IHR annual report 2009-10 - Institute of Historical Research

Annual Report
2009–10
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Contents
Introduction from the Director 2
Institute of Historical Research 4
Council, Staff, Fellows and Associates of the Institute
Advisory Council 5
The IHR Trust 6
Staff of the Institute of Historical Research 7
Director’s Office 7
Library 7
Premises 7
Development 7
Publications 7
Victoria County History 8
Victoria County History: County Staff 8
Centre for Metropolitan History 10
IHR Research Students 11
Fellows of the Institute 14
Honorary Fellows 14
Senior Fellows 15
Junior Research Fellows 16
Associate Fellows 17
Visiting Fellows 17
Reports: Heads of Department
Centre for Contemporary British History 18
Centre for Metropolitan History 20
Library 22
Publications 22
Victoria County History 24
Activities
Academic and Professional Activities of Staff 26
Activities and Publications of Fellows 32
History Lab 37
History Lab Plus 38
History & Policy 39
Events at the Institute
IHR Seminar Programme 40
Training Courses 44
Public Lectures Organised by the Institute 46
Groups which held Meetings/Conferences at the Institute 47
Conferences Organised by the Institute 48
Accounts and Membership
Accounts 50
Membership 50
Friends of the IHR 50
Appendix 1: IHR Seminar Programme 51
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Introduction from the Director
The IHR had its usual busy year in 2009–10. The 79 th Anglo-American conference on the theme of ‘Environments’
was held 1–2 July 2010, drawing over 300 delegates and attracting much media interest. The IHR also ran its usual
cycle of annual lectures: the Creighton Lecture, given by Professor Robert Service, Oxford, on 18 November; the
Fellows’ Lecture by Daniel Snowman on 1 June; the Marc Fitch Lecture by Professor Steve Hindle, Warwick, on 28
June; and the Pimlott Lecture by Professor Frank Mort, University of Manchester, on 8 July. The CMH organised a
number of workshops and conferences, including ‘London, the Thames and Water’ (16 October), and ‘Cities and
Nationalisms’ (17–18 June 2010). The CCBH held its annual conference on ‘The 1970s’ (7–9 July). Throughout the
year the IHR has maintained its overseas connections, via the North American Conference on British Studies, the
Anglo-Japanese postgraduate colloquium, and through ongoing co-operation with Nanjing University and the PKU
(Peking University, Beijing) in China.
During the year we hosted Visiting Fellows from China, India, Russia, Portugal, Australia and the USA. We welcomed
22 Junior Fellows on various funded scholarships. The IHR disbursed over 30 bursaries and awards and grants in
aid of publication and research. Two long serving members of the IHR — Robert Lyons (Librarian, 1973–2009) and
Mark Lewisohn (Chairman IHR Trust 2000–09) — became Honorary Fellows, as did the outgoing Dean of the School,
Sir Roderick Floud. Four new scholars joined as Senior Research Fellows: Dr Roland Quinault, Dr Alan Thacker,
Professor Cornelie Usborne, and Dr Janet Waymark.
The IHR ran two MA programmes in 2009–10, with 14 registered students, and also supervised 46 PhD students.
Particularly significant were our continuing Collaborative Doctoral Awards, with the British Postal Archive, the
Rothschild Archive, and the Museum of London. With The National Archives the CCBH ran a research training
network for contemporary history research students, ‘Using archival sources to inform contemporary policymaking’.
The CMH and Victoria County History (VCH) ran an AHRC-funded training programme on ‘Landscape and townscape:
methods and sources for urban, regional and local history’. The IHR continued to fund and support two national
postgraduate and early career researcher networks: History Lab and History Lab+. And throughout the year we ran
our full suite of research training programmes within the School, as part of its generic training programme, and on
occasion, at universities outside London.
Our principal departments and centres ran a full programme of research and projects. The CMH completed two
ESRC-funded research projects, ‘London women and the economy before and after the Black Death’ and ‘London
and the tidal Thames 1250–1550: marine flooding, embankment and economic change’. Work also continued on
‘London and Middlesex Hearth Tax (1666)’ (with Roehampton and Birkbeck). The large-scale ESRC funded project,
‘Life in the suburbs: health, domesticity and status in early modern London’, being undertaken in collaboration with
the University of Cambridge and Birkbeck, entered its second year. These projects are all destined in one way or
another to be included in British History Online.
IHR Publications led on the restructuring and redesign of the IHR website and was involved in planning the autumn
2010 launch of IHR Digital, the IHR’s new digital publishing and research service. Among many new projects
developed the most significant are Connected Histories, a Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)-funded
project in collaboration with the universities of Sheffield and Hertfordshire and King’s College London, and the
History SPOT (Seminar Podcasts and Online Training). Connected Histories will create a federated search facility for
a wide range of distributed digital resources relating to early modern and 19th-century British history. The History
SPOT project will develop the IHR’s traditional activities in an online environment. This year also saw particularly
successful collaboration with the British Library, including involvement in the organisation of a conference in
July looking at ‘Digitised history: newspapers and their impact on research into 18th and 19th century Britain’
(sponsored by JISC). In January 2010, the Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History was
successfully relaunched as a subscription service, in partnership with Brepols Publishers.
The VCH completed its Heritage Lottery-funded England’s Past for Everyone project on time and on budget, having
published 14 paperbacks on local history themes and produced two websites. Its main website, ‘Explore England’s
Past’, was added to the IHR’s main server as an ongoing resource. The VCH remains active in 15 counties, supported
by a network of local trusts and appeals, and, alongside fulltime staff and volunteers. Volumes published during
2009–10 were Sussex V2: Littlehampton and District, Middlesex XIII: City of Westminster, Landownership and
Religious History, Gloucestershire X: Newent and Mayhill and Cornwall: Religious History to 1560. In its final year at
the IHR, before its move to King’s College London on 1 August, the Centre for Contemporary British History (CCBH)
continued its Witness Seminar programme and its History and Policy unit further developed its consultancy and
op-ed comment activities. The CCBH summer conference explored the theme ‘Reassessing the Seventies’ with Lord
David Lea, former Assistant General Secretary of the TUC, in conversation with Professor Peter Ackers, looking at
‘Industrial democracy in the 1970s’ as part of the History and Policy Trade Union Forum.
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IHR staff undertook professional responsibilities and academic engagements during the year: Professor Miles
Taylor gave his inaugural lecture on 24 February. He made two BBC Radio 4 broadcasts, was consultant to the
History Channel production, The People Speak, and continued his work as a member of the ESRC Research Grants
Board, the History of Parliament editorial board, the Journal of British Studies editorial board, and the Council of the
British Records Association. Professor Pat Thane (CCBH) gave 17 speeches and lectures during the year including
the keynote at an international conference on ‘Women and Labour History’ in Stockholm. Dr Matthew Davies (CMH)
continued to chair the editorial committee of The London Journal, and be a member of English Heritage’s London
Advisory Committee. Professor Vivian Bickford-Smith presented seminar papers in San Diego (American Historical
Association), Basel, Durham, Oxford, Cambridge and London. Elizabeth Williamson (VCH) continued her work as a
Commissioner for English Heritage. Throughout the year the IHR met with its fellow Subject Associations (the Royal
Historical Society, the Historical Association, History UK, and the History Subject Centre of the Higher Education
Academy), and continued to advise national bodies on, variously, school curriculum reform, The National Archives,
and support for history in anticipation of the Spending Review.
Miles Taylor, Director
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Institute of Historical Research
Founded in 1921
Director: Professor Miles Taylor
Advisory Council Chair: Professor Geoffrey Crossick
Institute’s profile 2009‒10
Did you know that this year...
• 65 Fellows were associated with the Institute;
• The Institute was awarded grants worth £1.1m;
• The Institute held over 1,207 hours of events attended by 10,759 people;
• Institute events attracted a total of 1063 speakers from all over the world;
• A total of 31 titles were published during the year with over 2.5m words;
• The Institute ran 628 seminar events;
• Nine overseas Fellows visited the Institute;
• 143 Fellows were associated with the Institute;
• British History Online had over 2.5m unique visits;
• The IHR website www.history.ac.uk experienced almost 3m hits per month;
• IHR Friends raised almost £20,000 for the IHR.
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Advisory Council of the IHR
Advisory Council of the Institute of Historical Research
Chair of the Advisory Council
Professor Geoffrey Crossick
Members
Dr Robert Baldock
Professor J Bergin
Professor Huw Bowen
Mr Chris Bowlby
Professor Pauline Croft
Dr Dejan Djokic
Dr David Feldman
Professor Margot Finn
Professor Robert Frost
Professor William Gervase Clarence-Smith
Mr Matthew Glencross (representing the postgraduate history students of the University)
Professor Peter Gray
Dr Edward Impey
Professor Benjamin Kaplan
Mr Danny Millum (representing the staff of the IHR)
Professor Mark Ormrod
Dr Jill Pellew
Dr Paul Readman
Professor Mia Rodriguez-Salgado
Mr Roderick Suddaby
Dr Georgios Varouxakis
Ex officio members
Professor Mike Edwards, Acting Dean (to Apr. 10)
Professor Roger Kain, Dean (from Apr. 10)
Professor Miles Taylor, Director
Secretary
Ms Elaine Walters
The IHR Trust
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The IHR Trust
Dr Jill Pellew, Chair
Professor Sir Deian Hopkin
Mr Taylor Downing
Mr David Eisenberg
Mr Peter Golob
Dr Elisabeth Kehoe (to Oct. 09)
Mr Mark Lewisohn (to Oct. 09)
Mr John Shakeshaft
Ex officio
Professor Miles Taylor, Director
Sir Roderick Floud, Dean (to Sep. 09)
Professor Mike Edwards, Acting Dean SAS (from Oct. 09 – Apr. 10)
Professor Roger Kain, Dean SAS (from Apr. 10)
Professor Geoffrey Crossick, Chair of Advisory Council
Professor Sir David Cannadine, Chair of IHR Appeal
In attendance
Ms Heather Dwyer
Ms Mira Chotaliya
Ms Elaine Walters
Mrs Michelle Waterman (to Jun. 10)
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Staff of the Institute of Historical Research
Director’s Office
Director
Miles TAYLOR, BA, PhD (Cantab), FRHS
Director’s Secretary
Jacqueline ASPIN, BA (London) (to Jan. 10)
Institute Administrator
Elaine WALTERS, BA (Sheffield), DipMgt, CIPD, MEd(London)
Training Officer
Simon TRAFFORD, MA, DPhil (York)
Fellowships Officer
James LEES, BA, MA (London)
Events Officer
Jennifer WALLIS, BA, MA (Leeds)
Library
Library
Librarian
Robert LYONS, BA (York), DipLib (London) (to Dec. 09)
Jennifer HIGHAM, BA (Oxon), MA (London) (from Jan. 10)
Reader and Technical Services Librarian
Kate WILCOX, BA (York), MSc (City)
Collection Librarian
Michael TOWNSEND, BA, MA (London)
Collection and Periodicals Librarian
Mette LUND NEWLYN, BA (Aarhus), MA (Aarhus and North London)
Bibliographical Services Librarian
Alison GAGE, BA (London), DipLib (North London)
Graduate Trainee Library Assistant
Micol BARENGO, BA, MA (London) (to Aug. 09)
Sarah GUY-GIBBENS, BA (Sheffield) (from Sep. 09)
Administrative Assistants/Premises
Glen JACQUES
Beresford BELL, BA, MA (London)
Development Consultant
Heather DWYER, BA (Connecticut), MA (London)
Development Officer
Michelle WATERMAN, BA, BS (Connecticut), MA (London)
Development Officer
Mira CHOTALIYA, BSc (London)
Premises
Development
Publications
Head of Publications and Executive Editor, Historical Research
Jane WINTERS, BA (Oxford), MA, PhD (London)
Assistant Editor, Historical Research
Julie SPRAGGON, BA (London), MA (Sussex), PhD (London)
Publications Manager
Emily MORRELL, BA (York) (to Aug. 09)
Deputy Editor, Reviews in History, and Editorial Assistant (Web)
Danny MILLUM, BA, MA, MSc (Leeds)
Website Manager
Martin STEER, BSc (UNSW)
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Editor, Bibliography of British and Irish History
Peter SALT, BA (Cambridge)
Editor, Bibliography of British and Irish History
Simon BAKER, BA (Leicester), DipLib (Thames Valley)
Cataloguer, Royal Historical Society Bibliography
Helen GLASS, BA, MSc (London) (to Dec. 09)
Project Manager, British History Online
Bruce TATE, BA (Southampton)
Project Editor, British History Online
Jonathan BLANEY, BA (Oxford), MA (Exeter)
Editorial Controller, British History Online
Peter WEBSTER, BA, MA, PhD (Sheffield)
Publications and Administration Officer
Jen WALLIS, BA, MA (Leeds)
IHR Digital Project Officer
Matt Phillpott, BA, MA (Hull), PhD (Sheffield) (from Mar. 10)
Project Officer, Early English Laws
Jenny Benham, BA, MA, PhD (East Anglia)
Victoria County History
Director
John BECKETT, BA, PhD (Lancaster), FSA, FRHistS
Architectural Editor
Elizabeth WILLIAMSON, BA (London), FSA
Business Manager
William PECK, BSBA (Arizona), MBA (Thunderbird) (to Feb. 10)
Publications Manager
Jessica DAVIES, BA (Leeds), PGCE (London)
Administrator (part-time)
Carlos LÓPEZ GALVIZ, BA Arch., MSc (Amsterdam), DPhil (London) (from Feb. 10)
Research Manager
Matthew BRISTOW, BA, MA (Leicester), MIfA (from Apr. 10)
Consultant
Alan THACKER, MA, DPhil (Oxford), FSA
Victoria County History: County Staff
Cornwall (in association with the University of Exeter and VCH Cornwall Trust)
Educational Co-ordinator
Coral PEPPER
Derbyshire (in association with the University of Nottingham)
County Editor
Philip RIDEN, MA, MLitt (Oxon)
VGL and Team Researcher
Dudley FOWKES, BA, MA (Liverpool), PhD (Keele), DAA (Society of Archivists), DMA (Leicester)
County Durham (in association with the Universities of Sunderland and Durham County Council)
Team Leader, England’s Past for Everyone Project (to Dec.09); Consultant Editor (from Dec. 09) (in
association with Durham VCH Trust)
Gill COOKSON, BA (Leeds), DPhil (York)
Essex (in association with Essex County Council and the VCH Essex Appeal)
County Editor
Christopher THORNTON, BA (Kent), PhD (Leicester)
Assistant Editor
Herbert EIDEN, PhD (Trier)
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Gloucestershire (in association with the University of Gloucestershire)
County Editor
John JURICA, BA (Kent), PhD (Birmingham)
Assistant Editor
Simon DRAPER, BA, MA, PhD (Durham)
Hampshire (in association with the University of Winchester)
Editor and Volunteer Coordinator
Jean MORRIN, BA, MA, PhD (Durham)
Kent (in association with the University of Greenwich)
Consultant and Editor, England’s Past for Everyone Project
Sandra DUNSTER, BA (UEA), MA, PhD (Nottingham)
Exmoor (in association with Exmoor National Park and the University of Exeter)
Team Leaders
Mary SIRAUT, BA (Wales), MLitt (Cantab) (to May 10)
Rob WILSON-NORTH, BA (York) (to May 10)
Middlesex
Consultant Editor
Patricia CROOT, BA, PhD (Leeds) (to Dec. 09)
Northamptonshire (in association with VCH Northamptonshire Trust)
Consultant Editors
Cynthia BROWN, BA (Leicester) (from Mar. 10)
Mark PAGE, BA (London), DPhil (Oxon) (from Mar. 10)
Oxfordshire (in association with Oxfordshire County Council and Oxfordshire VCH Trust)
County Editor
Simon TOWNLEY, BA, DPhil (Oxon)
Assistant Editors/Team Researchers, England’s Past for Everyone Project
Robert PEBERDY, MA (Oxon), PhD (Leicester)
Antonia CATCHPOLE, BA (Cambridge), MA (Durham), PhD (Birmingham)
Assistant Editors
Stephen MILESON, BA (Warwick), MSt, PhD (Oxon)
Mark PAGE, BA (London), DPhil (Oxon)
Somerset (in association with Somerset Record Office)
County Editor
Mary SIRAUT, BA (Wales), MLitt (Cantab)
Staffordshire (in association with Keele University and Staffordshire Record Office)
County Editor
Nigel TRINGHAM, BA (Wales), MLitt, PhD (Aberdeen)
Sussex (in association with West Sussex County Council)
County Editor
Chris LEWIS, MA, DPhil (Oxon) (to Sep. 09)
Editor (volunteer)
Sue BERRY, BA (London), MSc (Surrey), PhD (London)
Wiltshire (in association with the University of the West of England)
County Editor
Virginia BAINBRIDGE, BA (Cantab), PhD (London)
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Assistant Editor
Alex CRAVEN, BA (MMU), MA, PhD (Manchester)
Yorkshire East Riding (in association with the University of Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire County Council)
County Editor
Sue PARKINSON, BA (Leicester), MA (Lancaster), PhD (Southampton)
Consultant Editors
David NEAVE, BA, MPhil, PhD (Hull)
Susan NEAVE, PhD (Hull)
Centre for Metropolitan History
Director
Matthew DAVIES, MA, DPhil (Oxford)
Deputy Director
James MOORE, BA (Oxford), PhD (Manchester) (on secondment during 09‒10)
Administrative and Research Assistant
Olwen MYHILL, BA (Birmingham), Dip RSA
Leverhulme Professor of Comparative Metropolitan History
Vivian BICKFORD-SMITH, MA, DPhil (Cantab)
Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Metropolitan History
Katrina GULLIVER, BA, MLitt (Sydney), PhD (Cantab) (to Sep. 09)
Principal Investigator and Researcher, ‘London and the tidal Thames 1250‒1550’
James GALLOWAY, MA, PhD (Edinburgh) (to Feb. 10)
Research Officers, ‘Life in the suburbs’
Mark MERRY, BA, MA, PhD (Kent) (to Dec. 09)
Philip BAKER, BA (London), MA (Sheffield)
Mark LATHAM, BA (Hertfordshire), MA, PhD (Leicester) (from Jan. 10)
Research Officer, ‘London women before and after the Black Death’
Matthew STEVENS, BA, PhD (Aberystwyth) (to Jan. 10)
Research Officer, ‘Court of Common Pleas database’
Matthew STEVENS, BA, PhD (Aberystwyth) (from Feb. To Jun. 10)
Visiting Fellow (from Aug. 09 to May 10)
Eric SANDWEISS, AB (Harvard), PhD (California, Berkeley), Carmony Chair, Indiana University, Bloomington
IHR Digital Projects and Training Officer
Mark MERRY, BA, MA, PhD (Kent) (from Jan. 10)
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IHR Research Students
Benedict Coffin (Dr Alan Thacker and Professor Derek Keene)
The Anglo-Saxon church in politics and society: bishops, church councils and ministers
Mark Crowley (Professor Patricia Thane) – submitted March 2010
Women workers in the General Post Office, 1939‒45: gender conflict or political emancipation? (AHRC studentship)
Helen Draper (Dr Matthew Davies and Joanna Woodall)
Mary Beale and her ‘paynting room’ in London, 1655 to 1665 and 1670 to 1699
Mark Gardner (Professor Patricia Thane)
The British and French advertising industries, 1945‒65: a comparative study with particular reference to the
development of the J Walker Thompson Company
Helen Glew (Professor Patricia Thane and Libby Buckley) – submitted October 2009
Women’s experiences of employment in the Post Office, c.1914‒c.1939 (AHRC collaborative award)
Hilary Goy (Professor Patricia Thane)
The first generation of students at Girton College
Samantha Harper (Dr Matthew Davies and Dr Vanessa Harding)
Henry VII and London
Jordan Landes (Dr Matthew Davies and Dr Vanessa Harding)
London’s role in the creation of a Quaker transatlantic community
Mary Lester (Dr James Moore, Professor Derek Keene and Dr Cathy Ross)
Suburban identity and the idea of London: a comparative study of two boroughs, c.1885‒1925 (AHRC collaborative
award)
Catherine Letouzey (Professor David Bates)
The economic and social life of a great Anglo-Norman nunnery: a comparative study of La Trinitè de Caen’s Norman
and English possessions (11th‒15th centuries)
Laurie Lindey (Professor Derek Keene and Dr Matthew Davies)
The London furniture trade 1640‒1720
Christopher Knowles (Professor Patricia Thane)
Winning the peace: the British in occupied Germany, 1945‒51
Alyson Mercer (Professor Patricia Thane and Suzannah Biernoff)
Historical representations of women in British war museums and the future of exhibiting the past
Simon Millar (Dr Michael Kandiah)
Servicemen and civilian experience of facial disfigurement following the Second World War (AHRC studentship)
Jennifer Murray (Dr Alan Thacker and Dr Virginia Bainbridge)
Medieval Marlborough: the relationship of royal forest, borough and castle
James Nye (Professor Richard Roberts)
The role of the company promoter in the London capital market: 1877‒1914
Michael Passmore (Professor Patricia Thane)
Collaboration and resistance by local authorities over major changes in housing policy, 1971‒83
Kathrin Pieren (Dr James Moore, Professor Derek Keene and Dr Cathy Ross)
Migration and identity constructions in an imperial metropolis: the representation of Jewish heritage in London
between 1887 and 1956 (AHRC studentship)
Dean Rowland (Dr Matthew Davies and Professor Derek Keene)
The reception and implementation of local and parliamentary legislation in England, 1422‒c.1485
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Mary Salinsky (Professor Patricia Thane)
Writing British national history since 1945
Iain Sharpe (Dr Michael Kandiah and Professor Patricia Thane)
The electoral recovery of the Liberal party, 1899‒1906: the career of Herbert Gladstone as Liberal Chief Whip
Kathleen Sherit (Professor Patricia Thane and David Edgerton)
The integration of women into the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force in the second half of the 20th century (AHRC
studentship)
Peter Sutton (Professor Patricia Thane)
Technological change and the workplace: the Post Office, 1960‒90 (AHRC collaborative award)
Mari Takayanagi (Professor Patricia Thane)
Women and parliament, c.1886‒c.1939
Catherine Wright (Professor Derek Keene and Dr Matthew Davies)
The Dutch in London: connections and identities, c.1660‒c.1720
Dhan Zunino Singh (Professor Derek Keene and Dr James Moore)
The history of the Buenos Aires underground railways: a cultural analysis of the modernisation process in a
peripheral metropolis (1880‒1940) (SAS bursary)
Michele Blagg (Professor Richard Roberts)
The Royal Mint refinery: a business adapting to change, 1852‒1968 (AHRC collaborative award)
Oliver Blaiklock (Professor Patricia Thane)
Voluntary action and the classic welfare state 1939‒79: the case of the Citizen’s Advice Bureaux (AHRC
studentship)
Nicholas Easton (Dr Chris Thornton)
The development of elite landscapes in Tudor England
Matthew Glencross (Dr Michael Kandiah and Dr Keith Hamilton)
The influence of Edward VII and George V on Britain’s Diplomatic position 1901‒19
Joanna Marchant (Dr James Moore)
How did London’s museums influence civic identities through the shaping of their cultural environments
1851‒1951?
Helen Spencer (Professor Patricia Thane)
‘Watchers by lonely hearths’: what was the social and emotional impact of the First World War on families in
Britain?
Virginia Ezell (Professor Richard Roberts)
Sir Basil Zaharoff: master of modern marketing
Wendy Tebble (Dr Michael Kandiah)
The public lives of two royal women in the second half of the twentieth century: Princess Mary, The Princess Royal,
Countess of Harewood, and HRH The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
Susan Martin (Dr Elisabeth Kehoe and Dr Michael Kandiah)
From Victorian values to modern celebrity: the National Portrait Gallery, 1947‒1988
Sean Dettman (Professor Roland Quinault)
America and the Blitz
Mark Gorman (Dr Christopher Thornton)
The birth of public open space: the struggle for Epping Forest, 1850‒1880
David Kroll (Dr James Moore and Professor Andrew Saint)
The development of private housing in London since 1870: buildings, markets, innovations and inequality. Roles
and relationships and their impact on housing design and production.
