Emeritus Professor Paul Pickering
BA (Hons) PhD (Latrobe) FRHS
Director, Australian Studies Institute
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Areas of expertise
- Australian Government And Politics 160601
- Australian History (Excl. Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander History) 210303
- British History 210305
- Biography 210304
- Historical Studies 2103
Research interests
Paul's research and teaching interests are very broad. He has published extensively on Australian, British and Irish social, political and cultural history as well as biography, public memory and commemoration, digital humanities, industrial heritage and the study of reenactment as an historical method.
Biography
Professor Paul Pickering is Director of the Australian Studies Institute (2017-) and a Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations, Research School of Social Sciences. Prior to taking up his current posts Paul has undertaken numerous roles at ANU, including Director of the Research School of Humanities and the Arts (2012-21), a term as Dean of the College of Arts and Social Sciences (2014-16), inaugural Director of the ANU Centre for European Studies (2010-12); Director of Graduate Studies (2004-9) and a Queen Elizabeth II Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre (2000-4). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. In 2012 he was the recipient of the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision. His books include Chartism and the Chartists in Manchester and Salford (1995); The People's Bread: A History of the Anti-Corn Law League(2000) (with Alex Tyrrell); Friends of the People: Uneasy Radicals in the Age of the Chartists(London, 2003); Contested Sites: Commemoration, Memorial and Popular Politics in Nineteenth Century Britain (2004); Unrespectable Radicals? Popular Politics in the Age of Reform (2007); Feargus O'Connor: A Political Life (2008) and Historical Reenactment: From Realism to the Affective Turn (2010). His latest book (with Kate Bowan), Sounds of Liberty: Music, Radicalism and Reform in the Anglophone World, 1790-1914, was published in August 2017. His articles have been published by leading journals, both in Australia and overseas. Paul’s current book project is From ‘Dark Satanic Mills’ to the ‘Manchester Miracle’: the politics of urban-industrial heritage in Britain, which will be published by Routledge in 2023. He has held numerous fellowships: in 2012 he was a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Edinburgh; in 2014 he was an Andrew Mellon Research Fellow at the Huntington Library in California, and a Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow at Newcastle University in England. In 2015 he was a Visiting Research Professor at St. Andrews University and in 2016 Professeur invité à l'Université Paris-Sorbonne IV. In 2018 he was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Durham University and in 2022 Distinguised International Viisitng Fellow at New York University.
Researcher's projects
Recent publications:
‘Garibaldi in Australia’, Historical Journal
Sounds of Liberty http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719082740//
His current project is a study of the politics of industral heritage in Manchester to be published by Routledge in 2023
Publications
- Leitch, S & Pickering, P 2022, 'Rethinking social media and extremism', in Shirley Leitch and Paul Pickering (ed.), Rethinking Social Media and Extremism, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 1-11.
- Kenny, M, Leitch, S & Pickering, P 2021, Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny: Unfriending Australia.
- Pickering, P 2020, ''Sooty Manchester': (Re)Presenting an Urban-Industrial Landscape', in Stefan Berger (ed.), Constructing Industrial Pasts: Heritage, Historical Culture and Identity in Regions Undergoing Structural Economic Transformation, Berghahn Books, New York, pp. 27-46.
- Pickering, P 2020, 'Evidence', in Vanessa Agnew, Jonathan Lamb & Juliane Tomann (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Reenactment Studies: Key Terms in the Field, Routledge, Oxon, pp. 57-62.
- Pickering, P 2020, 'Garibaldi in Australia', The Historical Journal, no. Online - 7 December 2020, pp. 1-21.
- Pickering, P, Baird, J, Grant, S et al. 2020, Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny: You stand on a plinth of lies.
- Kenny, M, Pickering, P & Taflaga, M 2020, Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny: The opposition in residence.
- Kenny, M, Beauregard, K, Hewson, J et al. 2019, Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny: Negatives, risks, and pork-barrelling.
- Kenny, M & Pickering, P 2019, Australian studies alive and kicking just this side of the pond, pp. Online.
- Bowan, C & Pickering, P 2017, Sounds of Liberty Music, radicalism and reform in the Anglophone world, 1790-1914, Manchester University Press, Manchester, United Kingdom.
- Pickering, P 2016, ''Hark ye back to the age of valour': Re-enacting Chivalry from the Eglinton Tournament to Kill Streak', in Katie Stevenson and Barbara Gribling (ed.), Chivalry and the Medieval Past, The Boydell Press, United Kingdom, pp. 187-214pp.
- Pickering, P 2015, Plus britannique que la Grande-Bretagne! (More British than Great Britain!), pp. 40-46.
- Pickering, P 2015, ''Who are the Traitors?': Rethinking the Eureka Stockade', in David Headon and John Uhr (ed.), Eureka: Australia's Greatest Story, The Federation Press, Leichhardt, pp. 71-82.
- Irving, T & Pickering, P 2014, 'Those damnable radicals: A case of Australian exceptionalism? in "Debate: Terry Irving and Paul Pickering"', Labour History Review, vol. 79, no. 2, pp. 227-237.
