Christopher Ferguson is a historian of Modern Britain, with special interests in the period c. 1780-c. 1870, urban history, autobiography and other ego documents, and material culture.
Research Interests
- history of 18th, 19th, and 20th-century Britain, the British Empire, urban history
In addition to Ferguson’s urban history research, he is also engaged in a number of side projects addressing the history of the English Christmas, the secondhand trades, collecting and collectors, the “celebrity” beggar Billy Waters, and life after dark in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries.
