Profile
Biography
Allen Warren joined the Department of History in 1971 from the University of Oxford and remained a member until his full retirement in 2011, including a period as its Head from 1996 until 2003. Over that period, he had a number of areas of historical research interest in modern British and Irish History.
In addition, in 1999 (along with Dr Christopher Ridgway, Curator at Castle Howard) he founded the Yorkshire Country House Partnership, a research collaboration between the University and the historic houses of Yorkshire. The first of its type, it has been the model for other such collaborations at the University of Oxford, and in Scotland, Wales and Ireland, with links to European historic houses.
Publications
Full publications list
The research publications listed below reflect his interests in Anglo-Irish politics, the history of youth movements in the UK, especially the Scouts and Guides, the history of the Church of England and of UK universities. He is still active in these fields and is happy to be contacted by other interested researchers in these areas through his institutional email – allen.warren@york.ac.uk
Not including reviews.
Articles and book chapters
- 2021: ‘A poor man’s Oxbridge?’: The founding of the University of York, 1960-73’, in Utopian Universities: a global history of the new campuses in the 1960s, eds. Jill Pellew and Miles Taylor, (London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021), pp. 73-88.
- 2019: ‘Open Spaces, the landed classes and the Boy Scouts, 1908-1939’ in Sport and Leisure and the British Country House, eds. Terence Dooley and Christopher Ridgway, (Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2019), pp.258-276.
- 2012: ‘Gladstone, Finance and the Problems of Ireland, 1853-66’ in William Gladstone: new studies and perspectives, eds. Roland Quinault, Roger Swift and Ruth Clayton Windscheffel, (Farnham : Ashgate 2012), pp.199-218.
- 2011: ‘The twilight of the Ascendancy and the big house: a view from the twenty-first century’ in The Irish country house: its past, present and future, eds. Terence A.M. Dooley and Christopher Ridgway, (Dublin, Four Courts 2011), pp.244-256.
- 2009: ‘The Yorkshire Country House Partnership’, Christopher Ridgway and Allen Warren, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 81 (2009), pp.351-54.
- 2007: ‘Lord Salisbury and Ireland, 1859 -87: Principles, Ambitions and Strategies’, Parliamentary History, 26,2, (2007), pp.203-24.
- 2007: ‘Palmerston, the Whigs and the government of Ireland,1855-1866’ in Palmerston Studies I, eds. David Brown and Miles Taylor, (Southampton, Hartley Institute, University of Southampton, 2007), pp.95-126.
- 2005: ‘Collaborative opportunities for the study of the country house: the Yorkshire Country House Partnership’, Christopher Ridgway and Allen Warren, Historical Research, 78, 200, 2005, pp. 162-79.
- 2005: ‘Dublin Castle, Whitehall, and the formation of Irish policy, 1879-92’, Irish Historical Studies, 34,136, 2005, pp.403-430.
- 2000: ‘Baden-Powell: two lives of a hero, or two heroic lives?’ in Heroic reputations and exemplary lives, in eds. Geoffrey Cubitt and Allen Warren, York Studies in Cultural History, (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2000), pp.123-41.
- 2000: ‘Disraeli, the Conservatives and the national church, 1837-1881’ Parliamentary History, 19, 2000, pp. 96-117.
- 1999: ‘Disraeli, the Conservatives and the government of Ireland; part 1, 1837-1868’, Parliamentary History, 18, 1999, pp.45-64.
- 1999: ‘Disraeli, the Conservatives and the government of Ireland; part 2, 1868-1881’, Parliamentary History, 18, 1999, pp.145-67.
- 1992: ‘What Future the Church of England? The Challenge of the Decade of Evangelism’ in ed. Allen Warren, A Church for the Nation: Essays on the Future of Anglicanism, (Leominster, Gracewing Books, 1992), pp. 1-37.
- 1992: ‘The Crockford’s Preface: an Historian’s Perspective’ in ed. Allen Warren, A Church for the Nation: Essays on the Future of Anglicanism, (Leominster, Gracewing Books, 1992), pp.129-50.
- 1993: ‘Sport, Youth and Gender in Britain, 1880-1940’ in eds. J. C. Binfield and John Stevenson, Sport, Culture and Politics, (Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, 1993), pp.49-71.
- 1991: ‘Popular Manliness: Baden- Powell, scouting and the development of manly character’ in eds. J. A. Mangan and James Walvin, Manliness and morality: middle class masculinity in Britain and America, 1800-1940, (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1991), pp.199-219.
- 1990: ‘Mothers for the Empire? The Girl Guides Association in Britain, 1909-1939’ in ed. J. A. Mangan, Making Imperial Mentalities: Socialisation and British Imperialism (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1990), pp.96-109.
- 1987: ‘Baden-Powell: a final comment’, English Historical Review, 102, 400, 948-50, 1987. (Comment)
- 1986: ‘Citizens of the Empire: Baden-Powell, Scouts and Guides and an Imperial Ideal, 1900-40’ in ed. John MacDonald Mackenzie, Imperialism and Popular Culture’, (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1986), pp.232-256.
- 1986: ‘Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the Scout movement and citizen training in Great Britain, 1900-1920’, English Historical Review, 101, 399, 1986, 376-98.
- 1983: ‘Gladstone, land and social reconstruction in Ireland, 1881-1887’, Parliamentary History, 2, pp.153-73. 1983.
Books
- 2021: Keynsham and its Scouts, 1909-1975, (York, Quacks Books, 7 Grape Lane, Petergate, York YO1 7HU, 2021), pp.127. (Book ISBN 978-1-912728-37-4)
- 2017: Eric James and the founding of the University of York, (Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, University of York, Heslington, York 2017), Borthwick Paper 126, pp. 159, pp.159. (Book ISBN: 978-1-904497-61-5)
- 2009: ‘Understanding Scouting and Guiding after a hundred years’ in eds. Nelson R. Block and Tammy M. Proctor, Scouting Frontiers: Youth and the Scout Movement’s First Century (Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars, 2009), pp. xi-xxii.
- 2004: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, eds. H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004) – Entries on Cowper, Francis Thomas de Grey, 7th Earl Cowper (1834-1905), Forster, William Edward (1818-1886), Lefevre, George John Shaw-, Baron Eversley (1831-1928), Powell, Olave St Clair Baden-, Lady Baden-Powell (1889-1977), Powell, Robert Stephenson Baden-, first Baron Baden-Powell (1857-1941).
