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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 吾爱吃瓜, 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.听

You can follow Dr Rees on Twitter @LowriAnnRees

01248 382248

l.a.rees@bangor.ac.uk

Areas of teaching

Dr Rees鈥� 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

Publications

Articles

• 鈥淎spire, persevere and indulge not鈥�: new wealth and gentry society in Wales, c.1760-1840, Rural History (2023).
• 鈥榃elsh sojourners in India: the East India Company, networks and patronage, c.1760-1840鈥�, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 45:2 (2017), pp. 165-87
• 鈥楶aternalism and rural protest: the Rebecca riots and the landed interest of south-west Wales鈥�,听Agricultural History Review, lix, 1 (2011), pp. 36鈥�60
• 鈥樷�漈he Wail of Miss Jane鈥�: the Rebecca Riots and Jane Walters of Glanmedeni, 1843鈥�44鈥�,听Ceredigion, xv, 3 (2007), pp. 37鈥�68
• 鈥楻eligious beliefs and drinking habits at Middleton Hall, 1825鈥�75鈥�,听Carmarthenshire Antiquarian, xlii (2006), pp. 56鈥�68

Books

• Lowri Ann Rees (ed.), The Middleman at Middleton Hall: The Letters of Thomas Herbert Cooke, Land Agent in Rebecca鈥檚 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

• 鈥業ntroduction鈥�, in Lowri Ann Rees, Ciaran J. Reilly and Annie Tindley (eds), The Land Agent: 1700-1920 (Edinburgh University Press, 2018)
• 鈥楩rustrations and fears: the impact of the Rebecca Riots on the land agent in Carmarthenshire, 1843鈥�, in Lowri Ann Rees, Ciaran J. Reilly and Annie Tindley (eds), The Land Agent: 1700-1920 (Edinburgh University Press, 2018)
• 鈥楶ostscript: the land agent in fiction鈥�, in Lowri Ann Rees, Ciaran J. Reilly and Annie Tindley (eds), The Land Agent: 1700-1920 (Edinburgh University Press, 2018)
• 鈥樷�淚 serve my God, and I fear not man鈥�: the Rebecca Riots and a female landowner鈥檚 response to Welsh rural protest, 1843-44鈥�, in Terence Dooley, Maeve O鈥橰iordan and Christopher Ridgway (eds), Women and the Country House in Ireland and Britain (Four Courts Press, 2018)
• 鈥楬ughes, John / Jac T欧 Isha (1819-1905)鈥�, Dictionary of Labour Biography (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) c.5,000 words
• 鈥楳ight and spite: the former Middleton Hall estate鈥� in H. V. Bowen (ed.), Buildings and Places in Welsh History: A New History of Wales (Gwasg Gomer, 2013).

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Further publications

• (ed.), Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society (2018)
• 鈥楾he Amlwch Riots of 1817: a bicentennial summary鈥�, Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society (2017), pp. 64-68.
• (ed.), Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society (2017)
• 鈥楾aboo: working for the East India Company could make you rich... or dead鈥�, The Conversation (10 February 2017); republished in the Western Mail (15 February 2017)
• Western Mail听A New History of Wales series 鈥榃omen in Welsh History: Jane Walters of Glanmedeni and the Rebecca Riots鈥� (26 January 2017) also published on Wales Online
• (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听A New History of Wales series 鈥�100 photographs in Welsh History: Paxton鈥檚 Tower, Singleton Abbey and David Davies鈥� (2 October 2014) also published on Wales Online
• 鈥楢berglasney鈥�, case study for the East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 project website (June 2014)
• 鈥楳iddleton Hall鈥�, case study for the East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 project website (June 2014)
• Western Mail听A New History of Wales series 鈥極bjects in Welsh History: The tollgate鈥� (7 May 2013) also published on Wales Online
• Western Mail听A New History of Wales series 鈥楤uildings and Places in Welsh History: Middleton Hall鈥� (4 April 2012) also published on Wales Online
• 鈥楾aw ar y News of the World鈥�, Barn (September 2011)
• Book reviews for听Reviews in History,听Welsh History Review,听The Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society, Ceredigion and听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鈥檚 Archive Wales annual conference, online (October 2021).
• Britain and the World annual conference, online (June 2021).
• Women鈥檚 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鈥檚 History Month 10-minute lightening talks 鈥榃omen鈥檚 Voices, Voices of Women鈥�, School of History and Archaeology, 吾爱吃瓜 (March 2018)
• Day school 鈥楬istory on the Hill: Hidden Histories of 吾爱吃瓜鈥� (November 2017)
• Women鈥檚 Archive Wales annual conference, 吾爱吃瓜 (October 2016)
• International conference of the North American Association for the 吾爱吃瓜 of Welsh Culture and History (NAASWCH), Harvard, Cambridge MA (July 2016)
• ESRC funded workshop 鈥楽ojourners, Economic Migrants, Expats: Migrations in Global Perspective鈥�, Northumbria University (June 2016)
• 鈥楾he Land Agent in transnational context鈥� workshop at Dundee University (October 2015) co-organiser
• 鈥楾he South Wales Squires鈥� 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 吾爱吃瓜 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 吾爱吃瓜 of Welsh Estates (ISWE) research seminar (March 2014) organiser
• Aberystwyth University organised conference 鈥楥onsumption, 1650-1850鈥� at Gregynog Hall (February 2014)
• Land and Power day school at 吾爱吃瓜 (July 2013) organiser
• Community, Cohesion and Social Stability: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, 吾爱吃瓜 (September 2012)
• Researching Welsh Family Archives c.1500鈥�1850, Gloddaith Hall, Llandudno (August 2011)
• International conference of the North American Association for the 吾爱吃瓜 of Welsh Culture and History (NAASWCH), 吾爱吃瓜 (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)
• 吾爱吃瓜 History Research Seminar (October 2010)
• International conference of the North American Association for the 吾爱吃瓜 of Welsh Culture and History (NAASWCH), Marymount University, Washington DC (July 2010)
• Visiting Rites: Accessing the English Home, c.1650鈥�1850, University of Northampton (September 2009)
• Edward Lhuyd International Conference, Aberystwyth (June/July 2009)

2024

• Published
  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 鈥� Conference article 鈥� peer-review

2023

• Published
  Rees, L. A., 2023, South Wales Record Society. (South Wales Record Society publication; no. 36)
  Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book 鈥� peer-review
• Published
  Rees, L. A., Oct 2023, In: Rural History. 34, 2, p. 262-277 16 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review

2018

• Published
  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 鈥� Chapter 鈥� peer-review
• Published
  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 鈥� Chapter 鈥� peer-review
• Published
  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 鈥� Book 鈥� peer-review

2017

• Published
  Rees, L., Mar 2017, In: Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. 45, 2, p. 165-187
  Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
• Published
  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 鈥� Chapter 鈥� peer-review

2013

• Published
  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 鈥� Chapter

2011

• Published
  Rees, L. A., 1 Jun 2011, In: Agricultural History Review. 59, 1, p. 36-60
  Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review

2007

• Published
  Rees, L., 1 Sept 2007, In: Ceredigion. 15, 3, p. 37-68 31 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article

2006

• Published
  Rees, L., 1 Sept 2006, In: Carmarthenshire Antiquarian. 42, p. 56-68 12 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article

2023

• Reflection on teaching/employability initiative

  25 Jul 2023

  Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)