reviews of:
Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism, by Sven Beckert (London: Allen Lane, 2014), April 2015.
Money: The Unauthorised Biography, by Felix Martin (New York: Bodley Head 2013), August 2013.
Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power, by David Priestland (London: Allen Lane, 2012), November 2012.
Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain by John Darwin (London: Allen Lane 2012), October 2012.
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson (London: Profile, 2012), May 2012.
Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves by Sheldon Garon (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press 2011), March 2012.
Cultural Revolutions: The Politics of Everyday Life in Britain, North America and France by Leora Auslander (Berg 2008), April 2009.
Youth Culture in Modern Britain, c. 1920-c. 1970 by David Fowler (Palgrave Macmillan), February 2009.
History Today reviews of:
The Bitter Taste of Victory: In the Ruins of the Reich, by Lara Feigel (Bloomsbury, 2016), May 2016
City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago by Carl Smith (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013), August 2013.
Sunday Express reviews of:
To End all Wars: How the First World War Divided Britain, by Adam Hochschild, Macmillan, 19 June 2011.
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean, by David Abulafia, Allen Lane, 12 June 2011.
Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World, by Jan Karski, Penguin Classics, 8 May 2011.
Exorcising Hitler: The Occupation and Denazification of Germany by Frederick Taylor, Bloomsbury, 6 March 2011.
The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda, by Peter L. Bergen, Free Press, 30 January 2011.
Superpower? The Amazing Race Between China's Hare and India's Tortoise, by Raghav Bahl, Portfolio Penguin, 14 November 2010.
The Seventies Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic Look at a Violent Decade by Gerard DeGroot, Macmillan, 26 September 2010.
Capital Affairs: London and the Making of the Permissive Society by Frank Mort, Yale, 20 June 2010.
The Selfish Society: How we all forgot to love one another and made money instead, by Sue Gerhard (Simon & Schuster), 16 May 2010.
Gandhi: Naked Ambition by Jad Adams, (Quercus 2010), 21 March 2010.
Churchill’s Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made, by Richard Toye (Macmillan 2010), 28 February 2010.
The Thirties: An Intimate History, by Juliet Gardiner (Harper Press 2010), 14 February 2010.
Keynes, by Peter Clarke (Bloomsbury 2009), 25 October 2009.
Aristocrats: Power, Grace and Decadence – Britain’s Great Ruling Classes from 1066 to the Present, by Lawrence James (Little, Brown 2009), 4 October 2009.
A Radical History of Britain, by Edward Vallance (Little, Brown 2009), 8 August 2009.
Harold Macmillan, by Charles Williams (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), 21 June 2009.
In for a Penny: A Business Adventure by Peter Hargreaves (Harriman House). 16 June 2009.
Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940-44 by Charles Glass (Harper Press), 3 May 2009.
The Rotten State of Britain: Who is Causing the Crisis and How to Solve It by Eamonn Butler (London: Gibson Square), 29 March 2009.
Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory by Lisa Jardine (Harper Press), 1 March 2009.
Putin and the Rise of Russia, by Michael Stuermer (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), 8 February 2009
Churchill: The Greatest Briton Unmasked by Nigel Knight (David and Charles), 23 November 2008.
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997,by Piers Brendon, (Vintage), 28 September 2008.
Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance Through 20th-century Europe, by Victoria de Grazia (Harvard University Press, 2005), 17 June 2005.
Bury the Chains: The First International Human Rights Movement, by Adam Hochschild (Macmillan, 2005) , 13 February 2005.
In Defence of Aristocracy, by Peregrine Worsthorne (Harper Collins, 2004), 7 May 2004.
LECTURES, KEYNOTES AND PAPERS
‘Sustainable Consumption: Past, Present, and Future? Hal Wilhite Memorial Lecture,
Oslo, 18 December 2023.
‘Mensch und Materie: Geschichte schreiben im Zeitalter der Klimakrise’, Bochum Historians’ Prize Lecture, 15 November 2023.
Lectures, Conversations and Events on Out of the Darkness/Aufbruch des Gewissens:
Berlin, Fischer, 24 October 2023, launch with Jan Philipp Reemtsma
London, LSE/German Society, 7 November 2023
Hamburg, Abaton cinema, 16 November 2023
Freiburg university, 23 November 2023
Munich, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 5 December 2023
London, Goethe Institute, 13 December 2023
Heidelberg, Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut, 31 January 2024
Stuttgart, Theodor-Heuss Foundation/Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, 1 Feb 2024
Mannheim, Literary Festival, 24 February 2024
London, Wiener Institute/Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, 29 Feb 2024
‘The Material Self’, keynote, Sogeti Executive Summit 2023: Scarcity in Abundance, Cannes, France, 12 October 2023.
‘The Material Self: Past, Present and Future’, keynote, VINT Symposium, Sogeti Congress, Spant! Theatre, the Netherlands, 19-20 June 2023.
‘Conscience, Complicity and Compassion: Perspectives for a moral history of the Germans, 1942-2022’, ZZF Potsdam, 15 June 2023.
‘Energizing history, historicizing energy: new approaches to transitions, shortages and demand’,
Energy Transitions in the Anthropocene, Villa Vigoni, Italy, 25 February 2023.
‘Energy Transitions: Lessons from the Past for the Future’, Roundtable City of London and Birkbeck, on the ‘Unseen Influences on Climate, Sustainability and Resources’, London, 6 December 2022.
