Dr Richard Marsden
Academic Publications
Marsden, R. (2013, forthcoming), Cartularies and Calotypes: Cosmo Innes and the Defence of Scotland’s Past c. 1825-1875, Farnham, Ashgate Press
Marsden, R. (2012), ‘Gerald of Wales; Welsh patriot or English Imperialist?’, in Heroes and Villains in Wales: a new History of Wales, H. Bowen (ed.), Llandysul, Gomer Press, pp. 45-51. Click here for more information
Marsden, R. (2012,), ‘Review Essay: Alex Benchimol, Intellectual Politics and Cultural Conflicts in the Romantic Period (2010); Richard J. Hill, Picturing Scotland through the Waverley Novels (2012), Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture 1780-1840, issue 20, pp. 74-8, available online here (open access).
Marsden R. (2011), ‘Gerald of Wales and competing interpretations of the Welsh Middle Ages c. 1870-1910’, Welsh History Review 25, pp. 18-49, available online here (login required).
Brough, G and Marsden, R. (2011), ‘Anglo-Welsh wars (1067-1415)’ in The Encyclopaedia of War, Martel, G. (ed.), Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, vol. I, pp. 102-6, available online here (login required).
Brough, G and Marsden, R. (2011), ‘Llywelyn the Great (c.1173-1240)’ in The Encyclopaedia of War, Martel, G. (ed.), Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, vol. III, pp. 1262-3, available online here (login required).
Brough, G and Marsden, R. (2011), ‘Gwynedd, Owain (r.1137-1170)’ in The Encyclopaedia of War, Martel, G. (ed.), Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, vol. II, pp. 967-9 available online here (login required).
Brough, G and Marsden, R. (2011), ‘Rhys ap Gruffudd (1132-1197)’ in The Encyclopaedia of War, Martel, G. (ed.), Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, vol. IV, pp. 1815-8, available online here (login required).
Marsden, R. (2011), ‘Jacobite rising (1745–46)’ in The Encyclopaedia of War, Martel, G. (ed.), Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, vol. I, pp. 1124-6, available online here (login required).
Marsden, R. (2011), ‘Stuart, Charles Edward (“Bonnie Prince Charlie”) (1720–88)’ in The Encyclopaedia of War, Martel, G. (ed.), Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, vol. IV, pp. 2094-6, available online here (login required).
Marsden, R. (2011), ‘Review of National Museums - New Studies from Around the World, edited by S. Knell, P. Aronssson, A. Amundsen, P, A. Barnes, S. Burch, J. Carter, V. Gosselin, S. Hughes and A. Kirwan’, Journal for the Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites 13.1, pp. 84-5, available online here (open access).
Marsden, R. (2010), ‘Review of Wyatt, D., Slaves and Warriors in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland, 800-1200’, Kelvingrove Review 5, available online here (open access).
Marsden, R. (2010), ‘Scottish burgh record scholarship c. 1830-1880’ in Further from the Frontiers: Cross-currents in Irish and Scottish Studies, McNair, A. and Ryder, J. (eds.), Aberdeen, AHRC Centre for Scottish and Irish Studies, pp. 75-87. Click here for more information.
Marsden, R. (2008), ‘Editing the past; Cosmo Innes and the Scottish medieval church’, in Signs, Symbols and Words; Proceedings of the Cardiff University Reading Conference 2007, Smith A., Tennant, K. and Webb, J. (eds.), Cardiff, Cardiff University Humanities Research Institute, pp. 13-30, available online here (open access)..
Marsden, R. (2004), ‘Race and imperialism: twelfth-century English attitudes towards Scotland’, in A Panorama of Scottish History: Contemporary Considerations, Kehoe, S. and MacPhail, I. (eds.), Glasgow, Glasgow University Press, pp. 10-23.
Research Papers
Marsden, R. (February 2011), ‘Living the past; the digital heritage of Second Life’, Linking the Chain; a Network for Digital Heritage in Wales, National Museum of Wales. Click here for a review of the paper.
Marsden, R. (July 2009), ‘Parliament, progress and the past in nineteenth-century Scotland’, Past vs. Present Conference, British Association for Victorian Studies at Churchill College Cambridge. Click here for a report on the conference including a review of the paper.