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Francis Boorman (Professor Miles Taylor)
18 th ‒century Chancery Lane and the politics of space
Jennifer Wallis (Professor Patricia Thane and Dr Rhodri Hayward)
‘Unable to give any account of himself’: male experiences of Stanley Royd asylum: Wakefield, 1880‒1900
Nicholas Pickering (Professor Richard Roberts and Professor Peter Mandler)
The Rothschilds in the Vale of Aylesbury: their houses, collections and collecting activity, 1830‒1880
Timothy Hurley (Dr Michael Kandiah)
Missed opportunities? Britain’s security policy in Northern Ireland, 1969‒1998
Phillida Bunkle (Professor Patricia Thane)
The response of British and American women’s network to the gender exclusive professionalisation of medicine in
the long nineteenth century
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Fellows of the Institute
Honorary Fellows
Professor Sir David Cannadine
Modern British history
Professor Michael Clanchy
Medieval education, law and archives
Ms Valerie Cromwell
Modern parliamentary history
Ms Heather Creaton
Metropolitan history
Professor Martin Daunton FBA
Taxation and politics in Britain since 1842
Professor Christopher Elrington
English local history
Ms Marie Faroux
Anglo-Norman charters
Professor Diana Greenway FBA
Medieval history and paleography
Dr Clyve Jones
Parliamentary history
Professor Peter Marshall FBA
The British Empire in the 18th century
Dr Keith Manley
Services to Librarianship
Mr Donald Munro
Services to Librarianship
Professor Janet L Nelson FBA
Early medieval political and social history
Professor Patrick O’Brien FBA
Economic history
Professor Linda Levy Peck
Stuart England
Professor Jacob M Price
Eighteenth-century merchant families
Dr Alice Prochaska
Archives and manuscript collections
Dr Frank Prochaska
Modern British history
Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith
The crusades and the Latin East
Sir John Sainty
Office holders
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Professor Barry Supple CBE, FBA
Economic history
Professor Michael Thompson FBA
Twentieth-century British landed society
Dr Eveline Cruickshanks
Seventeenth- and 18th-century political history
Miss Susan Reynolds FBA
States and nations in the Middle Ages and after
Dr Graham Twigg
Epidemics in London, 1540‒1625
Senior Fellows
Dr Kelly Boyd
Post-war British culture
Mr Duncan Campbell-Smith
Business history
Dr Christopher Currie
European vernacular architecture and historical xylosiology; chorography
Dr Catherine Delano-Smith
History of cartography
Dr Amy Erickson
The life histories of university-educated women over the 20th century
Dr Sandra Holton
The private lives and public worlds of Quaker women, 1780‒1927
Dr Elisabeth Kehoe
Modern British history
Dr Philip Mansel
The city of Paris
Dr Paul Seaward
Seventeenth-century English politics
Mr Daniel Snowman
Current and changing attitudes to history
Dr Silvia Sovic
Nineteenth-century historical demography and family history
Dr Jenny Stratford
Late medieval history and material culture (England and France)
Mr Jonathan Sumption, OBE
Medieval history; the Hundred Years’ War
Dr Karina Urbach
Anglo-German relations in the 19th and 20th centuries
Dr Lynne Walker
History of women and architecture, 1600‒2000
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Dr Giles Waterfield
British museum history in the 18th to 20th centuries
Junior Research Fellows
Michelle Beer (Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Mellon Dissertation Fellow, one year
Two queens in the British Isles: international queenship and court culture in the reigns of Catherine of Aragon and
Margaret Tudor, 1503‒1532
Amanda Behm (Yale) Mellon Dissertation Fellow, one year
Historians of empire and imperial history in Britain, 1880‒1935
Arbella Bet-Shlimon (Harvard) Mellon Dissertation Fellow, one year
Kirkuk, 1918‒68: oil and the politics of identity in an Iraqi city
Rory Cox (Oxford) Scouloudi Fellow, one year
War and politics: John Wyclif in the context of fourteenth-century political thought
Emma De Angelis (LSE) Scouloudi Fellow, one year
The European parliament’s enlargement discourse and the construction of European Identity
Megan Doherty (Columbia) Mellon Dissertation Fellow, one year
PEN International and the creation of a global literary realm, 1921‒1970
Bianca Gaudenzi (Cambridge) RHS Centenary Fellow, six months
Commercial Advertising in Germany and Italy, 1918‒1945
Matthew Greenhall (Durham) Scouloudi Fellow, six months
The evolution of the British economy: Anglo-Scottish trade and political union, an inter-regional perspective,
1580‒1750
Anna Gust (UCL) Scouloudi Fellow, six months
Empire, exile and identity: locating Sir James Mackintosh’s histories of England
Megha Kumar (Oxford) Past and Present Fellow, one year
Communal representations and community mobilization in Gujarat, 1941‒1969
Tom Lambert (Durham) Past and Present Fellow, one year
Violence, feud and royal justice: protective power in English law, c.900 ‒c.1200
Osman Latiff (RHUL) Thornley Fellow, one year
The place of Fada’il al-Quds (merits of Jerusalem) and religious poetry in the Muslim effort to recapture Jerusalem
during the crusades
Jan Lemnitzer (LSE) Pearsall Fellow, one year
‘An ignoble species of warfare’ – The origins and legacy of the ban on naval bombardment of undefended towns
Amy Lloyd (Edinburgh) EHS Anniversary Fellow, one year
Popular perceptions of emigration in Britain, 1870‒1914
Niels van Manen (York) RHS Centenary Fellow, six months
The Climbing Boy Campaigns: chimney sweep apprentices, cultures of reform, languages of health and experiences
of childhood in Britain, c.1770‒1840
Rebecca Oakes (Cambridge) EHS Power Fellow, one year
Mortality and life expectancy: King’s College, Cambridge c.1441‒c.1540
Gesine Oppitz-Trotman (UEA) Scouloudi Fellow, six months
The miracles of Thomas Becket
Valentina Pugliano (Oxford) RHS Marshall Fellow, one year
Botanical artisans: apothecaries and the study of nature in Venice and London, 1550‒1630
Alexandra Sapoznik (Cambridge) EHS Postan Fellow, one year
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English peasant agriculture in the fourteenth century
Tristan Stein (Harvard) Mellon Dissertation Fellow, one year
The Mediterranean and the English empire of trade, 1660‒1740
Claire Shaw (SSEES) Scouloudi Fellow, one year
Disability in the Soviet Union, 1917‒1991: deafness, ‘defect’ and the new Soviet person
Koji Yamamoto (King’s College London) EHS Tawney Fellow, one year
The culture of projecting in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England: distrust, innovations, and public
service
IHR Associate Fellows
History of Parliament
Dr Stephen Ball
Dr Andrew Barclay
Dr Linda Clark
Dr Ben Coates
Dr Robin Eagles
Dr Stuart Handley
Mr Simon Healey
Dr Paul Hunneyball
Dr Hannes Kleineke
Dr Patrick Little
Dr Charles Littleton
Dr Henry Miller
Dr James Owen
Dr Ruth Paley
Dr Kathryn Rix
Dr Stephen Roberts
Dr Philip Salmon
Dr David Scott
Dr Andrew Thrush
Visiting Fellows
English Heritage
Mr Michael Bellamy
Mr Donato Bianco
Dr Roger Bowdler
Mr Allan Brodie
Mr David Garrard
Ms Esther Godfrey
Mr Peter Guillery
Ms Rachel Hasted
Mr Richard Hewlings
Ms Amanda Hooper
Dr Edward Impey
Mr Timothy Jones
Mr Edward Kitchen
Mr Ian Leith
Ms Hannah Parham
Dr Aileen Reid
Ms Harriet Richardson
Ms Bronwen Riley
Mr Andrew Saint
Dr John Schofield
Dr Paul Stamper
Mr Philip Temple
Mr Colin Thom
Ms Rachel Williams
British Postal Museum
Mr Douglas Muir
Dr Adrian Steel
Dr Deborah Turton
Professor Xu Bin (Tianjin Normal University, China)
British economic and social history during the Industrial Revolution
Professor Apollon Davidson (Moscow State University)
Modern African history
Dr Takahiko Hasegawa (Hokkaido University)
The social and cultural history of England during the long eighteenth century
Professor Toru Koizumi (University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo)
Tudor and Stuart Britain
Dr R. Kuppusamy (Sri Vasavi College)
Indian nationalism and the independence movement
Professor Maria Cristina Moreira (University of Minho, Portugal)
Modern economic history: international trade and war
Professor Eric Sandweiss (Indiana)
Modern American cities: urban planning and the history and function of city museums
Professor Yu Wenije (Nanjing University, China)
Twentieth-century British History
Dr Midori Yamaguchi (Daito Bunka University)
Clergymen’s daughters in Victorian England
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Reports: Heads of Department
Centre for Contemporary British History
The Centre for Contemporary British History continued to undertake a variety of activities during the year, including
conferences and seminars, oral history, teaching, research and History & Policy. At the end of 2009‒10, the staff
of CCBH transferred to King’s College London to form the Centre for Contemporary British History at King’s, part of a
new Institute for Contemporary History.
Teaching and Research Training
The MA in Contemporary British History saw its seventh intake in October 2009, of five new students. Three
students graduated from the MA in December 2009, one with distinction, one with merit and one pass. Ten
intercollegiate students took courses on the MA.
The second CCBH and The Rothschild Archive AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award was given to Nicola Pickering for
research into ‘collections and the collecting activity of the Rothschild family in the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries’.
Other CCBH students included: Michele Blagg ‘The Royal Mint Refinery, 1852‒1967: a study of a business adapting
to change’; Oliver Blaiklock, ‘Voluntary action in the period of the ‘classic’ welfare state, 1945‒79’; Judith Bourne,
‘Helena Normanton: a woman before her time’; Virginia Ezell, ‘Sir Basil Zaharoff: merchant of death or master of
modern international marketing?’; Matthew Glencross, ‘The royal diplomacy of Edward VII and George V’; Hilary
Goy ‘The first generation of students at Girton College’; Timothy Hurley, ‘Missed opportunities? Britain’s security
policy in Northern Ireland 1969‒1998’; Christopher Knowles, ‘Winning the peace: the British in occupied Germany,
1945‒48’; Alyson Mercer, ‘Representations of women in war museums in 20th‒century Britain’; Simon Millar
(AHRC studentship holder), ‘The Rooksdown Club’; James Nye, ‘The role of the company promoter in the London
capital market: 1877‒1914’; Michael Passmore, ‘Collaboration and resistance by local authorities over major
changes in housing policy, 1971‒83’; Mary Salinsky, ‘Writing British national history since 1945’; Iain Sharpe, ‘The
electoral recovery of the Liberal party, 1899‒1906: the career of Herbert Gladstone’; Kathleen Sherit, (AHRC
studentship holder) ‘From substitutes to team members: how women became part of the Royal Navy and the Royal
Air Force’; Peter Sutton, ‘Technological change and the workplace: the Post Office, 1960‒90’; and Mari Takayanagi,
‘Women and Parliament, c.1886‒1939’.
All made good progress during the year, including presenting conference and seminar papers. Helen Glew, Iain
Sharpe and Peter Sutton all taught on the MA in Contemporary British History.
Mark Crowley (AHRC collaborative studentship holder), ‘Women workers in the British Post Office, 1939‒45:
gender conflict or political emancipation?’; Mark Gardner, ‘The British and French advertising industries, 1945‒65:
a comparative study with particular reference to the development of the J Walter Thompson Company’; and Helen
Glew (AHRC collaborative studentship holder), ‘The employment of women in the General Post Office, 1914‒39’
were all awarded their PhDs during the year. Tomonori Mizuta was awarded an MPhil for ‘The modernisation
process of the lower division of the Civil Service in the late 19th century’, and Julie Thomas (AHRC studentship
holder), ‘Miners at war: South Wales on the Western Front’, submitted her PhD during the year.
Jointly with History & Policy and The National Archives, AHRC-funded training courses for PhD students from
around the UK were held very successfully at TNA in February and May 2010. These provided doctoral students
with knowledge transfer skills, in identifying and using appropriate archival sources (including oral history
material), to enable them to use history to inform contemporary policy debate.
Oral History
CCBH was awarded £15,000 from the Dean’s Development Fund for a series of four witness seminars on the Home
Office.
1991 Criminal Justice Act ‒ 7 May 2010
The seminar was chaired by Dr Judith Rowbotham, SOLON and Nottingham Trent University, with a paper given by
David Faulkner, Deputy Secretary in charge of Criminal and Research and Statistical Departments, Home Office,
1982‒90. Witnesses included: Graham Angel, Under-Secretary, Criminal Department, Home Office, and Receiver of
the Metropolitan Police, 1992‒96, Rt Hon Sir Robin Auld, High Court Judge, 1987‒95, D. J. Bentley, Legal Adviser’s
Branch, Home Office, 1979‒95, Professor David Downes, LSE, Robert Fulton, Criminal Department, Home Office,
Head of Bill team for 1991 Act, Cedric Fullwood, Chief Probation Officer for Greater Manchester, 1982‒98, Bryan
Gibson, barrister, Jean Goose, Head of Division, Criminal Department, Home Office, HHJ Julian Hall, Circuit Judge,
1986‒, John Halliday, Deputy Secretary in-charge of Criminal and Research and Statistical Departments, Home
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Office, 1990‒2001, Professor Rod Morgan, Former chair of the Youth Justice Board in England and Wales, and
HM Chief Inspector of Probation, R.J. Morris, Under-Secretary Criminal Justice and Constitutional Department,
Home Office, 1991‒6 and Baroness Stern of Vauxhall, Former Director NACRO; Secretary General of Penal Reform
International 1989‒2006.
The Home Office Research Unit (HORU) ‒ 14 May 2010
An introductory paper was given by Professor R.V.G. Clarke, HORU from 1964 and Head of Research and Planning
Unit (RPU), 1983‒84. Witnesses included: John Croft, Head of HORU, 1972‒81 and of RPU, Home Office, 1981‒83,
Professor David Downes, LSE, Professor Paul Ekblom, former member of HORU/RPU, Professor Roger Hood, Oxford
University, Professor Mike Hough, former member of HORU/RPU, Professor Gloria Laycock, former member of
HORU/RPU, Professor Ian Loader, Oxford University, Professor Mike Maguire, Cardiff University, Dr Rita Maurice,
Director of Statistics, Home Office, 1977‒89, Pat Mayhew, former member of HORU/RPU, Professor Rod Morgan,
former chair Youth Justice Board for England and Wales, and HM Chief Inspector of Probation, M. J. Moriarty, Under
and Deputy Secretary, Home Office, 1975‒90, R. M. Morris, Under Secretary, Home Office, 1983‒97, Joy Mott
Principal Research Officer, HORU 1962‒94, Professor Tim Newburn, former member of HORU/RPU, Chris Nuttall,
Director of Research and Statistics, Home Office, 1989‒99, A.R Rawsthorne, Under Secretary, Home Office,
1986‒97, Professor Paul Rock, LSE, Professor Ian Sinclair, former member of HORU/RPU, Professor Roger Tarling,
former member of HORU/RPU, and Professor Jan van Dijk, Tilburg University.
Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) ‒ 2 July 2010
The seminar was chaired by Professor Clive Emsley, Open University with a paper by Professor Michael Zander , QC,
LSE. Witnesses included: Sir Stanley Barratt, formerly HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary, Ken Ashken, Office of
Director of Public Prosecutions, David Bentley, Home Office Legal Adviser’s Branch, Elliot Grant, Home Office, author
of the draft Codes, Alan Harding, Bill team leader second PACE Bill, Dianne Hayter, Member Royal Commission on
Criminal Procedure (RCCP), Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt, General Secretary NCCL 1974‒83, Barry Irving, Researcher,
RCCP, Joan Macnaughton, Deputy Secretary RCCP, R. M. Morris, Bill team leader, first PACE Bill, Jim O’Meara, Home
Office Legal Adviser’s Branch, Jim Sewell, Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police 1983‒84, Mollie
Weatheritt, Research Director, RCCP, Howard Webber, Member staff RCCP and of second PACE Bill team.
Home Office Organisation ‒ 2 July 2010
The seminar was chaired by Professor Peter Hennessy, Queen Mary, University of London. The paper was given
by R. M. Morris, Home Office 1961‒97. Witnesses included: The Rt Hon Lord Armstrong of Ilminster, PUS Home
Office 1977‒79, Secretary to the Cabinet 1979‒87, Sir Robert Andrew, Deputy Secretary Home Office 1976‒83,
PUS Northern Ireland Office 1984‒88, Sir Brian Cubbon, PUS Northern Ireland Office 1976‒79, PUS Home Office
1979‒88, Professor David Downes, LSE, The Rt. Hon. Michael Howard, Home Secretary, 1993‒97, Sir David
Omand, PUS Home Office 1998‒2001, PUS in Cabinet Office 2002‒05, Michael Moriarty, Deputy Secretary Home
Office 1984‒90, Dr Jill Pellew, Historian of the Home Office, Professor Paul Rock, LSE, Dr Melissa Smith Historian of
Civil Defence, Baroness Stern of Vauxhall, Former Director NACRO; Secretary General of Penal Reform International
1989‒2006, Andrew Whetnall , Head Machinery of Government Division, Cabinet Office, 1989‒96, Lord Wilson of
Dinton, PUS Home Office 1994‒97 Secretary to the Cabinet 1998‒2002.
Thirty-nine seminar transcripts are now available on the CCBH website, www.ccbh.ac.uk, which continues to
attract thousands of visitors per month. It provides news and information for contemporary historians, and access
to the online archive of Witness Seminars on aspects of political, defence, economic, science and technology, and
diplomatic history. The full list is available in the oral history section of the CCBH website. Over 1,400 people had
registered to read and download seminars by July 2010.
Events
CCBH Conference, 7‒9 July 2010: Reassessing the Seventies
The 24th CCBH annual summer conference examined Britain in the 1970s, a watershed in post-war British history
with economic crises and profound political and social discord precipitating major social, cultural, political and
economic changes with enduring consequences. Speakers included Richard Vinen, Peter Mandler, Sue Onslow,
Jim Tomlinson, Lesley Orr, Dominic Sandbrook, Sue Harper, Hera Cook, Roger Middleton and Jim Cronin. The Pimlott
lecture on 8 July was given by Professor Frank Mort on ‘The Permissive Society’. A History & Policy event on 8 July
presented Lord Lea (David Lea) in conversation with Professor Peter Ackers about Industrial Democracy in the
1970s.
Experiencing the Law conference
The fourth ‘Experiencing the Law’ conference was held with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and SOLON on
‘Objectifying Children: Policy Making and Human Rights Responses’, 4 December 2009. As always, the conference
brought together academics and practictioners to discuss the long term legal dimensions to the experiences of
individuals, families and communities of the current dilemmas relating to children and the law, their rights and the
challenge for policymakers and criminal justice professionals of all types. Contributors included Judge Nick Wikely,
Kate Bradley and Simon Shaw (Kent), Rebecca Probert (Warwick), Richard Morgan (CCBH), Mike Nellis (Strathclyde),
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Helen Baker (Liverpool), Jean La Fontaine, Penny Booth (Staffordshire), Laurence Lee (Laurence Lee & Co);
Samantha Pegg (NTU), Barry Anderson (Rainer, Communities that Care).
The British State Revisited: Keith Middlemas’ The Politics of Industrial Society after thirty years
A one-day conference on 12 November 2009 considered Keith Middlemas’s Politics in Industrial Society: the
experience of the British system since 1911. This saw twentieth-century Britain in a European mirror, shifted
attention from Westminster to Whitehall, and brought a new theoretical awareness to the empirical study of the
contemporary British history. It presented a new account of the purposes of the state and rethought its relations
with organised labour and capital. Taking stock of its arguments, influence, and place in the historiography of the
British state were Andrew Gamble, Robert Taylor, Jose Harris, Pat Thane, David Edgerton, James Cronin, with a
response from Keith Middlemas himself.
History & Policy
During 2009‒10 History & Policy published a wide variety of new policy papers and opinion pieces on its website,
www.historyandpolicy.org. These included ‘How (not) to cut government spending and reduce public sector debt’
by Glen O’Hara (November 2009); discussing the ‘Big Society’ by Matthew Hilton, James McKay, Nicholas Crowson
and Jean-Francois Mouhot (June 2010), ‘The ‘Idea of a University’ today’, Robert Anderson (March 2010) and
‘Unequal Britain: equalities in Britain since 1945’ Pat Thane (March 2010).
History & Policy events included panel discussions at the Anglo-American Conference 2009, on ‘Multicultural
London: Past, Present and Future’, and at the CCBH Summer Conference on 1970s Industrial Democracy;
‘International trade: Who makes the rules?’, part of its continuing series of events with the Raphael Samuel History
Centre and the Bishopsgate Institute; ‘Unequal Britain: 60 years of Equalities Policy’, a book launch and discussion
evening, 25 March 2010 at the British Academy, with speakers including Pat Thane, Baroness Sally Greengross,
Trevor Phillips, Peter Tatchell, Judith Okely and Rob Berkeley.
Centre for Metropolitan History
The Centre has had a busy year, during which we began work on new research projects and on a programme
of collaborative doctoral training. We made good progress with our existing projects and with our programmes
of conferences and other events. At the end of the 2009‒10 session the Centre comprised seven members of
staff, three of whom are working on externally-funded projects. We were delighted that we were able to extend
Professor Vivian Bickford-Smith’s presence at the Centre into a third year, through a joint arrangement with the
University of Cape Town.
Our newest project, funded by the ESRC, was ‘London women and the economy before and after the Black Death’,
directed by Dr Davies, with Dr Stevens as the project researcher. This ran until January 2010. The project itself was
extremely successful in its aim of gathering and analysing data from central and London law courts relating to
litigation involving women in the 1320s and 1420s – the aim being to test some of the prevailing views about the
effects of demographic change on the social and economic position of women. A lively workshop was organised
by Dr Stevens at the IHR, which involved some of the leading historians of medieval women, and an edited volume
containing many of the papers is due to be published by Boydell and Brewer in 2011 as Married Women and the Law
in Northern Europe, c.1200‒c.1750. Dr Stevens spoke at a number of conferences, and in addition to the project
database, is publishing an online edition of the earliest London sheriff’s court roll (1320) which was an important
addition to the project’s sources. Meanwhile, funding was secured from the Marc Fitch Fund to enable us to develop
an online dataset from our earlier project, ‘Londoners and the Law’. This major dataset was due to be launched in
early 2011.
Our existing projects continued to make good progress. Our major collaborative ESRC project, ‘Life in the suburbs’
(LitS) moved into its second year, and a particular achievement was the completion of a substantial phase of data
entry involving a small army of inputters, employed to enter data from a huge range of sources for London’s eastern
suburb in the early modern period. At the start of 2010 Dr Mark Merry moved to the post of Digital Projects and
Training Officer in the IHR, but continues in that capacity to provide technical and database support for LitS. We
were delighted to be able to appoint in his stead, Dr Mark Latham, whose expertise on the estates and finances
of London Bridge, the subject of his PhD, made him well-placed to undertake work on one of the key strands
of the project, the development and use of housing and the built environment. In Cambridge, Gill Newton was
beginning the mammoth task of reconstituting the 169,237 baptismal, marriage and burial events that occurred
in the parishes of St Botolph Aldgate and Holy Trinity Minories between 1560‒1700, probably the largest ever
reconstitution undertaken based on English parish registers. Meanwhile, one of Dr Merry’s tasks in his new role was
to lead the CMH’s contribution to a new IHR project, ReScript, which is designed to develop a platform for the online
collaborative editing of historical texts. This is a very timely project for us, as it means that one of the major planned
outputs of the ‘Life in the Suburbs’ project, an online edition of the Parish Clerks’ Memoranda Books of St Botolph
Aldate (running to more than a million words) can be delivered even more effectively and prominently. The project
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was due to be represented at the 2010 meeting of the European Association of Urban Historians, in Ghent in late
August, at which Philip Baker was to present a paper based on the research.
Research on ‘London and the tidal Thames 1250‒1550’ drew to a close in February 2010, but not before the
project’s director and researcher, Dr Jim Galloway, had organised a very successful project conference, ‘London,
the Thames and Water’. The papers from this event were to be published in early 2011 in the CMH Working Papers
Series. Unfortunately, our plans for a subsequent project were not able to be taken forward as the application
for funding was not successful. Work on the 1666 hearth tax for London and Middlesex, a collaboration with
Birkbeck and Roehampton, reached its final phases with the addition of records from 1662 and 1663 to complete
the geographical coverage of the city and suburbs. The database was made available over the summer of 2010 to
contributors to a conference on ‘Restoration London’, which was to be held in the autumn. The hard copy edition
was meanwhile making good progress, with the database proving invaluable both for generating statistics and for
the GIS mapping element of the project.
For the future, one of our aims over the next two to three years is to develop projects involving the use of
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for the history of London. At the end of the 2009‒10 session we learned
that the Dean’s Development Fund is to pay for a pilot project, ‘Mapping London’, which will develop a set of
downloadable tools, maps and data enabling users to model and visualise information relating to early modern
London. This involves an important collaboration with Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA), and discussions
were underway with two other academic partners concerning related projects that might be developed.
Our Livery Companies Membership Database continued to make excellent progress, with the inputters due to
complete the entry of data from the Clothworkers’ Company in the autumn of 2010. Meanwhile, we were pleased
to hear that the Drapers’ Company had agreed to fund the entry of information from ‘Boyd’s Roll’, a biographical
dictionary of many thousands of members which was compiled from original records in the early 20 th century. This
part of the project was due to begin in the autumn of 2010. Funding for the user interface and website has been
secured from these two companies, and also from the Goldsmiths’ Company, which has also agreed to supply data
for the resource. Discussions with other companies are in progress.
The very fruitful relationship with the Clothworkers’ Company also resulted in an agreement to undertake a new
collaborative project, funded by the Company, which will look at benefactors, charity and property. The project,
which was to begin in October 2010, will aim to create a website that will allow users to trace the development of
the Company’s charities and property holdings, as well as locate information on individual benefactors. We were
delighted to be able to appoint Dr Annaleigh Margey, a postdoctoral fellow from Trinity College, Dublin, as the
research officer on the project.
All our current and former research projects feature on the new-look IHR website, where the CMH pages can be
found, as before, at www.history.ac.uk/cmh. We are also seeking to build an even greater presence on the School’s
e-repository, SAS-Space, where already some significant project resources, such as databases, seminar papers and
presentations, can be found.
Our new Collaborative Research Training programme got off to a good start, with workshops held at the IHR,
London Metropolitan Archives and the University of Leicester. Focussed on the theme of ‘Landscape and
Townscape’, this AHRC-funded programme is directed at postgraduate research students in a range of disciplines.
Students were exposed to a wide range of techniques and approaches, from the use of material culture, to
databases, maps and last, but certainly not least, the important task of actually walking around and ‘reading’ the
urban and rural landscape.
The Centre’s research students continued to make good progress with their diverse and interesting topics. We now
have two collaborative doctoral award programmes, run with the Museum of London (three students, one of whom
is nearing submission), and with the Survey of London at English Heritage. Our MA in Historical Research continued
to attract some excellent students, including several from overseas.
