Dr Lowri Ann Rees
Senior Lecturer in Modern History
Overview
Dr Rees completed her BA, MA and PhD in History at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. A Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the School of History, Law and Social Sciences, her teaching focuses on nineteenth century British history. She completed her Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education at Bangor University, and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. 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.
You can follow Dr Rees on Twitter @LowriAnnRees
Additional Contact Information
01248 382248
l.a.rees@bangor.ac.uk
Teaching and Supervision
Areas of teaching
Dr Rees’ teaching concentrates on the history of Britain during the nineteenth century.
Undergraduate:
Part One
- Wales in the Modern World (team-taught module)
- Cymru yn y Byd Modern (team-taught module)
Part Two
- The Age of Reform: Britain 1770-1835
- History Through Objects
- Victorian Britain, 1837-1901
- Country House Life
- Dissertation module lead and supervisor
Postgraduate:
Taught MA
- Reinterpreting the Country House
- Themes and Issues (module lead)
- Documents and Sources: Modern (contributor)
- MA dissertation supervision
Research Interests
Publications
Articles
- “Aspire, persevere and indulge not”: new wealth and gentry society in Wales, c.1760-1840, Rural History (2023).
- ‘Welsh sojourners in India: the East India Company, networks and patronage, c.1760-1840’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 45:2 (2017), pp. 165-87
- ‘Paternalism and rural protest: the Rebecca riots and the landed interest of south-west Wales’, Agricultural History Review, lix, 1 (2011), pp. 36–60
- ‘”The Wail of Miss Jane”: the Rebecca Riots and Jane Walters of Glanmedeni, 1843–44’, Ceredigion, xv, 3 (2007), pp. 37–68
- ‘Religious beliefs and drinking habits at Middleton Hall, 1825–75’, Carmarthenshire Antiquarian, xlii (2006), pp. 56–68
Books
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Lowri Ann Rees (ed.), The Middleman at Middleton Hall: The Letters of Thomas Herbert Cooke, Land Agent in Rebecca’s Carmarthenshire, 1841-1847 (South Wales Record Society, 2023).
- Lowri Ann Rees, Ciaran J. Reilly and Annie Tindley (eds), The Land Agent: 1700-1920 (Edinburgh University Press, 2018)
Book sections
- ‘Introduction’, in Lowri Ann Rees, Ciaran J. Reilly and Annie Tindley (eds), The Land Agent: 1700-1920 (Edinburgh University Press, 2018)
- ‘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 University Press, 2018)
- ‘Postscript: the land agent in fiction’, in Lowri Ann Rees, Ciaran J. Reilly and Annie Tindley (eds), The Land Agent: 1700-1920 (Edinburgh University Press, 2018)
- ‘“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 (Four Courts Press, 2018)
- ‘Hughes, John / Jac Tŷ Isha (1819-1905)’, Dictionary of Labour Biography (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) c.5,000 words
- ‘Might and spite: the former Middleton Hall estate’ in H. V. Bowen (ed.), Buildings and Places in Welsh History: A New History of Wales (Gwasg Gomer, 2013).
Further publications
- (ed.), Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society (2018)
- ‘The Amlwch Riots of 1817: a bicentennial summary’, Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society (2017), pp. 64-68.
- (ed.), Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society (2017)
- ‘Taboo: working for the East India Company could make you rich... or dead’, The Conversation https://theconversation.com/taboo-working-for-the-east-india-company-could-make-you-rich-or-dead-72764 (10 February 2017); republished in the Western Mail (15 February 2017)
- Western Mail A New History of Wales series ‘Women in Welsh History: Jane Walters of Glanmedeni and the Rebecca Riots’ (26 January 2017) also published on Wales Online http://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/woman-who-dared-stand-up-12596830
- (ed.), Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society (2015-16)
- Commentary piece on the last invasion of mainland Britain, 1797, in BBC History Magazine (February 2015)
- Western Mail A New History of Wales series ‘100 photographs in Welsh History: Paxton’s Tower, Singleton Abbey and David Davies’ (2 October 2014) also published on Wales Online http://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/welsh-history-month-paxtons-tower-7869543 http://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/welsh-history-month-singleton-abbey-7869626 http://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/welsh-history-month-david-davies-7869742
- ‘Aberglasney’, case study for the East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 project website http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/eicah/aberglasney-case-study/ (June 2014)
- ‘Middleton Hall’, case study for the East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 project website http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/eicah/middleton-hall-case-study/ (June 2014)
- Western Mail A New History of Wales series ‘Objects in Welsh History: The tollgate’ (7 May 2013) also published on Wales Online http://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/welsh-history-month-the-tollgate-3415361
- Western Mail A New History of Wales series ‘Buildings and Places in Welsh History: Middleton Hall’ (4 April 2012) also published on Wales Online http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/welsh-history-month-middleton-hall-2046460
- ‘Taw ar y News of the World’, Barn (September 2011)
- Book reviews for Reviews in History, Welsh History Review, The Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society, Ceredigion and Gwales.
Select conference and invited papers
- Invited paper at Wales and the World conference, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter (June 2022).
- Lecture for the Anglesey Antiquarian Society, online (February 2022).
- Women’s Archive Wales annual conference, online (October 2021).
- Britain and the World annual conference, online (June 2021).
- Women’s Archive Wales annual conference, online (October 2020).
- Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Day School, Carmarthen (February 2020).
- Lecture for the Anglesey Antiquarian Society (November 2018)
- CELT annual conference (September 2018)
- Women’s History Month 10-minute lightening talks ‘Women’s Voices, Voices of Women’, School of History and Archaeology, Bangor University (March 2018)
- Day school ‘History on the Hill: Hidden Histories of Bangor University’ (November 2017)
- Women’s Archive Wales annual conference, Bangor University (October 2016)
- International conference of the North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History (NAASWCH), Harvard, Cambridge MA (July 2016)
- ESRC funded workshop ‘Sojourners, Economic Migrants, Expats: Migrations in Global Perspective’, Northumbria University (June 2016)
- ‘The Land Agent in transnational context’ workshop at Dundee University (October 2015) co-organiser
- ‘The South Wales Squires’ ISWE day school at the National Botanic Garden of Wales (June 2015) organiser
- Yorkshire Country House Partnership seminar (February 2015)
- Lecture for Y Fainc Sglodion society, Blaenau Ffestiniog (October 2014)
- Welsh History Forum annual lecture at the National Eisteddfod, Llanelli (August 2014)
- International conference of the North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History (NAASWCH), Kingston ON, Canada (July 2014)
- The East India Company at Home end of project conference, University College London (July 2014)
- Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates (ISWE) research seminar (March 2014) organiser
- Aberystwyth University organised conference ‘Consumption, 1650-1850’ at Gregynog Hall (February 2014)
- Land and Power day school at Bangor University (July 2013) organiser
- Community, Cohesion and Social Stability: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Bangor University (September 2012)
- Researching Welsh Family Archives c.1500–1850, Gloddaith Hall, Llandudno (August 2011)
- International conference of the North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History (NAASWCH), Bangor University (July 2012)
- Inaugural Bangor Conference of Celtic Studies (July 2012)
- Annual conference of the Social History Society, University of Manchester (April 2011)
- Aberystwyth University History Research Seminar (November 2010)
- Bangor University History Research Seminar (October 2010)
- International conference of the North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History (NAASWCH), Marymount University, Washington DC (July 2010)
- Visiting Rites: Accessing the English Home, c.1650–1850, University of Northampton (September 2009)
- Edward Lhuyd International Conference, Aberystwyth (June/July 2009)
Publications
2024
- PublishedCo-production and collaboration: Academic practitioner reflections on undergraduate internship schemes in History
Rees, L. A. & Collinson, M., 2024, In: Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability. 15, 1, p. 249-254 6 p., 14.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review
2023
- PublishedThe Middleman at Middleton Hall: The Letters of Thomas Herbert Cooke, Land Agent in Rebecca's Carmarthenshire, 1841-1847
Rees, L. A., 2023, South Wales Record Society. (South Wales Record Society publication; no. 36)
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review - Published‘Aspire, persevere and indulge not’: new wealth and gentry society in Wales, c. 1760–1840
Rees, L. A., Oct 2023, In: Rural History. 34, 2, p. 262-277 16 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2018
- PublishedFrustrations and fears: the impact of the Rebecca Riots on the land agent in Carmarthenshire, 1843
Rees, L. A., 30 Jun 2018, The Land Agent: 1700-1920. Tindley, A., Rees, L. A. & Reilly, C. J. (eds.). Edinburgh University Press
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review - PublishedHughes, John (Jac Ty Isha) 1819-1905
Rees, L., 13 Mar 2018, Dictionary of Labour Biography. Gildart, K. & Howell, D. (eds.). 1st ed. Palgrave
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review - PublishedThe Land Agent: 1700-1920
Tindley, A. (Editor), Rees, L. A. (Editor) & Reilly , C. J. (Editor), 30 Jun 2018, illustrated edition ed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 256 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
2017
- PublishedWelsh sojourners to India: the East India Company, networks and patronage, c.1760-1840
Rees, L., Mar 2017, In: Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. 45, 2, p. 165-187
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - Published‘Poor deluded creatures?’ Patriarchal perceptions of Welsh rural protest from the letters of Miss Jane Walters, 1843-4
Rees, L., 30 Nov 2017, Women and the Country House in Ireland and Britain. Dooley, T., O'Riordan, M. & Ridgway, C. (eds.). Four Courts Press
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
2013
- PublishedMight and spite: The former Middleton Hall estate
Rees, L., 2013, Buildings and Places in Welsh History: A New History of Wales. Bowen, H. V. (ed.). Gwasg Gomer, p. 90-98
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2011
- PublishedPaternalism and rural protest: the Rebecca riots and the landed interest of south-west Wales
Rees, L. A., 1 Jun 2011, In: Agricultural History Review. 59, 1, p. 36-60
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2007
- Published”The Wail of Miss Jane”: the Rebecca Riots and Jane Walters of Glanmedeni, 1843–44
Rees, L., 1 Sept 2007, In: Ceredigion. 15, 3, p. 37-68 31 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
2006
- PublishedReligious beliefs and drinking habits at Middleton Hall, 1825–75
Rees, L., 1 Sept 2006, In: Carmarthenshire Antiquarian. 42, p. 56-68 12 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Activities
2023
- Scholarly methods as employable skills: reimagining undergraduate research assistance as a mutually beneficial process
Reflection on teaching/employability initiative
25 Jul 2023
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)