Marsden, R. (April 2008), ‘Medieval municipality through nineteenth-century eyes’, Seventh Annual Crosscurrents Conference, Strathclyde University
Marsden, R. (June 2007), ‘Reading the past; Cosmo Innes and Scottish medieval cartularies’, Reading Images, Texts and Artefacts Conference, Cardiff University
Marsden, R. (May 2007), ‘Cosmo Innes and his vision of the Scottish medieval church’, Visions of the Past Conference, Glasgow University
Marsden, R. (June 2005), ‘Walter Bower’s Scottichronicon and two nineteenth-century historians’, Postgraduate Research Forum, Glasgow University
Marsden, R. (March 2003), ‘Race and imperialism: twelfth-century English attitudes towards Scotland’, Scot land’s World Conference, Glasgow University
Marsden, R. (February 2002), ‘When cultures collide; cultural antipathy between England and the ‘Celtic’ societies in the Middle Ages’, Gregynog Medieval Colloquium, University of Wales
Marsden, R. (June 2001), ‘The Vita Sanctæ Margaretæ: A case study in the analysis of medieval hagiography’, St Martin’s Conference, Nottingham University.
Pedagogic Presentations
Marsden, R. (September 2012), ‘Exploring the Past: widening participation and meaningful progression in the historical disciplines’, Teaching History in Higher Education Conference, Higher Education Academy, Institute of Historical Research.
Hofman, D. & Marsden, R. (June 2011), ‘Skills training by stealth: embedding academic skills in subject specific content’, Associate Tutor Conference, Cardiff University Centre for Lifelong Learning.
Impact and Engagement Activities
In June 2012 I took part in a public debate with historians Peter Stead and Huw Bowen, along with broadcaster Guto Harri, at the Hay Literary Festival. Click here to read Guto’s thoughts on the session
In May 2012 I was interviewed along with Dr Alun Withey of Swansea University on the Roy Noble Show on BBC Radio Wales.
Marsden R. (2012), ‘The architectural photography of Cosmo Innes’, a feature article in the History Scotland magazine, vol 12, issue 3, pp. 30-5. Click here to purchase a copy.
In March 2012 I contributed to a podcast on digital literacy in universities, put together and hosted by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).
From February 2012 I took on co-chairing and co-organising responsibilities for a monthly series of public lectures in the Humanities called Discovering the Past and Present at Cardiff University’s Centre for Lifelong Learning. Click here to see this year’s stimulating programme.
In June 2011 I organised a community-focused event called Poets Encounter Illness, featuring award-winning poets Gwyneth Lewis and Philip Gross. This was as part of my work on the Off Sick Project at the University of Glamorgan. Click here for more information on the project.
Marsden, R. (25 March 2011), ‘Gerald of Wales: patriotic Welshman or arrogant agent of English imperialism?’ part of the Heroes and Villains of Welsh History series in the Western Mail, pp. 27-9., available online here (open access).
Marsden, R., Waddington, K. & Willis M. (November 2011), ‘Illness narratives in history and literature’, an interactive public workshop held at the National History Museum at St Fagans as part of Cardiff University’s Lifestories community engagement event.
Marsden, R. (16 November 2010), ‘Time to consign this view of the past to the history books’, opp. ed. article in the Western Mail, p. 18, available online here (open access).
In November and December 2010 I ran a series of public workshops as part of a collaborative project between the Open University and the BBC called Hands on History; the High Street. These were held in Aberystwyth, Wrexham and Merthyr Tydfil
From January to March 2010 I taught a six-week course on behalf of the Open University called Discovering Welsh History. This was delivered to job-seekers in the Ely area of Cardiff and designed to equip them to study at undergraduate level
In December 2009 I delivered a Welsh history workshop for the Open University to members of the Chinese community in the Grangetown area of Cardiff.
Between August and November 2009 I ran a series of public taster sessions on Welsh history for the Open University. These were held at various venues across South Wales including Cardiff Central library and Caerphilly Castle
Marsden, R. (May 2009), ‘Parliament and the past in Scotland and England c. 1800-1875’, lecture delivered at an outreach conference called History, Archaeology, Politics and Identity; Exploring the Dynamics of the Past, hosted by Cardiff University’s Centre for Lifelong Learning
In the 2008 and 2009 I delivered a series of history summer schools for 13 and 14 year olds from around South Wales, These were hosted by Cardiff Metropolitan University as part of the First Campus scheme
Marsden, R. (May 2007), ‘Medieval cultural imperialism; the Normans in twelfth-century Wales’, lecture delivered to the Radyr Local History Society, Cardiff
Marsden, R. (February 2006), ‘The making of Braveheart; William Wallace from the fourteenth century to the present day’, lecture delivered in the community-focused Forum Discovering the Past and Present at Cardiff University’s Centre for Lifelong Learning
Marsden, R. (October 2004), ‘Imperialistic views of the medieval past; nineteenth-century historians and Wales’, lecture delivered in the community-focused Forum Discovering the Past and Present at Cardiff University’s Centre for Lifelong Learning.