Other activities over the year included a successful workshop on ‘London and Tokyo’, a joint initiative with Dr
Angus Lockyer at SOAS. It is hoped that this will lead to a conference in 2011, and a possible bid for funding for
comparative research on the two cities. We also held a very successful conference on ‘Cities and Nationalisms’
(17‒18 June 2010), sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust as part of our programme in comparative metropolitan
history, and kindly hosted by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Plans were well advanced by the end of the
session for the publication of a number of papers from the conference in a journal special issue. The CMH also
hosted an open meeting at the IHR attended by Dr David Pearson and Dr Deborah Jenkins from London Metropolitan
Archives in order to facilitate discussion of the plans for moving the majority of collections at Guildhall Library to
LMA, as well as other issues of concern to academic historians. As a result of this, an academic users’ forum has
been set up for LMA, on which the CMH is formally represented.
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The CMH has always played host to visiting scholars and students, and this year was no exception. Eric Sandweiss,
Carmony Professor of History at Indiana University, received a Fulbright award which enabled him to come to
London for the year to carry out research into the development of city museums. We are hoping to develop further
projects with him over the next few years. Merridee Bailey joined us in April and May from Australian National
University to pursue research into the role of women in the crafts and guilds of early modern London.
Library
The 2009‒10 session has been one of transition for the IHR Library, in more ways than one. December 2009 saw
the retirement of Robert Lyons, Librarian since 1992 and a member of IHR library staff for 37 years. Following
on from Robert’s knowledgeable custodianship of the collections was always going to represent something of
a challenge, especially as my appointment incorporated the post of IHR Librarian with that of History Subject
Librarian in Senate House Library. It has been a busy and rewarding experience thus far, and the help both of
Robert and the existing IHR Library and Institute staff has been invaluable.
This amalgamation of the two roles is in line with recommendations of last year’s Crewe Report that the Senate
House Library history borrowing collection be moved into the IHR, and over the session researching and planning
have been done to prepare for this. This of course represents another moment of transition for the Library. The
opportunities presented by the operation of a converged service in a refurbishment environment were discussed
by both the IHR Project and Project Advisory Boards, and the relative strengths and specialities of the two
collections have been identified. Visits to the redeveloped Courtauld Institute of Art and the School of Slavonic and
East European Studies libraries allowed us to see the possibilities that refurbishment could afford to the Library.
Having responsibility for the development of both library collections provides an important insight into the history
subject provision of the central University of London, and recognition of their complementary nature is especially
important in an age of collaborative collection development initiatives, which are increasing both through
desirability and necessity. The University has agreed in principle to the refurbishment of the IHR, and consequently
the convergence strategy will be further developed at a later date. Future reports and library communications
will provide planning updates on library moves and the work being undertaken to ensure continued access to the
collections.
In the meantime, work has also begun to promote the Library through the improved IHR website www.history.
ac.uk/library . This now features items on specific parts of the collection, such as the recently catalogued David
Douglas bequest of books on medieval Normandy. Development is currently underway on improving the new
acquisitions section, with the use of a regularly updated display of new titles and book covers, and also on the
provision of more detailed subject guides. In this way we also hope to highlight the continued generosity of the
British and the American Friends of the IHR by featuring purchases they have helped to fund. Special thanks to the
Reader and Technical Services Librarian Kate Wilcox for her work on this.
Of course in many ways the work of the Library remains constant. Books and journals continue to be acquired, with
the Collections Librarians Mette Lund Newlyn and Michael Townsend selecting and classifying stock, and Alison
Gage, Bibliographic Services Librarian, cataloguing it. In the annual succession of Graduate Trainees, Micol Barengo
left to begin an MA in Library & Information Studies at UCL, and the Library welcomed Sarah Guy-Gibbens in her
stead. Kate Wilcox continued to act as the co-ordinator for the programme of visits and training sessions operated
for library graduate trainees across the School. The Library staff also continued to provide an enquiry service, as
well formal and informal inductions for new users.
Reclassification of sections of the Library was also ongoing. Progress was made on the British Local collections,
with the additional help of students of librarianship Paul Stephens and Karin Mayer-Khan, who came on placements
as part of courses at UCL and the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, respectively. Such work is especially
important in helping to ensure all the collections remain well organised and accessible during the forthcoming
refurbishment. It is testament to the knowledge and the commitment of the Library staff that services and
activities continue at such a high standard, despite staffing levels being lower than in recent years.
The total catalogued book stock in the Library rose to 180,400 items. Substantial new acquisitions included the
Dictionary of Irish biography: from the earliest times to the year 2002 (9 volumes), The Cambridge History of the
Cold War (3 volumes) and The complete works of Gerrard Winstanley, (2 volumes), the costs of which, amongst
other items, were offset by the generous donations of the Friends of the IHR.
Publications
Digital resources
On 1 January 2010, the Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History was relaunched as the
Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), in partnership with Brepols Publishers. The move to a subscription
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service was necessitated by the cessation of AHRC funding at the end of 2009, and has enabled the IHR and the
Royal Historical Society to continue to deliver this important research tool. The new BBIH offers considerable
additional functionality, and will be updated three times a year, with a minimum of 10,000 records added annually.
The take up of subscriptions to BBIH in its first seven months (to July 2010) has been excellent, and there is now
widespread access to the resource within UK universities. The Bibliography is also freely available to anyone within
the IHR Library.
Our AHRC-funded project to digitise the National Archives’ Calendars of State Papers through British History
Online (http://www.british-history.ac.uk) came to an end in October 2009, successfully meeting all of its aims and
objectives. Particularly gratifying has been the response to the project’s annotation feature, which allows users
to edit, correct and annotate the calendar texts. More than 600 annotations had been received by the end of the
project and many more have been submitted subsequently. British History Online itself continues to add new
content, and usage of the digital library is now routinely in the order of 1.5 million page views a month.
As one project was completed, another major digital initiative began. In October 2009 the IHR, in collaboration
with the universities of Sheffield and Hertfordshire and King’s College London, received funding from the Joint
Information Systems Committee (JISC) for Connected Histories: Building Sources for British History 1500–1900
(http://www.connectedhistories.org). The project will create a federated search facility for a wide range of
distributed digital resources relating to early modern and nineteenth-century British history. Through the
combination of web crawling and the application of a Natural Language Processing methodology it will create
a non-intrusive, distanced tagging of the data within those distributed sources to facilitate more sophisticated
and structured searching. Early modern and nineteenth-century Britain is one of the times and places in history
for which the largest number of digital sources is available. These have been created by universities, archives
and commercial providers, and are accessed by tens of thousands of individuals each day. But many are underexploited,
and researchers are hampered in the way they use these materials by their distributed nature and the
variable forms of tagging and structure present in each resource. Connected Histories provides the next stage in
meeting historians’ needs by addressing the requirement to access historical resources in a single, consistent way;
and in a manner that moves beyond simple keyword searching to a forensic and semantically-driven approach.
Eleven major resources will be included for the project launch in March 2011.
The Department also received funding from an anonymous donor to develop its programme of seminars and
research training for online delivery. The History SPOT (Seminar Podcasts and Online Training; http://www.
historyspot.org.uk/) will be launched in March 2011, with a series of online research training handbooks and a
library of seminar podcasts. The project will also trial the live video streaming of IHR seminars, offering remote
viewers the option to contribute questions and participate in online discussion. The History SPOT platform has the
potential to engage completely new audiences for the high quality research produced and showcased by the IHR,
and we are enormously grateful to the seminars which have agreed to contribute to the year-long pilot.
Work also continues on the AHRC-funded Early English Laws project (http://www.earlyenglishlaws.ac.uk), which
aims to publish online and in print new editions and translations of all English legal codes, edicts and treatises
produced up to the time of Magna Carta 1215. The project website has now been launched, with information
about all of the texts to be included, and you can follow progress via our lively project blog at http://blogs.cch.kcl.
ac.uk/eel/. The main work this year has been in securing permissions to produce manuscript images from archives
and libraries across the UK and Europe, and the analysis of the texts which is essential to the structuring both of
the Early English Laws editorial interface and the front end which will present the texts and images. A one-day
workshop on ‘Editing the medieval laws of England’ was held at the IHR on 24 October 2009, which attracted
around 30 delegates.
Finally, this year has seen a great deal of planning and preparation for the launch of the new IHR Digital service
in October 2010. For two decades the IHR has recognised the value of digital resources to historians, and with
the launch of IHR Digital we will be providing a new service for digital history. It will encompass many of the IHR’s
existing online activities, but the focus offered by the service will also allow us to explore new opportunities for
transforming the ways in which historians conduct their research. It is also planned to develop web hosting and
consultancy services under the IHR Digital umbrella, expanding the IHR’s remit to provide support for and facilitate
the research of historians nationally. In setting up IHR Digital extensive consultation has been undertaken with
colleagues in the fields of history and digital humanities. To this end, on 30 September 2010, an international
colloquium was convened to discuss our plans and to receive feedback from various stakeholder groups.
Print publications
This was the first full year with the new format Historical Research, and we are now publishing around 40 articles
annually. Highlights of 2009‒10 include: ‘New light on “the commotion time” of 1549: the Oxfordshire rising’, by
Katherine Halliday; ‘Spiritual slavery, material malaise: “untouchables” and religious neutrality in colonial south
India’, by Rupa Vishwanath; ‘Bereaved and aggrieved: combat motivation and the ideology of sacrifice in the
First World War’, by Alexander Watson and Patrick Porter; ‘”Philosophically playing the Devil”: recovering readers’
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esponses to David Hume and the Scottish Enlightenment’, by Mark Towsey; and ‘The revival of the British women’s
auxiliary services in the late nineteen-thirties’, by Jeremy Crang. The August 2009 issue of the journal was a special
publication to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Henry VII (departing from the general trend to mark
the anniversary of the succession of his son Henry VIII). Guest-edited by Mark Horowitz, it included articles by P. R.
Cavill, Sean Cunningham, John M. Currin, David Grummitt, Steven Gunn, James Lee, Margaret McGlynn and Penny
Tucker. The special issue was available for sale as a standalone publication, and was sold out within months.
The IHR’s three annual directories, Grants for History, Teachers of History in the Universities of the UK and
Historical Research for Higher Degrees in the UK were published as usual, in November, January and May
respectively. Expanding our portfolio of publications, we also announced the launch of an IHR series of conference
proceedings, with the aim of promoting research which significantly advances scholarship in a particular field or
fields, rather than providing an overview of the current state of knowledge. The first title to be accepted is Brave
New World: Imperial and Democratic Nation-Building in Britain between the Wars, edited by Laura Beers and
Geraint Thomas, with a foreword by Ross McKibbin. It will be published to launch the series in the autumn of 2011.
There have been only a couple of staff changes this year. First, our Publications Manager Emily Morrell left the IHR
to join the School of Advanced Study’s central publications team. We are delighted that she will continue to work
on the full range of IHR titles in this new capacity. We were also joined in March 2010 by Dr Matt Phillpott, from
the University of Sheffield, who is managing our new History SPOT project. Matt has already become our in-house
audio-visual expert and has been helping other members of the team in this area.
Victoria County History
Publications
The year 2009‒10 was a productive one for the VCH. As well as publishing 3 volumes in its main ‘red book’ series, it
produced paperbacks in the Heritage Lottery Funded England’s Past for Everyone series.
Main series
The first ‘red book’ to appear, in October 2009, was Middlesex XIII: The City of Westminster – Landownership
and Religious History, edited by Dr Patricia Croot, and the first in a planned series of three volumes on the City of
Westminster. Fundraising for the whole Westminster project received a boost in May 2010 when the Lord Mayor
of Westminster, Councillor Judith Warner, announced the County History Trust as the one of the charities she had
chosen for her mayoral year. Councillor Warner generously hosted the launch of Middlesex XIII at Westminster City
Hall where we marvelled at the panoramic view from the Lord Mayor’s Parlour and were stirred by Sir Roy Strong’s
enthusiastic speech of support for VCH Middlesex and London.
VCH Gloucestershire XII: Newent and May Hill was published in January 2010. Edited by Dr John Jurica, who retired
as County Editor during 2010, it includes articles by Assistant County Editor, Dr Simon Draper, the former County
Editor Dr Nicholas Herbert and contributions by Duncan James of Insight Historic Buildings Research. The volume is
the first of two about the parishes round May Hill; the drafts of several parishes intended for volume XIII were also
written and put online at www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk/counties/Gloucestershire. The Gloucestershire County
History Trust, set up in April 2010, began to raise funds o enable the completion of volume XIII, for which five
parishes remain to be researched.
A VCH general volume Cornwall II: Religious History before 1560, by Professor Nicholas Orme with a contribution
on the Celtic aspects by Dr Oliver Padel, marked a major milestone in January 2010 in the excellent progress of VCH
Cornwall, a county project revived as part of the HLF-funded England’s Past for Everyone project in 2005.
England’s Past for Everyone series
The VCH’s 5-year HLF-funded project, led by VCH Director Professor John Beckett came to a successful conclusion
in May 2010. The project’s final year saw the publication of 6 of the 11 paperbacks researched and written from
extensive research, some of which was done by volunteers and local groups. Each book gives a new perspective to
a distinctive locality, allowing visitors, residents and specialists to view it afresh. All but the Medway volume were
the second paperback for each county; in Kent the HLF supported research for second book for publication in 2011.
The Medway Valley: A Kent Landscape Transformed by Andrew Hann, the first VCH publication in Kent for over 75
years, explores how the rural landscape of eight riverside parishes around Rochester was dramatically transformed
during industrialisation, before returning to its former rural state.
In Cornwall and the Coast: Mousehole and Newlyn Jo Mattingley tells a story which ranges from Mousehole’s
medieval market place to the modern fight to save Newlyn’s fishing fleet, set against national concerns such as the
Spanish Raid of 1595, John Wesley’s visits and the arrival of the railways.
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Hardwick: A Great House and its Estate. Philip Riden and Dudley Fowkes tell at the history of Old and New Halls and
the wider estate, the changing fortunes of the Cavendish family, and the growth and eventual decline of the coal
mining industry in the area.
Henley-on Thames: Town, Trade and River, by Simon Townley, features the development of the river trade and
the life of ordinary townspeople and river-workers as well as more prosperous inhabitants. The town’s striking
buildings are fully discussed and set in context.
In Ledbury: People and Parish before the Reformation, Sylvia Pinches has used the evidence of the landscape,
physical remains, artefacts and buildings, as well as documents to chart the history of the little market town and
the surrounding countryside for nearly 500 years.
Sunderland: the Building of a City. Gillian Cookson has created an invaluable guide to the history concealed within
the modern landscape, indispensible to anyone who seeks to retain and restore Sunderland’s historic assets.
All the books in the series, published by local history specialists Phillimore & Co. Ltd. (www.phillimore.co.uk), are
commercially successful and have achieved favourable reviews across local and specialist publications. Publication
events received welcome publicity and ranged from the launch at Hardwick Hall of the Derbyshire book by the Duke
of Devonshire, President of the Derbyshire VCH Trust, to a barn dance in Newlyn and a paddle steamer trip down
the Medway. The final social event of EPE, which took the form of a thank you to everyone involved in the project at
the Mary Ward Centre in Bloomsbury, attracted some illustrious guests including the journalist Kate Adie, who is a
committed supporter of Durham VCH.
An archive of the project, including the 2009 Annual Report, can be found at www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk/
publicationsandprojects/epe plus links to the Learning Zone and the Explore website, which forms a major building
block for the VCH’s future and has been much developed since the project ended.
Events
Christopher Elrington Memorial Event, 27th February 2010. This commemoration of the life and work of Professor
Christopher Elrington + 2009, who retired as Director of the VCH in 1994, was held in the Beveridge Hall of Senate
House and hosted by Professors Miles Taylor and John Beckett. A programme of reminiscences by Christopher’s
family and friends, with musical interludes by his grandchildren, attracted a large audience and helped money for
the County History Trust, which he had founded.
County Societies Symposium, 1 st May 2010. A one-day symposium convened by the VCH in partnership with the
IHR, the British Association for Local History, the Historical Association, the Royal Historical Society, and the Centre
for English Local History, University of Leicester, provided a forum for county societies (whether archaeological,
historical, antiquarian, natural history or records) to discuss matters of mutual interest and to share best practice.
The Marc Fitch Lecture was given on 28 th June 2010 by Professor Steve Hindle in the Wolfson Room of the IHR.
His paper, ‘The Economic Worlds of Sir Richard Newdigate: Tenants, Servants, Labourers and Craftsmen in a
Warwickshire Parish, c.1670-1710’, was followed by a reception hosted by Professor Miles Taylor.
Anglo-American Conference, VCH session. At the 2010 conference, with the theme of Environments, the VCH
hosted a panel session on 1 July, chaired by Elizabeth Williamson. Professors Charles Watkins and John Beckett
spoke about the natural history published in the early days of the VCH, and Dr Chris Lewis and Dr Paul Stamper
explored the archaeological and architectural personnel and its approach.
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Academic and Professional Activities of Staff
Philip Baker
Philip is Senior Research Officer on the three-year, ESRC-funded project, ‘Life in the suburbs: health, domesticity
and status in early modern London’. A collaborative venture between the CMH, University of Cambridge and
Birkbeck, University of London, the project will provide a detailed study of the development of the eastern
suburban parishes of St Botolph Aldgate and Holy Trinity Minories between 1550 and 1700. Its main aims are
to assess the impact of burgeoning population and industrialisation on the topography of the area; to examine
the social and economic characteristics of the parishes’ population; and to study the relationship between rapid
urbanisation and health and mortality. The project is now into its final year and Philip is currently writing-up
research on the lives of St Botolph’s poor residents and the state of welfare provision in the parish.
In the course of the year, Philip gave a number of seminar and conference papers relating to his work on ‘Life in
the suburbs’ and other aspects of early modern London history. In October 2009, he delivered a paper entitled
‘Lilburne and the jury of life and death’, at the London Renaissance Seminar at Birkbeck, University of London. In
the following month, he and Dr Mark Merry of the CMH taught a session on ‘Cityscapes and the historian: studying
buildings and places in London, 1400‒1800’ for a workshop on Town and cityscapes: documentary and material
evidence, an AHRC collaborative research training scheme held at the IHR. At the beginning of May 2010, he spoke
to the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society on the subject of ‘Life in London’s eastern suburb, c. 1500‒c.
1700’, and in the following month gave two papers, on sources for family history and household classification
systems, at an IHR conference on The history of families and households: comparative European dimensions.
Finally, in July he gave a paper entitled ‘Putney projects: Levellers, London and the franchise’, at the University of
Reading’s early modern studies conference.
Philip’s publications during the year included “For the house her self and one servant’: family and household in late
seventeenth-century London’, with Dr Mark Merry in London Journal, 34 (2009); ‘What was the first Agreement
of the people?’, with Dr Elliot Vernon, Historical Journal, 53 (2010); and ‘Radicalism in civil war and Interregnum
England’, History Compass, 8 (2010).
John Beckett
During the session 2009‒10, John gave papers at two academic conferences in London.
His publications during the year were:
‘Libraries and the Victoria County History’, Library & Information History, 25/4 (December 2009), 217‒26.
‘Dr George Ridding, First Bishop of Southwell, 1884‒1904’, in Stanley Chapman and Derek Walker, eds., Minster
People (Southwell Local History Society, 2009), 101‒14.
(with Michael Turner), ‘Land Reform and the English Land Market, 1880‒1925’, in Matthew Cragoe and Paul
Readman eds., The Land Question in Britain, 1750‒1950 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 219‒36.
‘The Thoroton Society and the Victoria County History’,Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 113 (2009), 119‒36.
John also published book reviews in History, Journal of British Studies, Reviews in History and The Local Historian.
Talks given included:
‘The Victoria County History and English Local History’, Cumbria Local History Federation, University of Cumbria,
Newton Rigg, Penrith, 25 September 2009.
‘Reconstructing the townscape of a provincial city: Nottingham’, AHRC Postgraduate training course ‘Landscape
and Townscape: methods and sources for urban, regional and local history’, Institute of Historical Research, 18
November 2009.
‘The Early days of the Victoria County History’, Christopher Elrington Memorial Lecture, The Amwell Society,
Islington, London, 26 January 2010.
‘The Victoria County History: a national perspective’, Cumbria County History Trust, launch at Rheged, Penrith, 15
May 2010.
‘The Victoria County History and the Lincoln Record Society: the Quest for a “County History” of Lincolnshire’, Dr Jim
Johnston Memorial Lecture, Bishop Grosseteste University College, Lincoln, 18 May 2010.
‘Writing Hampshire’s History: the VCH 1899‒1912’, Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society, 125 th
Anniversary Meeting, St Swithun’s School, Winchester, 22 May 2010.
‘The VCH in Cornwall: why was volume 1 mainly about natural history?’, Eden Project, Par, Cornwall, 23 June 2010.
John’s research time was limited by the demands of the Directorship of the VCH, but he continued to work with
various associates on projects relating to the history of landownership in the 19th and 20th centuries, the history
of churches and chapels in Nottinghamshire, and on the Cust family papers in Lincolnshire.
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Vivian Bickford-Smith
In 2009‒10 Vivian spent much of his time involved with projects around the theme of cities and identities. These
included completing research for a book to be published by Cambridge University Press and presenting papers
at Basel, SOAS, Birkbeck and Oxford as well as at conferences in San Diego and Durham. Published or in press are
pieces for the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, History Workshop Journal, Journal of Urban
History, African Research and Documentation and a book on radical cultures and local identity. He also convened
a conference on ‘Cities and Nationalism’ with contributions that covered a wide array of cities in Europe, Asia,
Africa and the Americas. A selection of papers will be published in the Journal of Urban History, Urban History and
the London Journal. Vivian taught sessions in the MA on approaches to historical research, helped with Mellon
fellow selection and co-convened the CMH seminar on Metropolitan history. He was elected a member for the
International Commission on Towns, became a member of the editorial board of the South African Historical Journal,
remains on the international advisory board of Urban History and refereed for the South African National Research
Foundation.
Matthew Bristow
Matthew’s work this year included general editing, cartographic and illustrative tasks associated with preparing
red volumes for publication. Matthew also prepared and implemented a business case for reviving a stalled volume
in the Northamptonshire series and contributed a significant amount of material as part of the evaluation phase
of the Lottery funded EPE project. Following the end of the EPE project Matthew was the driving force behind the
restructuring of the EPE Explore site into a national local history resource and its transferral to the Drupal Content
Management System. Along with Elizabeth Williamson, Matthew is one of the convenors of the Locality and
Region seminar and during this year taught two classes in the IHR’s MA program and was installed as secretary of
the Victoria History Trust. Away from the IHR, Matthew was elected Editor of the Vernacular Architecture Group’s
annual journal, Vernacular Architecture, a scholarly journal which the IHR subscribes to.
David Cannadine
Professor Sir David Cannadine spent most of the academic year at Princeton University, where he was fully engaged
in teaching and research. His essay ‘Independence Day Celebrations in Historical Perspective’ was twice re-printed,
in W.R.Louis (ed.), Ultimate Adventures with Britannia, and in T.Berringer, R.Holland and S.Williams (eds.), The
Iconography of Independence: Freedoms at Midnight; and his biography of Andrew W. Mellon was translated into
Chinese. He delivered the Fulbright Lecture at the Eccles Centre of the British Library, the Linbury Lecture at the
Dulwich Picture Gallery, and the Peters Rushton lecture at the University of Virginia, and presented another series
for ‘A Point of View’ on BBC Radio 4.
He crossed the Atlantic many times, continuing his work as Chair of the IHR Appeal, and leading the research
project on the teaching of history in English schools, funded by the Linbury Trust, and hosted by the IHR. During
the course of the year, he also continued to serve as Chair of the Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery and of
the Blue Plaques Panel, as Vice Chairman of the Editorial Board of Past and Present, as a member of the Royal Mint
Committee, a Trustee of the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, a Trustee of the Rothschild Archive, and
on the Editorial Board of the History of Parliament.
He completed his terms of office as Vice Chairman and Trustee of the Kennedy Memorial Trust, as a Commissioner
of English Heritage and as a member of the Eastern Regional Committee of the National Trust. He was appointed to
be Vice-Chair of the Westminster Abbey Fabric Committee, and a Vice-President of the Victorian Society, and also
to the Advisory Committee of the Center for the History of Collecting in America at the Frick Collection in New York.
Matthew Davies
Matthew has continued to direct or co-direct five research projects based at the CMH, and to develop proposals
for new initiatives for which funding will be sought. Further details of these projects can be found in the report on
the Centre’s activities. He also continues to supervise eight graduate research students and direct the IHR’s MA in
Historical Research. Also at the IHR, Dr Davies has been closely involved in ‘Connected Histories’, a collaborative
project with the Universities of Sheffield and Hertfordshire, which is designed to create a federated search facility
which will enable users to search simultaneously a number of important online resources such as Old Bailey, British
History Online, the Booth Archive, Parliamentary Papers and the Clergy of England Database. CMH resources will
feature in this project, particularly as the datasets from ‘People in Place’ and the London and Middlesex Hearth Tax
projects are uploaded. Elsewhere, Dr Davies was been appointed to the Executive Board of the Records of Early
English Drama (REED) project, based at the University of Toronto and is looking forward to being involved in the
publication of several London volumes over the next few years, as well as in their plans for digital resources. Closer
to home, he was appointed to the ESRC’s Peer Review College. As far as his own research is concerned, Matthew
continued to work broadly on the history of late medieval London, developing aspects of what will eventually be
a substantial monograph within a seven-volume history of the city. He made further progress with a project on
perceptions and representations of history by the London guilds between 1300 and 1700, and was due to give
papers on this subject to the Late Medieval Seminar at the IHR and at the 2010 meeting of the North American
Conference on British Studies. To take his research forward in both these areas, he was awarded a short-term
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fellowship at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, which he intends to take up in the spring of 2011.
