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Publications by Professor Rick Trainor

Books

  1. (with J. F. Munro and M. S. Moss), University, City and State: The University of Glasgow on Gilmorehill since 1870 (Edinburgh University Press, 2000) , XVIII and 382.
  2. Ed. (with R. J. Morris), Urban Governance: Britain and beyond since 1750 (Ashgate Press, 2000), Trainor, XIV and 254.
  3. Black Country Elites: the exercise of authority in an industrialized area 1830-1900 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993), xix and 437, ISBN 0-19-820355-1 [for reviews see, for example: American Historical Review 100 (1995), 1576-7; Economic History Review 51 (1998), 202; Journal of Economic History 55 (1995),700-02; Journal of Modern History 69 (1997), 42-4].
  4. Ed. (with E. Mawdsley, N. J. Morgan & L. M. Richmond), History and Computing III: Historians, Computers and Data: Applications in Research and Teaching (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991), XX and 213.
  5. Ed. (with D. Spaeth, P. Denley & V. Davis), Towards an International Curriculum for History and Computing (St. Katharinen, Germany: Scripta Mercaturae Verlag, 1992).
  6. Ed. (with D. Spaeth, P. Denley & V. Davis), The Teaching of Historical Computing: An International Framework (St. Katharinen, Germany: Scripta Mercaturae Verlag, 1993).
  7. (in preparation) The Evolution of the British Middle Class 1850-1950 (Studies in Modern History, Longman/Pearson)

Chapters in Books

  1. 'Conflict, Community and Identity in Victorian and Edwardian Urban Politics: A Case Study of the Black Country', in B.M. Doyle (ed.), Urban Politics and Space in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Regional Perspectives (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2007), 30-46.
  2. 'The Social Impact of British Universities since 1850', in F. Bosbach et al (eds.), Birth or Talent? The Formation of Elites in a British-German Comparison (Munich: K.G. Saur 2003), 217-228
  3. 'The Middle Class', in M.J. Daunton (ed.), Cambridge Urban History of Britain, vol.3, 1840-1950 (Cambridge University Press, 2000), 673-713.
  4. 'The "Decline" of British Urban Governance: A Reassessment', in R.J.Morris and R.H. Trainor (eds.) Urban Governance: Britain and Beyond since 1750 (Ashgate Press, 2000), 28-46.
  5. 'Neither Metropolitan nor Provincial: the Interwar Middle Class', in A.Kidd & A.J.Nicholls (eds), The Making of the Middle Class? Studies of Regional and Cultural diversity since the Eighteenth Century (Aldershot: Sutton Publishing, 1998), 203-13.
  6. 'The Elite', in W.H.Fraser & I.Maver (eds.), Glasgow Volume II: 1830 to 1912 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996), 227-64.
  7. (with E.J. Gordon) 'Employers and Policymaking: Scotland and Northern Ireland, 1880-1939', in S. Connolly. et al., eds., Conflict, Identity and Economic Development: Ireland and Scotland 1600-1939 (Preston: Carnegie Press, 1995), 254-67.
  8. 'The Interaction of Teaching and Research in Computer-Based History', in H. Best, E. Mochmann & M. Thaller, eds., Computers in the Humanities and the Social Sciences: Achievements of the 1980s, Prospects for the 1990s (Munich, London, New York & Paris: K.G. Saur, 1991), 484-90.
  9. 'Improving and Expanding Computer-based Undergraduate History Teaching', in E. Mawdsley, N. J. Morgan, L. M. Richmond and R. H. Trainor (eds.), History and Computing III: Historians, Computers and Data: Applications in Research and Teaching (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991), 146-53.
  10. (with M.S. Moss) 'Developing Software and Computer-Based Teaching Strategies for Historians: the Experience of the DISH Project', in R. Metz, E. Van Cauwenberghe & R. van der Voort (eds.), Historical Information Systems (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1990), 101-110.
  11. (with N.J. Morgan), 'The Dominant Classes', in W.H. Fraser & R.J. Morris (eds.), People and Society in Scotland, vol.II, 1830-1914 (Edinburgh: John Donald, 1990), 103-137.
  12. (with N.J. Morgan), 'Liberator or Libertine? The Computer in the History Classroom', in David S. Miall (ed.), Humanities and the Computer: New Directions (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990), 61-70.
  13. 'The Gentrification of Victorian and Edwardian Industrialists', in A.L. Beier, D.N. Cannadine & J. Rosenheim (eds.), The First Modern Society: Essays in Honour of Lawrence Stone (Cambridge University Press, 1989), 167-97.
  14. 'History, Computing and Higher Education', in P. Denley et.al., (eds.), History and Computing II (Manchester University Press, 1989), 35-42.
  15. 'An Experiment in Computer-Based Teaching and Research: the DISH Project at Glasgow', in P. Denley & D. Hopkin (eds.), History and Computing (Manchester University Press, 1987), 397-402.
  16. 'The Role of the Computer in University Teaching: potential and problems', in S. Rahtz (ed.), Information Technology in the Humanities: tools, techniques and applications (Chichester: Ellis Horwood & New York: Halsted Press/John Wiley & Sons, 1987), 31-40.
  17. 'The DISH Project at Glasgow: aims and implementation', in J. McArthur (ed.), Databases in History Teaching (Glasgow: Strathclyde Regional Council Department of Education Glasgow Division, 1986), 7-11.
  18. 'Sir Alfred Hickman', in D.J. Jeremy & C. Shaw (eds.), Dictionary of Business Biography vol.3 (Butterworths, 1985), 209-16.
  19. 'Sir Benjamin Hingley', in D.J. Jeremy & C. Shaw (eds.), Dictionary of Business Biography vol.3 (Butterworths, 1985), 261-8.
  20. 'Reuben Farley', in D.J. Jeremy (ed.), Dictionary of Business Biography vol.2 (Butterworths, 1984), 323-8.
  21. 'John Nock Bagnall', in D.J. Jeremy (ed.), Dictionary of Business Biography vol.1 (Butterworths, 1984), 91-6.
  22. 'Peers on an industrial frontier: the Earls of Dartmouth and of Dudley in the Black Country, c.1810 to 1914', in D. Cannadine (ed.), Patricians, power and politics in nineteenth-century towns (Leicester University Press, 1982), 69-132.

