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Biography
Brad Beaven is a Professor of Social and Cultural History and joined University of Portsmouth in 1994. Since 1990, he has published widely on urban popular culture in Britain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His publications include Leisure, Citizenship and Working-Class Men, 1850-1945 (2005, 2009 paperback edn), Visions of Empire: Patriotism, Popular Culture and the City, 1850-1939, (2012, 2017 paperback edn) and Port Towns and Urban Cultures: International Histories of the Waterfont, c. 1700-2000 (eds with Karl Bell and Rob James, 2016). His new book The Devil’s Highway: Urban Anxieties and Subaltern Cultures in London’s Sailortown, c.1850-1900 (Manchester University Press) is forthcoming.
He is Co-Director of the Centre of Port Cities and Maritime Cultures which explores urban and maritime experiences, past and present.
Brad teaches on the History BA (Hons) undergraduate course, specialising in popular culture and the city in the era of empire between 1800 and 1939. He also teaches on the MA in Victorian Gothic (DL) and the History Master of Research course. He has successfully supervised over 20 PhD students researching popular culture, urban and maritime history during the nineteenth and early twentieth cities. Brad is also regularly invited to externally examine PhDs.
He is one of the founding editors of the Palgrave series Global Studies in Social and Cultural Maritime History (with Joanne Begiato and Isaac Land) and serves on the board of Sage’s Coastal Studies and Society Journal that was established by the Centre for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures.
He has been appointed as a member of the ‘Experts Review College’ of the European Science Foundation and served two terms on the AHRC Peer Review College.
Teaching Responsibilities
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
External positions
Editorial Board Coastal Studies and Society
1 Jan 2022 → …
AHRC Peer Review College
1 Feb 2014 → 1 Feb 2019
Editorial Board for Sport in History
1 Jan 2014 → 1 Jan 2024
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The Devil's Highway: Urban Anxieties and Subaltern Cultures in London's Sailortown, c.1850-1900
Beaven, B., 31 Jan 2025, Manchester : Manchester University Press. 214 p. (Studies in Popular Culture)Research output: Book/Report › Book
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‘One of the toughest streets in the world’: exploring male violence, class and ethnicity in London’s Sailortown, c.1850-1880
Beaven, B., 1 Mar 2021, In: Social History. 46, 1, p. 1-21 21 p., 1.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Foreign sailors and working-class communities: race, crime and moral panics in London’s Sailortown, 1880-1914
Beaven, B., 3 Sept 2020, Migrants and the Making of the Urban-Maritime World: Agency and Mobility in Port Cities, c. 1570–1940. Reimann, C. & Öhman, M. (eds.). 1st ed. Routledge, 21 p. (Routledge Advances in Urban History).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Regulating sin in the city: the moral geographies of naval port towns in Britain and Germany, c.1860-1914
Beaven, B. & Seiter, M., Mar 2020, In: Britain and the World . 13, 1, p. 27–46 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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From jolly sailor to proletarian Jack: the remaking of sailortown and the merchant seafarer in Victorian London
Beaven, B., 24 Apr 2016, Port Towns and Urban Cultures: International Histories of the Waterfront, c.1700 - 2000. Beaven, B., Bell, K. & James, R. (eds.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 8Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Fellowship for Zack White: Sepoys & Slave Seamen: Race, Empire & the law in British India, 1795-1830
Beaven, B. (PI) & White, Z. (Research Leader)
1/10/23 → 30/09/26
Project: Research
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LRF: Lloyd's Register Surveyors in China c.1869-1918
Bassett, M. (PI), Heaslip, M. (CoI), Beaven, B. (CoI) & Watson, C. (CoI)
1/04/21 → 30/04/25
Project: Research
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Dark Side, Port Side
Beaven, B. (CoI), Bell, K. (CoI) & Sackett, J. (PI)
1/07/18 → 20/10/19
Project: Innovation
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Mapping the national impact of the Jutland Battle: civic and community responses during the First World War
Bassett, M. (CoI) & Beaven, B. (PI)
Arts & Humanities Research Council
4/01/16 → 31/05/16
Project: Research
Activities
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One Ocean, Two Destinations
Coats, A. (Organiser), Coats, A. (Presented paper), Hurtado, M.-R. (Organiser), Hurtado, M.-R. (Presented paper), Fontana, D. (Presented paper), Davey, J. (Presented paper), van der Merwe, P. (Presented paper), Caputo, S. (Presented paper), Morriss, R. (Presented paper), Lambert, A. (Presented paper) & Beaven, B. (Presented paper)
14 Sept 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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European Science Foundation (External organisation)
Beaven, B. (Member)
1 Apr 2020Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee or panel
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The Triangle Girls, Portsmouth Royal Dockyard's Women War Workers
Bassett, M. (Advisor) & Beaven, B. (Advisor)
Sept 2019 → …Activity: Consultancy types › Consultancy
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Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Gray, S. (Editor), Beaven, B. (Editor), Begiato, J. (Editor) & Colville, Q. (Editor)
2018 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
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Port Cities and Migration in the Modern Era, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Beaven, B. (Speaker)
23 Nov 2017 → 24 Nov 2017Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Press/Media
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How lockdown redefines our weekends
3/04/20 → 14/04/20
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert comment
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'Sailortown' Mobile App
28/03/17 → 20/04/17
1 item of Media coverage, 1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research cited