Outside the IHR, Matthew continued to serve on the Council of the London Record Society and as Chair of the
London Journal Editorial Committee. His service on the London Advisory Committee of English Heritage, which
exists to advise English Heritage in relation to its statutory responsibilities for historic buildings and open spaces in
the capital, continues to be interesting and diverting.
Jim Galloway
Funding of Jim’s research project ‘London and the tidal Thames 1250‒1550: marine flooding, embankment and
economic change’, based at the CMH and funded by the ESRC, ended on 28 February 2010. The final seven months
of the project, which investigated the impact of storm flooding upon the lands bordering the tidal river Thames and
Thames Estuary and studied the changing human response to these environmental challenges over the course
of three centuries, were spent in analysis, writing and other dissemination activities. In October 2009 a one-day
interdisciplinary conference on ‘London the Thames and Water’ was organised at the IHR, and the papers presented
there by historians, archaeologists and geographers are being published in a volume edited by Jim as part of the
CMH’s Working Papers Series. Jim also spoke at the winter conference of the Medieval Settlement Research group
at the IHR in December. Since the formal ending of the project Jim has continued with related research and writing.
In July 2010 he organised a session on flooding in medieval and early modern Europe at the Anglo American
Conference, and is coordinating publication of the papers in a leading environmental history journal.
Chris Lewis
Chris Lewis left the VCH at the end of September 2009 after 27 years’ service, successively as Assistant to the
General Editor, Editor of Cheshire, and Editor of Sussex. In March 2010 he and Stephen Baxter (King’s College
London) were awarded a grant by the Leverhulme Trust for a major research project, Profile of a Doomed Elite:
The Structure of English Landed Society in 1066, to start in September 2010. Chris’s final publications for the VCH
appeared in December in Sussex, volume 5, covering Littlehampton and district. His obituary notice for Christopher
Elrington, former General Editor of the VCH, was published in The Times on 11 August 2009. Chris’s activities
outside the VCH continued. He directed the 33rd annual Battle Conference on Anglo–Norman Studies (July 2010)
and edited the proceedings of the previous year’s conference, as Anglo Norman Studies, 32. His fourteenth critical
bibliography of publications on British history in the central Middle Ages (900‒1200) appeared in the Historical
Association’s Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature. Papers read during the year included ‘Naming Paradise:
house names of the 1920s and 1930s in seaside Sussex’ (University of Leicester Centre for English Local History
seminar); ‘Personal names and cultural identity in Victorian Wales’ (Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland
conference, Carmarthen); ‘Why St Pancras?’ (Emil Godfrey Memorial Lecture, Lewes Priory Trust); ‘Motor-bicycling
around England: architecture and archaeology in the early VCH’, a joint paper with Paul Stamper of English
Heritage (Anglo-American Conference of Historians); ‘Field-names as evidence for dispersed settlement’ (Leeds
International Medieval Congress); and ‘The making of Ferring: local history in the Middle Ages’ (Ferring History
Group, Sussex).
Mark Merry
Mark Merry left his post as Senior Research Officer on the ESRC-funded research project ‘Life in the suburbs: health,
domesticity and status in early modern London’ at the beginning of 2010 and took up the newly created post of
IHR Digital Projects and Training Officer. During the course of the year he has developed and delivered a number of
training courses, notably on digital methods in historical research, and has attended a number of training courses
(notably on the use of GIS techniques). In addition he spent the early part of 2010 scoping and reporting on the
online delivery of research training for historians, leading to the design and development a number of online
training resources which will, over the next year or so, build into an integrated set of research packages as part
of the IHR’s ambitious programme to become a leading provider of online and face-to-face historical training. A
number of research training ‘handbooks’ are being authored by Mark and others – subjects including the use of
databases in historical research, documenting data, digital project management, mapping historical data, and
editing historical sources – are planned for publication before the end of 2010. Alongside these, a number of online
training courses are being developed for delivery via the IHR’s virtual learning environment. The content of these
is being designed in conjunction with the IHR’s online seminar scoping project. An overview of this programme was
given at the IHR Digital Colloquium.
Alongside the research training of his new post, Mark has continued to act as a consultant on a number of research
projects. A significant part of his new role is to support new and ongoing projects within the IHR and CMH, and so
he has remained closely involved with LITS, especially in terms of the digitisation and data processing and analysis
work being undertaken by the project. Analysis from this research has been presented at the European Association
of Urban Historians annual conference in Ghent, and is to be published in a forthcoming collection of essays to
celebrate the CMH’s twentieth anniversary. The conversion of the material generated by the London Hearth Tax
Project, a collaborative project between the CMH and Roehampton, into a free accessible database has been
completed, and is available from the SAS-Space repository. The Clothworkers’ Company phase of the CMH’s Livery
Company Membership Database Project has been completed, with the online resource due to go live in early 2011.
The next phase of this project, involving the archive of the Drapers’ Company, is now underway and is due to be
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completed in the late summer of 2011. Mark has acted as advisor on a number of new projects that have begun , or
indeed which have come to completion, during the past year, including the Leverhulme funded ‘The Anne Clifford
Project’ at the University of Huddersfield; the Dean’s Development Fund supported ‘ReScript’ online collaborative
text editing project at the IHR (which employs source text digitised by the LitS project); the English Heritage/
UCL Medieval Sandwich project; the Goldsmiths’ Company 1682 Mark Plate project, being directed by Dr David
Mitchell (CMH fellow); and the OUP publication of the ‘British Drama Catalogue 1533‒1642’, directed by Dr Martin
Wiggins (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham). In addition he successfully applied to the Dean’s
Development Fund for a pilot project called ‘Mapping London’ which aims to generate a historical mapping tool
to enable early modern historians of London to analyse social and economic data of the metropolitan population
spatially and topographically. Work on this project is in its early stages.
During the course of the year Mark has had published a jointly authored (with Philip Baker of the CMH) article
published in the London Journal at the end of 2009 entitled ‘‘For the house her self and one servant’: Family
and Household in Late Seventeenth-Century London’, based on the findings of several research projects at the
Centre. He also authored two publications which are forthcoming: an article entitled ‘‘Specyall lover and preferrer
of the polytike and common weale’: John Smyth and ideal citizenship in fifteenth-century Bury St Edmunds’ in S.
Sweetinburgh ed. Negotiating the Political in Northern European Urban Society, c.1400‒1600 (BREPOLS); and
Seventeenth-Century Warwickshire Account Books (Dugdale Society) edited with C. T. Richardson (University of
Kent).
Danny Millum
One half of Danny’s role involves his work as deputy editor on Reviews in History, the IHR’s online journal of reviews
and reappraisals of significant work in all fields of historical interest. The Reviews website was successfully
relaunched last year, and as well as featuring a new look, has been transferred onto a content management system
which has vastly improved its searchability and facilitated the introduction of a variety of new features. Reviews is
now in a position to publish four new and original pieces every week.
Danny also worked on the relaunch of the IHR website, and on the development and launch of IHR Digital. He has
also been involved in the expansion of the IHR’s podcasting programme, and the planning of next year’s winter
conference on historical fiction.
Richard Roberts
Richard Roberts’ writings for publication included: ‘The London Financial Crisis of August 1914’, in Patrice Baubeau
and Anders Ogren (eds) Convergence and Divergence of National Financial Systems: Evidence from the Gold
Standards, 1871‒1971 (Pickering & Chatto 2010). Submitted for publication: ‘The Demise of the London Merchant
Banks, 1983‒2004’ in Raymond Dartevelles (ed) La Haute Banque en Europe (2011); entry for the Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography on Christopher Reeves, merchant banker.
Reports written and published in conjunction with economic consultancies included: ‘Sovereign Rescues: How
the forgotten financial crisis of 1914 compares with 2008‒2009’ (Lombard Street Research, July 2009); ‘State
Debts and Federal Assumption: 1790 and the early 1840s; Historical perspectives from the United States for the
European Union’ (Connally Global Macro Advisers, March 2010); ‘Sharpening the Axe: With public spending cuts
inevitable after the UK election, history provides essential guidance for the next government’ (Lombard Street
Research, April 2010); ‘The Geddes Axe: Public spending cuts by independent review’ (Lombard Street Research,
June 2010).
Professor Roberts co-convened the fortnightly seminar in Contemporary British History at the IHR in 2009‒10,
along with Professors Pat Thane and Rodney Lowe. He also co-organised the twice yearly meetings of the
Monetary History Group in September 2009 and April 2010 at the IHR.
During 2009‒10 he supervised four doctoral students. He contributed to teaching the MA in Contemporary British
History: Core Course I; Core Course II; the option - ‘The City 1850‒2000’; and supervised MA dissertations.
Matthew Stevens
Over the 2009–10 period, Matthew has continued to conduct research on the society and economy of later
medieval London and Wales. Regarding London history, in late 2008 Matthew, together with Matthew Davies,
was awarded an ESRC small grant of £81,349 to examine the fortunes of ‘London women and the economy before
and after the Black Death’. Research findings from this project were presented by Matthew at the 10 th Anglo-
American Seminar on the Medieval Economy and Society at Grey College, Durham University in July 2010. A project
output will be published in a volume of collected essays he is currently co-editing with Dr. Cordelia Beattie of
Edinburg University, entitled Married Women and the Law in Northern Europe, c.1200–1750, to be published in
2011. Likewise, Matthew is preparing a second project output for submission to the London Journal in late 2010.
Stemming from previous London research undertaken by Matthew, as part of the AHRC funded project ‘Londoners
and the Law: Pleadings in the Court of Common Pleas, 1399–1509’ in April 2010 he published an article in The
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Journal of Legal History, 31 (2010), entitled ‘Failed arbitrations before the Court of Common Pleas: cases relating
to London and Londoners, 1400‒1468’. Also, arising form the ‘Londoners and the Law’ project, Matthew, with
the aid of an £8,00 grant from the Marc Fitch Fund, has edited over 6,000 summary translations of fifteenthcentury
Court of Common Pleas cases involving London and Londoners for publication on British History Online.
Over 300 of these cases were launched on British History online as of September 2010, with the remainder to be
made available by January 2011. Regarding Welsh history, Matthew’s first monograph Urban Assimilation in Post-
Conquest Wales: Ethnicity, Gender and Economy in Ruthin, 1282–1348 (Cardiff, 2010) was published with the
University of Wales Press in April 2010. He also contributed a chapter to a further volume on Welsh history, edited
by Helen Fulton, entitled Urban Culture in medieval Wales (Cardiff, 2011), shortly to be published by the University
of Wales Press.
In other professional activities, Matthew was a visiting teaching fellow of Nicholas Copernicus University in
Torun, Poland, from February to June of 2010, on behalf of the Institute of Historical Research. While in Poland,
his activities including teaching MA students palaeography and the history of British archives. He also worked to
develop ties between the IHR and the historians of Nicholas Copernicus which may potentially lead to cooperative
research projects. In June of 2010 Matthew left the Institute of Historical Research, and in October he took up a
lectureship in medieval history at Swansea University.
Alan Thacker
This year Alan Thacker’s publications included ‘Bede and History’, in The Cambridge Companion to Bede, edited by
Scott DeGregorio. Two further papers were sent to press: ‘Priests and Pastoral Care in Early Anglo-Saxon England’
and ‘Bede’s Martyrology’, to appear respectively in Festschriften for Professor Richard Pfaff and Dr Jennifer O’Reilly.
Conference papers included ‘Sculpture and The VCH’, delivered at a conference in Chester organized by the
committee for the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Sculpture; ‘The Cult of St Wilfrid’, at the St Wilfrid 1300 th Anniversary
Conference’ at York; ‘Popes, Patriarchs and Archbishops and the Origin of the Cult of the Martyrs’, a plenary lecture
at the Winter Conference of the Ecclesiastical History Society; ‘Clergy and Custodes at Old St Peter’s, 4 th ‒8 th
Century’, delivered to an International Conference on Old St Peter’s at the British School at Rome; ‘Rome: the
Pilgrim’s City in the 7 th Century’, delivered to the International Congress at Leeds. A further paper on early martyr
cult at Aquileia was given to the Postgraduate Seminar at the University of York.
Alan Thacker was elected this year to the Committee of the Ecclesiastical History Society and to the Council of
the Royal Historical Society. He continues to serve as a council member of the Henry Bradshaw Society and as a
convenor of the Earlier Middle Ages seminar and the Locality and Region seminar here at the IHR. He continues to
supervise PHD students and to teach on the IHR’s MA in Historical Studies.
Miles Taylor
During 2009-10, the Director undertook a mixture of IHR work and his own research. He met with history
departments across London and furthered international partnerships in Asia and Russia. The Director visited China
(25 October-5 November) giving lectures and establishing collaboration agreements in Nanjing, Fudan and with
Peking University. He visited Japan (10-16 November) to attend the 4th Korean-Japanese Conference on British
History and also gave a seminar paper at Osaka University.
The Director hosted and led a number of events, including: an Anglo-Japanese postgraduate colloquium (10
September); the annual Friends of the IHR lecture (Lawrence Goldman, 29 September); the IHR Winter Conference,
Going to War: Britain, Film and the Second World War (22-23 October at the Imperial War Museum); the Society of
French History annual lecture (Julian Jackson, 24 November); together with the Pears’ Institute, the IHR hosted
a Holocaust memorial lecture (1 February); the John Coffin Memorial lecture, given by Stefan Collini (3 May); the
Director led a delegation of historians to a joint IHR/Russian Academy of the Sciences conference in Moscow (10-12
May), at which he also gave a paper.
The Director was kept very busy with other external commitments, continuing to serve on the editorial board of
the History of Parliament and the Grants Assessment Panel of the Economic and Social Research Council. He was
external assessor for a full professorship at Harvard, and assessor for an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (New York)
Distinguished Achievement Award. During the summer, he was the consultant for the History Channel programme
co-directed by Colin Firth, The People Speak. He provided senior promotional and tenure assessments for the
University of Edinburgh, Bard College New York, and the University of Reading, and book Ms reader reports for
Yale University Press and Ashgate. He spent 23-26 May in Melbourne, Australia as part of an international team
reviewing the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne.
The Director gave the following conference and seminar papers and external lectures: a roundtable seminar on his
work on the 1848 revolutions at the Université de Lille (4 October); he spoke at the History UK annual meeting (20
November); a lecture on ‘British history in the new age of austerity: a retrospect and prospect’ to mark the opening
of the new Modern History Research Centre at the University of Winchester (10 February); a paper on ‘Chartism
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ethought and revisited’ at a conference, ‘Utopia and Dystopia’ on the work of Gareth Stedman Jones at Robinson
College, Cambridge (20 May); a paper on ‘The afterlife of Queen Victoria’ at a conference on L’Heritage Victorien
dans la pensee politique britannique contemporaine’ at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, France (10 June).
The Director also attended several annual meetings and conferences, including: an international workshop at the
Université de Nice on ‘Europe in Asia during the age of revolutions, 1757-1858’ (23-24 September); a private dinner
of historians meeting with the Secretary of State, Michael Gove, to discuss the place of history in the national
curriculum (22 November); the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Boston (6-9 January); at
Historisches Kolleg in Munich, the launch of rescensio-net, an open-access history reviews journal, which the IHR’s
Reviews in History will shortly join (20-21 January); VCH county meetings in Northamptonshire (15 December)
and Essex (2 February); an extraordinary meeting of the AHRC, at which the Council’s strategic plan post-CSR was
discussed (4 February).
During the first term of the 2009‒10 academic year, the Director’s seminar ran every Thursday, allowing Junior
Research Fellows to present their research.
The Director supervised one PhD student and co-supervised two others. He continued research and writing for his
book, Empress: Queen Victoria and India (YUP), including a research trip to Delhi and Calcutta in March and April.
Elizabeth Williamson
Elizabeth’s work this year included co-operating in the editing of several Victoria County History volumes now in
press and preparing others for publication. The Heritage Lottery Funded EPE project provided other challenges,
including contributions to the editing of several of the paperback volumes in that series, particularly Hardwick:
A Great House and Estate. She is involved in teaching the MA in Local and Regional History and in the CMH and
Survey of London collaborative doctoral student programme on private housing in the London in the late 19th and
early 20th century. She is also a convenor of the Locality and Region seminar, and represents the VCH on the BHO
working group and the IHR’s Research Strategy Group. As a Commissioner of English Heritage, she continues to
serve as Chair of the Historic Parks and Gardens Panel and as a member of the Advisory Committee.
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Activities and Publications of Fellows
Professor David Bates
David Bates continued as Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia and held throughout the
year a Chaire d’Excellence at the University of Caen Basse-Normandie, funded by the Conseil Régional de la Basse-
Normandie. He was elected a Life Member of Clare Hall in the University of Cambridge. He gave the James W. Ford
Lectures in British History in the University of Oxford in January and February 2010, three research seminars in the
University of Caen Basse-Normandie, a public lecture in Caen organised by the University of Caen Basse-Normandie
and the Musée de Normandie, lectures to the London Society of Medieval Studies and the Lincolnshire Branch of the
Historical Association, a paper to a week-long seminar held at the Fondation des Treilles near Draguinan to assess the
archives left by Professor Georges Duby, and a paper at the Leeds International Medieval Congress. He co-organised
a four-day conference at the University of East Anglia on the theme of ‘East Anglia and its North Sea World’ and has
been appointed Director of the Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies.
During this period Professor Bates wrote ‘Autour de l’année 1047: un acte de Guillaume, comte d’Arques, pour l’abbaye
de Fécamp (18 juillet 1047)’ (co-authored with Pierre Bauduin), in Recueil des etudes en hommage à François Neveux,
ed. P. Bouet, C. Bougy, B. Garnier and C. Maneuvrier, Cahiers des Annales de Normandie, no. 35 (Caen, 2009), 43‒52.
Dr Kelly Boyd
In 2009–10, Kelly Boyd worked with Dr Mark Hampton (Lingnan University, Hong Kong), on a special issue of Media
History which will focus on television and cultural history in the Anglophone world. It will appear in 2011. Additionally
she completed a six-year term as the Treasurer of the Social History Society and continued to convene the Women’s
History Seminar at the IHR.
Mr Duncan Campbell-Smith
Duncan Campbell-Smith devoted the second year of his Senior Fellowship to further research into the history of the
Post Office. His finished history is due to be published by Penguin Press in the autumn of 2011.
Professor Michael Clanchy
In 2009–10, Michael Clanchy gave the following talks: ‘Did mothers pass on book-learning to their children?’ (Medieval
Church and Culture seminar at Oxford); ‘Abelard and his masters, Anselm of Laon and William of Champeaux’ and
‘Latin charters conserved at St Andrews from before 1300’ (two workshops for the St Andrews Institute of Medieval
Studies). At the Leeds International Medieval Congress he spoke on ‘From memory to written culture: retrospective’
and participated in a round table ‘Saluting Aron Gurevich and his legacy’. He also chaired sessions at Leeds on ‘Royal
will and government in England 1216‒1307’ and ‘Abelard, Heloise and Hildegard: perceptions and redefinitions’. He
continued as the Patron of the London Medieval Society, which had three one-day meetings.
Dr Eveline Cruickshanks
In January 2010, Eveline Cruickshanks was gratified when a volume of essays in her honour, including a bibliography
of her publications, edited by Paul Monod, Murray Pittock and Daniel Szechi, was published by Palgrave/Macmillan.
In the volume, she translated from French into English Patrick Clarke de Dromantin’s essay on ‘The Influence of the
Jacobites on the Economic Development of France in the Era of the Enlightenment’, no easy task in view of the highly
technical terms used.
In July 2010, with Allan Macinnes and Murray Pittock, she organised in the University of Strathclyde a very successful
Jacobite Studies Conference, attended by scholars from the UK, Ireland, North America, Australia and Continental
Europe.
Dr Christopher Currie
In 2009–10, Christopher Currie published ‘Odda’s Chapel, Ealdred’s Inscriptions? The Deerhurst inscriptions in some
continental contexts’, Historical Research vol. 83, no. 219 (Feb. 2010), pp. 1‒45, and also ‘Another Giant “Peasant”
House? The Site Identification of Priory Cottages, Steventon’, in Oxoniensia 75 (2009, pub. 2010), pp. 185–9.
He also made an English translation (with Nathaniel Alcock, Lynn T Courtenay, and Rebecca Miller) of Roof Frames from
the 11 th to the 19 th Century: Typology and Development in Northern France and in Belgium ., ed Patrick Hoffsummer
(Architectura Medii Aevi 3), Turnhout, Brepols, 2009; 376 pp [translated from Les charpentes du Xie au XIXe Siecle:
Typologie et evolution en France du Nord et en Belgique (Paris, 2002)].
Dr Currie also presented the paper ‘The Other Londons: North America’ at the IHR’s Locality and Region seminar
in June 2010. In addition, he continued as President of the Vernacular Architecture Group, organising its Winter
Conference on ‘The Polite Threshold’ at the University of Leicester on 19–20 December 2009, and presiding over its
Spring Conference in Durham on 16–20 April 2010. He became a convenor of the IHR Locality and Region Seminar and
a trustee of the County History Trust during the year. He continued until May as a board member of AVISTA, attending
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its sessions at the 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, that month. He also continued as a
member of the Records Preservation Section committee of the British Records Association.
Professor Martin Daunton
Martin Daunton continued to research on the economic government of the world since the Second World War, and
visited various US presidential libraries in pursuit of material. He spoke at a conference in Paris, on taxation and
Conservatism; delivered seminar papers in Zurich and Tokyo; and presented a paper to Treasury and other officials
on the nature of the British state. He continued to teach and supervise graduate students at the University of
Cambridge.
His publications in this period included: ‘A tale of two conferences: the International Trade Organization, GATT and
world trade’, in F. Trentmann (ed.), ‘Is Free Trade Fair Trade: New Perspectives on the World Trading System’, Smith
Institute, London, 2009, 34‒46; ‘From Bretton Woods to Havana: multilateral deadlocks in historical perspective’, in
A. Narlikar (ed.), ‘Breaking Deadlocks at Doha’, Cambridge University Press, 2010; ‘Welfare, taxation and social justice:
reflections on Cambridge economists from Marshall to Keynes’, in R. Backhouse and T. Nishizawa, eds., ‘Welfare
Economics’, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2010.
Dr Catherine Delano-Smith
In 2009–10, Catherine Delano-Smith made three archival visits to France, which provided a wealth of material for
future research. As in previous years, in January and July she contributed to the Institute of English Studies MA in
the History of the Book and also to courses at the London Rare Book School, with six sessions taught on the ‘History
of Maps and Mapping’ course and one on ‘Mapping Land and Sea before 1900’. Both courses were co-organised with
Sarah Tyacke.
Dr Delano-Smith continued to co-organise the Maps and Society lecture series at the Warburg Institute, to serve as
Founder-Trustee of the J.B. Harley Research Fellowships Trust, and to edit Imago Mundi. The International Journal
for the History of Cartography. She was appointed a member of Advisory Board for History of Cartography, Volume
5, Cartography in the European Enlightenment (University of Chicago Press), edited by Roger J. P. Kain, and agreed to
serve on the Dissertation Committee for a PhD candidate at the University of Florida who is working on Arias Montanus’
Polyglott Bible (Antwerp 1572). She acted as Reader for British Library Publications and contributed book reviews to
journals. With Susan Reynolds, she wrote a booklet called Hints on presenting seminar and conference papers for
distribution at the IHR.
Professor Sir Roderick Floud FBA
Roderick Floud acted as Provost of Gresham College, London, leading its extensive programme of lectures and other
events. He chaired the Standing Committee for the Social Sciences of the European Science Foundation and edited
‘Vital Questions: the contribution of European Social Science’. He also worked on his latest book ‘The Changing Body:
health, nutrition and human development in the western world since 1700’, with Robert Fogel, Bernard Harris and
Sok-Chul Hong, which will be published by Cambridge University Press in April 2011. He also began work on a new
research project on the economic history of British gardening.
Dr Sandra Holton
During this year Sandra Holton completed an article which is to be published in Women’s History Review in 2011:
‘Challenging Masculinism: personal history and microhistory in feminist studies of the women’s suffrage movement’.
Another article, ‘” To educate Women into Rebellion”: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the creation of a transatlantic
network of radical suffragists’, originally published in the American Historical Review, vol. 99 (1994), has been
republished in Karen Offen (ed.), Globalizing Feminism, 1789–1945, London, Routledge, 2009. She continued
to work on her study of Alice Clark, a pioneer historian of women’s work, and began work on a conference paper:
‘Friendship and Service: relations between servants and mistresses among Quaker families, 1850–1920’.
Dr Clyve Jones
Clyve Jones continued to edit the journal Parliamentary History, in his twenty-fifth year as editor. Additionally, in
2009–10 he published:
A Short History of Parliament: England, Great Britain, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Scotland, edited by Clyve
Jones (Boydell, Woodbridge, 2009), 386pp.
‘Further Proxy Records for the House of Lords, 1660‒1720’, Parliamentary History, xxviii (2009), 429‒40.
‘”An Affair of Such Importance to the Nation”: The House of Lords and the 1748 Buckinghamshire Assize Bill’, Southern
History, xxxi (2009), 75‒99.
‘The Brownlow Estate Bill Select Committee in the House of Lords, 1717: A Glimpse into the Politics and Workings of
the Committee System’, Historical Research, lxxxiii (2010).
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‘A List of the London Houses of the Nobility of England in 1680’, London Topographical Record, xxx (2010), 42‒50.
Professor Derek Keene
Derek Keene continued research on early medieval London for a forthcoming book, completed research and writing
of an essay on ideas of the metropolis throughout European history and with Stefan Goebel, a former colleague at the
IHR, completed editorial work and the introduction to a collection of essays on Cities into Battlefields: Metropolitan
Scenarios, Experiences and Commemorations of Total War. He supervised three doctoral students at the IHR (‘Bishops
in Anglo-Saxon England’, ‘The representation of Jewish Heritage in London between 1887 and 1956’, ‘Underground
railways and modernity in Buenos Aires’). He was an active member of the International Commission for the History
of Towns, the British Historical Towns Atlas Committee, the St Paul’s Cathedral Fabric Committee and the Urban
Panel (sponsored by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and English Heritage) and served
as an international assessor for a Belgian/Netherlands inter-university research project on urban culture in the Low
Countries in the late medieval and early modern period.