Articles in refereed Academic Journals

  1. (with P. Perkins and D.A. Spaeth) 'Computers and the Teaching of History and Archaeology in Higher Education', Computers and Education, 19 (1992), 153-62.
  2. 'Using Computers in Historical Teaching and Research: the British Experience', Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis (1990), 103 (1990), 373-80.
  3. 'Implementing Computer-based Teaching and Research: the need for a collaborative approach', Computers and Education 12 (1988), 37-41.
  4. 'Review of Periodical Articles Post-1800', Urban History Yearbook (1988), 97-108.
  5. 'Review of Periodical Articles', Urban History Yearbook (1987), 109-24.
  6. 'Review of periodical articles', Urban History Yearbook (1986), 107-23.
  7. (with N.J. Morgan, M.S. Moss & A. T. Wilson) 'The Design, Implementation, and Assessment of Software for Use in the Teaching of History', Historical Social Research (Historische Sozialforschung) 38 (1986), 105-111.
  8. 'Urban Elites in Victorian Britain', Urban History Yearbook (1985), 1-17.
  9. 'Review of periodical articles', Urban History Yearbook (1985), 108-22.
  10. 'Review of periodical articles', Urban History Yearbook (1984), 96-109.

Other Articles

  1. (with J.D. Bone & R.R. Whitehead) 'Broadly-based University Education for the 21st Century', Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Journal (September 1995), 224.
  2. 'Computers, Arts Based Teaching and Rising Student Numbers', CTISS File 13 (April 1992), 3-6.
  3. 'Politicians, Businessmen and Public Policy 1931-59: The Scottish Dimension', Business History News, no.1 (April 1991), 13-14.
  4. (with E.J. Gordon), 'The role of employers in economic and social policy formation 1880-1939: a regional perspective', Business History Newsletter 20 (April 1990), 3-4.
  5. 'The Promise and Pitfalls of International Historical Computing', History and Computing Today 3 (January 1988), 45-7.
  6. 'History and Computers: The first two years of Glasgow's DISH Project', Humanities Communication Newsletter 9 (1987), 39-40.
  7. 'Introducing Microcomputers into History Teaching and Research: the DISH Project', CTISS) File 2 (November 1986), 14-17, reprinted in Computers and Teaching 8 (1987), 18-21.

Reviews and short articles in journals

Professor Trainor has also written reviews and short articles in journals such as Social History, Urban Studies, American Historical Review, Economic History Review, Business History, History, and Scottish Economic and Social History.

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