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Biography
I specialise in modern French history (1789-2000) and nineteenth-century British history. I have particular expertise in the history of psychoanalysis, the history of nursing, the history of autism, and more generally in the history of medicine and psychology.
My monograph is published with Manchester University Press in 2022.
From 2018-21 I worked as a postdoctoral research fellow on an AHRC project on Florence Nightingale, which resulted in and .
I have published articles in the Journal of Political Ideologies, Women's History Review, the Journal of Medical Humanities, the European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health and Nottingham French Studies. I have also published popular pieces in The Independent, The Conversation, and The Historian magazine among others.
I have previously taught at Universit茅 Paris 7 and in Berlin.
Expertise Summary
- The political, social, and intellectual history of France in the twentieth century.
- The history of psychoanalysis and its cultural impact, especially in France.
- The history of nursing, especially Florence Nightingale.
- The history of autism.
- The histories of medicine and health, psychology/psychiatry, and pharmacology.
- Nineteenth-century British social and political history.
- The history of childhood and the family.
Teaching Summary
I teach on the following modules:
- Research Methods in History (MA - convenor)
- France and its Empire 1815-1914 (convenor)
- Health and Society in the West, 1800-2000 (co-convenor)
- The Agony & the Ecstasy: Drugs for Pleasure and Pain
- Becoming a Historian (convenor)
- The Contemporary World Since 1945
- Roads to Modernity 1800-1945
- Learning History / Discovering History
I supervise around 12 undergraduate dissertation students per year, on a range of topics related to my research interests.
I have also previously taught / can offer supervision expertise on the occupation of France 1940-44 and politics and society in contemporary France.
Selected Publications
RICHARD BATES, 2022. Manchester University Press.
PAUL CRAWFORD, ANNA GREENWOOD, RICHARD BATES and JONATHAN MEMEL, 2020. Palgrave Macmillan.
RICHARD BATES, 2019. Journal of Political Ideologies. 24(2), 201-219
RICHARD BATES, 2020. Nottingham French Studies. 59(2), 221-235