Dr Michael Roberts
MA, DPhil (Oxon)
Contact
Email: mfr@aber.ac.uk
Office: C53
Phone: 2675
Teaching Areas
Dr Roberts teaches widely from the First Year introductory modules through to Masters courses and PhD supervision, including the core undergraduate modules of Historians and the Writing of History, General Historical Problems, Survey modules, Skills, methods and sources, Dissertations and a Special Subject on Gender in the Early Modern period.
Biography
Dr Michael Roberts MA, DPhil (Oxon) is interested in the social and economic history of early modern Britain, in historiography, the use of visual images and literary texts in historical representation, and in the history of women and gender. His publications include Gender, Work and Socialization in Wales c.1450-c.1850, in S. Betts, ed. Our Daughters' Land: Past and Present (1996), and "To bridle the falsehood of unconscionable workmen, and for her own satisfaction": What the Jacobean housewife needed to know about men's work, and why, in the Labour History Review special issue on Gender and Work (Spring 1998). He has co-edited a collection of essays by colleagues and graduate students on the history of Women and Gender in Early Modern Wales.