In September 2009 he delivered the paper ‘Reflections on London’s urban footprint’, at the international colloquium
on urban environmental impacts, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI). In the following month he spoke on
‘Winchester: archaeology and history to 1500’, at the Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institut für Stadtgeschichtsforschung,
Vienna, and in the month after that he presented a paper at the University of Utrecht Historical Seminar on ‘London,
300‒700: decline and revival’. Also in November, he spoke on ‘European towns, 400–1500: the clerical view’, at
the University of Antwerp. In June 2010 Professor Keene participated in the ‘Immigration and London, 400–2000’
colloquium at Helsinki University.
His publications during this period included:
• [with Balázs Nagy and Katalin Szende] (eds), Segregation – Integration – Assimilation: Religious and Ethnic
Groups in the Medieval Towns of Central and Eastern Europe (Farnham, 2009).
• ‘Introduction: Segregation, Zoning and Assimilation in Medieval Towns’, ibid., pp. 1‒13.
• ‘London 600‒1200’ in Ferdinand Opll and Christoph Sonnlechner (eds), Europäische Städte im Mittelalter
(StudienVerlag: Innsbruck/Vienna/Bolzano, 2010), pp. 95‒114.
• ‘“Knights” before the Round Table: Cnihtas, Guildhalls and Governance in Early Winchester’, in M. Henig and
N. Ramsay (eds), Intersections: the Archaeology and History of Christianity in England, 400‒1200. Papers in
Honour of Martin Biddle and Birthe KjØlbye‒Biddle, ed. (Oxford, 2010), pp. 201‒11.
• Six essays in The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert E. Bjork (Oxford, 2010), ‘Alderman’, ‘Bukerel
family’, ‘Burgage tenure’, ‘FitzThedmar’, ‘Livery Companies’, ‘London’ .
• ‘Europese steden 400–1500’, pp. 98–102, in B. Blondé, D. Keene, S. Gunn, G. Vermeesch, ‘Waar is
stadsgeschiedenis goed voor? Europese stadsgeschiedenissen in de voorbije decennia. Enkele
beschouwingen naar aanleiding van de publicatie van Peter Clarke, European cities and towns, 400‒2000
(Oxford, 2009)’, Stadsgeschiedenis 5 (2010), pp. 98–119.
Dr Keith Manley
In November 2009, Keith Manley delivered the annual Cranston Lecture, held at Reigate Parish Church, Surrey,
with a paper on `James Kirkwood and Scottish parochial libraries’; while in December he spoke to the History of
Libraries seminar at the IHR on `Infidel books and subscription libraries: government censorship in Europe during the
Napoleonic period’.
On behalf of the Library & Information History Group he was joint-organizer of the Parochial Libraries Conference,
held in April 2010 in the Great Hall of Lambeth Palace. In July he began working for the National Trust at Greenway on
the River Dart in Devon, where he has been commissioned to catalogue the family library of Agatha Christie.
Dr Manley continued as a member of Council of both the Bibliographical Society and the Historic Libraries Forum, as
well as a co-convenor of the Seminar on the History of Libraries.
Dr Philip Mansel
Philip Mansel continued to edit The Court Historian, the journal of the society for Court Studies, and finished Levant:
Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean (2010), a history of modern Smyrna, Alexandria and Beirut. He
also completed a book of conference proceedings, co–edited with Torsten Riotte, Monarchy and Exile: the Politics
of Legitimacy (2011). In June 2010 he gave a talk on ‘Louis XVIII et la Maison de Bourbon en 1810’ at a conference
on 1810 organised by the Fondation Napoleon at the Archives diplomatiques in Paris, and another on ‘The wedding
of Napoleon I and Marie Louise: the Austrian viewpoint’ at the chateau de Compiegne. His publications included an
article on ‘Paris in the Age of Napoleon III’ in The Great Cities in History ed. John Julius Norwich (2009). Dr Mansel was
made a Chevalier of the order of Arts et lettres in 2010.
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Professor Peter Marshall
In 2009–10, Peter Marshall gave a Distinguished Lecture on ‘The Seven Years War in India: European Rivalries and
Indian State Building’ to the conference on ‘Contesting for Continents: The Seven Years War in Global Perspective’,
sponsored by American and Canadian universities on both sides of the border on 22–24 October 2009.
Additionally, he reviewed Lineages of Empire: The Historical Roots of British Imperial Thought, edited by Duncan
Kelly, Journal of imperial and Commonwealth History, XXXVIII (2010), 325–7.
Mr Donald Munro
Donald Munro continued his work on updating and extending ‘Microforms for Historians’. An advanced draft of
a subset of Latin American and Iberian Microform Research Collections was laid before ACLAIIR (Advisory Council
for Latin American and Iberian Information Resources) in June 2010. He continued as a co-opted member of
ACLAIIR, attending committee meetings and the AGM. He is also began reviving work from several years ago on the
transmission of manuscripts in the 17th century.
Dr Jill Pellew
Jill Pellew continued her research into the role of donors and patrons in the funding of British universities, working
on the period 1860‒1930. In January 2010 she gave a paper to the Richmond Historical Society on benefactors to
the Victoria University, 1880–1903. She is currently working on an article about the importance of private funding
in the early years of the LSE and Imperial College of Science and Technology. She also contributed an article in the
‘Witness to History’ section of British Scholar, vol. 2, March 2010, ‘Married to a British Diplomat in Washington DC,
1983–89’. In July 2010 she participated as a witness in a Centre for Contemporary British History seminar on ‘Home
Office Organisation’, July 2010.
Dr Roland Quinault
In 2009–10, Roland Quinault continued as co-convener of the IHR seminar on British History 1815‒1945, and served
as a member of the IHR Friends Committee. He also supervised the IHR postgraduate student Sean Dettman and
acted as progression assessor of Francis Boorman.
Dr Quinault delivered a paper on ‘Conserving the Chilterns in the inter-war period’ at the 2010 Anglo-American
conference on ‘The Environment’, as well as speaking on ‘Gladstone and Wales’ at the 2010 Gladstone conference.
His publications during this period included:
• ‘Victorian Juries’, History Today, 59, 5 (2009), pp. 47‒53.
• ‘Gladstone and Slavery’, The Historical Journal, 52, 2 (2009), pp. 1‒21.
• ‘London and the Land Question, c. 1880‒1914’, in M. Cragoe and P. Readman (eds.).
• The Land Question in Britain, 1750‒1950 (Palgrave, 2010), pp. 167‒80.
• ‘Chekhov and conservation’, History Today, 60, 2 (2010).
Miss Susan Reynolds
Susan Reynolds published ‘The use of feudalism in comparative history’ in Explorations in Comparative History ed.
B.Z Kedar (Jerusalem, 2009), 191‒217; Before Eminent Domain: toward a history of expropriation for the public good
(Chapel Hill, 2010); and ‘ Two Centuries of Representations of the Middle Ages’, in Representing History, ed. Robert A.
Maxwell (University Park, 2010), 201–7, 256–8. She also completed a chapter about social history, 500 CE–1500 CE
for the projected Cambridge History of the World and is working on medieval law. With Catherine Delano-Smith, she
wrote a booklet called Hints on presenting seminar and conference papers for distribution at the IHR.
Sir John Sainty
Sainty has continued research unto administrative and parliamentary history. On-going projects include the evolution
of the parliamentary session, the role of Black Rod in Parliament and the identification of the personnel of the court
of Admiralty.
Mr Daniel Snowman
The academic year 2009–10 saw the publication of Daniel Snowman’s book ‘The Gilded Stage: A Social History of
Opera’. In June 2010, he presented the IHR’s Annual Fellows’ Lecture in which he argued that “History and the Arts
should get together more often”. Variations on this theme recurred in a number of lectures and papers presented
during the course of the year, notably to the annual conference of the Royal Musical Association and at the Royal
Academy of Music.
Dr Silvia Sovic
On behalf of the IHR, Dr Sovic organised an international conference on ‘The History of Families and Households:
Comparative European Dimensions’, which was held between 24 and 26 June 2010. There were more than forty
participants from over twenty countries. A book based around the proceedings is now being planned.
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Dr Jenny Stratford
Throughout the academic year 2009 to 2010 Jenny Stratford taught a course of medieval and early modern
palaeography in the IHR to PhD students of Royal Holloway, Queen Mary, King’s and University colleges, and a twoday
course on Books of Hours in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Musem for the Palaeography summer
school organised by the Institute of English Studies. She continued to work on the completion of her book, ‘Richard
II and the English royal treasure’ and gave a paper at the Harlaxton medieval conference entitled, ‘Isabel of Castile,
1st duchess of York, d. 1392’. At the invitation of the Master of the Armories she joined the committee planning the
Agincourt celebrations of 2015. At the request of the Bibliotheque nationale de France, she also joined ‘Europeana
Regia ‘, a Europe-wide project, dedicated to the digitization of Carolingian manuscripts, the manuscripts of Charles V
of France, and the manuscripts of the Aragon kings of Naples.
Dr Karina Urbach
In September 2009 Karina Urbach organised an international conference with Brendan Simms
(Cambridge) on ‘Statesmen and War: Bringing personality back in’, which included her paper on Bismarck as a
war leader. She submitted her biography of Queen Victoria (to be published in February 2011) and her article on
‘Networks’ which was published in Gerrit Walther’s book on Bildung (Stuttgart 2010). She worked as a CRA at Clare
College, Cambridge and was interviewed by the BBC for a programme on Victorian Art and a documentary on George
V.; in addition she did two programmes for German television on the Royal Family.
Professor Cornelie Usborne
In January 2010 Cornelie Usborne delivered the paper ‘Discourses, Policies, Practices in Germany, 1912–1945’, at an
international conference on ‘Fertility in the History of the 20 th Century’ in Berlin. In April she was the main organiser of
the conference, `From Space to Place: the Spatial Dimension in History of Western Europe’, at the German Historical
Institute in Bloomsbury. In May, at the University of Warwick, she delivered the seminar paper ‘Discovering Desire:
the difficulties of researching female sexuality in everyday life in Nazi Germany’.
Additionally, Professor Usborne served on the panel of judges for the Fraenkel Prize, and as an adjudicator of the
Prince Consort and Thirwall Prize Fund at the University of Cambridge. Throughout the year, she made several British
Academy-funded research trips to archives in Germany. She also continued as co-convenor of the Women’s History
Seminar at the IHR, and as a member of the editorial board of the journal German History.
Dr Graham Twigg
In 2009–10 Graham Twigg completed his book ‘Bubonic Plague: A Much Misunderstood Disease’. It will be published
in 2011.
Dr Lynne Walker
Lynne Walker organised and taught on An Introduction to Visual Sources for Historians, at the Institute of Historical
Research and contributed to the MA in Contemporary British History at the Centre of Contemporary British History.
Her other IHR-related activities included serving on the Scouloudi Historical Awards committee, helping to assess
the Pollard Prize, and making a presentation at the conference, ‘Space and Place’. She gave other presentations and
conference papers at the University of Warwick, the University of Manchester and the Commission de Vieux Paris.
As consultant curator, Walker worked on a permanent exhibition which focuses on the life and legacy of Elizabeth
Garrett Anderson, the first woman to qualify as a doctor in Britain; the exhibition opens in 2011 in the (former)
hospital which Garrett Anderson founded and ran
Dr Janet Waymark
During the period, Janet Waymark convened three termly series of papers given at The History of Gardens and
Landscapes seminars at the IHR. She gave papers on ‘Edwardian gardens: the autumn of extravagance’ at a conference
run by Ashridge College and the National Trust, 3 August 2009; on ‘Arts and Crafts Gardens and Thomas Mawson’ for
the Surrey Arts and Crafts Group, 26 January 2010; and on ‘Reconstructing the Prairies in North America’ for the
Anglo-American ‘Environments’ conference at the IHR on 2 June 2010.
She also contributed a paper on ‘Civic Art and Thomas Mawson’ to ‘Landscape’ vol.10, no.2 , autumn 2009, eds David
Austin and Paul Stamper. In July 2010 she received the David Winkworth Prize at the Lakeland Book of the Year
Awards for Thomas Mawson: Life, gardens and landscapes published by Frances Lincoln in May 2009.
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History Lab
During 2009‒10, History Lab, the UK’s largest network for postgraduate historians, has made significant operational
and technical developments to improve and efficiency in membership and communication. In terms of communication,
the History Lab committee has altered our previous email system, shifting from Microsoft Outlook, to a more
manageable Google Mail (Gmail) system, which has allowed us to integrate our membership details. Accordingly, we
took this opportunity to refresh our membership database. We currently have 583 members of History Lab. While
this may mark a decrease in membership numbers, it has been useful in establishing a more accurate and up-to-date
membership list. This also takes into account the transferral of members from History Lab to History Lab Plus where
eligible. Nonetheless, this figure includes an increase of around 100 members during the course of the academic
year.
The History Lab committee has also grown with a new council made up of around fifteen members, with responsibilities
ranging from Cyber Secretary to a newly established Events Team. The History Lab committee, although based in
London, is made up of members from institutions around the UK including Warwick, York and Swansea. The previous
Chair, Simon Lambe, has retired and has been replaced by Alyson Mercer (KCL) and Lucy Allwright (Warwick) who will
act as co-chairs. However, Simon will hold a post as ‘Executive Representative’ for the coming academic year in order
to advise the new co-chairs about strategy and development.
Since September 2009, History Lab has hosted a series of events including a talk and drinks reception at the Day for
New Researchers and the Research Training Day, a discussion group called ‘The Dead Historians’ Society’, a Summer
Social and our two-day annual conference, ‘Politics’. The Postgraduate Seminar, run in association with History Lab,
has changed its name to Postgraduate and Early Career Seminar. This is not simply an aesthetic alteration; the name
change marks a new widening of our remit to allow early career researchers to be involved in this valuable research
outlet. Future events for History Lab include a workshop to develop public speaking called ‘Speakeasy!’, run by the
former Chair of History Lab, Liza Filby, and a party to mark History Lab’s fifth anniversary. We have also arranged for a
postgraduate panel at the 2011 Anglo-American conference, ‘Health in History’.
One of the most significant develops in History Lab during 2009 –10 was the establishment of ‘hubs’ in the north
west and north east of England (History Lab North West and History Lab North East respectively). This has allowed
us to reach a larger membership by holding seminars, training events and workshops outside London. It is perhaps
worth noting that membership for these hubs has not been included in our overall membership total.
During the 2009 –10 academic year, History Lab’s webpage has been developed by the Webmaster (www.history.
ac.uk/historylab). We have also created an online membership form to simplify the membership process for both
researchers and for the History Lab committee. We intend to include on the History Lab webpage podcasts and
vidcasts from events including the Postgraduate and Early Career Seminar. In addition, History Lab has been working
together with the HEA to provide additional learning and teaching resources for postgraduate historians which will
continue, including a booklet on ‘Teaching as a PhD Student’.
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History Lab Plus
History Lab Plus (HL+), the network for early career historians, continues to expand its membership and the scope
of its activities. Five events, covering aspects of careers, teaching and research were offered this year, both at the
IHR and outside of London. Our first event was an Advanced Teaching Skills session on Successful Lecturing on 25
September 2009, which was facilitated by Prof John Arnold (Birkbeck) and Dr Alex Bamji (Leeds).
We offered two careers workshops. On Friday 6 November 2009 we held our ‘Getting into Academia’ workshop at
the IHR, which looked at the range of posts within academia, and offered practical advice and tips on building up
CVs and negotiating the recruitment process. Building on this, our second careers event, ‘What next… and how to
get there’, was held on 5 July at the IHR. This event explored the range of career options open to newly-completed
PhDs, both within and without academia. Prof Virginia Davis (QMUL), Dr Alex Bamji (Leeds), Dr Kate Bradley (Kent),
Dr Michelle Johansen (Havering Museum) and Dr Simon Griffiths (British Academy Policy Centre and Goldsmiths)
spoke at this event.
Aspects of research were explored in two workshops. A workshop on getting published was held at the University
of Leeds in February 2010. This exciting event focussed on three main areas: books, journals, and publication
strategies for the Research Excellence Framework (REF). Speakers included Emma Brennan (Commissioning Editor,
Manchester University Press), Dr Louise Jackson (Reviews Editor, Cultural and Social History), Dr Gordon Johnston
(Editorial Board, Social History) and Prof. Edward Spiers (Pro-Dean for Research, Faculty of Arts, University of
Leeds). The following month saw a workshop on Knowledge Exchange held at the IHR. This workshop explored
ways in which historians can collaborate with bodies outside universities and engage with a wider public, and
looked at designing major projects and applying for ESRC funding; collaborating with museums; and making an
impact on communities and policy-making. Our speakers were: Prof. Pat Thane (Centre for Contemporary British
History), Dr Barbara Taylor (Raphael Samuel History Centre), Anna Gust (UCL), Dr Jane Hamlett (RHUL), Dr Michelle
Johansen (Havering Museum) and Mel Porter (History and Policy).
Thanks to financial and in-kind support from the IHR, we are able to offer our workshops for free. We would also
like to thank all the speakers who kindly gave up their time to join our events and to support early career historians.
HL+ has also appointed an advisory board, active since January 2010, who have provided invaluable guidance and
support to us – we also extend our thanks to them.
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History & Policy
History & Policy (H&P) connects historians with policy makers and the media in order to inform the policy-making
environment. Ultimately the aim is to improve social wellbeing through historically informed policy. History &
Policy does this via three main mechanisms: publishing on its website accessibly written historical research, with
the policy implications clearly articulated; equipping and enabling its network of historians to engage with policy
makers and journalists; and organising a range of events that bring together scholars, policy makers and the media.
In 2009 H&P received matched funding from Arcadia and Esmée Fairbairn towards phase 2 of its activities. In the
last year H&P has built on its strong foundations in terms of building up its network (250 members) and website of
policy papers (107. There H&P co-founder Alastair Reid took up the post of Visiting Professor of History and Policy,
while at Cambridge, co-founder Simon Szreter was as appointed Professor of History and Public Policy.
The changing landscape of British politics provided opportunities for H&P to deepen its engagement with policy
makers and politicians. In the wake of the new Coalition government, increased interest from Whitehall in engaging
with historians underlined a recognition of the importance of history in public life and an awareness that current
levels of understanding maybe insufficient. To that end, in July 2010 H&P co-organised a seminar with the Cabinet
Office Strategy Unit on Prime Minister Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ agenda, bringing together historians and civil
servants to present and discuss the historical context and its implications for policy in this area today.
H&P assisted its members to input into various Parliamentary select committees, equipping them through a
briefing written by committee specialist Dr David Turner while on secondment to H&P. And beyond Whitehall,
historians and trade union officials, past and present, continued their engagement through the H&P Trade Union
Forum, which meets three times a year.
H&P collaborates with authoritative public institutions to reach opinion formers, including the British Academy,
through which Professor Pat Thane’s research into the family unit and equalities in Britain was launched. A
partnership with the National Archives at Kew enabled workshops for postdoctoral students to illustrate how
the use of archival material could inform policy making. The success of these workshops in 2010 has inspired
continuation of the partnership for 2011. In addition to the above collaborations, H&P’s External Relations Office
continues to publicise historians’ policy papers and opinion pieces, securing significant coverage in national and
local press and television. We work with BBC History magazine to produce a monthly article on lessons from history,
and with Opendemocracy on a post-conflict series.
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IHR Seminar Programme
American History Seminar
Adam Smith (UCL), Jonathan Bell (Reading), Emily West (Reading), Mara Kiere (QMUL), John Kirk (RHUL), John
Howard (KCL), Elizabeth Clapp (Leicester), Joel Isaac (QMUL) , Bruce E. Baker (RHUL), Kendrick Oliver (Southampton)
Archives and Society
Elizabeth Danbury (UCL), Valerie Johnson (The National Archives)
British History 1815 –1945
Sally Alexander (Goldsmiths), Kate Bradley (Kent), Matthew Cragoe (University of Sussex), David Feldman
(Birkbeck), Helen McCarthy (QMUL), Roland Quinault (London Met), Paul Readman (KCL), Patricia Thane (CCBH/IHR),
Michael Thompson (IHR), Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck), Martha Vandrei (KCL)
British History in the 17th Century
Justin Champion (RHUL), John Miller (QMUL), Ariel Hessayon (Goldsmiths), Jason Peacey (UCL)
British History in the Long Eighteenth Century
Arthur Burns (KCL), Penelope Corfield (RHUL), Tim Hitchcock (Hertfordshire), Julian Hoppit (UCL), Seminar
Administrator: Anne Stott
British Maritime History
Sally Archer (National Maritime Museum), Margarette Lincoln (National Maritime Museum), Nigel Rigby (National
Maritime Museum), N.A.M. Rodger (Exeter)
Christian Missions in Global History
Rosemary Fitzgerald (SOAS), Deborah Gaitskell (SOAS), Lars Laamann (SOAS), Emily Manktelow (University of
Exeter), Rosemary Seton (SOAS), John Stuart (Kingston University)
Collecting & Display (100BC to AD1700)
Andrea Gáldy (Manchester), Adriana Turpin (Institut d’Etudes Supérieures des Arts), Susan Bracken (Birkbeck)
Comparative Histories of Asia
Naoko Shimazu (Birkbeck), Sunil Amrith (Birkbeck), Chi-Kwan Mark (RHUL), Owen Miller (SOAS/Birkbeck), Andrea
Janku (SOAS), Sujit Sivasundaram (LSE), Chandak Sengoopta (Birkbeck), Jon Wilson (KCL)
Contemporary British History
Rodney Lowe (Bristol), Pat Thane (CCBH/IHR), Richard Roberts (CCBH/IHR)
Conversations & Disputations
Kate Hodgkin (UEL), Susannah Radstone (UEL)
Crusades and the Latin East
Jonathan Phillips (RHUL), Thomas Asbridge (QMUL), William Purkis (Birmingham)
Earlier Middle Ages
Stephen Baxter (KCL), Wendy Davies (UCL), David Ganz (KCL), John Gillingham (LSE), Sarah Lambert (Goldsmiths),
Jinty Nelson (KCL), Alan Thacker (IHR)
Early Modern Material Cultures
Marta Ajmar (V&A/RCA), Angela McShane (V&A/RCA), Sandra Cavallo (Royal Holloway), Christine Guth (V&A/RCA),
Filippo de Vivo (Birkbeck), Luca Molà (Warwick)
Economic and Social History of the Premodern World, 1500–1800
Negley Harte (UCL), David Ormrod (Kent), Nuala Zahedieh (Edinburgh), Patrick Wallis (LSE), Paul Warde (East Anglia)
Education in the Long 18th Century
Michèle Cohen (RAIUL), Clare Barlow (KCL)
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European History 1150‒1550
John Arnold (Birkbeck), Bronach Kane (QMUL), David Carpenter (KCL), David d’Avray (UCL),
Sophie Page (UCL), Miri Rubin (QMUL), Joe Canning, Serena Ferente (sabbatical leave, 2009/10), Bronach Kane
(QMUL)
European History 1500‒1800
Philip Broadhead (Goldsmiths), Peter Campbell (Sussex), Filippo de Vivo (Birkbeck), Joël Félix, John Henderson
(Birkbeck), Julian Swann (Birkbeck)
Film History
Mark Glancy (QMUL)
History of Education
Gary McCulloch (IoE)
History of Gardens and Landscapes
Janet Waymark (Birkbeck)
History of Libraries
Giles Mandelbrote (Early Printed Collections, The British Library, London), Keith A. Manley (IHR), Simon Eliot
(Institute of English Studies), Isabel Rivers (QMUL), Henry Woudhuysen (UCL)
History of Political Ideas
Richard Bourke (QMUL), Gregory Claeys (RHUL), Janet Coleman (LSE), Angus Gowland (UCL), Jeremy Jennings
(QMUL), Michael Levin (Goldsmiths), Quentin Skinner (QMUL), Georgios Varouxakis (QMUL)
Imperial and World History
Frank Bongiorno (KCL), Richard Drayton (KCL), Sujit Sivasundaram (LSE), Sarah Stockwell (KCL), John Stuart
(Kingston), Jon Wilson (KCL)
Colonialism / Postcolonial new researchers’ workshop
Emily Manktelow (KCL), Rachel Bright (KCL & LSE), Esme Cleall (UCL)
International History
Dr Baxter (Queen’s), Dr Best (LSE), Dr Ellison (QMUL), Dr Kandiah (IHR), Dr Kelly (KCL), Dr Utting (KCL), Dr Pedaliu
(UWE), Mrs Staerck, Professor J. Young (Nottingham)
Late Medieval & Early Modern Italy
Trevor Dean (Roehampton), Kate Lowe (QMUL), Serena Ferente (KCL)
Late Medieval Seminar
Clive Burgess (RHUL), Linda Clark (History of Parliament Trust), Sean Cunningham (The National Archives), Hannes
Kleineke (History of Parliament Trust), Stephen O’Connor (The National Archives)
Life–Cycles
Mary Clare Martin (Greenwich), Leonard Schwarz (Birmingham), Ofra Koffman (Goldsmiths)
Locality & Region
John Beckett (VCH & Nottingham), Carol Davidson Cragoe (English Heritage), Christopher Currie (IHR), Gill Draper
(Kent), Alan Thacker (IHR), Elizabeth Williamson (VCH & IHR)
London Group of Historical Geographers
David Lambert (RHUL), Miles Ogborn (QMUL), Jenny Robinson(UCL)
Low Countries History
Raingard Esser (UWE), Anne Goldgar (KCL), Benjamin Kaplan (UCL)
Marxism in Culture
Matthew Beaumont (UCL), Warren Carter (UCL), Gail Day (Leeds), Steve Edwards (Open University), Maggie Gray
(UCL), Owen Hatherley (Birkbeck), Andrew Hemingway (UCL), Esther Leslie (Birkbeck), David Mabb (Goldsmiths),
Antigoni Memou (UEL), Nina Power (Roehampton), Pete Smith (TVU), Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths)
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Medieval and Tudor London
Caroline M. Barron, (RHUL), Vanessa Harding, (Birkbeck), Julia Merritt, (Nottingham)
Metropolitan History Seminar
Matthew Davies (IHR), Richard Dennis (UCL), James Moore (IHR), Vivian Bickford-Smith (IHR & Capetown)
Military History
David French (UCL), Brian Holden-Reid (KCL), Andrew Lambert (KCL), William Philpott (KCL)
Modern French History
Julian Jackson (QMUL), Jeremy Jennings (QMUL), Colin Jones (QMUL), Debra Kelly (Westminster), Pamela Pilbeam
(RHUL)
Modern German History
Mark Hewitson (UCL), Christina von Hodenberg (QMUL), Egbert Klautke (SSEES), Eckard Michels (Birkbeck),
Bernhard Rieger (UCL), Nikolaus Wachsmann (Birbeck)
Modern Italian History
Ilaria Favretto (Kingston), John Foot (UCL), Stephen Gundle (Warwick), Maurizio Isabella (QMUL), Axel Körner (UCL),
Carl Levy (Goldsmiths), Lucy Riall (Birkbeck)
Modern Religious History
Arthur Burns (KCL), Dominic Erdozain (KCL), John Wolffe (Open), Matthew Grimley (RHUL)
Music in Britain
Simon McVeigh (Goldsmiths), David Wright (Royal College of Music), Leanne Langley (Goldsmiths)
Parliaments, Representation and Society
Colin Brooks (Sussex), Valerie Cromwell, John Sainty, Paul Seaward (History of Parliament)
Philosophy of History
Robert Burns (Goldsmiths)
Postgraduate Seminar
Oliver Blaiklock (IHR), Polly Bull (RHUL), Hannah Elias (McMaster), Simon Lambe (Surrey), Mary Lester (IHR), Alyson
Mercer (IHR), Peter Sutton (IHR)
Psychoanalysis and History
Sally Alexander (Goldsmiths), Barbara Taylor (UEL), Kate Hodgkin (UEL)
Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World 1600–1900
Catherine Hall (UCL), Keith McClelland (UCL), Clare Midgley (Sheffield Hallam University), Zoe Laidlaw (RHUL)
Religious History of Britain 1500–1800
David Crankshaw (KCL), Liz Evenden (Brunel), Kenneth Fincham (Kent), Tom Freeman (Sheffield), Andrew Foster
(Kent), Susan Hardman Moore (Edinburgh), Arnold Hunt (British Library), Nicholas Tyacke (UCL), Brett Usher
(Reading)
Rethinking Modern Europe
Dejan Djokic (Goldsmiths), Christian Goeschel (Birkbeck), Helen Jones (Goldsmiths), Axel Korner (UCL), Stephen
Lovell (KCL), Lucy Riall (Birkbeck)
Socialist History
Keith Flett, David Renton, John Geoffrey Walker
Society, Culture & Belief, 1500–1800
Surekha Davies (Birkbeck), Laura Gowing (KCL), Kate Hodgkin (UEL), Michael Hunter (Birkbeck), Adam Sutcliffe
(KCL)
Sport and Leisure History
Dilwyn Porter (De Montfort), Dion Georgiou (QMUL), Peter Catterall (QMUL), Mark Clapson (Westminster)
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Tudor & Stuart History
Pauline Croft (RHUL), Simon Healy (History of Parliament), Richard Hoyle (Reading), Michael Questier (QMUL),
Rivkah Zim (KCL)
Voluntary Action History
George Campbell Gosling (Oxford Brookes)
Women’s History Seminar
Kelly Boyd (Middlesex), Anna Davin, Amy Erickson (IHR), Laura Gowing (KCL), Catherine Hall (UCL), Marybeth
Hamilton (Birkbeck), Clare Midgley (Sheffield Hallam), Janet Nelson (KCL), Krisztina Robert (Roehampton), Pat
Thane (CCBH/IHR), Cornelie Usborne (Roehampton)
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Training Courses
Archival Research Skills
Methods and Sources for Historical Research (9–11 November 2009; 23‒27 November 2009; 15‒19 February
2010; 12–16 April 2010; 5‒9 July 2010)
An introduction to finding and using primary sources for research in modern British, Irish and colonial history. The
course includes visits to the British Library, TNA, the Wellcome Institute and the House of Lords Record Office,
amongst others.
