Lynn MacKay

B.A., M.A. Ph.D. (York)

Associate Professor
Telephone: 727-9719
Email: MacKay@BrandonU.ca
Office: 307 Clark Hall

Research Interests:

• Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century English Social and Gender History

Teaching Interests:

• British, Irish, Women’s, Cultural and European History

Publications:

“Refusing the Royal Pardon: Capital Convicts and the Reactions of the Courts and Press in 1789”, The London Journal, vol. 28, no. 2, (2003).

“Moral Paupers: the Poor Men of St. Martin’s, 1815-1819”, Histoire sociale/Social History, vol. XXXIV, no. 67, (May 2001).

“Women, Theft and the Old Baily, 1780-1789,” in Journal of Social History, 32 (Spring, 1999).

“A Cautionary Tale:  the Mendicity Society and Its Clients,” in Left History, 5 (Spring, 1998).

“A Culture of Poverty?  the St. Martin in the Fields Workhouse, 1817,” in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 26 (Autumn, 1996).

“Patrick Colquhoun,” Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 158, British Reform Writers, 1832-1914, (Gale, 1995)

“Henry Mayhew,” Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 190, British Reform Writers, 1832-1914, (Gale, 1998).

Courses Taught

• 54:153 World History to 1500
• 54:154 World History since 1500
• 54:255 Europe in Revolution and Reaction, 1789-1870
• 54:266 Britain to 1688
• 54:267 Britain since 1688
• 54:353 British Cultural History, 1700-1914
• 54:354 Paris & London in the Age of Revolution
• 54:355 Europe in the Age of Total Warfare, 1870-1945
• 54:371 European Women’s History
• 54:454 Problems in Modern Irish History