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Professor Margot Finn

Chair in Modern British History

Office: 210 (26 Gordon Sq)
Office hour: Monday 4-5 pm
External phone: 0207 6793628
Internal phone: 33628
E-mail: m.finn@ucl.ac.uk

Professor Finn has just joined the Department from the University of Warwick where she was Pro-Vice Chancellor for Access, Development and Widening Participation. Margot brings with her a wealth of experience to UCL and she is currently Principal Investigator of the project 'East India Company at Home 1757-1857' and also Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society.                                                                 

Select Publications:                                  

'Family Formations: Anglo India and the Familial Proto-State', in David Feldman and John Lawrence, (eds), Structures and Transformations in Modern British History (Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 100-117                                          

'"Frictions" d'empire: les réseaux de circulation des successions et des patrimonies dans la Bombay coloniale des années 1780', Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 65, 5 (2010), pp. 1175-1204                                                                                        

'The Barlow Bastards: Romance Comes Home from the Empire', in Margot Finn, Michael Lobban and Jenny Bourne Taylor (eds), Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Nieteenth-Century Law, Literature and History (Palgrave, 2010), pp. 25-47                 

'Anglo-Indian Lives in the Later Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century', Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 33, 1 (March 2010), pp. 49-65                                       

'Slaves out of Context: Domestic Slavery and the Anglo-Indian Family, c. 1780-1840', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 19 (2009), pp. 181-203                

'Scenes of Literary Life: The Homes of England', in James Chandler, (ed.), The New Cambridge History of English Literature: The Romantic Period (Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 293-313                                                                                     

'Henry Hunt's Peep into a Prison: The Radical Discontinuities of Imprisonment for Debt', in Glenn Burgess and Michael Festenstein, (eds), English Radicalism, 1550-1850 (Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 190-216                                            

'The Authority of the Law', in Peter Mandler, (ed.), Liberty and Authority in Victorian Britain (Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 159-178                                                

'Colonial Gifts: Family Politics and the Exchange of Goods in British India, c. 1780-1820', Modern Asian Studies, 40, 1 (February 2006), pp. 203-232

'Law's Empire: English Legal Cultures at Home and Abroad', Historical Journal, 48, 1 (March 2005), pp. 295-303

The Character of Credit: Personal Debt in English Culture, 1740-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 2003)

'Victorian Law, Literature and History: Three Ships Passing in the Night', Journal of Victorian Culture, 7, 1 (2002), pp. 134-46

'Scotch Drapers and the Politics of Modernity: Gender, Class and Nationality in the Victorian Tally Trade', in Martin Daunton and Matthew Hilton, eds., The Politics of Consumption: Material Culture and Citizenship in Europe and America(2001), pp. 89-107

'Men's Things: Masculine Consumption in the Consumer Revolution', Social History, 25, 2 (2000), pp. 133-55

'Working-class Women and the Contest for Consumer Control in Victorian County Courts', Past & Present, 161 (1998), pp. 116-54

'Being in Debt in Dickens' London: Fact, Fictional Representation and the Nineteenth-century Prison', Journal of Victorian Culture, 1, 2 (1996), pp. 203-36

'Women, Consumption and Coverture in England, c. 1760-1860', Historical Journal, 39, 3 (1996), 703-22

After Chartism: Class and Nation in English Radical Politics, 1848-1874 (Cambridge University Press, 1993)