‘Moral Geographies of Sharing’, Sciences-Po, Paris, 7 November 2022.
‘Grenzen des Konsums’ (Limits of Consumption), 50th anniversary of the Club of Rome report, Bundesumweltministerium (Federal Ministry of the Environment), Berlin, 10 October 2022.
‘The Moral Economy of Saving in Germany, 1945 to the Present’, World Economic History Conference, Paris, 25 July 2022.
“Decarbonisation Déjà Vu”, Nesta event on energy transitions, 14 December 2021 (on-line).
“Geschichtliche Grundfragen: Relevanz der Geschichte”, Panel discussion: „Nach welchen Kriterien bestimmen wir die Relevanz historischer Forschung?” Freie Universität Berlin, 29 November 2021; https://zeitgeschichte-online.de/kommentar/frank-trentmann-teil-1-relevanz-der-geschichte .
"Brücken statt Brüche: Essen und andere verlockende Dinge", Berlin, Guardini Gallery/Guardini Foundation, 1 July 2021 (on-line).
“Writing a Moral History of ‘The Germans’, 1942-present: Sources, Problems and Perspectives”, Centre for the History of Emotions, Max-Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, 8 June 2021 (on-line).
“Freiheit oder Konsumterror? Selbstverwirklichung und ihre Grenzen im Zeitalter des Konsums”, DAI (Deutsch-Amerikanische Institut Heidelberg), in cooperation with DGB und GEW Rhein-Neckar, Series: Werde Mensch?, 21 April 2021 (on-line).
“Mehr, mehr, immer mehr: Woher kommt unser Konsumfieber?”, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, NZZ Forum, 8 April 2021 (on-line).
‘The Practice of Dialogue: Humanities and Social Sciences in the 21st century’, Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities, 15 March 2021 (on-line).
‘Material Cultures of Energy’, European University Institute (EUI), Florence, 3 December 2020.
“The Unequal Future of Consumption”, Economic History Seminar, LSE (London School of Economics and Political Science), 12 November 2020 (on-line).
“Golden girls and silver surfers: The discovery of the senior consumer in the twentieth century”, keynote, X-ENEC: 10th Meeting on Consumption Studies, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 21 October 2020 – on-line.
“Consuming and Mobility”, invited lecture to BMW, Munich (on-line), 30 June 2020.
“Konsum im Zeichen des Coronavirus: Historische Einblicke und Ausblick auf die Zukunft”, Volkshochschule Erding/Deutschland, 2 June 2020 – on-line.
“When the Lights Went Out: Energy Shortages after the Second World War”; seminar: “Are We Running Out?” Lessons from Scarcity, University of Helsinki, 19 September 2019.
“The Germans and their Moral Economy”, Humboldt University, Berliner Forschungskolloquium Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, 30 Jan 2019.
“Moral economies of caring and giving in West Germany, from the refugee crisis after World War Two to ‘Brot für die Welt’ ("Bread for the World") in the 1960s-70s”; paper at the workshop "Markets and Morals. New Perspectives on Moral Economy in the Modern World", Reichenau/Germany, 5 October 2018.
“When Germans were Refugees: Compassion, Aid and the Limits of National Solidarity after 1945”, Helsinki, 18 September 2018.
“Material Histories of the World: Scales, Methods and Problems”, keynote to the History Conference of Denmark, M/S Maritime Museum of Denmark, Elsinore/Helsingør, 20 August 2018.
“Putting use and users back in: Historical insight into the evolution of energy demand in the twentieth century”, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, 18 April 2018.
“Nachhaltiger Konsum”, Nachhaltigkeitskongress "Mehr TateN! - Mehr Zukunft", 10 Jahre Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 13 April 2018.
“Materielle Geschichten der Welt: Dynamiken, Stufen, Perspektiven”, Universität Konstanz, 23 January 2018.
“Konsum: Vergangenheit, Gegenwart, Zukunft”, Unternehmerkreis, Gütersloh, 8 December 2017.
“Empire of Things: A New History of Humans and their Stuff”, the 2017 A B Emden Lecture, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, 24 November 2017.
“The Social Life of Energy Futures: Experts, Users and Standards in the Golden Age of Modernization, c. 1900-1973” (with Rebecca Wright), Lisbon, World Energy Council, Secretaries Strategy Day, 16 October 2017.
“Putting Energy Back into Consumer Studies”, University of Helsinki, 23 September 2017.
“Material Cultures of Energy: New Perspectives on Energy Transitions in Everyday Life”, COPPEAD-UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, 5 September 2017.
“The Material Self”, Rio de Janeiro, CPDA, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, 4 September 2017.
“Historical Lessons of Free Tade”, presentation to the Secretary of State for Trade and Development, Dr. Liam Fox, Department of Trade and Development, 10 July 2017.
“A World of Consumers”, keynote at Economia festival, Eindhoven, 30 April 2017.
“The Power of Things: A New History of Consumer Society”, Yale University, Annual Lecture of the Center for Historical Enquiry & the Social Sciences, 7 March 2017.
“Putting Use and Users Back In: The Evolution of Energy Demand in the Twentieth Century”,
Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, California, 13 March 2017;
Energy@Cambridge Strategic Research Initiative, University of Cambridge, 28 February 2017.