- Jones, B & Pickering, P 2014, 'A new terror to death: Public memory and the disappearance of John Dunmore Lang', History Australia, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 125-145.
- Pickering, P 2014, 'Debate: Terry irving and paul pickering', Labour History Review, vol. 79, no. 2, pp. 227-237.
- Jones, B & Pickering, P 2014, 'A new terror to death: Public memory and the disappearance of John Dunmore Lang', History Australia, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 125-145.
- Pickering, P 2013, 'From Rifle Club to Reading Room: Sydney's Democratic Vistas, 1848-1856', Labour History Review, vol. 78, no. 1, pp. 87-112.
- Pickering, P 2013, 'Confronting the good monarch: searching for a democratic case for the republic', in Benjamin T Jones & Mark McKenna (ed.), Project Republic. Plans and Arguments for a New Australia, Black Inc, Australia, pp. 118-132.
- Pickering, P 2013, History From Below, Review: Martin Lyons, The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe, c. 1860-1920, pp. Online.
- Pickering, P 1998, 'The Class of 96: A biographical analysis of new government members of the Australian house of representatives', Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 95-112pp.
- Pickering, P & Tyrrell, A 2000, The Peoples Bread: A History of the Anti-Corn Law League, Leicester University Press, London.
- Ashton, O & Pickering, P 2002, Friends of the people: Uneasy radicals in the age of the Chartists, Merlin Press, London, UK.
- Pickering, P & Davis, M, eds, 2008, Unrespectable Radicals? Popular Politics in the Age of Reform, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, England.
- Pickering, P 2008, Feargus O'Connor: A Political Life, Merlin Press, Wales, UK.
- Pickering, P & McCalman, I, eds, 2010, Historical Reenactment: From Realism to the Affective Turn, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Basingstoke.
- C Bowan & Pickering, P, 2011, 'Singing for Socialism', in Laurajane Smith, Paul A. Shackel and Gary Campbell (ed.), Heritage, Labour and the Working Classes, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon UK, pp. 192-215.
- Pickering, P 2011, 'A Lesson Lost? Chartism and Australian Democracy', Agora, vol. 4, no. 46, pp. 4-10.
- Pickering, P & McCalman, I 2010, 'From Realism to the Affective Turn: An Agenda', in Paul A Pickering & Iain MaCalman (ed.), Historical Reenactment: From Realism to the Affective Turn, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Basingstoke, pp. 1 - 17.
- Pickering, P 2010, ''No Witnesses. No Leads, No Problems': The Reenactment of Crime and Rebellion', in Paul A Pickering & Iain MaCalman (ed.), Historical Reenactment: From Realism to the Affective Turn, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Basingstoke, pp. 109 - 133.
- Pickering, P 2009, 'R. G. Gammage: a biographical update', Labour History Review, vol. 74, no. 1, pp. 132-133.
- Pickering, P 2009, 'William Lovett', in Immanuel Ness (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, New York.
- Pickering, P 2009, 'Tolpuddle Martyrs', in Immanuel Ness (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, New York.
- Pickering, P 2009, 'Dux of the Class', Quarterly Essay, vol. 35, no. September, pp. 113-116.
- Bowan, C & Pickering, P 2009, ''Songs for the Millions': Chartist Music and Popular Aural Tradition', Labour History Review, vol. 74, no. 1, pp. 44-63.
- Pickering, P 2009, 'Anti-Corn Law League', in Immanuel Ness (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, New York.
- Pickering, P 2009, 'James Bronterre O'Brien', in Immanuel Ness (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, New York.
- Pickering, P 2008, 'Betrayal and Exile: A Forgotten Chartist Experience', in Michael T. Davis & Paul A. Pickering (ed.), Unrespectable Radicals?: Popular Politics in the Age of Reform, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, England, pp. 201-217.
- Pickering, P 2008, 'Joseph Livesey', in Laurel Brake & Marysa Demoor (ed.), The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism, British Library, London, England, pp. 370pp.
- Pickering, P 2008, 'John Doherty', in Laurel Brake & Marysa Demoor (ed.), The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism, British Library, London, England, pp. 174pp.
- Pickering, P 2008, 'The Highway to Comfort and Independence: A Case Study of Radicalism in the British World', History Australia, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 06.1-06.14.
- Pickering, P 2008, 'Alexander Somerville', in Laurel Brake & Marysa Demoor (ed.), The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism, British Library, London, England, pp. 585-586pp.
- Pickering, P 2008, ''Peaceabley if We Can, Forcibly if We Must': Political Violence and Insurrection in Early-Victorian Britain', in Brett Bowden and Michael Davis (ed.), Terror: from tyrannicide to terrorism, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Queensland, pp. 114-133.
- Pickering, P 2010, 'Review - The Letters of Richard Cobden', Sehepunkte: Rezensionsjournal fuer die Geschichtswissenschaften, vol. 10, no. No 5.
- Pickering, P 2007, 'Chartism', in Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, pp. 1pp.
- Pickering, P 2007, 'Was the 'Southern Tree of Liberty' an Oak?', Labour History: a Journal of Labour and social history, vol. 92, no. May, pp. 139-142.
