Richard Marks

Dr Richard Marks is a professional freelance historian and researcher. His main areas of research are industrial and manufacturing history including railways. Richard also works in military history.

Richard had previously spent a long career working in technology as a system engineer working with British manufacturing companies across a broad range of sectors, giving him an in-depth knowledge of industry and business, which has proved valuable in interpreting economic history.

Richard's PhD thesis looked at the relationship between Victorian railways and the industrialisation of rural counties in the nineteenth century.