Lectures and Roundtables on Empire of Things: How We Became A World of Consumers:
Royal Society of Arts, London, 28 January 2016
London School of Economics, 1 February 2016
Centre for Modern European Studies, University of Copenhagen, 18 March 2016
10th Jaipur Literature Festival, Jaipur, India, 23 January 2017
Birkbeck College, London, 2 February 2017
Southampton University, 22 February 2017
BBC History Magazine, Victorian Day, Bristol, 25 February 2017
Columbia University, New York, 8 March 2017
Prosperity Caucus, Washington DC, 9 March 2017
Mercatus Institute, Washington DC, 10 March 2017
Saarbrücken Rathaus, 7 June 2017
Literaturhaus Hannover, 8 June 2017
Paris, Le Centre d’histoire du XIXe siècle (Paris 1 – Paris 4) et le Centre de Sociologie des
Organisations (Sciences Po), Paris, 11 June 2016
Festival of Ideas, York, 18 June 2017
Rio de Jaineiro, 4 September 2017
University of Helsinki, 22 September 2017
Forschungsstelle fur Zeitgeschichte, Hamburg, 11 October 2017
Museum der Dinge, Berlin, 12 October 2017
Hamburg, Jenisch Haus, Martinstage, 11 November 2017
Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel, 30 October 2018
“The Power of Things: A New History of Consumer Society”, Peterhouse College, Cambridge, 7 February 2017.
“Brexit means Brexit but does Free Trade mean Free Trade?”, History & Policy conference at King’s College London, 2 November 2016. Updated post-Trump version at Ayoama Gakuin University, Tokyo, 24 November 2016.
“The Social Life of Energy Futures” (with Rebecca Wright), EDF Research&Development, Paris/Saclay, 19 November 2016
“Material Culture, Material Politics and Material Networks: Making Sense of Consumption”, Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (ICS), 21 October 2016.
“The Material Self: A History of Humans and Things, Fifteenth-Century to the Twenty First”, lecture to inaugurate the academic year 2016-17, European University Institute, Florence, 5 October 2016.
“The road to the 21st century consumer: A historical perspective”, Schlussrede/Closing remarks to the International Conference on Consumer Research (ICCR), Verbraucherzentrale Nordrhein-Westfalen, Bonn, 27 September 2016.
“The Material Self: A History of the Human Need for Stuff”, Names Not Numbers (NNN), Editorial Intelligence, Bodleian Library, Oxford, 25 September 2016.
“Caring Consumers? A Historical Assessment”, ESRC Ethics in Consumption: Interdisciplinary Perspectives seminar series, University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School, 12 September 2016.
“Private comfort, public spirit: Victorian consumer culture in a global context”, keynote, British Association of Victorian Studies, 2016 annual conference, Cardiff, 2 September 2016. Also at:
University of Southampton, 22 February 2017
“Konsumgeschichten – kritische Bilanz und Ausblick: Macht, Energie, Praxis”, Kolloqium, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich and Ludwig Maximilian Universität Munich, 8 June 2016
“How the Consumer Revolution Came Home”, keynote, Social Design Symposium, Eindhoven, 12 May 2016
“The Social Life of Energy Futures. Experts, Users and Lifestyles in the Golden Age of Modernization, c. 1900-1973” (with Rebecca Wright) at the conference “Futures Past: Experts, Development and Sustainability”, 27-29 April 2016, Institute of Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam, Germany
“Historical Method and Practice Theory”, panel at DEMAND 2016 conference: What Energy is For – the Making and Dynamics of Demand, Lancaster, 14 April 2016.
“Material Cultures of Energy” (with Hiroki Shin), inaugural conference of the Science Museum Research Centre, London, 31 March 2016
“Materielle Kultur und Konsumenten: Potenzial und Herausforderung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung” (Material Culture and Consumers: Opportunities and Challeges for Sustainable Development) Carl-von-Carlowitz lecture, the annual congress of the German Rat für Nachhaltigkeit (the German government’s Council for Sustainability), Berlin, 3 June 2015
“Revisiting the Evolution of Energy Demand: Politics, Practices and Infrastructural Change in Britain, 1920s-70s” (with Anna Carlsson-Hyslop), international conference: ‘Mondes Électriques (Electric Worlds), 19e-21e siècles: Creations, Circulations, Tensions, Transitions,” Paris, 18-19 December 2014.
“Energy Shortages and the Reproduction of Social Life: Resilience, Redistribution and “Normality” in the Twentieth Century” (with Hiroki Shin), at the conference “Coping with Scarcity: Energy Shortages, Food Crises, Drought and Critical Materials in the Modern World (c. 1800 to the present)”, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, Nov. 14-15, 2014
“Moving paradoxes: materials, people and ethics in a world in flux”, keynote, History of Consumer Culture (HCC) meeting, Tokyo, 4-6 September 2014
“Conspicuous consumption and inequality revisited”, evening lecture/Abendvortrag, conference “Money, Manners and Morals in the Modern World”, St Gallen, 24 April 2014
“Throwaway Society?”, Caltech, 16 January 2014; Cambridge University, 28 November 2013; Freie Universität Berlin, 14 November 2013.
“The Lessons of War: Circulation, Constraint and Collective Provision in Consumer Societies”, keynote lecture, German Historical Institutes (Washington, London, Moscow), conference on “The Consumer on the Home Front: World War II Civilian Consumption in Comparative Perspective,” 5 - 7 December 2013.
“Scale”, paper at the workshop on “Sustainability Transitions Past and Present: Challenges and Opportunities for Historical Analysis”, IASS, Potsdam,13 November 2013.
“Material Cultures of Energy: Transitions, Disruption, and Everyday Life in the Twentieth Century”, Institute of Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, 5 November 2013.
