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Ms Louise Ryland-Epton

Profile summary

  • Visiting Informal Academic
  • Visiting Fellow
  • Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
  • School of Arts & Humanities
  • History
  • louise.ryland-epton

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Professional biography

I was awarded an MA with Distinction in History from the Open University in 2016. My MA project focused on a study of Cirencester workhouse under the Old Poor Law.

I am pleased to remain with the Open University for my PhD working with Professor Paul Lawrence and Dr Donna Loftus.  My current research focuses on welfare legislation in a later Georgian context and encompasses developments in local government and the interplay between the national and local state.

Research interests

Poverty and poor relief; Social History; Local History; Political History and Economic History set within the context of the Georgian period.

Publications

The Impact of Back Benchers in the Creation of Social Reform: The Indefatigable and Honourable Exertions of Mr Gilbert* (2020)
Ryland‐Epton, Louise
Parliamentary History, 39(2) (pp. 276-290)

‘The source of all local authority': the role of Gloucestershire magistrates in local government 1800-1834 (2020)
Ryland-Epton, Louise
Midland History, 45(3) (pp. 326-340)

Social Policy, Welfare Innovation & Governance in England: The Creation and Implementation of Gilbert’s Act 1782 (2020-07-21)
Ryland-Epton, Louise M.
PhD thesis The Open University