Dr David Feldman

Research interests* Teaching interests* Publications* Areas of research supervision* Contact details

Research interests

Over the years my research has dealt with the social, cultural and political history of nineteenth century Britain. More recently these interests have expanded to take in other centuries as well. I am currently completing a book on the changing entitlements to welfare of migrants and immigrants in Britain from the last decades of the sixteenth century down to the present day. My aim is that this book will contribute to the history of the state and of social policy as well as to histories of migration and immigration. Other research projects are on the history of multiculturalism in Britain since the seventeenth century and the history of Jews in Britain.

Teaching interests

Victorian Studies; Liberalism; The City; "Race", Culture and Identity.

Publications

Books

 (single authored)

Englishmen and Jews: Social Relations and Political Culture, 1840-1914, Yale University Press, 1994

 (edited)

Metropolis London: Histories and Representations since 1800, Routledge, 1989 (co-edited with G. Stedman Jones)

Paths of Integration: Migrants in Western Europe (1880-2004), University of Amsterdam Press, 2006 (co-edited with L. Lucassen and J. Oltmer)

Articles

“Was Modernity Good for the Jews”, in B. Cheyette and L. Marcus eds., Modernity, Culture and “the Jew”, Polity, 1998 

Jews and the State in Britain, 1830-1930”, in M. Brenner, R. Liedtke and  D. Rechter eds., Two Nations. The Historical Experience of British and German Jews in Comparison, J.C.B. Mohr, Tubingen, 1999

“L'immigration, immigres et l'Etat en Grande Bretagne aux xix et xx siecles”, Le mouvement sociale, septembre 1999, 43-60

“Migration”, in M. Daunton ed., The Cambridge Urban History of Britain, III, 1840-1950, Cambridge University Press, 2000

“Class” in P. Burke ed., History and Historians, Oxford University Press, 2002, pp.181-206

“Was the Nineteenth Century a Golden Age for Immigrants?' in A. Fahrmeier, O. Faron and M. Weil eds., From Europe to North America, Berghahn Books, 2003, pp.167-178

Migrants, Immigrants and Welfare from the Old Poor Law to the Welfare State”, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, (2003) pp.79-104

‘Immigrant integration in Western Europe, then and now’, in D. Feldman et al eds, Paths of Integration: Migrants in Western Europe (1880-2004), University of Amsterdam Press, (2006)

“Emigration and the British State, 1815-1925”, in N. Green and F. Weil, Citizenship and Those who Leave: Emigration and Expatriation, EHESS, Paris forthcoming 2006

“Jews and the British Empire c.1900”, forthcoming History Workshop Journal (2007)

Areas of research supervision

Social history; History of social policy; Immigrants and ethnicity in Britain; London history; Anglo-Jewish history.

Contact details

Email: d.feldman@bbk.ac.uk

Tel: 020 7631 6289

Room: 267 (Malet Street)