“The Challenges of Comparing Socialist and Capitalist Societies”, conference “Learning from Big Brothers: What Soviet and Central European Histories of Everyday Life May Teach Historians of the Mao Era”, The Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) and the British Inter-university China Centre (BICC), 27-28 September 2013, Oxford University.
“Consumer Boycotts in Modern History”, keynote at the international conference “Boycotts, Past and Present” organised by the International Consortium for Research on Antisemitism and Racism, and the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, London, 19-21 June 2013.
“Luxury Fever Revisited: Has Consumption Promoted Inequality? A Fresh Look at an Old Idea”, workshop on “History, Consumption & Inequality”, organised by the Research Network on Inequality, Social Science & History, University of Manchester and Centre for History and Economics, Magdalene College, 6 June 2013.
“Energising history: materiality, networks and practices”, conference on “Materialities, Texts and Images”, California Institute of Technology and the Huntington Museum, May 10-11, 2013
“Material Cultures of Energy: Past, Present and Future”, SCI/CDT, Manchester, 29 April 2012
“Everyday Life and the Scales of History”, University of Manchester, 4 October 2012.
“Past and Present: Power, Inequality and Collective Provision in Modern Consumption”, Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Consumption, Sustainable Consumption Institute, Manchester, 8-9 March 2012.
“Lessons from History: The Dynamics of Water Politics and Practices in the Nineteenth Century”, Sustainable Practices Research Group (SPRG) conference, 26 January 2012.
“Liberal Empire and Consumer Culture: Four Simple Theses on a Complicated Relationship”, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, 9 June 2011.
“The Dominion of Things”, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris 25 March 2011; Sorbonne (Paris IV), 7 April 2011; University of Exeter, 13 May 2011; and Imperial History Seminar, University of Oxford, 3 December 2010.
“Empire, Consumers and the Moral Dialectics of Commerce, c.1807-1931”, Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (FRIAS), 19 November 2010.
“The Ideological Legacies of Consumption: Empire, Nation, and Citizenship in the Modern World”, Keynote, 5ºenec (encontro nacional de estudios do consumo), Rio de Janeiro, 15 September 2010
“More of the Same? Revisiting Diversity and Homogeneity in Consumer Culture”, São Paulo, ESPM, 14 September 2010
“Consumer Politics and Consumer Policy: Lessons from the Past for the Future”, São Paulo, ESPM, 13 September 2010
“Consumer Culture in Global Historical Perspective: The Contribution of Liberal Empire”, World History Congress, Amsterdam, 24 August 2010
“Empire and Consumption”, Sheffield University, 4 May 2010.
“A New Look at Consumer Culture: Lessons From the Past for the Future”, NCAER, New Delhi, 16 April 2010.
“Consumption – a Global History”, Global History Seminar IHR London/Warwick/Notre Dame, 17 March 2010.
“Liberal Empire in Practice: Free Trade, Citizenship and Race, c. 1846-1914”, lecture at Université Sorbonne, Paris 3/ CREW (Centre for Research on the English-Speaking World), 13 March 1910.
“Liquid Politics: Water and the Politics of Everyday Life in the Modern City”, Centre for Urban History, Leicester.
Roundtable, Donald Winch’s Wealth and Life: Essays on the Intellectual History of Political Economy in Britain, 1848-1914, Sussex Centre for Intellectual History, 5 February 2010.
“Liquid Politics: Water and the Politics of Everyday Life in the Modern City”, IHR Modern Britain Seminar, 17 December 2009 (with Dr. Vanessa Taylor).
“Divides: Things, Practices, Politics”; sociology seminar, Lancaster University, 10 November 2009.
“Choice, Habit, and Consumer Power: Lessons from the Past for the Present”; keynote lecture at
the 70th jubilee symposium of SIFO (National Institute for Consumer Research), Oslo, Norway, 5 November 2009.
“International Trade – Who Makes the Rules? Knowing the Past, Shaping the Future: History and the Making of Public Policy”, Roundtable, Bishopsgate Institute and History&Policy, London, 13 October 2009.
The People’s Budget; centenary and discussion, HM Treasury, 2 October 2009.
“Consumer Society revisited: Affluence, Choice and Diversity”. Keynote at conference on Self-service and Retailing after 1945, Cologne, 3 September 2009.
Lectures and Roundtables about Free Trade Nation (Oxford University Press, 2008):
Tokyo Metropolitan University, 11 September 2014
HM Treasury (UK), London, 2 June 2008
Yale University (USA), 15 May 2008
North American Conference of British Studies, Cincinnati (USA) 4 Oct. 2008
Deutsch-Britische Gesellschaft, Hamburg (Germany), 5 June 2008-07-28 Grossbritannienzentrum Berlin/Humboldt University (Germany) 9 June 2008
Dublin City University (Ireland), 10 June 2008
Birkbeck College, London, 11 March 2008
European University Institute, Florence (Italy), 16 June 2008
Helsinki University, Finland, 17 September 2008
Sorbonne, Université Paris 4, 15 January 2009
City Pickwick Club, 23 November 2009
‘After Affluence: Consumerism in Historical Perspective’, public lecture, Manchester, 11 June 2009.
‘Comparing Consumer Culture Across Time’, British Sociological Association, Cardiff, 18 April 2009.
‘Consumption and Civil Society’, paper for the conference “Gesellschaftsgeschichte Europas als Europäische Zeitgeschichte”, Archiv für Sozialgeschichte/Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn, 13-14 September 2008.
