Robert Poole (historian)

Social History Society on 'Time and the Construction of the Past'. He has also held positions at the universities of Keele, Edge Hill and Cumbria. He has also been Leverhulme Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Manchester (2000-1), an associate of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester (2010–17), an associate of 'The Future in the Stars' research programme, Friedrich-Meinecke Institut, Freie Universität Berlin (2012–16),^[2]

Berlin, and Copenhagen, broadcast on American public radio networks,^[6][7][8] and in July 2009 wrote the op-ed piece for the Los Angeles Times on the fortieth anniversary of the Lunar landing in July 1969 by Apollo 11.^[9] Subsequent articles have explored the science fiction writer and techno-prophet Arthur C. Clarke,^[10] '2001: a Space Odyssey and the Dawn of Man' in the 2015 collection Stanley Kubrick: New Perspectives,^[11] and the myth of progress in '2001: a Space Odyssey'.^[12] Another recent article, 'What was Whole about the Whole Earth?', provides a missing chapter to Earthrise.^[13] In early 2016 he enjoyed a Short-Term Visitor Award at the Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum, to look at the recently acquired papers of Arthur C. Clarke.^[14]

Peterloo massacre in Manchester, on which he has written articles in Past and Present,^[15] History,^[16] Labour History Review,^[17] and edited collections.^[18] He is historical adviser to the Peterloo 2019 commemoration programme, run jointly by Manchester Histories and the People's History Museum,^[19] and to the 2017-18 community project by ReelMcr, 'Our Sam, Middleton man'.^[20] He was instrumental in bringing to the John Rylands Library a full set of the radical newspaper the Manchester Observer (1818–22), now freely available online as part of the library's Peterloo collection.^[21] He has given numerous public lectures and workshops, including the Manchester Histories Festivals and the 2018 BBC Civilisations festival,^[22] and is an active member of the Peterloo Memorial Campaign.^[23] His broadcast appearances include The Matter of the North episode 7 'The Radical North' (BBC R4 2016),^[24] Elegance and Decadence: the Age of the Regency episode 3 (BBC Four, 2011), How the North was Built Part 1 (ITV, 2013), The Real Mill (Channel 4, 2014),^[25] and the BBC Schools Programme Exploring the Past (2015).^[26] He edited a volume of the Manchester Region History Review, Return to Peterloo, contributing essays including 'What Don't We Know About Peterloo?'.^[27] . It will be followed by a biography of the Lancashire radical Samuel Bamford, on whom he has written several articles (some of them available online), and whose remarkable diaries he edited with Martin Hewitt for Sutton/St Martin's Press in 2000.^[28]

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: John Collier ('Tim Bobbin') 1708–1786, and William Holder