
Professor Mark Towsey MA (Hons), MLitt, PhD, FRHistS
Professor of the History of the Book History
- +44 (0)151 794 2383
- Work email M.R.M.Towsey@liverpool.ac.uk
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Teaching
My teaching focuses on cultural history and the social history of ideas, exploring the interaction between printed texts and the communities in which they were produced. Much of my teaching depends on close analysis of textual primary sources, but I also try to encourage my students to think about how texts were produced, disseminated, and received by historical readers. I also enjoy collaborative teaching with colleagues in other departments, and with external partners at the Liverpool Athenaeum (a library society founded in 1797) and the Decorative Arts Department at National Museums Liverpool, where eighteenth-century artefacts (snuff boxes, teapots, night shirts and the like) help students think differently about the period they study.
I have been known to teach clarinet, saxophone and chamber music in my spare time, having been a visiting teacher at St Leonard's School and Sixth Form College in St Andrews while completing my PhD.
Modules for 2021-22
FEASIBILITY STUDY
Module code: HIST504
Role: Teaching
HISTORY EXTENDED DISSERTATION
Module code: HIST399
Role: Teaching
INVENTED HISTORIES: BRITISH USES OF THE PAST, C1750-1900
Module code: HIST319
Role: Module Co-ordinator
REVOLUTION AND SOCIAL CHANGE: POLITICS, CULTURES AND SOCIETIES IN THE 18TH-CENTURY WORLD
Module code: HIST522
Role: Module Co-ordinator
THEMES IN HISTORY
Module code: HIST590
Role: Teaching
USES OF THE PAST: HISTORY IMPACT MODULE
Module code: HIST320
Role: Teaching
Supervised Theses
- About
- Research
- Publications
- Teaching
- Professional Activities