‘Europe Is Leaking: European Integration in the Light of Technology and Consumption’
Paper for the ESF/EUI workshop “Inventing Europe: A Transnational History of European Integration” Florence, July 3-6 2008.
‘Consumers and Citizens: Lessons for Well-Being and Participation’, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 6-7 December 2007.
‘Consumers, Practices, and Politics: Putting the Current Global Era in Historical Perspective’, Nordic Consumer Policy Research Conference, Helsinki, 3-5 October 2007.
‘Drought is Normal: The Socio-technical Evolution of Drought and Water Demand in the UK, 1893-2006’, (with Heather Chappells, Will Medd and Vanessa Taylor). International Water History Association Conference, Tampere, 13-16 June 2007.
‘Normal Disruption: Some Reflections from Droughts on Routines’, International Workshop, ‘Rhythms and Routines of Consumption’, European University Institute, Florence, 3-5 May 2007.
‘Water-Use, the Home and the Politics of the Urban Water Consumer in Late Nineteenth-and Early Twentieth-Century Britain’, (with Vanessa Taylor). Urban History Group Annual Conference, University of Exeter, 29-30 March 2007.
‘Material Politics: Water, Practices, and Conflict in Late Victorian Britain’, (with Vanessa Taylor). Department of Economic and Social History, Glasgow University, 22 February 2007.
‘The Formation of the Modern Consumer: New Perspectives on Social Identities, Practices and Political Synapses’, Roundtable, North American Conference on British Studies, Royal Sonesta Hotel Boston, 17-19 November 2006.
‘The Odd Couple: Consumption and Civil Society’, La société civile entre savoirs et pouvoirs: Economie politique et histoire en France et en Grande-Bretagne de la fin du XVIIIe siècle au début du XXe siècle; Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, 27-28 October 2006.
‘Consumption: New Research Directions’, Konsumentverket, Swedish Consumer Agency, Stockholm, 13 September 2006.
‘Protecting Consumers, Empowering Consumers: Dilemmas and Opportunities’,
China Consumer Association, 7 August 2006.
‘Cultures of Consumption: New Historical Perspectives’, Institute of Sociology and Anthropology, Beijing University, 1 August 2006.
‘Towards a Global History of Consumption’, China Agriculture University, 3 August 2006.
‘Before “Fair Trade”: Empire, Free Trade, and the Moral Economies of Food in the Modern World’. International Workshop: ‘Food and Globalization: Transnational Perspectives on Consumption, Markets and Politics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries’, New Hall, Cambridge/UK, June 8-10, 2006.
‘Civic Choices: Retrieving Perspectives on Rationality, Consumption, and Citizenship’, with Mark Bevir. International Conference: ‘Citizenship and Consumption: Agency, Norms, Mediations, and Spaces’, University of Cambridge, 30 March – 1 April 2006.
‘Comparing Cultures of Consumption: Historical Perspectives and Dilemmas’, Comparative Studies of Consumption Conference, University of Manchester, 17 November 2005.
‘The Invention of the Consumer in Modern History’, European University Institute, Florence, 26 October 2005.
‘Transnational Flows of Consumption: Mediators, Resisters, Divergence’; discussant, Victoria de Grazia, Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance through 20th century Europe, European University Institute, Florence, 26 October 2005.
‘Multiple Spaces of Consumption: Some Historical Perspectives’, Seminar on Consuming Space(s) and Place(s), King’s College, 12 October 2005.
‘Subjectivities, Communication and Practices: Some Historical and Theoretical Reflections on Material Culture’, Workshop, “Material Culture and Self-Perception in Affluent Societies”, Bremen International University, 2-3 September 2005
‘Consumers as Citizens: Forgotten Histories’, Harvard University Centre for European Studies, Berlin Dialogues, Berlin, 23 May 2005.
‘The Problem of Food Security: Progressive Visions of Social and Global Order in the Age of the Two World Wars’, International Workshop, Food and Globalization: Transnational Perspectives on Consumption, Markets and Politics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Wassenaar), 19-21 May 2005.
‘The Making of the Water Consumer’, (with Vanessa Taylor), Traces of Water Workshop, UK Water Industry Research (UKWIR), London, 18 April 2005.
‘Consuming Politics: Consumers, Citizens, and Opportunities for Reframing Political History’, Plenary, New Directions in Modern Political History Conference, Institute of Historical Research, London, 7-8 April 2005.
‘Interdisciplinary Practices: Problems and Perspectives’, Integrative Research Methods in the Social Sciences and Humanities Project, University of Hull, 6 December 2004.
‘Coping with Shortage: The Problem of Food Security and Visions of Global Coordination, Europe, c. 1890s-1950’, Historisches Seminar, Universität zu Köln, 30 November 2004.
‘The Resurrection and Decomposition of Cobden in Britain and the West, 1890s to the Present: An Essay in the Politics of Reputation’, Richard Cobden Bicentenary Conference, Dunford House, West Sussex, 16-18 July 2004.
‘Managing Distance, Coping with Deprivation: Ideas, Identities, and the Problem of Food Security in Europe, c. 1870-1950’, Plenary. The Centre for European Conflict and Identity History International Conference: Food Production and Food Consumption in Europe c. 1914-1950, Esbjerg, 2-5 June 2004.
‘Consumer Politics and the Construction of Needs: Water, Waste, and Consumer Agitation in the 19th Century’, Department of History, The University of York, 6 May 2004.
