George Dawson & his circle

Stephen Roberts hold the honorary positions of Associate Professor at the Australian National University and Fellow at the University of Birmingham. He lives in Birmingham, and his most recent book is an edited collection called The Dignity of Chartism: Essays by Dorothy Thompson (Verso, 2015). After a career in education, running schools and history departments, I returned to academia on retirement in 2012, studying for an M.Res at the University of Birmingham and writing a dissertation on 'Birmingham exceptionalism and the 1906 General Election.' I have spent eight years subsequently writing about Joseph Chamberlain, the Birmingham caucus, and the promotion of its civic gospel. I have written extensively on the Chamberlain family. I also wrote on Worcester and was on local television and radio talking about this book; there is a number of podcasts on Worcester and on Oswald Mosley,