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Publications: Prof Alastair Owens

Geiringer D, Owens A ( 2022 ) . Anglicanism, Race and the Inner City: Parochial Domesticity and Anti-Racism in the Long 1980s . History Workshop Journal vol. 94 , 223 - 245 .
Owens A ( 2018 ) . Hannah Barker, Family and Business during the Industrial Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xvi + 262pp. 24 figures. 4 tables. Bibliography. £60.00 hbk . Urban History vol. 45 , ( 2 ) 376 - 378 .
Matthews-Jones L, Owens A ( 2017 ) . Peter K. Andersson’s ‘How Civilized Were the Victorians?’: An Introduction . Journal of Victorian Culture vol. 22 , ( 1 ) 57 - 58 .
Owens A, Jeffries N ( 2016 ) . People and Things on the Move: Domestic Material Culture, Poverty and Mobility in Victorian London . International Journal of Historical Archaeology vol. 20 , ( 4 ) 804 - 827 .
Owens A, John E, Blunt A ( 2016 ) . At Home with Collaboration: Building and Sustaining a Successful University–Museum Partnership . Cultural Policy, Innovation and the Creative Economy , Springer Nature
Broughton T, Owens A, Strange J-M ( 2016 ) . Editorial . Journal of Victorian Culture vol. 21 , ( 1 ) 1 - 2 .
Owens A, Green DR ( 2016 ) . Historical geographies of wealth: Opportunities, institutions and accumulation, c. 1800-1930 . Handbook on Wealth and the Super-Rich ,
BLUNT A, JOHN E, LIPMAN C, OWENS A ( 2013 ) . Centre for Studies of Home: a partnership between Queen Mary, University of London and the Geffrye Museum of the Home . Collaborative Geographies: The politics, practicalities, and promise of working together , Editors: CRAGGS, R, GEOGHEGAN, H, KEIGHREN, IM , Edition. 43 , Historical Geography Research Group ( London ),
Green DR, Owens A ( 2013 ) . Geographies of wealth: real estate and personal property ownership in England and Wales, 1870–1902 . The Economic History Review vol. 66 , ( 3 ) 848 - 872 .
OWENS A, Green DR ( 2012 ) . The final reckoning: using death duty records to research wealth holding in nineteenth-century England and Wales . Archives: Journal of the British Records Association vol. 38 , ( 126 ) 1 - 21 .
Green DR, Owens A, Maltby J, Rutterford J ( 2011 ) . Preface .
OWENS A ( 2011 ) . Assets of the dead: wealth, investment and modernity in nineteenth and early twentieth-century England and Wales . Men, Women, and Money , Editors: Green, DR, Maltby, J, Owens, A, Rutterford, J et al. , Oxford Univ Pr
Rutterford J, Green DR, Maltby J, Owens A ( 2011 ) . Who comprised the nation of shareholders? Gender and investment in Great Britain, c. 1870-1935 . ECON HIST REV vol. 64 , ( 1 ) 157 - 187 .
Green DR, Owens A, Maltby J, Rutterford J ( 2011 ) . Men, Women, and Money: Perspectives on Gender, Wealth and Investment, 1850-1930 . Oxford University Press ( Oxford ),
Green DR, OWENS A, Maltby J, Rutterford J ( 2011 ) . Men, women and money: an introduction . Men, Women and Money: Perspectives on Gender, Wealth and Investment , Editors: Green, DR, Owens, A, Maltby, J, Rutterford, J et al. , Oxford University Press ( Oxford ),
Owens A ( 2010 ) . The Greater London History and Heritage Handbook . LOND J vol. 35 , ( 1 ) 104 - 105 .
Owens A, Jeffries N, Wehner K, Featherby R ( 2010 ) . Fragments of the Modern City: Material Culture and the Rhythms of Everyday Life in Victorian London . J VICT CULT vol. 15 , ( 2 ) 212 - 225 .
Addabbo T, Arrizabalaga M-P, Borderias C, Owens A ( 2010 ) . Gender Inequalities, Households and the Production of Well-Being in Modern Europe . Ashgate ( Farnham ),
Addabbo T, Arrizabalaga M-P, Borderias C, OWENS A ( 2010 ) . Introduction: households, gender and the production of well-being . Gender inequalities, households and the production of well-being in modern Europe , Editors: Addabbo, T, Arrizabalga, M-P, Borderias, C, Owens, A et al. , Ashgate ( Farnham ),
Green DR, OWENS A, Matlby J ( 2009 ) . Lives in the balance? Gender, age and assets in late-nineteenth-century England and Wales . Continuity and Change vol. 24 , ( 2 ) 307 - 335 .
JEFFRIES N, OWENS A, HICKS D, FEATHERBY R ( 2009 ) . Rematerialising Metropolitan Histories? People, Places and Things in Modern London . Crossing Paths or Sharing Tracks? Future Directions in the Archaeological Stuidy of post-1550 Britain and Ireland , Editors: Horning, A, Palmer, M , vol. 5 , Boydell and Brewer ( Woodbridge ),
Rutterford J, Matlby J, Green DR, OWENS A ( 2009 ) . Researching shareholding and investment in England and Wales: Approaches, sources and methods . Accounting History vol. 14 , ( 3 ) 269 - 292 .
