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Margaret Farrington: Sociability and Sanity in Georgian England (2022)
Journal Article
Pears, R. (2022). Margaret Farrington: Sociability and Sanity in Georgian England. Northern History, 59(2), 194-215. https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172x.2022.2116743

Margaret Farrington was a single woman declared to be a lunatic in 1765 and moved with legal authority from a fashionable London residence to lodgings in her home town, Newcastle upon Tyne. Analysis of her possessions in an inventory and biographical... Read More about Margaret Farrington: Sociability and Sanity in Georgian England.

A Council at War: Whickham Urban District Council 1939-45 (2019)
Journal Article
Pears, R. (2019). A Council at War: Whickham Urban District Council 1939-45. Northern History, 56(1-2), 117-137. https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172x.2019.1660065

This article will examine the responses to the dangers of the Second World War by a local authority in north-east England, Whickham Urban District Council. Councillors and officials received guidance from central Government, Durham County Council and... Read More about A Council at War: Whickham Urban District Council 1939-45.

Higher Education student pathways to ebook usage and engagement, and understanding: Highways and cul de sacs (2019)
Journal Article
Casselden, B., & Pears, R. (2020). Higher Education student pathways to ebook usage and engagement, and understanding: Highways and cul de sacs. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 52(2), 601-619. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000619841429

Ebooks have enthusiastically been adopted by academic libraries, viewed as a golden bullet by library professionals, resulting in efficient resource use, space saving, student satisfaction and accommodating millennial generation study habits. A small... Read More about Higher Education student pathways to ebook usage and engagement, and understanding: Highways and cul de sacs.

Auckland and Durham Castles in the Eighteenth Century (2017)
Book Chapter
Eighteenth Century. In D. Rollason (Ed.), Princes of the Church: Bishops and Their Palaces (615-641). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315229553

This chapter examines how the bishops' aspirations for contemporary secular amenities were incorporated in buildings that also had episcopal requirements. It suggests that the former were the principal focus of eighteenth-century modifications to Dur... Read More about Auckland and Durham Castles in the Eighteenth Century.

Cite them right: the essential referencing guide. (2016)
Book
Pears, R., & Shields, G. (2016). Cite them right: the essential referencing guide. (10th ed.). Palgrave Macmillan

A guide to referencing every available information source using Harvard referencing style. Also includes examples of major sources in APA, MLA, MHRA and OSCOLA referencing styles. Guidance on avoiding plagiarism in academic writing.

Anderson Place, Newcastle upon Tyne (2015)
Journal Article
Pears, R., & Atherton, B. (in press). Anderson Place, Newcastle upon Tyne. Archaeologia Aeliana, 5th series(44), 175-224