Ian Beattie

Ian Beattie is a social historian of the nineteenth century. Interested in the origins of the ways we are governed, he studies how industrialization initiated and guided the growth of the modern state. He lives in Montreal, where he works as a researcher at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. His PhD, completed at McGill University in 2021, was a case study of the growth of government in industrial Manchester, and his writing has appeared in History Workshop Journal, Cercles, and Maisonneuve.