Staff profiles
Dr Merv Lewis
BA (Hons), Ph.D
Phone 0114 225 3689
E-mail m.j.lewis@shu.ac.uk
Research interests/current work
Current work (in collaboration with Professor Roger Lloyd-Jones): Book on Corporate Governance in 20th century British Manufacturing; Book chapter on the Engineering industry during the Great War, book proposal on the Engineers war: Britain 1914-18
Research collaborations
- Collaboration with Professor J Maltby -University of York - corporate governance
- Professor G Timmins UCLAN Sheffield silver platting firms 19th/20th century
Research outputs since 2001
'A New Paradigm of British Business History: A Critique of Toms and Wilson' Business History Vol. 49 No.1 (2007)
'A War of Machinery: the British Machine Tool Industry and Arming the Western Front 1914-16' Essays in Economic and Business History Vol. XXVI (2008)
'Lancashire and the Great War: The Organisation and Supply of Munitions to the Western Front' in J Wilson (ed) Essays in Honour of Professor Douglas Farnie (Crucible Books, 2008)
A history of a Sheffield firm WandG Sissons Ltd (private circulation to firm employees)
