
Professor Alannah Tomkins
- Title
- Professor of Early Modern History
- Location
- CBB 1.055
- Contact me
- Office hours : (see my office door for details) or via email
- Phone
- 01782 733465
- a.e.tomkins@keele.ac.uk
Biography
Biography
I graduated in 1991 from Keele University with a first class, dual honours degree in History and English. I spent four years at Oxford University, three as a post-graduate student in History at Exeter College and one as an employee of the University. In 1995 I returned to Keele to take up a post as a Lecturer in History (Professor from 2017).
Research and scholarship
Research and scholarship
I am currently researching aspects of the English social history of medicine, including the experiences of doctors who struggled to secure or maintain a professional identity c.1780-1880. I am also studying working-class autobiographies with particular reference to workhouse life.
Teaching
Teaching
- HIS-10035 Places and Peoples
- HIS-20090 Company and Crown
- HIS-30100 Sickness and Suffering
- HIS-30101 From Sawbones to Social Hero?
- HIS-30121 History and Biography
Publications
Publications
Journal Articles
- Tomkins, Alannah. 01-12-2023. 'The Poverty of Disaster: Debt and Insecurity in Eighteenth-Century Britain'. Labor. DOI > view in repository >
- Tomkins, Alannah. . 'Bricks, brick-making, and the economies of the Old Poor Law: Staffordshire 1750-1834'. Midland History. DOI > view in repository >
- Tomkins, Alannah. . 'Victorians & Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth-Century Britain'. Cultural and Social History. DOI > view in repository >
- Tomkins, Alannah. 16-04-2023. 'Male suicide and masculinity in 19th-century Britain: stories of self-destruction: by Lyndsay Galpin, 2022, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 193pp, £85.00 (hardback), £76.50 (ebook), ISBN: 9781350264892'. Women's History Review. DOI > view in repository >
- Tomkins. . 'Well fed, nurs'd and doctor'd: Workhouse Medical Care from Working-Class Biographies c.1750-1834'. . view in repository >
- Tomkins. 01-01-2023. 'Male Nurses in England and Europe Before 1820: Beyond the Madhouse'. Nursing History Review. view in repository >
- Tomkins. 01-11-2022. '"I helpt to nurse": unpaid care work by Georgian spinsters, 1780-1820'. UKAHN Bulletin. view in repository >
- Tomkins. 09-04-2021. 'Poor-law institutions through working-class eyes: autobiography, emotion, and family context 1834-1914'. Journal of British Studies. DOI > view in repository >
- Tomkins. 01-03-2021. 'Sexual abuse by superintending staff in the nineteenth-century lunatic asylum: medical practice, complaint, and risk'. History of Psychiatry. DOI > view in repository >
- Tomkins. 24-09-2020. 'Professional Migration, Occupational Challenge, and Mental Health: Medical Practitioners in New Zealand, 1850s-1890s'. Social History of Medicine. DOI > view in repository >
- Tomkins. 30-03-2020. 'Waterloo, Brussels, and developments in humanitarian nursing as context for the emergence of the ‘lady nurse’.'. The UKAHN Bulletin. view in repository >
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Books
- Tomkins, Alannah. 01-01-2025. 'Nursing the English from Plague to Peterloo, 1660-1820'. . view in repository >
- Tomkins. 10-07-2017. 'Medical Misadventure in an age of Professionalisation, 1780-1890'. . view in repository >
- Lovett, Lisett; Tomkins, Alannah. 28-08-2013. 'Medical History Education for Health Practitioners'. . DOI > view in repository >
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Book Chapters
- Tomkins. 01-02-2023. 'Stafford Infirmary and the ‘unreformed’ nurse, 1765-1820'. . view in repository >
- Tomkins. 30-08-2022. 'Providing for the Poor The Old Poor Law, 1750-1834 Conclusion'. . view in repository >
- Tomkins. 30-08-2022. 'The Overseers' Assistant: taking a parish salary, 1800-1834'. . DOI > view in repository >
- Tomkins. 30-08-2022. 'Conclusion'. . view in repository >
- Atherton, Ian; Blake, Matthew; Sargent, Andrew; Tomkins, Alannah. 01-01-2022. 'Introduction'. . view in repository >
- Tomkins, Alannah. 30-12-2020. 'Poverty and the workhouse'. . DOI > view in repository >
- Tomkins, Alannah. 01-08-2016. 'Case Notes and Madness'. . view in repository >
- Tomkins, Alannah. 01-01-2013. 'Workhouse Medical Care from Working-Class Autobiographies, 1750–1834'. . view in repository >
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Conference Proceeding
- Tomkins, Alannah. 01-01-2020. 'Nursing Before Nightingale: the Surprising Sisters of St. Bartholomew's Hospital London, 1660-1820'. . view in repository >
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Presentation / Conference
- Tomkins. 12-05-2020. 'International conference on the history of nursing'. . view in repository >
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School of Humanities
Chancellor's Building
Keele University
Staffordshire
ST5 5AA
Tel: +44 (0) 1782 733109
Head of School
Dr Nick Seager
Room: CBB1.038 (Chancellor's Building, 'B' Extension)
Tel: +44 (0) 1782 733142
Email: n.p.seager@keele.ac.uk
School and college outreach
Tel: +44 (0) 1782 734009
Email: outreach@keele.ac.uk