‘The Modern Evolution of the Consumer: Meanings, Knowledge, and Identities Before the Age of Affluence’. Cultures of Consumption International Conference: ‘Consumption, Modernity and the West: Re-thinking Narratives of Consumerism’, California Institute of Technology, Passadena, 16-17 April 2004.
‘Liquid Politics: Needs, Rights, Waste and the Formation of the Consumer in Nineteenth- Century Water Politics in England’. Cultures of Consumption International Conference: ‘Knowing Consumers: Actors, Images, Identities in Modern History’, ZIF (Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung/Centre for Interdisciplinary Research), Bielefeld, Germany, 26-28 February 2004.
‘The Modern Genealogy of the Consumer: Categories, Identities and Political Synapses’, Abe Fellowship Programme CGP-SSRC Seminar Series, Social Science Research Council, Tokyo, 16-17 January 2004.
‘Towards a New Genealogy of the “Consumer”’, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 2 December 2003.
‘Cultures of Consumption: A Research Agenda’, Aston University, Annual Academy of Marketing Conference, 10 July 2003.
‘Political Communication and Political Entertainment: New Perspectives on Edwardian Britain’, University of Oxford, Modern British History Seminar, 1 May 2003.
‘Synapses of Consumer Politics’, Abe Fellowship Programme CGP-SSRC Seminar Series, Social Science Research Council, New York, 9-11 April 2003.
‘Vergangenheit, Zukunft, und die Inszenierung von Wirklichkeiten: Politische Ökonomie und Politische Kommunikation in Grossbritannien zu Beginn des Zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts’, Conference, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany, 24-26 February 2003.
‘Consumer Power? Seminar 4: Citizens and Consumers – Convergence or Divergence?’ The Smith Institute & NCC, 11 Downing Street, London, 12 February 2003.
‘Das Politische Suchen: Kommunikationsräume, Sackgassen, Fluchtpunkte -- Eine Kritische Besprechung’, des Bielefelder SFB Antrags ‘Das Politische als Kommunikationsraum in der Geschichte’, Bielefeld, 23 October 2002.
‘Creativity for Wealth and Welfare’, seminar with Department for Culture, Media, and Sport, and ESRC (academic organiser), London, 26 September 2002.
‘The Political Contradictions of Consumer Society: Modern Britain in Comparative Perspective’, Opening Plenary Address. Annual conference of CHORD (Committee for the History of Retailing and Distribution), Wolverhampton Conference, 12 September 2002.
‘From Athens to Geneva: Ancient History and New International Relations in Early Twentieth Century Britain’, 71st Anglo-American Conference of Historians, ‘Re-Writing the Past’, IHR, 3-6 July 2002.
‘Cultures of Consumption: Transnational Dimensions of Consumer Politics in 20th century Britain’, Humboldt University, Berlin, Centre for British Studies, 3 June 2002.
‘We Are All Consumers Now?’ Locating the Nation, Colloquium, Cambridge Historical Society, 27 April 2002.
‘Migration’, commentator, conference at Princeton University, 3-4 May 2002.
‘Cultures of Consumption’, presentation at the ‘Confident Consumer’ event, Science Week, ESRC, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London 11 March 2002.
‘Consumption’, comment at the European Social Science History bi-annual convention, The Hague, 2 March 2002.
‘Consumer Politics in Twentieth Century Britain, Japan, and the United States,’ Seminar in Economic and Social History, University of Oxford, 13 November 2001.
‘The Local and the Global: New Internationalism and the Reconfiguration of National and Transnational Citizenship During and After World War One’, annual convention of the North American Conference of British Studies, Toronto, Canada, 2-4 November 2001.
‘Forgetting and Remembering: Ideas of Civil Society and their Divergence, in Modern and Contemporary Europe’, conference on ‘The Meaning and Value of Civil Society in Different Cultural Contexts,’ London School of Economics, 28-29 September 2001.
‘The ‘British’ Sources of Social Power: Reflections on History, Sociology, and Intellectual Biography’, colloquium on Michael Mann’s work, London, 28 August 2001.
‘Think Globally, Act Globally? Revisiting British Free Trade After the Recent Radical Challenge to Globalisation’, conference ‘Locating the Victorians,’ Science Museum, London, 12-15 July 2001.
‘National Identity and Consumer Politics: Free Trade and Tariff Reform, c. 1846-1931’, Zentrum für Vergleichende Geschichte Europas, Berlin, 9 July 2001.
‘Die Verwandlung der Konsumpolitik im 20. Jahrhundert’, Universität zu Köln, June 2001.
‘Zwischen Nation und Zivilgesellschaft: Britische Politische Ökonomie im Vergleich’,
Universität Bielefeld, April 2001.
‘Historical Perspectives on Civil Society’, Centre for Civil Society, London School of Economics and Political Science, 15 March 2001.
‘Re-thinking Nationality and State: The New Internationalism and The Question of Globalisation During and After The First World War’, Twentieth-century History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, 14 March 2001.
‘National Identity, Civil Society, and Consumer Politics: Free Trade and Tariff Reform, c. 1846-1931’, conference on British political economy, Cambridge University and the Centre for History and Economics, King’s College, 2-4 March 2001.
‘The Rise of the Consumer’, Birkbeck student conference ‘Feast and Famine,’ Wye, 16-18 February 2001.
