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). Working collaboratively with a Leverhulme Trust funded team of UCL historians and a host of public history researchers, my project on material imperial histories resulted in two coedited volumes: New Paths to Public Histories (Palgrave Pivot, 2015) and The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 (open access, UCL Press, 2018). I am currently completing a monograph on the family (both British and Indian) in the making of British imperialism on the Indian subcontinent, c. 1757-1857.