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Richard Coopey

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; technology and engineering; the history of water resources; and the creative economy. During 2008/9 he will be a Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies, at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo. He is also currently a Visiting 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 working, with Dr Tim Shakesheff of Worcester University, on a history of angling in Britain since the 18th century. His publications include  R. Coopey and P. Lyth, Decline and Renaissance? British Business in the 20th Century, Oxford University Press, forthcoming, June 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. Dr Coopey's email address is rcc@aber.ac.uk.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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