Christopher Day

About

Chris is a historian of the long-19th century (1782, formation of the Home Office – around 1914). He is interested in local government and its interaction with the central administrative state, particularly with regard to the provision of public health systems. Chris is also interested in popular politics and crime in the 19th century, and the Home Office’s administrative intersection with these. He is also interested in treason prosecutions in the modern period, particularly in a colonial context.

Research activity

Chris has worked at The National Archives since 2013, previously head of the modern British records team, now in the Policy department focusing on Crown rights. His time and work at The National Archives have meant that his research interests have come to focus on the ways that recordkeeping, archival and informational practices and value judgements influence the modalities of the state from the eighteenth century through to the present.

He has an MA from Birkbeck, University of London, and is completing a part-time PhD on mid-19th-century public health governance at Nottingham Trent University (2022-present), supervised by Steven King.

Chris is a member of the List and Index Society Council.

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