Visual Sources for Historians (Tuesdays, 9 February‒9 March 2010)
An introduction to the use of art, photography, film and other visual sources by historians (post‒1500). Through
lectures, discussion and visits the course explores films, paintings, photographs, architecture and design as
historical sources, as well as provides an introduction to particular items both in situ and held in archives and
libraries.
General Historical Skills
An Introduction to Oral History (Mondays, 18 January‒29 March 2010)
This course addresses theoretical and practical issues in oral history through workshop sessions and participant’s
own interviewing work. It deals with the historiographical emergence and uses of oral history, with particular
reference to the investigation of voices and stories not always accessible to other historical approaches. It
examines theoretical and methodological issues, for instance concerning memory, the interviewing relationship,
ethics and the uses to which recordings may be put. It helps students to develop practical skills in interviewing,
recording, the preservation of cassettes and the organisation and preservation of oral material.
Interviewing for Researchers (10 May 2010)
For those who wish to investigate the recent past, collecting the testimony of relevant individuals is a vital
resource. This course offers practical information and training on how to interview and how to use interviews for
the purposes of research. Led by Dr Michael Kandiah, Director of the Oral History Programme, CCBH, this course
examines: (1) how to interview public officials (politicians and civil servants), security and intelligence personnel,
scientists and technicians, and medical professionals; (2) what are the best practices for recording, preserving and
transcribing interviews; (3) how to ensure interviewing techniques are ethical; (4) copyright and data protection
issues; (5) alternative techniques such as group interviewing; and (6) the advantages and limitations of interviews.
A special session of this course was run for the benefit of students at the University of Reading.
Dealing with the Media (4 December 2009)
Historians are increasingly called upon by print and broadcast media for expert comment and opinion. This course
explains the enormous range of opportunities offered by the mass media’s interest in history and teaches the skills
and techniques academics need to make the most of it. Offered in association with History & Policy.
Explanatory Paradigms: An Introduction to Historical Theory (Thursdays, 22 April‒24 June 2010)
A critical introduction to current approaches to historical explanation, taught by John Tosh, John Seed and Sally
Alexander. The contrasting explanatory frameworks offered by Marxism, psychoanalysis, gender analysis and Paul
Ricoeur’s work on narrative form the central discussion points of the course, equipping students to form their own
judgements on the schools of thought most influential in the modern discipline.
Languages
An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Latin I (Tuesdays, 13 October‒8 December 2009)
This course provides an introduction to Latin grammar and vocabulary, together with practical experience in
translating typical post-classical Latin documents. It is intended for absolute beginners, or for those with a
smattering of the language but who wish to acquire more confidence. Students emerge at the end with a strong
grounding in the mechanics of Latin, an understanding of the changes that it underwent, and the new ways in
which it was used in medieval and early modern Europe.
Further Medieval and Renaissance Latin (Tuesdays, 12 January ‒9 March 2010)
This course builds upon the basis of Medieval and Renaissance Latin I, deepening and extending understanding of
the language. By the end of the course, students are confident to tackle most basic Latin historical sources.
Information Technology
Databases for Historians (15‒18 December 2009; 15 ‒18 June 2010)
This course introduces the theory and practice of constructing and using databases. Through a mixture of lectures
and practical, hands-on, sessions, students are taught both how to use and adapt existing databases, and how to
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design and build their own.
Databases for Historians II: Practical Database Tools (14‒16 July 2010)
This course develops the practical skills necessary for constructing and fully exploiting a database for use in
historical research. The course aims to introduce the specific tools and techniques required for improving the utility
of the database from the data entry stage, through to the generation and presentation of analysis. The course
includes hands-on sessions in which students are provided with practical guidance on employing these techniques
through the use of Microsoft Access.
Internet Sources for Historical Research (8 December 2009; 8 March 2010; 8 June 2010)
This course provides an intensive introduction to use of the internet as a tool for serious historical research. It
includes sessions on academic mailing lists, usage of gateways, search engines and other finding aids, and effective
searching using Boolean operators and compound search terms, together with advice on winnowing the useful
matter from the vast mass of unsorted data available, and on the proper caution to be applied in making use of
online information.
Qualitative Data Analysis Workshop (25 January 2010)
Researchers in the social sciences and humanities are increasingly using computers to manage, organise and
analyse non-numerical data from textual sources. This one-day workshop introduces historians to this rapidly
growing field and will furnish participants with a good working grasp of the NVivo 8 software package and its uses
for all historical research projects.
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Public Lectures Organised by the Institute
Fellows’ Lecture
1 June 2009, Wolfson and Pollard Rooms, IHR
Professor Daniel Snowman delivered the Annual Fellows’ Lecture, ‘The Gilded Stage and Beyond: Why History and
the Arts should get together more often’.
Creighton Lecture
18 November 2009, Henry Wellcome Auditorium, Wellcome Collection
Professor Robert Service presented a paper entitled ‘Russia since 1917 in western mirrors’ for the annual Creighton
lecture.
Marc Fitch Lecture
28 June 2010, Wolfson Room, IHR
The 9th annual VCH lecture, sponsored by the Marc Fitch Fund, was delivered by Professor Steve Hindle (University
of Warwick), on ‘The Economic Worlds of Sir Richard Newdigate: Tenants, Servants, Labourers and Craftsmen in a
Warwickshire Parish, c.1670‒1710’.
Prothero Lecture
1 July 2009, UCL
The Royal Historical Society’s Prothero Lecture, delivered by Professor Dror Wahrman discussed ‘The Media
Revolution in Early Modern England: An Artist’s Perspective’.
Pimlott Lecture
8 July 2010, Beveridge Hall, Senate House
Dr. Frank Mort (University of Manchester) presented the annual Pimlott lecture on “Sex Scandals, Elite Culture, and
the Post-Victorian City: The Profumo Affair, London 1963 and After.”
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Groups which held meetings/conferences at the
Institute
Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
British Agricultural History Society
British Association of Local Historians (BALH)
British International History Group (BIHG)
British Records Association
British Society of Sports History
Centre for Financial History
Centre for Local History (Medieval Settlement Research Group Winter Seminar)
Christianity & History Forum
Church Monuments Society
Connected Histories project board
Cromwell Association
Cultural and Social History, editorial board
Ecclesiastical History Society
Economic History Society
Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
Gender and History, Economic and Social History
Historical Association
History of Education Society
History Lab
History Lab Plus
History Subject Associations
History Subject Centre
History UK
Huguenot Society
Jacobite Studies Trust
Landscape and Enclosure research project (University of Sussex)
List and Index Society
Local Population Studies Society
London Journal Editorial Committee
London Old Girtonians Association
Monetary History Group
Monumental Brass Society
Navy Records Society
Parliamentary History Editorial Committee
Richard III Society London Branch
Scouloudi Historical Awards Committee
Society for the Study of French History
Society of Archivists
Televising History 1995‒2010 (University of Lincoln)
The National Archives Forum
Tiles & Architectural Ceramics Society
University of Hull (Early-modern town conference)
University of London Extramural History of Art Society (ULEMHAS)
University of Kent
William Shipley Group
Women’s History Network
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Conferences Organised by the Institute
Women in the later medieval economy and related social issues
17 September 2009, IHR
A one-day workshop was held in September 2009, supported by the Economic and Social Research Council, on the
subject of the role of women in the late medieval economy. Speakers included Jeremy Goldberg from the University
of York who presented a paper on ‘Problematising women in the later medieval economy’ and Caroline Barron
from Royal Holloway, University of London, who discussed ‘The popularity of St Zita in late medieval England: a
reflection of rising female prosperity.’
London, the Thames and Water: New historical perspectives
19 October 2009, IHR
The Centre for Metropolitan History organised a one-day conference on the subject of the London Thames.
Speakers included Gustav Milne from the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, who presented a paper on ‘Rediscovering
the Thames’ and Damian Goodburn and Simon Davis from the Museum of London Archaeology who both presented
a paper entitled ‘Two new Thames tide mill finds of the 690s and 1190s and an update on archaeological evidence
for changing medieval tidal levels.’
The British State Revisited: Keith Middlemas’ The Politics of Industrial Society after thirty years
12 November 2009, IHR
A one-day conference on 12 November 2009 considered Keith Middlemas’s Politics in Industrial Society: the
experience of the British system since 1911. This saw twentieth-century Britain in a European mirror, shifted
attention from Westminster to Whitehall, and brought a new theoretical awareness to the empirical study of the
contemporary British history. It presented a new account of the purposes of the state and rethought its relations
with organised labour and capital. Taking stock of its arguments, influence, and place in the historiography of the
British state were Andrew Gamble, Robert Taylor, Jose Harris, Pat Thane, David Edgerton, James Cronin, with a
response from Keith Middlemas himself.
Experiencing the Law conference
4 December 2009, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
The fourth ‘Experiencing the Law’ conference was held with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and SOLON on
‘Objectifying Children: Policy Making and Human Rights Responses’, 4 December 2009. As always, the conference
brought together academics and practitioners to discuss the long term legal dimensions to the experiences of
individuals, families and communities of the current dilemmas relating to children and the law, their rights and the
challenge for policymakers and criminal justice professionals of all types. Contributors included Judge Nick Wikely,
Kate Bradley and Simon Shaw (Kent), Rebecca Probert (Warwick), Richard Morgan (CCBH), Mike Nellis (Strathclyde),
Helen Baker (Liverpool), Jean La Fontaine, Penny Booth (Staffordshire), Laurence Lee (Laurence Lee & Co);
Samantha Pegg (NTU), Barry Anderson (Rainer, Communities that Care).
London and Tokyo: The Prospect of Comparison
An Exploratory Workshop
25 February 2010, IHR
The Centre for Metropolitan History and the Japan Research Centre organised a one-day conference on London and
Tokyo in February 2010. Speakers included Richard Dennis from UCL who discussed Modern London, and James
McClain from Brown University, who spoke on Modern Tokyo.
Cities and Nationalisms
17‒18 June 2010, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Organised by the Centre for Metropolitan History, the Cities and Nationalisms conference took place in June 2010.
The conference explored the nature and rich variety of connections between nationalisms and cities in Europe,
Asia, Africa and the Americas. Cities explored included Alexandria, Belfast, Buenos Aires, Budapest, Cape Town,
Cork, Cracow, Hong Kong, Kinshasa, Kirkuk, London, Montreal, Paris, Prague, Shanghai, Tel Aviv and Washington.
Speakers include: Robert Bickers (Bristol), Iain Black (Cambridge), Bill Freund (Kwa-Zulu Natal), Tim Harper
(Cambridge), Paul-André Linteau (Québec) and Prashant Kidambi (Leicester)
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Anglo-American Conference of Historians 2010
1‒2 July 2010, Senate House
The Institute of Historical Research’s held its annual flagship event, the Anglo-American Conference of Historians,
in July, on the theme of Environments. The keynote speakers were William Beinart, Alfred Crosby, John McNeill,
Harriet Ritvo and Donald Worster. A Publishers’ Fair took place over the two days of the conference, featuring major
international publishers including Oxford University Press, Yale University Press and Palgrave Macmillan. Attendees
were offered discounted rates on the newest academic titles and the chance to speak to editors and the various
publishers. A Policy Forum was held at the end of the first day of the conference, featuring a panel of historians,
scientists and policy-makers discussing the lessons that could be learnt on policy making from histories of the
environment. The forum was free and open to the public.
A special reception was also held to mark the 79 th Anglo-American Conference of Historians, which was co-hosted
with Adam Matthew Digital and held at Tower Bridge. The reception was very well-attended and proved to be a
memorable occasion for all.
CCBH Conference: Reassessing the Seventies
7‒9 July 2010, IHR
The 24th CCBH annual summer conference examined Britain in the 1970s, a watershed in post-war British history
with economic crises and profound political and social discord precipitating major social, cultural, political and
economic changes with enduring consequences. Speakers included Richard Vinen, Peter Mandler, Sue Onslow,
Jim Tomlinson, Lesley Orr, Dominic Sandbrook, Sue Harper, Hera Cook, Roger Middleton and Jim Cronin. The Pimlott
lecture on 8 July was given by Professor Frank Mort on ‘The Permissive Society’. A History & Policy event on 8 July
presented Lord Lea (David Lea) in conversation with Professor Peter Ackers about Industrial Democracy in the
1970s.
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Accounts and Membership
INCOME
Funding council grants £901,986
HEFCE grants paid direct ‒
Academic fees (tuition fees) £133,930
Research grants and contracts £1,190,461
Other operating income £1,490,683
Endowments income and interest £44,849
TOTAL INCOME £3,761,908
EXPENDITURE
Staff costs £1,927,216
Other operating expenses £1,939,489
Exceptional items £75,045
Depreciation ‒
Interest payable ‒
TOTAL EXPENDITURE £3,941,750
TRADING SURPLUS/(DEFICIT) ‒£179,842
Membership
University of London 1,782
Other UK universities 1,129
Overseas universities 356
Private individuals 935
Visitors/temporary members 479
School of Advanced Study 276
TOTAL 4,957
Friends of the IHR: 543
Life Friends: 62
American Friends of the IHR: 104
Friends of the IHR
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Appendix 1: Seminar Programme
Seminar Programmes 2009‒10
American History
David Milne (UEA)
Intellectualism in American Diplomacy
Leslie Butler (Dartmouth)
The ‘Educational Advantage of Citizenship’: The Millian Moment in Anglo-American Woman Suffrage
Nancy Hewitt (Rutgers and Cambridge)
Not Your Mother’s Movement: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism
Eleanor Thompson (Oxford)
Dare the School Build a New Social Order: The Social Reconstructionist Wing of the Progressive Education
Movement in the Interwar Years
Sandra Scanlon (LSE)
Vietnam and the Making of Modern American Conservatism
Brian Kelly, (Queen’s)
Jubilee, then Despair: The Reverend Elias Hill and Black Political Mobilization in the South Carolina Upcountry,
1865‒1880
Simon Middleton (Sheffield)
The Culture of Credit in Eighteenth-Century New York City
Ross Nicolson (Columbia)
Youthquake: The Politics of Youth in the Post-War United States
Jo Cohen (QMUL)
‘We the people, the consumers’: Cultures of consumption and the politics of free trade, 1832‒1860
David Brown (Manchester)
‘The Poor and Loafering Class of Whites are about on a Par with the Slaves’: Slave-Poor White Relations in the Old
South
Roundtable discussion of
Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815‒1848 (New York: Oxford
University Press, 2007)
Archives and Society
Christopher Kitching (Formerly Secretary to the Historical Manuscripts Commission)
Images of Archives in Britain to 1885: fact and facsimile
Mara Hofmann (Mellon Research Fellow, The National Gallery, London)
The Raphael Research Resource: Its use in the field of Historical Studies
Susan Thomas (Digital Archivist/Project Manager, Bodleian Library)
Curating born-digital archives and manuscripts at the Bodleian Library
David Magee (Research Adviser, The National Archives)
Manuscript, print or online? Chasing the ‘march of intellect’ through the sources
Jill Liddington (Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (CIGS), Leeds)
‘Women don’t count, don’t count women’: Suffrage, citizenship and the battle for the 1911 census
Elizabeth New and Dr John McEwan (Aberystwyth)
Seals in Medieval Wales; the latest approaches to sigillographic data-gathering and analysis
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Sue Hawkins (Centre for Local History Studies, Kingston)
Museum lives: rescuing endangered knowledge-an oral history project at the Natural History Museum
Caroline Shenton, Clerk of the Records (Director of the Parliamentary Archives)
Managing Archive Services in Parliament
Helen Wakely (Archivist & Julianne Simpson, Rare Books Librarian, Wellcome Library)
The secret ingredient: Hunting early modern recipes and their context in print and manuscript
British History 1815‒1945
Tristram Hunt (QMUL)
Manchester, Engels and the making of Marxism
Josie Kane (Westminster)
‘A Whirl of Wonders!’ Early British amusement parks and the architecture of pleasure 1900‒1914
Robert Bud (Science Museum)
Between the Rocket and the Dreadnought: the 1909 founding of the Science Museum and ‘Progressive Era’ Britain
Louise Miskell (Swansea)
Science and urbanization in the south west of England, c.1840‒1880
Sean Dettman (London Met)
The Bethnal Green tube disaster of 1943: censorship and commemoration
Vanessa Taylor & Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck)
Liquid Politics: water and the politics of everyday life in the modern city
David Edgerton (Imperial)
Never Alone ‒ Some material aspects of British history in the Second World War
Nicola Sheldon (IHR)
Socialising the anti-social youth: industrial schools and citizenship 1870‒1930
Daniel Budden (Swansea)
Hybrids and mongrels: ‘The Enigma of Christian Socialism, 1884‒1914
Jonathan Conlin (Southampton)
Presumptive Characters: Gladstone, Huxley and the doctrine of development
Duncan Campbell-Smith (CCBH)
Post Office Reform – A Perennial of British History
Special joint-session with Contemporary British History Seminar
John Dray (KCL)
Victorian Censure? The Victorian eighteenth-century Church
Dan Todman (QMUL)
Death in Second World War Britain
Bill Philpott (KCL)
Rewriting the history of the Somme
Ellen Ross
Faith, friendship, and social reform: Mary Neal & Emmeline Pethick as Soho missionaries
Luke Blaxill (KCL)
The language of party in nineteenth century electoral politics: a quantitative approach to investigating image and
presentation.
Deborah Cohen (Brown)
Family Secrets: Mental Disability and the Family, 1870‒1950
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British History in the 17th Century
Noah Millstone (Stanford), Alex Barber (Durham) and Jason Peacey (UCL)
Scribal news in the seventeenth century
Sarah Apetrei (Oxford)
Prophecy, spiritual singing and hymn-writing in seventeenth-century England
Robin Eagles (UCL)
Preparing for Revolution: William of Orange’s English contacts, 1670‒88
Melanie Harrington
Disappointed Royalists in Restoration courts of law, 1660‒c.1670
Hunter Powell (Cambridge)
A Parish Presbytery? Congregationalists, Presbyterians and the struggle for parish reform, 1640‒1642
Noah McCormack (Harvard)
‘Resistance was Futile’: Whigs, Tories and the Fate of Contract Theory from 1688 to George II
John Miller (QMUL)
Unruly Soldiers: the Bridgwater Army Riots of 1717 and 1721
Stephen Brogan (Birkbeck)
The Royal Touch: Scrofula, Sin and the Restored Stuarts 1660‒88
Kenneth Fincham (Kent) and Stephen Taylor (Reading)
The Pattern of Episcopal Ordinations and the Restoration Church of England
David Finnegan (Goldsmiths)
New Light on the 1641 Rising in Ireland
Kate Loveman (Leicester)
Reading History in the Restoraton: Samuel Pepys and his Books
Leslie Thiebert (Yale)
The Western Design and the Origins of the English Empire
Isaac Stephens (Venderbilt)
Piety and Religious Identity in Early Stuart England: The Prayer Book Puritanism of Elizabeth Isham
Koji Yamamoto (IHR)
Distrust Godly Public Service: Communicating Innovations in and beyond the Hartlib Circle
British History in the Long Eighteenth Century
Peter King (Open University)
Ethnicity and criminal justice 1700‒1825. The treatment of Irish victims and offenders
Niall O’Flaherty (KCL)
Malthus and natural theology
Simon Renton (UCL)
Making models of eighteenth-century English society work: patronage and deference chains, the criminal justice
system and the state
Pat Hudson (Cardiff)
The importance of commercial correspondence: British merchants’ letters in the long eighteenth century
Andy Wells (Merton, Oxford)
Race and reproduction in eighteenth-century Britain
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Ben Bankhurst (KCL)
Ulster Presbyterians and violence on the American frontier: empathy at distance in the British Atlantic World,
1750‒1765
Tim Hitchcock (Hertfordshire), Sharon Howard and Bob Shoemaker (Sheffield)
Plebeian lives and the making of modern London
Mark Wishon (UCL)
British and German interactions in the 18th-century British army
Chris Evans (Glamorgan)
Brazilian gold, Cuban copper and the final frontier of British anti-slavery
Jake Pollock (Pittsburgh)
The Royal Society, the voyage account, and the variation of the compass 1689‒1725
Niels van Manen (York, IHR)
Agency and reform: the regulation of chimney sweep apprentices, 1770‒1840
Heather Shore (Leeds Metropolitan)
‘The most notorious London Street-Hustlers and Pickpockets’: Changing Perceptions of Street Robbery in the Early
Nineteenth-Century Metropolis
Penelope Corfield (RHUL)
The Origins of a Coming Ideal: Meritocracy in Britain 1750‒1850
Arthur Burns (KCL), Kenneth Fincham (Kent) and Stephen Taylor (Reading),
New questions in the history of the early modern clerical profession: a prolegomenon for research
Joint meeting with the Religious History of Britain 1500‒1800 Seminar
A symposium with Ian Haywood and John Seed (Roehampton), Tim Hitchcock and Matthew White (Hertfordshire)
Britain’s Lost Revolution: Remembering the Gordon Riots on their 230th anniversary
British Maritime History
Shinsuke Satsuma (Exeter)
The South Sea Company and its plan for a naval expedition in 1712
Julia Banister (Southampton)
Masculinity and military professionalism: the Standing Army Debate and the trials of Mathews and Lestock
Britt Zerbe (Exeter)
The Marine Corps: the creation of an eighteenth-century rapid-reaction force
Michael Duffy (Exeter)
‘‘Tis to glory we steer’: the arduous track to the victory of Quiberon Bay in 1759
Shaun Regan (Queen’s University Belfast)
Slavery, service, and the sea: Olaudah Equiano and the Seven Years War
Adam Lyons (University of Birmingham)
Launch of a global power: the Royal Navy during the War of the Spanish Succession
Jeremiah R. Dancy (Oxford)
Redefining naval manning: dispelling the myths of Royal Navy manpower, 1793–1801
Jeremy Michell (National Maritime Museum)
‘Vexing your neighbour for a little muck’: British prize-taking and the Year of Victories
James Davey (Greenwich Maritime Institute)
War, peace and naval stores: Britain and the Baltic 1780–1812
Nuala Zahedieh (Edinburgh)
Commerce, competition and the War of the Spanish Succession in Jamaica
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Christian Missions in Global History
Christopher Daily (SOAS)
From Gosport to Canton: a new approach to Robert Morrison
and the beginnings of Protestant Missions in China
Carmen Mangion (Birkbeck)
‘Spiritual and Professional’: Catholic women religious and
foreign medical missions, 1900‒1936
Tolly Bradford (Alberta)
Defining Identity and Community: Implications of Indigenous Missionaries in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire
Silke Strickrodt (German Historical Institute, London)
Christian Missions and Female Education in West Africa: The Church
Missionary Society’s Female Institution in Freetown, Sierra Leone 1840s‒1880s
Guy Thomas (Mission 21, Basel)
From missionary sketch maps to persuasive map-images: Religious and Spatial Transformation in Colonial
Cameroon
Jeff Cox (Iowa)
What I learned about missions from writing The British Missionary Enterprise since 1700
Emily Manktelow (KCL)
Rev. Simpson’s ‘Improper Liberties’: Moral Scrutiny and Missionary Children in the South Seas Mission of the LMS
Terry Barringer (Wolfson College, Cambridge)
‘That home member of a mission without whom nothing can be done’: Charlotte M. Yonge (1823‒1901), Tractarian
novelist and supporter of missions
Paul Jenkins (former archivist, Basel Mission)
Comparing pre-1914 photographs of Indian and West African Princes in the Basel Mission archive: a vague sense of
difference becomes an in-depth contrast
Hugh Morrison (Otago)
‘In the same high spirit of service and sacrifice’: New Zealand and Canadian Protestant children engaging with
missions and empire, 1890‒1940
Collecting & Display 100BC to AD1700
David Taylor (Scottish National Portrait Gallery)
An early Scottish portrait collection: The Duke of Rothes’ picture gallery at Leslie House
Robert G. la France (curator of pre-modern art, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;
and Hanna Kiel Fellow, Villa I Tatti)
Collecting Bachiacco’s Creations at the Court of Cosimo de’ Medici and Eleonora di Toledo
Benedicte Miyamoto Pavot (Paris Diderot)
‘Bringing pictures to the Hammer is literally knocking down and depressing the Fine Arts!’ – the rivalry between
commercial valuation and artistic expertise in Georgian London
Book Launch: Collecting & Dynastic Ambition (CSP: Newcastle 2009)
edited by Susan Bracken, Andrea Galdy, and Adriana Turpin
John Hoenig (independent scholar)
The collection of Laszlo Hoenig (1905‒1971) ‒ a classic designer in a modern world.
