Robert Poole (historian)

Robert Poole (born 1957) is a UK-based historian, currently professor of history at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston.

[4] He has lectured on 'Earthrise' and the cultural history of the space age in London, Washington, D.C., Lucerne,[5] Paris, Berlin, and Copenhagen, broadcast on American public radio networks,[6][7][8] and in July 2009 wrote the op-ed piece for the Los Angeles Times on the fortieth anniversary of the Lunar landing in July 1969 by Apollo 11.

[13] In early 2016 he enjoyed a Short-Term Visitor Award at the Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum, to look at the recently acquired papers of Arthur C.

[29] The introduction gave the definitive account of England's biggest peacetime witch trial, summarised in an essay for the Public Domain Review.

[30] He was historical adviser to the Lancashire Witches 400 commemoration programme,[31] including a long-distance walking trail featured in BBC History magazine,[32] and to the subsequent Documenting Dissent project about prisoners of conscience at Lancaster Castle.