‘Regulation and Coordination: The Public Debate About Trusts and Cartels Revisited’,
Modern Social and Economic History Seminar, University of Cambridge, November 2000.
‘Consumers and Citizens: Consumer Politics in Modern History’, History Society, Churchill College, Cambridge, November 2000.
‘Beyond the Nation-State: The Search for a New Global Political Economy, 1914-1930s’,
Centre for History and Economics, King’s College Cambridge, 18 October 2000.
‘Before Globalisation: A.E. Zimmern, the Crisis of the Nation-State, and the Origins of the ‘New Internationalism’, c. 1900-1930s’, Center for International Studies, Princeton University, Fellows’ Seminar, April 2000.
‘Bringing Consumers Back In: Towards a New History of Consumer Politics’, Paper to the Modern History Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, London, Jan. 2000.
‘Food and Freedom’, Dean Mathey College, Princeton, March 2000.
‘Civil Society: Theoretical Problems and Historical Perspectives’, Paper to the Council on European Studies, Princeton University, Dec. 1999.
‘Rethinking Consumption and Citizenship’. Davis Center Series, Princeton University, Faculty Work in Progress, Oct. 1999.
‘Bread, Milk, and Democracy in Modern Britain’. International Conference on Consumption, Culture, and Politics, Cambridge University, Churchill College, 3-6 Sept. 1999.
‘Things Fall Apart: Re-thinking the Decline of Free Trade’. Colloquium for the Centenary of the British Academy, ‘Britain’s Peculiar Economic Experience’, Cambridge University, Centre for History and Economics, King’s College, July 1999.
‘Politics, Economy, Culture: Recent work and new perspectives on early modern and modern Britain’, Organizer and Moderator of the Roundtable, North American Conference on British Studies, 1998 annual meeting, Colorado Springs.
‘The Interdisciplinary Conversation of Economic History’, Commentator at the Session ‘Mind over Matter: the Rhetoric of Markets’, Economic History Conference 1997 meeting, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 12-14 Sept. 1997.
‘Consumption, Citizenship, and Gender in Political Economy’, 66th Anglo-American Conference of Historians, London, Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, 2-4 July 1997.
‘Civil Society, Commerce, and the ‘Citizen-consumer’: Popular Meanings of Free Trade in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain’. Princeton University, History Dept, Jan. 1997.
‘A View from Civil Society: the Erosion of Popular Free Trade, 1900s-30s’. North American Conference of British Studies, Annual Meeting, Chicago, 18-20 Oct. 1996.
‘Liberty and Progress: Languages of Political Economy in Britain, Perceptions of Europe and the Decline of Free Trade’. North American Conference of British Studies, Annual Meeting, Wash., D.C., 5-8 Oct. 1995.
‘The British Left and Liberal Political Culture in the Early Twentieth Century’. Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Feb. 1995.
‘Not by Bread Alone: Political Economy, the New and the Old.’ Institute of Historical Research (IHR), London, Social and Economic History Seminar, Nov. 1993.
‘Wealth versus Welfare: Social Movements, the Left, and Political Economy’. IHR, London, Twentieth-Century British History Seminar, Sept. 1993.
‘The Erosion of ‘Liberal Consensus’ in Early Twentieth-Century Britain’. Conference on radicalism and liberalism, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, March 1993.
‘Liberalism and British Business Associations’. IHR, London, Victorian and Edwardian History Seminar, Feb. 1993.
‘The Survival and Decline of Free Trade in Early Twentieth-Century Britain’. Cambridge University, Modern History Seminar, Feb. 1992. A revised version of this paper was also presented at the IHR, Imperial and Commonwealth History Seminar, March 1992.
CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS ORGANISED
“Moral Economy”, workshop with Sciences Po, Paris, 6-7 November 2022.
“Are We Running Out?” Lessons from Scarcity, University of Helsinki, 19 September 2019.
"Markets and Morals. New Perspectives on Moral Economy in the Modern World"; Reichenau/Germany 4-5 October 2018, (co-organiser with Prof Laura Rischbieter, Univ of Konstanz, Germany).
“The Politics and Ethics of Consumption”; Helsinki, 21-22 May 2018 (co-organised with Ella Lillqvist).
“Energy Transitions in the 20th century – Lessons from the Past for the Future”, 30 November 2017, Science Museum, London.
“Domesticating Energy: Energy environments inside and outside the home”, conference at
25-26 May 2017, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, 25-26 May 2017 (co-organised with Paul Warde (University of Cambridge; Centre for History and Economics) and Rebecca Wright (University of Sussex).
“Material Cultures of Energy”, Science Museum, London 21 September 2016 (co-organiser).
“Futures Past: Experts, Development and Sustainability”, 27-29 April 2016, Institute of Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam, Germany (co-organiser).
“Scales of Disruption: Methods, Experiences and Insights for Change”, Birkbeck, 10 February 2015. Workshop with Social Scientists, Defra, DECC, EDF, Transport for London, Climate UK.
“Coping with Scarcity: Energy Shortages, Food Crises, Drought and Critical Materials in the Modern World (c. 1800 to the present)”, conference at Caltech, Pasadena, CA, Nov. 14-15, 2014 (co-organised with John Brewer, HSS Caltech and Neil Fromer, Resnick Sustainability Institute, Caltech).
“Money, Manners and Morals in the Modern World”, St Gallen, 24 April 2014 (co-organised with Caspar Hirschi, St Gallen).
“Sustainability Transitions Past and Present: Challenges and Opportunities for Historical Analysis”, workshop, Institute of Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam,13 November 2013.
