Alastair is Professor of Historical Geography and Head of the School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London. Focusing on post-1800 Britain, his past work has spanned a range of topics including projects on families, wealth and inheritance; gender and property; and home and material culture. Alastair’s current research explores the role of the Anglican Church in responding to the so-called ‘crisis of the inner city’ in London and Liverpool in the later twentieth century through a particular focus on clergy homes – vicarages and parsonages – as sites for an outward-facing and engaged form of urban ministry. Alastair is working on the ‘Documenting Home’ project strand.