- Pickering, P 2006, 'Richardson, Reginald John (1807/8-1861)', in Brian Harrison (ed.), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/61925.
- Pickering, P 2006, 'Feargus O'Connor', in John Merriman and Jay Winter (ed.), Europe 1789 to 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire, Thomson Gale, Farmington, pp. x-x.
- Pickering, P 2006, 'Robert Peel', in John Merriman and Jay Winter (ed.), Europe 1789 to 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire, Thomson Gale, Farmington, pp. x-x.
- Pickering, P 2006, 'Scholefield, James (1790-1855), political reformer', in Brian Harrison (ed.), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
- Pickering, P 2006, 'An Afterthought: why we should tell stories of the British World', Humanities Research, vol. XIII, no. 1, pp. 85-90.
- Pickering, P 2005, 'Mercenary Scribblers and Polluted Quills: The Chartist Press in Australia and New Zealand', in Joan Allen and Owen R. Ashton (ed.), Papers for the People: A Study of the Chartist Press, Merlin Press, London, pp. 190 - 215.
- Pickering, P 2005, 'Loyalty and Rebellion in Colonial Politics: The Campaign Against Convict Transportation in Australia', in Phillip Buckner & R. Douglas Francis (ed.), Rediscovering The British World, University of Calgary Press, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, pp. 87-107.
- Pickering, P 2004, 'A Grand Ossification: William Cobbett and the Commemoration of Tom Paine', in Paul Pickering, Alex Tyrell (ed.), Contested Sites: Commemoration, Memorial and Popular Politics in Nineteenth Century Britain, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, UK, pp. 57-80.
- Pickering, P 2004, 'The Chartist Rites of Passage: Commemorating Feargus OConnor', in Paul Pickering, Alex Tyrell (ed.), Contested Sites: Commemoration, Memorial and Popular Politics in Nineteenth Century Britain, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, UK, pp. 101-126.
- Pickering, P & Tyrrell, A 2004, 'The Public Memory of Reform: Commemoration and Contestation', in Paul Pickering, Alex Tyrell (ed.), Contested Sites: Commemoration, Memorial and Popular Politics in Nineteenth Century Britain, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, UK, pp. 1-23.
- Pickering, P 2003, 'Chartism and the Trade of Agitation in Early Victorian Britain', in Stephen Roberts (ed.), The People�s Charter - Democratic Agitation in early Victorian Britain, Merlin Press, London, pp. 19-34.
- Pickering, P 2003, 'Richardson, Reginald John (1808 - 61)Chartist', in K. Gilkart, D. Howell and N. Kirk (ed.), Dictionary of Labour Biography, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Basingstoke, UK and New York, USA, pp. 212-214.
- Pickering, P 2003, 'The Hearts of the Millions: Chartism and Popular Monarchism in the 1840s', History, vol. 88, no. 290, pp. 227-248.
- Pickering, P 2003, 'James Scholefield, Chartist, 1790 - 1855', in K. Gilkart, D. Howell and N. Kirk (ed.), Dictionary of Labour Biography, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Basingstoke, UK and New York, USA, pp. 251 - 253.
- Pickering, P & Westcott, R 2003, 'Monuments and Commemorations: A Consideration', Humanities Research, vol. X, no. 2, pp. 1-8.
- Pickering, P 2003, 'Ripe for a Republic: British Radical Responses to the Eureka Stockade', Australian Historical Studies, vol. 34, no. 121, pp. 69-90.
- Pickering, P 2003, 'Wroe, James (1789 -1844)Chartist', in K. Gilkart, D. Howell and N. Kirk (ed.), Dictionary of Labour Biography, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Basingstoke, UK and New York, USA, pp. 292 - 293.
- Pickering, P 2001, 'A Wider Field in a New Country: Chartism in Colonial Australia', in Marian Sawer (ed.), Elections Full, Free and Fair, The Federation Press, Sydney, pp. 28-44.
- Pickering, P 2001, 'Conserving the Peoples History: Lessons from Manchester and Salford', Humanities Research, vol. VIII, no. 1, pp. 51-58.
- Pickering, P 2001, 'The Oak of English Liberty: Popular Constitutionalism in New South Wales, 1848-1856', Journal of Australian Colonial History, vol. 3, no. 1, April 2001, pp. 1-27.
- Pickering, P 2001, 'And Your Petitioners &C: Chartist Petitioning in Popular Politics 1838-48', English Historical Review, vol. CXVI, no. 466, pp. 368-388.
- Pickering, P 2001, 'The Finger of God: Golds Impact on New South Wales', in McCalman, I., Cook, A. and Reeves, A. (ed.), Gold: Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 37-51.
- Pickering, P 2000, 'Irish First: Daniel OConnell, the Native Manufacture Campaign and Economic Nationalism, 1840-44', Albion, vol. 32, pp. 598-616.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Heritage in the limelight: the magic lantern in Australia and the world 1840-1940 (Secondary Investigator)
- Sounds of Empire: Popular Politics and Music in the Nineteenth Century (Primary Investigator)
- Homes for the people: A study of the Peter Lalor Housing Co-Operative, 1974-2004 (Primary Investigator)