“Franco-British workshops series : Historiographies in comparison”, with Philippe Minard (Paris 8 and EHESS) and Patrick Fridenson (EHESS): Environmental and Social History, 14 December 2012.
“Franco-British workshops series : Historiographies in comparison”, with Philippe Minard (Paris 8 and EHESS) and Patrick Fridenson (EHESS): Consumption, 13 December 2011.
Cultures of Consumption final event: ‘The Ethics of Consumption’, bazaar of ideas and objects Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 27 June 2007.
International Workshop: ‘Rhythms and Routines of Consumption’, with Prof. Elizabeth Shove and Prof. Richard Wilk, European University Institute, Florence, 3-5 May 2007.
International Workshop for Young Researchers: ‘Consumption: Emerging Themes, New Approaches’, Birkbeck College, London, 7-8 December 2006.
Workshop: ‘Drought: Past, Present and Future’, UK Water Industry Research (UKWIR), 1 Queen Anne’s Gate, London, 10 November 2006. The workshop is jointly organised by the Drought and Demand project (Lancaster University and Atkins Ltd) and the Liquid Politics project, based at Birkbeck College.
Conference: ‘Cultures of Consumption Annual Conference for Awardholders’, University of Durham, 28-29 September 2006.
International Workshop: ‘Food and Globalization: Transnational Perspectives on Consumption, Markets and Politics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries’, New Hall, Cambridge/UK, June 8-10, 2006. Co-organised with Prof. Alexander Nützenadel, University of Cologne.
International Conference: ‘Citizenship and Consumption: Agency, Norms, Mediations, and Spaces’, University of Cambridge, 30 March – 1 April 2006. Co-organised with Prof. Kate Soper, Institute for the Study of European Transformations, London Metropolitan University.
‘What Consumers Know: Lessons from New Research on Consumer Perceptions of Food, Motivation, and Ethics’, seminar co-organised with the Food Standards Agency, London, 16 March 2006.
Interdisciplinary Workshop: ‘Restless Interiors’, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 November 2005. Organised between Cultures of Consumption and the AHRC Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior.
Conference: ‘Cultures of Consumption Annual Conference for Awardholders’, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 29 September – 30 September 2005.
International Workshop: ‘The Politics of Necessity’, St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, 9-10 September 2005. Co-organised with Prof. Bronwen Morgan, University of Bristol.
Workshop: ‘Interpretive Approaches to Governance’, Birkbeck College, 20 July 2005. Co-organised with Prof. Mark Bevir, University of California, Berkeley.
Seminar: ‘Choice and Voice’, HM Treasury, 24 June 2005.
Workshop: ‘Technological Change and the Consumer as Citizen’, University of Cambridge, 2 June 2005. Co-organised with Prof. Martin Daunton, Master of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge and Prof. Fred Steward, Programme Director, ESRC Sustainable Technologies research programme, Brunel University.
International Workshop: ‘Food and Globalization: Transnational Perspectives on Consumption, Markets and Politics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries’, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Wassenaar), May 19-21, 2005. Co-organised with Dr. Alexander Nützenadel, Department of History, University of Cologne.
Modern British History Seminars, Institute of Historical Research. Co-organised with Dr. David Feldman and Prof. Catherine Hall, 2004-5/2005-6.
Cultures of Consumption: ‘Annual Conference for Awardholders’, CRIC, University of Manchester, 30 September – 1 October 2004.
Seminar: ‘Consumers as Citizens: Public Services, Identities, and Civil Society’, HM Treasury, 22 April 2004. Co-organised with Ed Mayo, Chief Executive, National Consumer Council.
International Conference: ‘Consumption, Modernity and the West: Re-thinking Narratives of Consumerism’, California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Passadena, 16-17 April 2004. Co-organised with John Brewer, Professor of History and Literature, CalTech.
International Conference: ‘Knowing Consumers: Actors, Images, Identities in Modern History’, ZIF (Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung/Centre for Interdisciplinary Research), Bielefeld, Germany, 26-28 February 2004. Co-organised with Prof. Dr. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, Bielefeld.
Seminar: ‘Children as Consumers: Public Policies, Moral Dilemmas, Academic Perspectives’, The Royal Society, 20 February 2004. Co-organised with Mary MacLeod, Chief Executive, National Family and Parenting Institute.
Workshop: ‘Coming to terms with consumption: theoretical and methodological perspectives’, Birkbeck College, 10 October 2003. Co-organised with Frans Berkhout, Programme Director of the Sustainable Technologies Programme.
‘Worlds of Political Economy: The Growth, Diffusion, and Contestation of Political Economy, 17th Century to the Present.’ An international interdisciplinary conference at Cambridge, 6-7 September 2002. Co-organiser with Martin Daunton, Professor of History, University of Cambridge.
‘Beyond Markets: Non-Marxist and Post-Marxist Critiques of the Market -- Historical and Theoretical Perspectives,’ an international, interdisciplinary conference co-organised with Prof. Mark Bevir (Berkeley), Princeton, 22-24 Sept. 2000. Responsible for Intellectual, Administrative, and Financial Organisation.
‘Liberalism and Civil Society in Germany and Britain: Ideas, Traditions, Practices,’ co-organiser (with Dr. Steven Young, Social Studies, Harvard) of an interdisciplinary conference held at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 15-17 Nov. 1996, under the auspices of the Program for the Study of Germany and Europe.