Docherty A, Owens A, Asadi-Lari M, Petchey R, Williams J, Carter YH ( 2008 ) . Knowledge and information needs of informal caregivers in palliative care: a qualitative systematic review . PALLIATIVE MED vol. 22 , ( 2 ) 153 - 171 .
OWENS A ( 2008 ) . Una inverió oculta? Dones i empresa a Anglaterra, 1750-1900 . Història, economia y cultura vol. 56 , ( 2 ) 61 - 89 .
Gunn S, Owens A ( 2006 ) . Nature, technology and the modern city: an introduction . CULT GEOGR vol. 13 , ( 4 ) 491 - 496 .
Owens A, Green DR, Bailey C, Kay AC ( 2006 ) . A measure of worth: probate valuations, personal wealth and indebtedness in England, 1810-40 . HIST RES vol. 79 , ( 205 ) 383 - 403 .
OWENS A, Craig B, Beachy R ( 2006 ) . Introduction . Women, Business and Finance in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Rethinking Separate Spheres , Berg ( Oxford ),
OWENS A ( 2006 ) . Making some provision for the contingencies to which their sex is particularly liable: women and investment in early nineteenth-century England . Women, Business and Finance in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Rethinking Separate Spheres , Berg ( Oxford ),
OWENS A, Beachy R, Craig B ( 2006 ) . Women, Business and Finance in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Rethinking Separate Spheres . Berg ( Oxford ),
Owens A ( 2005 ) . D. Morris, Mile End Old Town, 1740–1780: A Social History of an Early Modern London Suburb. London: East London History Society, 2002. iv+21pp. 17 figures. 9 tables. Appendices. Indexes. £9.60 . Urban History vol. 31 , ( 2 ) 290 - 291 .
Owens A, Randhawa G ( 2004 ) . 'It's different from my culture; they're very different': providing community-based, 'culturally competent' palliative care for South Asian people in the UK . HEALTH SOC CARE COMM vol. 12 , ( 5 ) 414 - 421 .
Randhawa G, Owens A ( 2004 ) . The meanings of cancer and perceptions of cancer services among South Asians in Luton, UK . BRIT J CANCER vol. 91 , ( 1 ) 62 - 68 .
OWENS A, Khan Z, Fitches R, Randhawa G ( 2004 ) . 'Communication in the development of culturally competent palliative care services in the UK: a case study.' . International Journal of Palliative Nursing. vol. 9 , 24 - 31 .
OWENS A, Green DR ( 2004 ) . Family Welfare: Gender, Property and Inheritance since the Seventeenth Century . Praeger ( Westport ),
OWENS A, Green DR ( 2004 ) . Introduction: Family Welfare and the Welfare Family . Family Welfare: Gender, Property and Inheritance since the Seventeenth Century , Editors: Green, DR, Owens, A , Praeger ( Westport, Connecticut and London ),
Owens A ( 2004 ) . Property, power, and the city in Great Britain . J URBAN HIST vol. 30 , ( 2 ) 299 - 310 .
Green DR, Owens A ( 2003 ) . Gentlewomanly capitalism? Spinsters, widows, and wealth holding in England and Wales, c.1800-1860 . ECON HIST REV vol. 56 , ( 3 ) 510 - 536 .
Owens A ( 2003 ) . Robbie Gray Memorial Conference: Space, Place and Identity in Victorian Britain, University of Portsmouth, 10 November 2001 . Journal of Historical Geography vol. 29 , ( 2 ) 272 - 273 .
Owens A ( 2003 ) . Matthew Wollard (ed.), New Windows on London's Past: Information Technology and the Transformation of Metropolitan History. Glasgow: Association for History and Computing, 2000. ix + 133pp. 44 figures. 16 tables. £8.00 (UK), £9.00 (Overseas) . Urban History vol. 29 , ( 3 ) 430 - 459 .
Owens A ( 2002 ) . Inheritance and the life-cycle of family firms in the early industrial revolution . BUS HIST vol. 44 , ( 1 ) 21 - + .
Owens A ( 2001 ) . Property, gender and the life course: Inheritance and family welfare provision in early 19th-century England . SOC HIST vol. 26 , ( 3 ) 299 - 317 .
OWENS A, Stobart J ( 2000 ) . Introduction . Urban Fortunes: Property and Inheritance in the Town, 1700-1900 , Editors: Stobart, J, Owens, A , Ashgate ( Aldershot ),
OWENS A ( 2000 ) . Property, will making and estate disposal in an industrial town, 1800-57 . Urban Fortunes: Property and Inheritance in the Town , Editors: Stobart, J, Owens, A , Ashgate ( Aldershot ),
Green DR, OWENS A ( 1997 ) . Metropolitan estates of the middle class: probates and death duties revisited . Historical Research vol. 70 , 294 - 311 .