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Dr Lowri Ann Rees

Senior Lecturer in Modern History

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Dr Lowri Ann Rees is one of the co-founders of the Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates. A Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the School of History, Law and Social Sciences, her teaching focuses on nineteenth century British history. Her research interests centre on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Wales, in particular the landed elite and their country estates. She has published on paternalism and rural protest, the Rebecca Riots, the land agent, new wealth and social mobility, and Welsh sojourners in India. She plays an active role within the Institute, chairing the ISWE Forum, and supervising several PhD projects.

Publications

2023

2018

  • Lowri Ann Rees, Ciaran J. Reilly and Annie Tindley (eds.), The Land Agent: 1700-1920 (Edinburgh, 2018).
     
  • Lowri Ann Rees, ‘Frustrations and fears: the impact of the Rebecca Riots on the land agent in Carmarthenshire, 1843’, in Lowri Ann Rees, Ciaran J. Reilly and Annie Tindley (eds.), The Land Agent: 1700-1920 (Edinburgh, 2018), pp. 153-67.
     
  • Lowri Ann Rees, ‘“I serve my God, and I fear not man”: The Rebecca Riots and a female landowner’s response to Welsh Rural Protest, 1843-44’, in Terence Dooley, Maeve O’Riordan and Christopher Ridgway (eds.), Women and the Country House in Ireland and Britain (Dublin, 2018).
     
  • Lowri Ann Rees, ‘Hughes, John / Jac Tŷ Isha (1819-1905)’, in Keith Gildart and David Howell (eds.), Dictionary of Labour Biography: Volume XIV (Basingstoke, 2018).

2017