I am an historian of Britain and the British colonial world in the 'very long 19th century', c. 1750-1914.  I have published monographs on British radicalism (After Chartism: Class & Nation in English Radical Politics, 1848-1884, Cambridge University Press, 1993) and on English consumer culture (The Character of Credit: Debt and Credit in English Culture, 1740-1914, Cambridge University Press, 2003), as well as a co-edited volume on bastards in 19th-century British culture (Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Nineteenth-Century Law, Literature and History, Palgrave/Macmillan, 2010).  I am currently working on two projects related to the East India Company.  The first is a monograph on the family (both British and Indian) in the making of British imperialism on the Indian subcontinent, c. 1757-1857.  The second, working collaboratively with three other UCL historians and a host of researchers from beyond the History Department, is a Leverhulme Trust funded project on The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857.  For more information on this second project, which explores the impact of Britain's empire in India on British material culture (particularly country houses), see our blog: http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/eicah/ .