Richard Floyd

Scholar in Residence (2009)

Office Hours: Tues. & Wed. 10:00-11:30, ABA

Office: Nau Building N284

Phone: (434) 924-7585

Email: rdf8n (at) virginia.edu

Fields & Specialties

B.A. The College of William and Mary, 1998 A.M., Ph.D. Washington University in St. Louis, 2005

Classes offered, 2009-2010 Spring: The Emergence of Modern Britain, 1688-2000 The World of Jane Austen: Exploring the Novels in a Historical Context The British Empire in Cross-Cultural Perspectives Fall: 19th-century Britain Images of Africa in Literature and Film Reconsidering Religion in Modern Britain Introduction to European Studies (School of Continuing and Professional Studies, BIS Program) Publications Book: Church, Chapel and Party: Religious Dissent and Political Modernization in 19th-Century England (UK: Palgrave; USA: Macmillan, 2008) Contributions to longer works: “Spencer,” a new definition in The Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) “New Poor Law,” in Encyclopedia of Europe, 1789-1914 (Scribner, 2006) “449 and All That: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Interpretations of the ‘Anglo-Saxon Invasion’ of Britain,” in History, Identity & the Question of Britain, Robert Phillips & Helen Brocklehurst, eds. (UK: Palgrave; USA: Macmillan, 2004) “The Maynooth Grant,” in Encyclopedia of Ireland (Ireland: Gill; USA: Macmillan, 2003). “The Battle of Blood River,” in Magill’s Guide to Military History (Salem Press, 2001). Reviews: Angus Hawkins, The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby Volume I: Ascent, 1799-1851 (Oxford University Press, 2008) reviewed for H-Albion, winter 2009 Andrew Chandler, The Church of England in the Twentieth Century: The Church Commissioners and the Politics of Reform, 1948-1998 (Brewer & Boydell, Inc., 2006), reviewed in Journal of British Studies 46, 4 “Sunday Morning at a Piedmont Crossroads,” Anglican and Episcopal History, forthcoming Conference Papers: Panel Chair and Commentator: “Disseminating English Identity in the Colonial World,” Midwestern Conference on British Studies, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Oct. 2009) “‘Shew whose you are by shewing whom you serve!’ Religion and political modernization in 19th-century England” presented at Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies, Richmond, Virginia (Apr. 2009) “Nonconformist Chapels in a Cathedral City: Parliamentary Elections and the Role of Dissent in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Durham,” presented at Western Conference on British Studies, Tucson, Arizona (Oct. 2003) “Race Matters: Who are the English?” presented at British Island Stories: History, Identity, and Nationhood (BRISHIN), King’s Manor, York (UK) (Apr. 2002) Current research I am working on two projects. One continues the theme of my first book—i.e. reform in modern Britain—but in an original light: an examination of calendar reform in the 1750s, tentatively entitled When Britain Lost 11 Days: Reforming Time in the 18th-Century. Its primary focus is obviously British and North American, but there are inevitable comparisons to be made with Catholic and Orthodox reforms and other systems of keeping time, as well as the implications of these changes for colonial peripheries. My other project, which derives mostly from critical re-interpretation of existing scholarship, considers the longue durée of the British Isles, through the lenses of imperialism and nationalism. This includes the familiar story of successive imperial migrations/invasions that originated in pre-historic, classical and medieval Europe. But into the modern period, my research draws attention to novel and thought-provoking questions of internal colonization, as the more prosperous and influential southeast (or simply “England”) sought to extend its influence and consolidate authority over the various ethno-linguistic cultures (or “nations”) of the highland regions and across the Irish Sea. Other research interests reform, liberalism, and freedom religion and politics race, nations, and empires quantitative analysis social history of railways calendars and time-keeping