Dr ANDREW DILLEY
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King's College
University of Aberdeen
Old Aberdeen
AB24 3FX
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B.A. M.St. D.Phil
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Biography
I grew up on the Kent-East Sussex border near Tunbridge Wells. I read for a BA in Modern History between 1997 and 2000, and an M.St in Historical Research in 2000-2001, both at Wadham College, Oxford. After a year out, I studied for my doctorate at the same institution, finishing in 2006. From September 2006 until August 2008 I lectured in Imperial and Commonwealth History at King's College London.
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Research Interests
My main research interests are in the history of the British Empire (including its impact on Britain), and especially in the history of Britain's relations with the 'Dominions' (Australia, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand). My research to date has focused upon the influence of British financial institutions upon colonial businesses and politics, and the role of finance played in maintaining imperial ties by forging networks and connections between Britain and its colonies. My next project will use a study of a forgotten pan-imperial instutution (rather clumsily titled Congress of Chambers of Commerce of the Empire) to re-examine the culture and politics of imperial business between 1886 and 1972. I am also developing an interest in British trade in the Pacific in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Thus, my research draws on, and seeks to contribute to, debates about the economics of empire, business and empire, theories of imperialism, metropolitan cultures of imperialism, Britain's relations with the settlement colonies, and the economic and cultural history of globalization.
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Teaching Responsibilities
HI 1011: Europe in the Twentieth Century
HI 2013: The Birth of Modernity
HI2520: Global Empires in the Long Nineteenth Century
HI302T: Decolonization: The British experience
HI 4015: Imperial Impacts: The Empire and Edwardian Britain, 1899-1914
HI552P: Concepts in the History of the British Empire
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External Responsibilities
From May 1 2009 until 31 July 2009 I held the Rydon Fellowship in Australian Studies at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College London. While holding the Fellowship I organised a one day symposium on Finance, Empire, and the British World, held on 15 June 2009.
I have been a member of the Steering Committee of HistoryUK since 2008. I now act as co-convenor with Keith McLey in Chester.
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Recent Conference and Seminar Papers
'Commerce, Political Economy and Culture: The Congress of Chambers of Commerce of the Empire, 1886-1914' at 'Britishness Past and Present', University of Aarhus, 30 Nov-1 Dec 2012
'Using concept mapping to ask: “What is learning in History?”, HEA Teaching History in Higher Education Conference, 11-12 Sept 2012
'Politics and Power in the British World: The Case of Ontario Hydro and the City of London, 1905-1910', delivered electronically at 'Workshop: Globalization and the Making of Canada', Centre for International Governance and Innovation, Waterloo, Ontario, 29 January 2010
'Coghlan Comes to London: New South Wales, Australia, and the City, 1904-1906', 'Finance, Empire and the British World Symposium', King's College London, 15 June 2009
'Empire and Risk: Edwardian Financiers, Australia, and Canada, c.1899-1914',European Business History Association?Business History Conference Joint Annual Meeting,?Bocconi?Univeristy,?Milan, June 2009.
'Investing in Empire? Edwardian Financiers, Australia, and Canada, 1899-1914', History Department Seminar, University of Aberdeen, November 2008.
'Thinking Imperially? Edwardian Finance, Australia, and Canada, c.1899-1914', Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, October 2008.
'Australian Politics and the City: Labor, London, and the Land Tax of 1910', Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College London, May 2008.
'How many worlds? British economic activity in the Pacific in a global perspective, c.1763-1820',? 'British Asia ? British Atlantic New Researchers' Workshop, Swansea University, February 2008.
'Gentlemanly Capitalism, the 'Rules of the Game' and the Dominions: London Financiers' Perceptions of Australia and Canada, 1900-1914', IHR Imperial History Seminar, London, February 2007.
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Publications
Contributions to Journals
Articles
- Dilley, AR. (2013). 'T. A. Coghlan, London Opinion and the Politics of Anglo- Australian Finance, 1905–09'. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, vol 41, no. 1, pp. 37-58.
[Online] DOI: 10.1080/03086534.2013.762153 - Attard, B. & Dilley, AR. (2013). 'Finance, Empire, and the British World'. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, vol 41, no. 1, pp. 1-10.
[Online] DOI: 10.1080/03086534.2013.762151 - Dilley, AR. (2012). 'Empire, Globalisation, and the Cultural Economy of the British World'. Journal for Maritime Research, vol 14, no. 1, pp. 45-55.
[Online] DOI: 10.1080/21533369.2012.667934 - Dilley, AR. (2010). ''The Rules of the Game': London Finance, Australia, and Canada, c.1900-14'. Economic History Review, vol 63, no. 4, pp. 1003-1031.
[Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2010.00518.x - Dilley, AR. (2009). 'Empire and Risk: Edwardian Financiers, Australia,and Canada, c. 1899-1914'. Business and Economic History Online, vol 7, pp. 1-12.
Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
- Dilley, AR. (2009). ''Andrew Dilley review of Australia's Empire and Canada and the British Empire''. Reviews in History.
Special Issues
- Attard, B. & Dilley, AR. (eds) (2013). 'Finance, Empire and the British World'. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, vol 41, no. 1.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings
Chapters
- Dilley, AR. (2011). 'World, Global, and Imperial History in British Historiography'. S Jalagin, S Tavera & A Dilley (eds), in: World and Global History: A CliohWorld Reader. Cliohworld, Pisa, pp. 123-136.
- Dilley, AR. (2008). 'Economics and Empire'. E. Stockwell (ed.), in: The British Empire: Themes and Perspectives. Blackwells, Oxford, pp. 101-130.
Conference Proceedings
- Dilley, AR. (2013). 'The Politics of Imperial Commerce: The Congress of Chambers of Commerce of the Empire, 1886-1914'. in: Economic History Society Conference Papers. Economic History Society.
[Online] AURA: Dilley_The_Politics_of_Imperial_Commerce_Final.pdf
Books and Reports
Books
- Dilley, AR. (2012). 'Finance, Politics, and Imperialism: Australia, Canada, and the City of London c.1896-1914'. Cambridge Imperial and Postcolonial Studies Series, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.
- Jalagin, S., Tavera, S. & Dilley, AR. (eds) (2011). 'World and Global History: A CliohWorld Reader'. Cliohworld, Pisa.
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