Anna Maria Poma Swank (NYU, Polo Museale Fiorentino)
‘Un lusso splendido, e virtuoso inspirò gli uomini facoltosi a formare collezioni’: The ‘Quadrerie’ and Florentine
private collectors in the 18th century.
Antonio Denunzio (Bank of San Paolo, Naples)
Odoardo Farnese’s Collection of Exotica, Curiosities, ‘mirabilia’ and ‘naturalia’
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Colonial Science and its Histories
Stefanie Gänger (Cambridge)
Inca land: the genesis of antiquarianism in Cuzco, 1830s‒1900
Iris Montero Sobrevilla (Cambridge, HPS)
Of hummingbirds, hearts and epilepsy: natural knowledge and authority in the Hernandian corpus, 1571‒1651
Surekha Davies (Birbeck)
Maps and the construction of the Brazilian cannibal in the sixteenth century: Martin Waldseemüller, Pierre
Desceliers and Jean de Lery
Simon Pooley (Oxford)
Ecological imperialism at the Cape of Good Hope
John McAleer (National Maritime Museum)
Stargazers at the world’s end: observatories, telescopes and ‘views’ of empire in the nineteenth-century British
world
Iris Montero Sobrevilla (Cambridge)
Of hummingbirds, hearts and epilepsy: natural knowledge and authority in the Hernandian corpus, 1571‒1651
Helen Cowie (Warwick)
An American in Paris and a Spaniard in Paraguay: geographies of natural knowledge in the Hispanic World,
1750‒1808
Rohan Deb-Roy (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)
Burdwan fever and the making of a malarian locality, 1865‒1875
Lowri Jones (RHUL)
Indigenous intermediaries in nineteenth-century scientific exploration
James Delbourgo (Rutgers)
Sir Hans Sloane’s milk chocolate and the whole history of the cacao
Comparative Histories of Asia
‘Global Japan Series’ Launch Roundtable Event
Sheldon Garon (Princeton)
‘Keep on Saving’: A Transnational History of Promoting Thrift in Japan and the World
Discussants: Patrick O’Brien (LSE) and William Clarence-Smith (SOAS)
‘Global Japan Series’, Special Joint Session with Modern Italian History Seminar
Federico Croci (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil and University of Genoa, Italy)
Between Fear and Empathy: The Impact of the Japanese Immigration on the Italian Community in Brazil, 1908
Taylor Sherman (RHUL)
Hunger, Development and the Limits of Postcolonial Nationalism in India
Patrick Peebles (Missouri-Kansas City)
Ceylon’s 1848 Disturbances in Historical Perspective
‘Global Japan Series’
Partha Mitter (Sussex)
The Tagores, Okakura and Pan-Asianism in Calcutta
Su Lin Lewis (Cambridge)
Cities of the Young: Colonial Rangoon, Penang and Bangkok seen through Student Eyes
Selçuk Esenbel (Boğaziçi)
Japan’s Global Claim to Asia: Chinese Coins, the Muslim Network and Japanese Pan-Asianists
Owen Miller (SOAS, Birkbeck)
The Idea of Stagnation in Korean History from Fukuda Tokuzo to the New Right
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‘Global Japan Series’
Takashi Fujitani (California, San Diego)
Korean Soldiers in the Japanese Amy: Some Reflections on Inclusionary or Polite Racism in WWII
‘Global Japan Series’
Joan Pau Rubiés (LSE)
The Jesuit Image of Japanese Civilisation in the Late Sixteenth Century Japan
‘Global Japan Seminar Series’
Ben Elman (Princeton)
Sinophiles and Sinophobes: Politics, Classicism and Medicine in Tokugawa Japan
Contemporary British History
Michael Kandiah (CCBH/IHR) and Christopher Knowles (CCBH/IHR)
The People’s University: The University of London external system,
1858 – 2008
Jenny Keating (IHR)
New Families for Old: Adoption in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century
Russell Wallis (RHUL)
The vagaries of British compassion: Britons, Poles and Jews after World War One
Jenna Philips (Cambridge)
Britain’s Role in the Korean War, 1950‒1951, and the Impact of the Conflict upon the Labour Government
Michael Passmore (CCBH/IHR)
From constructive opposition to defiance: London boroughs and Conservative housing policy in the 1970s
John Campbell (author of biographies of Thatcher and Heath, writing biography of Roy Jenkins)
‘The decline of British politics since 1945’. Was there a golden age?
Andy Beckett (author of When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the 1970s)
Re-thinking the British 1970s: towards a new perspective on an orphan decade
Laurence Black (Durham)
Tories and Hunters: Swinton College in the Making of Conservative Identities
Lord Hurd of Westwell and Edward Young
‘Choose your Weapons’. British Foreign Secretaries and their arguments, 1809‒2009
(To mark the launch of their book on this topic)
Duncan Campbell-Smith (official historian of the Post Office)
Post Office Reform ‒ a perennial of British history
Charles More (U of Gloucestershire)
The British government and oil, 1945‒1970s
Alastair Reid (Girton College, Cambridge)
A model of British manufacturing success: shipbuilding, 1870‒1950
Chair: John Edmonds (former general secretary of the GMB)
Organized with the History & Policy Trade Union Forum, to launch Dr Reid’s book, ‘The Tide of Democracy: Shipyard
Workers and Social Relations in Britain’
Liza Filby (Warwick)
‘Doing God’: Religious Conventions and Political Values in British Politics c. 1979-present
Marika Sherwood (Black and Asian Studies Association)
Black Political Activism in Britain, 1900‒1965
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Conversations and Disputations
Astrid Erll (Frankfurt), Luisa Passerini (Turin), Susannah Radstone (UEL), Ann Rigney (Utrecht)
Memory in National Contexts
A seminar in the Conversations and Disputations’ series, organized by the Raphael Samuel History Centre
Chair: Sally Alexander (Goldsmiths)
Sally Alexander (Goldsmiths), Shahidha Bari (QMUL), Rick Crownshaw (Goldsmiths), Graham Dawson (Brighton),
Stephan Feuchtwang (LSE), Lynne Segal (Birkbeck)
Memory Today: A symposium to celebrate the publication of ‘ Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates’, eds Susannah
Radstone and Bill Schwarz (Fordham University Press)
Chair: Kate Hodgkin (UEL)
Crusades and the Latin East
Phil Murgatroyd (Birmingham)
Medieval Logistics, Modelling and Manzikert
Martin Hall (RHUL/QMUL)
A Contemporary Crusades Epic Disinterred: John of Garland’s De triumphis Ecclesiae (c.1253) Revisited
Jonathan Riley-Smith (Cambridge)
Two Orders with Contrasting Personalities: The Hospital of St John and the Temple in the Holy Land, 1120‒1291
Piers Mitchell (Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge)
Arnaldia and Leonardie: Illness Suffered by Kings on the Third Crusade
Zsolt Hunyadi (SSEES, UCL)
The Changing Role of the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary in the Crusading Movement (11th‒13th centuries)
Lean Ni Chleirigh (IRCHSS Scholar, Trinity)
Ethnic Vocabulary in the Historia of Albert of Aachen
Mike Carr (RHUL)
Trade or Crusade? The Venetians, Genoese and Crusades against the Turks: 1300‒1350
Phil Baldwin (QMUL)
Pope Gregory X and the Crusades
Earlier Middle Ages
Neil McLynn (University of Oxford)
Damasus of Rome: a Fourth-Century Pope in Context
Richard Morris OBE,
Lastingham Revisited
Note: this was the second Sir David Wilson Lecture in Medieval Studies, and was a joint meeting with the Institute
of Archaeology/British Museum Seminar
Peter Turner (Oxford)
Augustine in the Garden and Beyond
Eljas Oksanen (KCL)
Diplomatic Relations between England and Flanders in the Twelfth Century
Tom Lambert (Durham)
Theft, Violence and Crime: Royal Law and Legal Power in Anglo-Saxon England
Simon MacLean (St Andrews)
Recycling the Franks in 12th-Century England: Regino of Prum and the Monks of Durham
Julie Mumby (KCL)
The Descent of Family Land in Late Anglo-Saxon England
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Caroline Goodson and John Arnold (Birkbeck)
Resounding Community: Medieval Bells, their Origins and their Uses
Peter Heather (KCL)
Predatory Migration and the First Millennium
Katherine Harvey (KCL)
The piety of King John
Jonathan Conant (San Diego, California)
Staying Roman: conquest and identity in Africa and the Mediterranean, 439−700
Mayke De Jong (Utrecht)
The penitential state − a year later
Simon Draper (Gloucestershire)
The landscape of place-names in early medieval Gloucestershire and Wiltshire
Joint session with Locality and Region Seminar
Sylvie Joye (Reims)
Abduction and elopement in early medieval Europe
Peter Sarris (Cambridge)
Aristocrats, peasants and the state in Byzantium, 600−1100
Alice Rio (KCL)
Self Sales and Voluntary Entry into Unfreedom, 300‒1100
Roy Flechner (Cambridge)
What can canon law tell us about the Gregorian mission to Kent?
Andrea Augenti (Ravenna)
Rome and Ravenna in the Early Middle Ages: An Archaeological Perspective
Dennis Stathakopoulos (KCL)
‘And the mother did not spare the baby at her breast’: mothers and cannibalism in late antiquity
Julian Harrison (The British Library)
Reconstructing the Coronation Gospels
Lucy Donkin (Oxford)
Earth as relic, gift and tribute in the Eleventh and Twelfth centuries
Julia Hillner (Sheffield)
Monastic Penance in sixth-century Italy
David Ganz (KCL)
How to chop up St Augustine: reading and fragmenting in the early middle ages
Early Modern Material Cultures
Ulinka Rublack (Cambridge)
Matthaeus Schwarz: Dress and Identity in the Sixteenth Century
Angus Patterson (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Putting Armour Back in the Fashion Parade: Self-fashioning and Armour in Renaissance Europe
Bridget Heal (St Andrews)
Preparing for a Protestant Baroque: Art and Identity in Lutheran Germany, c.1550‒1700
Norbert Jopek (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Style and Function: German Small-scale Sculpture around 1500
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Elizabeth Currie (Royal College of Art)
From Black to Shades of Grey: Reinterpreting Black in Representations of Florentine Dress, 1550‒1650
Moya Carey (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Bringing it Up to Date: Qajar Engraved Mounts on Safavid and Chinese Ceramics
Ulinka Rublack (Cambridge)
Matthaeus Schwarz: Dress and Identity in the Sixteenth Century
Angus Patterson (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Putting Armour Back in the Fashion Parade: Self-fashioning and Armour in Renaissance Europe
Bridget Heal (St Andrews)
Preparing for a Protestant Baroque: Art and Identity in Lutheran Germany, c.1550‒1700
Norbert Jopek (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Style and Function: German Small-scale Sculpture around 1500
Elizabeth Currie (Royal College of Art)
From Black to Shades of Grey: Reinterpreting Black in Representations of Florentine Dress, 1550‒1650
Moya Carey (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Bringing it Up to Date: Qajar Engraved Mounts on Safavid and Chinese Ceramics
Economic and Social History of the Pre-Modern World
John Hatcher (Cambridge)
Understanding the late medieval economy: true wages and the real economy
Santhi Hejeebu (Cornell)
The demand for empire: servants and directors of the East India Company
Koji Yamamoto (York)
Distrust, economic innovations, and public service: ‘Projecting’ culture in seventeenth and early eighteenth-century
England
Matthew Greenhall (Durham)
The evolution of the British economy: Anglo-Scottish trade and the political union, 1580‒1750
Simon Healy (History of Parliament)
Crown finances and the political economy of early modern England, 1540‒1640
Alessandro Nuvolari (Sant’ Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa)
Mr Woodcraft and the value of English patents, 1617‒1841
Danielle van den Heuvel (Cambridge) and Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (IISH, Amsterdam)
Households, work and the consumer revolution in the Dutch Republic. The case of tea and coffee sellers in
eighteenth-century Leiden
Joint session with the Low Countries Seminar
Nuala Zahedieh (Edinburgh)
Slave trade profits and the English country house c. 1680‒1730
Christopher Moses (Princeton)
Money matters and the coinage crisis in 1690s England
Leos Muller (Uppsala)
The Swedish East India Company and Britain, 1731‒1813
Part of a one day symposium entitled:
From the Northern Seas to the Atlantic: Cities, Ecology and Exchange, 1600‒1800
Christopher Pihl (Uppsala)
Gender, work and wages in sixteenth century Sweden
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Julian Hoppit (UCL)
Compulsion and the security of property rights in Britain, 1688‒1833
Education in the Long 18 th Century
Katharine Iles (Birmingham)
‘Amuse and Instruct’: Education at the Shrewsbury Foundling Hospital 1759‒1769
Heather Ellis (Humboldt)
Man-Makers? Generational Relations and the Function of a University Education in Eighteenth-Century England
Jane Hamlett (RHUL)
‘Like a Home Under Kind Rule’? The Material World of the North London Collegiate School for Girls, 1850‒1914
Clare Barlow (KCL)
Reading, Development and the Bluestocking Circle
Bridget Long (Hertfordshire)
What did eighteenth century women know?: Clues about girls’ education to be found in textile objects
European History 1150‒1550
Discussion led by David Carpenter (KCL) and Miri Rubin (QMUL)
What Makes a Medieval Topic Important?
Elma Brenner (Cambridge)
Archbishops, charity and leprosy in thirteenth-century Rouen
Brian Patrick McGuire (Roskilde)
On Writing Biographies of Difficult Men: Bernard of Clairvaux and Jean Gerson
Chris Jones (Canterbury, New Zealand)
Perceptions of Empire in Late Medieval Europe
Bronach Kane (QMUL)
Memory, Gender and Social Belonging in Medieval England, c. 1200‒1500
Nils Holger Peterson (Copenhagen)
Incarnation, Embodiment and Sacraments: Liturgical Representation and Drama
Joint Session with the Early Medieval Seminar
Kati Ihnat (QMUL) with Professor Deanna Klepper (Boston)
Jews in Medieval Christian Thought and Experience
Antonia Fitzpatrick (UCL)
The Resurrection and Church Politics
Martyn Rady (SSEES)
Late Medieval Diets: the Case of Hungary
Sophie Ambler (KCL)
Justifications for Conciliar Government: the Montfortian Bishops and the forma pacis of 1264
Carol Sibson (QMUL)
Vernacular and Verse in English Pastoral Care
European History 1500‒1800
Gregory S. Brown (Nevada)
‘Maître dans sa maison’: Beaumarchais, an inadvertent Aristocrat in Revolutionary Paris
Joint session with the Modern French History Seminar
Mary Laven (Cambridge)
Jesuits and Eunuchs: Encountering gender in late Ming China
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Isabelle Storez-Brancourt (CNRS – Paris)
From the chancellor of France to an unknown clerk in the Parlement of Paris: an exploration of the judicial world of
eighteenth-century France
Victor Egío (Liverpool)
The tradition of the School of Salamanca in the 20th century: Early modern Spain domesticated
Paul Warde (UEA)
The forests and the future: figuring the welfare of posterity in early modern Europe
Mark Greengrass (Sheffield)
Massacres and Elites: Antoine Caron’s Massacres of the Triumvirate
Mark Steele
Dr Johnson and Paolo Sarpi
Valerie Mainz (Leeds)
Gloire and the imagery of military sign-up in France before the Revolution
Robert Frost (Aberdeen)
The Ethiopian and the Elephant: Queen Louise Marie Gonzaga and Queenship in an Elective Monarchy, 1645‒1667
James Arnold (Birkbeck)
Serious fun: the politics of amusement in post-Revolutionary Paris
Eva Johanna Holmberg (QMUL)
Englishness, Europeanness, and travel to the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Joint session with Tudor & Stuart History Seminar
Paul Stock (LSE)
‘Almost a Separate Race’: Race Theory and the Idea of Europe, 1771-1830
Lisa Jane Graham (Haverford College)
Debauchery in eighteenth-century France
Film History
Mike Chopra-Gant (London Met)
Dirty Movies, or: Why Film Scholars Should Stop Worrying About Citizen Kane (1941) and Learn to Love Bad Films
Michael Williams (Southampton)
‘Why Not Forget Him?’: Fan Letters, Protests and Writing
Rudolph Valentino’s Memory, 1926‒8
Sheldon Hall (Sheffield Hallam)
Streamlining the Road Show: The Distribution and Exhibition of Gone With the Wind (1939)
Vicky Lowe (Manchester)
Basil Dean and The Constant Nymph (1933): Adaptation and British Cinema
Robert Burgoyne (St Andrews)
Abstraction and Embodiment in the War Film
Jeffrey Richards (Lancaster)
Leni Riefenstahl, Charlie Chan, Tarzan and the 1936 Olympics
History of Education
John Field (Stirling)
Able bodies: work camps and the training of the unemployed in Britain before 1939
Sue Middleton (Waikato and Visiting Fellow, IOE)
Writing home: labourers, literacy and letters from Wellington to Surrey, 1840‒1845
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Antonio Fco. Canales (La Laguna)
Fascist policies on education in Germany, Italy and Spain in the 1930s and 1940s
Peter Cunningham (University of Cambridge and Visiting Fellow, IOE)
The historical problem of teacher status
Jane Martin (IoE)
Organising for socialism: Mary Bridges Adams and the English adult education movement, 1890‒1930
Jenny Keating and Dr Nicola Sheldon (History in Education project, IHR)
History in schools – a century of debate, 1900 – 2010
Steven Cowan (IoE)
The growth of mass literacy in Britain during the eighteenth century
History of Gardens & Landscapes
John Watkins (Head of Gardens and Landscapes Conservation Department, English Heritage)
Kenilworth – re-creation or conservation?
Richard Bisgrove (Reading)
William Robinson and the wild style
James Hitchmough (Sheffield)
Prairie planting. A new style?
Paul Stamper (Heritage Protection Department, English Heritage)
Designating Designed Landscapes: Purpose and Practice
Anne Wilkinson
Shirley Hibberd – Gardening for Amateurs
Sarah Dewis
John Loudon, Jane Webb Loudon and the Gardening Press
Jane Bradney
The Villa Garden, 1790‒c1870
Michael Symes (Birkbeck)
Is there such a thing as a Gothic Garden?
Stephen Daniels (Nottingham)
Parks and Gardens in the Art of Paul Sandby, 1760‒1800
Suzannah Fleming, (The Temple Trust)
The New Spring Gardens: a Patriot Elysium at Vauxhall 1732‒1751
David Marsh (Birkbeck)
Fit for a queen: creating and maintaining the London gardens of Catherine of Braganza
History of Libraries
Maureen Bell (Birmingham)
Titus Wheatcroft: an eighteenth-century reader and his books
Simon Eliot (IES)
Gutting Leviathan: the fall of the great circulating libraries in Britain
Keith A. Manley (IHR)
Infidel books and subscription libraries: government censorship in Europe during the Napoleonic period
Paul Quarrie (Maggs Bros. Ltd.)
An intellectual library: the library built up between c. 1700 and 1750 by the earls of Macclesfield at Shirburn Castle
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James Willoughby (Oxford)
The medieval library of St George’s Chapel, Windsor
Scott Mandelbrote (Cambridge)
The history and archaeology of a seventeenth-century library: Peterhouse, Cambridge, from Andrew Perne (d.
1589) to John Cosin (d. 1672)
Stephen Massil (National Trust)
Libraries of the National Trust: some houses in Kent and Sussex - Shakespeare, landscape and the in-laws
Visit to Dulwich College Library.
Michelle Johansen (London Borough of Havering Museum)
An ‘unglamorous’ profession?: the public librarian in late-Victorian London
History of Political Ideas
Mark Philp (Oxford)
Revolutionaries in Paris: Paine, Jefferson and Democracy
Raymond Geuss (Cambridge)
Philosophy, Origins, and the Humanities
Richard Wolin (City University of New York)
The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, May ‘68, and the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Joint with the Modern French History Seminar
Ann Thomson (Université Paris 8)
Religion, Politics, and the ‘Natural History of Man’ in the Eighteenth Century
Christopher Brooke (Cambridge)
Justus Lipsius and the Post-Machiavellian Prince
Peter Stacey (California, Los Angeles)
Machiavelli’s Political Ontology
Magnus Ryan (Cambridge)
Legal Humanism and the Origins of Empire
Jon Parkin (York)
Early Modern Attitudes to Self-Censorship
David Weinstein (Wake Forest)
The Exile of Interpretation: Popper, Strauss and Constructing Political Philosophy’s Canon
Janet Coleman (LSE)
Anti-democratic Voices in Ancient Greece and Rome (and their Legacies)
Luc Foisneau (CNRS, EHESS, Paris)
Arendt, Hobson and Hobbes on Imperialism and the State
Round table discussion of ‘Risorgimento in Exile’ by Maurizio Isabella (OUP, 2009)
Discussants: Christopher Bayly (Cambridge); Eugenio Biagini (Cambridge)
Chair: Lucy Riall
Joint session with Modern Italian History Seminar
Tracy Strong (California, San Diego)
Representation, Music and Political Freedom in Rousseau
Donald Winch (Sussex)
John Maynard Keynes: The Economist as Biographer and Intellectual Historian
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Imperial and World History
Roundtable on Imperial and World History at the University of London
Bronwen Everill (KCL)
‘To most materially aid in the civilization of Africa’: Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia, 1822‒1860
Colonialism / Postcolonial new researchers’ workshop
Richard Drayton (KCL)
Imperial History and the Human Future: An Inaugural Lecture
Rachel Bright (UEA & LSE)
Mastering the Queue: Colonial Masculinity and the Chinese ‘Other’
Colonialism / Postcolonial new researchers’ workshop
Shihan de Silva (ICS)
The Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Effects on the Indian Ocean
Jonathan Saha (SOAS)
The Male State: Colonialism, Corruption, and Rape Investigations in the Irrawaddy Delta c.1900
Colonialism / Postcolonial new researchers’ workshop
Gareth Austin (LSE)
Sub-Saharan Africa and Global Economic History
Uditi Sen (Cambridge)
Imperial needs vs. national claims: the (de)colonisation of the Andaman Islands
Colonialism / Postcolonial new researchers’ workshop
Elizabeth M. Williams (Goldsmiths)
‘We Shall not be Free Until South Africa is Free!’ Black British Solidarity with the Anti-Apartheid Movement
Daniel Whitall (RHUL)
Black West Indians in Britain and the politics of empire, c. 1931‒1948
Colonialism / Postcolonial new researchers’ workshop
P. J. Marshall (KCL)
Yet another look at the ‘Loyalist’ exodus at the end of the American War
Simone Borgstede (UCL)
‘All is Race’ Benjamin Disraeli’s mapping of the empire?
Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers’ Workshop
Ulrike Hilleman (Imperial College)
The networks of British imperial expansion and the study of Chinese, 1760‒1840
Ian Barrett (KCL)
Investigating Slavery: Pro-slavery lobbyists and British parliamentary investigations into the slave trade
c.1787‒1807
Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers’ Workshop
Liz Harvey (UCL)
Metropolitan and colonial discourses of respectability and motherhood: philanthropy in Birmingham and Sydney,
1860‒ 1914
Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers’ Workshop
Bill Schwartz (QMUL)
Witness to the end of the colonial empires: James Baldwin and Richard Wright
Benjamin Mountford (Oxford)
Australia’s Empire and the Chinese Question
Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers’ Workshop
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Jon Wilson (KCL)
Plassey and the Forgetting of Passion: Remembering and Forgetting the Conquest of India
Charlotte Hastings (Edinburgh)
‘Miss Wordsworth’s plain living and high thinking’: colonial education policy in Southern Nigeria and the
biographical approach
Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers’ Workshop
Jonathan Schneer (Georgia Tech)
The Balfour Declaration: A New Dimension
Nadia Atia (QMUL)
‘Our whole position was based on nothing more tangible than prestige’: The Aftermath of the Siege of Kut in Britain
Carl Bridge (KCL), Jon Wilson (KCL), Philip Murphy (Institute of Commonwealth Studies), Richard Drayton (KCL)
A discussion of John Darwin’s The Empire Project
with a reply from John Darwin (Oxford)
Held jointly with the Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers’ Workshop
Chris Vaughan (Durham)
The limits of colonial despotism: micro-politics and the construction of the colonial state in Darfur, 1916‒1956
Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers’ Workshop
Roundtable led by Seumas Milne (The Guardian)
Empire and the Media since 2001
Jan Lemnitzer (LSE)
‘An ignoble species of warfare’ ‒ Gunboat diplomacy and its legacy
Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers’ Workshop
International History
Martin Thomas (Exeter)
European Crisis, Colonial Crisis? Signs of Fracture in the French Empire from Munich to the Outbreak of War
Ken Kotani (RUSI/NIDS Tokyo)
Re-examining Japanese Intelligence in the Early 1940s
Chris Brennan (LSE)
The influence of foreign affairs in the internal politics of Austria in early 1917
Patrick Salmon (Newcastle)
The Saki Dockrill Memorial Lecture
Mrs Thatcher & the German question
Jenna Philips (Cambridge)
Britain’s Role in the Korean War, 1950‒1951, and the Impact of the Conflict upon the Labour Government
Joint session with the Contemporary British History Seminar
Laurence Guymer (UEA)
‘Curing the Ottomans’: Sir Henry Bulwer at Constantinople, 1858‒1865
Philip Murphy (ICwS)
Intelligence and the Nyasaland crisis, 1959
Tomoki Takeda
Mamoru Shigemitsu and Japan’s Diplomacy 1937‒1945
Emma Peplow (LSE)
The Post-War Occupation of Berlin: Western Occupation Policies, 1945‒48
John Darwin (Oxford)
Geopolitics and Imperialism: The British Empire and Halford Mackinder 1890‒1940
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Matthew Glencross (IHR)
Edward VII’s 1903 visit to Italy
John Fisher (UWE)
The Diplomatic Career of William James Garnett, 1902 to 1920
Simona Tobia (Reading)
Advertising America: the United States Information Service in Italy, 1945‒1956
Massimiliano Fiori (KCL)
Anglo-Italian Relations in the Middle East in the Interwar Period
Dina Fainberg (Rutgers)
Notes from the Rotten West: Soviet Correspondents in the United States, 1950‒1985
Ed Packard (LSE)
Statesmen, Smugglers and Sideshows: British Policy towards International Efforts to Control Private Armaments
Manufacture and the Arms Trade, 1917‒1935
Knowledge and Society
Did not meet
Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy
Stephen Kolsky (Melbourne)
Knowledge translation scepticism: A reading of Mario Equicola’s Libro de natura de amore
Oren Margolis (Oxford)
Quattrocento Humanism, Renaissance Diplomacy and the René of Anjou Evidence
Susan Brigden (Oxford)
‘Cacciare il Papa di Roma’: Henry VIII and the princes of Italy
Christine Shaw (Cambridge)
Shock and Awe? Charles VIII and the Italians, 1494‒5
Lucy Donkin (St Catherine’s College, Oxford)
Following in the Footsteps of Christ in Late Medieval Italy
Linda Jauch (Cambridge)
Caterina Sforza as political strategist and exemplary woman
Late Medieval
Adrian Jobson (PRO)
John of Crakehall: the ‘forgotten’ baronial treasurer, 1258‒60
Graham Cushway (Exeter)
Edward III and the Battle of Sluys – Power and Propaganda
Elizabeth Matthew (Reading)
‘Scenes of Clerical Life’ in the Fifteenth Century: James Gloys, chaplain to the Pastons
Matthew Davies (CMH)
Invention and reinvention: guilds, history and image in late medieval London
Ben Wild (Sherborne)
A captive king: King Henry III between the battles of Lewes and Evesham, 1264‒5
Anna Eavis (English Heritage)
William of Wykeham’s Commemorative Foundations
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Lisa Benz (York)
Queen Isabella, 1327‒1330: Manipulating Normative Queenly Duties
Justin Colson (RHUL)
‘Was there noo tavern ner Seint Magnes thane this?’: Churches, Guilds and Neighbourhood Life in Fifteenth Century
London
Nikolaos Chryssis (RHUL)
Tearing Christ’s seamless tunic? The ‘Eastern Schism’ and Crusades against the Greeks in the thirteenth century
Ann Bowtell (RHUL)
How to found a hospital: Elsyngspital 1327‒1349
James Ross and Jessica Lutkin (PRO)
‘The attempt and not the deed confounds us’. Cataloguing deeds and evidences in the Court of Wards: the project
and a case-study of late medieval Bridgwater
Caroline Barron (RHUL)
The London Life of Sir Thomas More
David Harrison (House of Commons)
Travel in the Later Middle Ages
Nick Holder (RHUL)
Reconstructing the plans of London’s medieval friaries
Ellie Pridgeon (Geffrye Museum)
St. Christopher Wall Painting in Medieval Churches, c.1250 to c.1500: Function and Patronage
Craig Lambert (Hull)
A Sophisticated Operation? The Men Who Organised and Manned English Naval Logistical Operations, 1320‒1360
Rory Cox (IHR)
The Criticism of War in Fourteenth-Century England
Laura Sangha (Warwick)
Popular belief in the English Mystery Play Cycles: Angels as a case study
Rupert Webber (RHUL)
A Merchant’s Mark: A study of Practical Piety in Medieval Rural Gloucestershire
Rowena E. Archer (Oxford)
Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk (d.1475) and her Books
Life-Cycles
Catherine Lee (Kent)
Nineteenth Century Street Prostitution: Recovering the Individual Experience
John Welshman (Lancaster)
The History of Dynamic Approaches to Poverty
David Oswell, (Goldsmiths’)
Housing Children’s Speech, Sound Environments, and Broadcast Democracy in Britain, 1923 – 1970
Salim Al-Gailani (Cambridge)
Pregnancy, pathology, public morals: making antenatal care in early 20th-century Edinburgh
Maria Tamboukou (UEL)
Ordinary / Extraordinary: Narratives, Politics, History
Neils Manen (York/IHR)
Agency and reform: the regulation of chimney sweep apprentices, 1770‒1840
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Claire Shaw (SSEES/IHR)
Revolutionising Deafness: 1917 and the Birth of a Deaf-Soviet Identity
John Broad (London Met)
Women, land and inheritance strategies in early modern England
Mary Evans, Emeritus Professor (Kent)
Listen with Mother: Love, Hate and the Maternal in the Twentieth Century
April Gallwey (Warwick)
‘But my mother had to do that all her life’*: Intergenerational comparisons between the post-1945 lone mother and
her mother
* Ann D’Arcy, Mental Health Testimony Archive, National Sound Archive.
Bronagh Ni Chonaill (Glasgow)
Consideration and contention: the depiction of the child in medieval Irish and Welsh law
Bonnie Evans (KCL)
Mapping the End of Mental Deficiency Legislation: The Psychotic, Subnormal and Autistic Children of 1950s and
1960s Britain
Pamela Cox (Essex)
‘Repeat losses to care’: chaotic life-cycles, intimate citizenship and social exclusion, 1900 to the present
Stephanie Olsen (Harvard)
Men from the Boys: Citizenship and the Emerging Category of Adolescence in fin-de-siècle Britain
Lutz Sauerteig (Durham)
Loss of innocence: The Shaping of Childhood Sexuality around 1900
Locality & Region
John Chandler (Wiltshire local historian, publisher and contributor to the VCH)
Easter Books as a source for demographic and social history: an introduction
John Beckett (VCH/IHR)
The Leicester Department of English Local History v the Victoria County History: the post-war battle for the soul of
local history in England
Gill Draper (Kent/British Association for Local History)
Why Rye: another local history?
Elizabeth Williamson (VCH/IHR)
Making places: planning, buildings and history after 1960
Richard Olney (formerly, Historical Manuscripts Commission)
Church and Community in South London: St Saviour’s Denmark Park, 1881‒1905
Simon Draper (VCH Gloucestershire)
The landscape of place-names in early medieval Gloucestershire and Wiltshire
Joint seminar with Earlier Middle Ages Seminar
Nicola M. Whyte (Exeter)
‘With boots and boats’: perambulating the bounds in late sixteenth- and early 17th-century Norfolk
Stephen Mileson (VCH Oxfordshire and Oxford University)
Parks and Communities in Medieval England
Matthew Bristow (VCH/IHR)
The Exmoor planned farmstead: a multidisciplinary approach to understanding post-enclosure hill farms
Robert Peberdy (VCH Oxfordshire)
Small towns and economic change
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Sue Berry (VCH Brighton)
Myths beside the seaside - the influence of myths on how history of the City of Brighton and Hove is perceived
Christopher Currie (VCH/IHR)
The other Londons: North America
London Group of Historical Geographers
Nick Draper (UCL)
‘Property in Men’: Converting people to cash at the end of British colonial slavery, 1823‒1838
Alastair Owens (QMUL)
Fragments of the modern city: The property of everyday life in Victorian London
Susanne Seymour (Nottingham)
Picturing plantation property: Estate views in the British Caribbean in the late18th and early 19th centuries
Cathy Waters (Kent)
Representing property: Commodity culture in Household Words
Margot Finn (Warwick)
Moving properties: Stability and circulation in Anglo-Indian Society under the East India Company, c. 1780‒1830
David Beckingham (Cambridge)
Liberalism, liberty and the geography of the Inebriates Acts, 1879-1914
James Brown (Oxford)
Drinking Geographies in Early Modern England
Deborah Toner (Warwick)
Everything in its Right Place? Drinking Spaces and Popular Culture in 19th Century Mexican Literature
James Nicholls (Bath Spa)
The pub and the people: drinking spaces and UK alcohol policy, past and present
Stella Moss (Oxford)
Spitting and Sitting: Gender, Space and the English Public House, 1918‒1939
Dan Clayton (St Andrews)
Geographical Warfare in the Tropics: Yves Lacoste and the Vietnam War
Tristan Stein (Harvard)
‘Situated in the Midst of the Trading World’: Tangier between Atlantic and Mediterranean Empire, 1660‒1683
London Society for Medieval Studies
Magnus Ryan (Cambridge)
Inalienability, indivisibility and succession: the kingdom in later medieval Roman-canon law
Judith Herrin (KCL)
The West meets the East: unexpected outcomes of the Ferrara-Florence council of 1438–39
Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute)
Medieval Latin texts on talismans and new finds in the Cairo Genizah
William Day (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
Florentine and other Italian personnel in foreign mints, c.1200–1500
Sheila Sweetinburgh (Kent)
The evolution of the English hospital: evidence from Kent and Wiltshire
Leonie Hicks (Southampton)
Landscape and fighting in Norman chronicles
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Debby Banham (Cambridge)
The earliest English culinary recipes: dietary recommendations in Old English medical texts
Edward Coleman (UCD)
Urban crusaders: the Italian city-states and the Holy Land in the twelfth century
Peter Jones (Cambridge)
John Argentine (c.1443–1508): alchemy and the royal doctor
Katarìna Stulrajterova (Comenius)
The non-alienation clause in the Hungarian and English coronation oaths: a justified or unjustified papal
assumption?
Roberta Gilchrist (Reading)
Heirlooms and ancient objects: connecting the lifecycles of medieval people and things
Sarah Hamilton (Exeter)
A medieval Reformation? The delivery of pastoral care in the central Middle Ages
David Bates (UEA)
The Normans and empire
Low Countries History
Jan Machielsen (Oxford)
Justifying the Indefensible? Defending the rule of Don Juan of Austria (1576‒78)
Elizabeth McGrath (Warburg Institute)
Jordaens and the Abbot: Mythological painting and clerical decorum in seventeenth-century Antwerp
Benjamin Kaplan (UCL)
‘In equality and enjoying the same favour’: bi-confessional religious arrangements in the early modern Low
Countries
Violet Soen (KU Leuven)
To negotiate or not to negotiate? Dilemmas of Habsburg peacemaking during the Dutch Revolt
Danielle van den Heuvel (Cambridge) and Elise Nederveen Meerkerk (International Institute of Social History,
Amsterdam)
Dutch female traders in the early modern period
Joint session with Women’s History and Economic and Social History of the Pre-Modern World Seminars
Debra Pring (Goldsmiths) and Peter Holtslag (Hamburg/London/Cracow)
‘Dignified and Beautiful Additions’: The Negotiation of Musical Meaning in Dutch Golden Age Painting
Rudolf Dekker and Arianne Baggerman (Erasmus, Rotterdam)
Reading and writing together: the childhood diary as a form of communication
Guido Marnef (Antwerp)
The Calvinist Republic in Antwerp 1577‒1585
Marxism in Culture
Dominic Rahtz (University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury)
Metaphorical Materialism (Carl Andre and Robert Smithson)
Erdmut Wizisla (Brecht-Benjamin Archive, Berlin)
Launch of Walter Benjamin & Bertolt Brecht: The Story of a Friendship
Tim Dayton (Kansas State)
American Poetry, the Historical Materialism of Ideology, and the Great War
Nina Power (Roehampton)
One Dimensional Woman: A Critique of Contemporary Consumer Feminism
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Gail Day (Leeds)
Discussion of the film Venezuela from Below
Gilbert Achcar (SOAS)
Marxism & Orientalism
Michael Sayeau (UCL)
Advertising and the Politics of Aesthetics
Richard Checketts (Victoria & Albert Museum & Royal College of Art)
Shaftesbury’s Theory of Art: Substance and Identity
Joshua Clover (California, Davis)
No End & No Beginning: Pop, Periodization, Problems c. 1989
A Symposium on
Fredric Jameson’s Valences of the Dialectic
Matthew Beaumont (UCL), Gail Day (Leeds), Nina Power (Roehampton), and Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths)
Antigoni Memou (UEL)
Photography in May ‘68
Simon Constantine (Leeds)
‘A montage of realism’: Sekula’s Fish Story and Marx’s Capital
Medieval and Tudor London History
Sheila Lindenbaum (Indiana)
The Universities and the City: a cadre of militant intellectuals in fifteenth-century London
Edward Town (Sussex)
The importance of London craftsmen and materials in the transformation of Knole House in Kent, 1605‒1608
Barney Sloane (English Heritage)
Fresh light on the Black Death in London
Tim Reinke-Williams (Nottingham)
Locations of extramarital sex in early modern London
Claire Martin (RHUL)
Orphans and their guardians in 14th-century London
Merridee Bailey (Australian National)
Women and the London Companies: 1530‒1600
Henry Summerson (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography)
London’s physical environment, 1272-1327: the judicial evidence
Laura Tompkins (St Andrews)
Alice Perrers: London businesswoman?
Stefano Villani (Pisa)
The religious history of the Italian community in early modern London
Mio Ueno (Otsuma Women’s University)
The minstrels of London in the 15th and 16th centuries
Jessica Freeman (REED/ Southampton)
Players and playhouses in Tudor London and Middlesex
Barbara Harris (North Carolina)
Forgotten gifts: aristocratic women’s bequests to London churches, 1450‒1550
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Metropolitan History
Chris Minns and Patrick Wallis (LSE)
The decline of apprenticeship in early modern London
Henriette Steiner (ETH Zürich)
‘The more I see of the world…’ London as metropolitan paradigm in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written During a
Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark (1796)
Eric Sandweiss (Indiana)
The City Museum and the Museum City: remembering forgotten landscapes
Caroline Sandes (UCL)
Recreating a metropolis with selective memory: the use of the past in post-civil-war Beirut
Valentina Pugliano (IHR/Oxford)
Naturalists in the metropolis: the quiet pursuits of London apothecaries
Berta Joncus (Oxford)
Music for diversion and seduction at Ranelagh Garden
Matthew Stevens (CMH/IHR)
London women in the city and Westminster courts in the later middle age
Tim Wales (KCL)
Public health, political culture and the decline of infant mortality in West Ham, 1886‒1939
Jim Clifford (York, Ontario)
Remaking the Bow Back Rivers: environmental and social intervention to decrease flooding and unemployment in
West Ham, 1905‒1935
Jordan Landes (CMH/IHR)
London Quakers in the Atlantic world before 1725
Military History
John Bourne (Birmingham)
Firing and Hiring in the BEF on the Western Front, 1914‒1918
Dan Todman (QMUL)
Death in Britain in the Second World War
Edward Madigan (Trinity College, Dublin)
Anglican Army Chaplains during the Great War
Simon Godfrey (UCL)
Command and Communications in the British Army, 1919‒45
William Sheehan (Open University)
The Anglo-Irish Conflict 1919‒21: The British Army’s Counter-insurgency Performance Reassessed
Simon House (KCL)
The Scapegoat: Colonel Louis de Grandmaison
Brian Hall (Salford)
‘Dreadfully Childish, Old Fashioned and Bureaucratic’? British Communications and Information Processing on the
Western Front, 1914-18
Richard Campbell (KCL)
The Reno Court of Inquiry and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Stuart Mitchell (Birmingham)
Top-down or Bottom-up? The developing learning processes of the 32nd Division in 1916
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Michael Finch (Oxford)
The Gallieni Method and Pacification Campaigning in the 1890s
Manuel Bollag (KCL)
For Whom? For What? French Servicemen in the Indochina War, 1945‒54. Experience and Memory
Spencer Jones (University of Wolverhampton)
Scouting for Soldiers: Reconnaissance and the British Cavalry 1899–1914
NielsNiels Bo Paulson (Centre for Military History, Royal Danish Defence College)
The Waffen-SS – what’s left? The present state of research: challenges, sources and approaches
Graham Cobb
The Balloon Goes Up. The British Army and Balloon Observation, 1914‒1918
Jonathan Krause (KCL)
The Second Battle of Artois, May 1915: The New Turning-point
Special Event:
Military History in Canada
A one-day conference in collaboration with the Department of History, Calgary University and the History of
Warfare research group, King’s College London
Modern French History
Robert Gildea (Oxford)
Around 1968: trans-nationalism and subjectivity
Greg Brown (Nevada, Las Vegas)
‘Maître dans sa maison’: Beaumarchais, an Inadvertent Aristocrat in Revolutionary Paris
Joint session with the European History 1500‒1800 Seminar
Richard Wolin (City University of New York)
The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, May ‘68, and the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Joint session with the History of Political Ideas Seminar
Malcolm Crook (Keele)
Voting as a subversive activity: spoiled ballot papers in France, 1848-1914
Christopher Millington (Birkbeck)
French fascism and the veterans: a new perspective
Sarah Easterby-Smith (Warwick)
Cultivating Commerce: connoisseurship and the plant trade in late 18th-century London and Paris
Avner Ben-Amos (Tel-Aviv)
Festival and Utopia in Modern France: From Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Guy Debord
Ultan Gillen (QMUL)
Burke’s Reflections and French Counter-Revolution
Ruth Harris (Oxford)
The Dreyfus Affair revisited
Joan Tumblety (Southampton)
Physical culture, manly ideals and social hygiene in inter-war France
Joint session with History of Sport Seminar
Joan Tumblety (Southampton)
Physical culture, manly ideals and social hygiene in inter-war France
Joint session with History of Sport and Leisure History Seminar
Chris Pearson (Sussex)
Militarized Environments in Cold War France
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Modern German History
Svenja Goltermann (Freiburg)
Violence and Trauma: German Soldiers and their Memories of the Second World War
Jill Stephenson (Edinburgh)
Shooting the War: Hans Ertl, Film Cameraman, and German Newsreels during the Second World War
Ulrike Lindner (Universität der Bundeswehr, Munich)
German and British Colonialism
Jan Vermeiren (UEA)
Brothers in Arms: The Dual Alliance in World War I and German National Identity
Paul Betts (Sussex)
Intimacy and Family Life in the GDR
Jörg Echternkamp (Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, Potsdam)
The West German Cult of Dead Soldiers in European Perspective, 1945-2010
Modern Italian History
Federico Croci (Sao Paulo/Genoa)
Between Fear and Empathy: the Impact of the first Japanese immigration on the Italian community in Brazil, 1908
Chair: Lucy Riall
Joint session with the Comparative Histories of Asia seminar
Axel Körner (UCL)
Uncle Tom on the ballet stage: Italy’s Barbarous America, 1850-1900
Chair: Maurizio Isabella
Silvana Patriarca (Fordham, NY)
The Emotional Risorgimento
Chair: John Foot
Edoardo Tortarolo (Piemonte Orientale)
The Italian Aprroach to the Enlightenment. Scholarship and Politics 1930s to 1970s
Chair: Maurizio Isabella
Bianca Gaudenzi (Cambridge)
Commercial Advertising in German and Italy, 1918-1945
Chair: Stephen Gundle
Joint with the Rethinking Modern Europe Seminar and the Modern German History Seminars
Filippo Focardi (Padua)
The Missing Italian Nuremberg: War crimes Prosecution in Italy (1943-1951)
Chair: Maurizio Isabella
Round table discussion of
Italy’s Divided Memory, by John Foot (Palgrave, 2010).
Discussants: Phil Cooke (Strathclyde), Stephen Gundle (Warwick), Robert Gordon (Cambridge).
Chair: Lucy Riall
Claudia Capelli (Milan)
Communist Memory and Memory of Communism in an Italian Red City after 1989
Chair: Ilaria Favretto
Round table discussion of
‘Risorgimento in Exile’ by Maurizio Isabella (OUP, 2009)
Discussants: Christopher Bayly (Cambridge); Eugenio Biagini (Cambridge)
Chair: Lucy Riall
Joint with History of Political Ideas Seminar
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Modern Religious History
Isabel Rivers (QMUL)
John Wesley as editor and publisher
Gareth Jenkins (Open University)
‘Rowdyism Vs Respectability’: Belfast and Liverpool’s Experiences of Protestant Street Preaching during the
Edwardian Period
John Dray (KCL)
‘Church feeling was Evoked, not Created’: Interpreting the Hanoverian Church and the origins of ecclesiastical
revival c.1880-1900
John Maiden (Open University)
The Conservative Party, National Religion and the Prayer Book Controversy
Margaret Bird (RHUL)
‘Spreading the heavenly contagion’: competition between resident Anglican clergy, roving Evangelicals and
Methodist preachers for hearts and minds in rural Norfolk 1773-1813
Anne Stott (Open University)
William Wilberforce: Evangelicalism and the sentimental revolution
David Killingray (emeritus, Goldsmiths)
An African Pentecostal pioneer in Peckham: the ‘hidden’ life of Thomas Brem-Wilson (1855-1929)
Donald M. Lewis (Regent College, Vancouver)
‘No Popery’ and the Jews: Victorian Christian Zionism and British National Identity
David Sandifer (Cambridge)
‘Not Worth Knowing’: Evangelicals and the Ethic of Innocence in Late Georgian Britain
Chris Fountain (Open University)
‘No mere playing at soldiers’: The development of the London Diocesan Church Lads’ Brigade from the 1890s until
the outbreak of the First World War
Music in Britain
Nick Morgan (AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music)
‘A new pleasure’: listening to National Gramophonic Society records, 1924-1931
Vic Gammon (Newcastle)
‘The first music-seller in the land’: the professional street ballad singer in pre- and early-industrial society
(Paper in memory of John Lowerson, 1941–2009)
Roderick Swanston (Royal College of Music)
In search of Mr Rockstro
Jeanice Brooks (Southampton)
Singing Home and Family: Women and Sheet Music in the Early Nineteenth Century
Leanne Langley (Goldsmiths)
‘Women in the Band’: Music, Modernity and the Politics of Engagement, London 1913
Richard Witts (Edinburgh)
‘The capital city’s symphony orchestra’: Tovey’s Reid Symphony Orchestra, 1917-1940
Sophie Fuller (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance)
A temple of glorious music-making such as the world has not known: the musical salon in late Victorian and
Edwardian Britain
Aidan Thomson (Queen’s, Belfast)
National opera in Britain, 1902: new schemes, new works
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Special Summer Event:
Alain Frogley (Connecticut), Kate Macdonald (Ghent), Ian Christie (Birkbeck), Jerry White (Birkbeck)
Cultural representations of London, c. 1900-1914: Music, Literature, Film, Historiography
Parliaments, