Staff Profile
Dr Margaret Ray
Teaching Fellow in the Department of History
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 41082
(email at margaret.ray@durham.ac.uk)
Research Interests
- 19th-century colonial administration
- 19th-century emigration between Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada
- 19th-century mining history
Publications
Journal papers: academic
- 2002 'Administering emigration: Thomas Frederick Elliott and government-assisted emigration to Australia 1837-47', Australian Studies 17, pp. 31-54
- 1999 (co-authored with James, Frank A.J.L) 'Science in the pits: Michael Faraday, Charles Lyell and the Home Office Enquiry into the Explosion at Haswell Colliery, County Durham, in 1844', History and Technology 15, pp. 175-212
Teaching Areas
- Social, cultural and economic history of Australia 1788-1914