Dr Richard Coopey


BA, MA, PhD (Warwick) Photograph of Dr Richard Coopey.

Contact

Email: rcc@aber.ac.uk
Office: B22
Phone: 2977

Profile

Dr Richard Coopey BA, MA, PhD (Warwick), is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is interested in 19th- & 20th-century social, economic and environmental history; the history of technology and engineering; the history of water resources; and the history of the creative economy. During 2008/9 he was a Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies, at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Business History Unit at the London School of Economics, where he is working on an ESRC-funded programme of research into the history of the popular music business in Britain. He is also co-author of a social history of angling in Britain since the 18th century, to be published by Manchester University Press. His publications include R. Coopey and T. Tvedt Rivers and Society: From Early Civilisations to Modern Times, I. B. Tauris, 2010; R. Coopey and P. Lyth, Business in Britain in the 20th Century, Oxford University Press, 2009; R. Coopey and T.Tvedt, Water in History: Ownership and Control, I. B. Tauris 2006; R. Coopey, H. Fahlbusch, N. Hatcho and L. Janski, A History of Water Issues, United Nations University Press, 2005; R. Coopey, Sean O'Connell and D. Porter, Mail Order Retailing in Britain: A Business and Social History, Oxford 2005; R. Coopey, Information Technology Policy: An International History, Oxford, 2004; R. Coopey and D. Clarke, 3i: Fifty Years Investing in Industry (1995); R. Coopey and N. Woodward Britain in the 1970s: The Troubled Economy (1996), R. Coopey, M. Uttley & G. Spinardi, Defence Science and Technology: Adjusting to Change, Harwood, 1993; R. Coopey, S. Fielding and N. Tiratsoo, The Wilson Governments, Pinter, 1992.

Teaching Areas

Dr Coopey teaches the First Year introductory modules for Economic & Social History as well as History students.  At level 3 he teaches on the core undergraduate modules of Historians and the Writing of History and General Historical Problems as well as Economic & Social History Option and Survey modules.

Staff Publications

2010

  • R. Coopey and T. Tvedt, "Rivers and Society: From Early Civilisation to Modern Times" I. B. Tauris, 2010

2009

  • R. Coopey and P. Lyth, "Decline and Renaissance: British Business in the 20th Century", Oxford University Press, 2009

2008

  • R. Coopey and A. McKinlay "Power Without Knowledge: Foucault and Fordism 1900-1950" Labor History, 2008
  • R. Coopey and A. McKinlay, "Stealing the Souls of Men: Employers, Supervisors and Work Organisation 1890-1939" International Review of Social History, 2008

2007

  • R. Coopey and T.Tvedt (eds), A History of Water Vol. II: The Political Economy of Water, I. B. Tauris forthcoming, May 2006

2005

  • R. Coopey, S. O'Connell and D. Porter Mail Order Retailing in Britain Since 1890: A Business and Social History, Oxford University Press, 2005
  • R. Coopey, H. Fahlbusch, N. Hatcho and L. Janski (eds), A History of Water Issues United Nations University Press, 2005
  • R. Coopey “Entrepreneurial Investment: Venture Capital and Enterprise in Britain and the USA, 1950-1980” in Y. Cassis and I. Minoglou, Entrepreneurship in Theory and History, Palgrave, 2005

2004

  • R. Coopey (ed), Information Technology Policy: An International History , Oxford University Press, 2004
  • R. Coopey "Corporate Governance, Management and British Venture Capital Since 1945" in B. Fitzgerald and E. Abe The Development of Corporate Governance in Japan and Britain, Ashgate, 2004
  • R. Coopey "Empire and Technology: Information Technology Policy in Post-War Britain and France" in R. Coopey (ed), Information Technology Policy: An International History" Oxford University Press, 2004
  • R. Coopey “Information Technology Policy: Competing for the Future” " in R. Coopey (ed), Information Technology Policy: An International History" Oxford University Press, 2004
  • R. Coopey "A Passing Technology: The Automated Teller Machine" in P. Lyth and H. Trischler Wiring Prometheus: Globalisation, History and Technology, Aarhus University Press, 2004.

2003

  • R. Coopey "Public Utility or Private Enterprise? Water and Health in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" (with Owen Roberts) in A. Borsay Medicine in Wales 1800-2000 Public Service or Private Commodity? University of Wales Press, 2003.
  • R. Coopey "The British Glove Industry 1750-1950: The Advantages and Vulnerability of a Regional Industry" in J. Wilson and A. Popp (ed) Industrial Clusters and Regional Business Networks in England, 1750-1970, Ashgate, 2003
  • R. Coopey "Mail Order Retailing in Britain" (with D.Porter) in Benson J. and Ugolini L. A Nation of Shopkeepers: Retailing in Britain 1550-1990, I. B. Tauris, 2003

2002

  • R. Coopey "American Influences on Mail-Order Retailing in Britain" (with D. Porter) in Kipping M. and Tiratsoo N (eds), Americanisation in 20th Century Europe: Business, Culture, Politics, Universite Charles de Gaulle, 2002

1999

  • R. Coopey "Management and the Introduction of Computing in British Industry, 1945-1970" Contemporary British History Vol 13, No. 3, (Autumn 1999)
  • R. Coopey "Mail-Order in United Kingdom 1880-1960: How Mail-Order Competed With Other Forms of Retailing" (with D.Porter) International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research Vol.9, No. 3, July 1999

1997

  • R. Coopey "Financial Entrepreneurship and Economic Crisis in Britain 1930 - 1990", in P. Lanthier and H. Watelet, Private Enterprise During Economic Crises: Tactics and Strategies, Legas, NY, 1997

1996

  • R. Coopey and D. Clarke 3i: Fifty Years Investing in Industry Oxford University Press, 1996

1995

  • R. Coopey and N. Woodward (eds), Britain in the 1970s: The Troubled Economy UCL Press, 1995

1993

  • R. Coopey, M. Uttley & G. Spinardi (eds), Defence Science and Technology: Adjusting to Change, Harwood, 1993

1992

  • R. Coopey, S. Fielding and N. Tiratsoo (eds), The Wilson Governments, Pinter, 1992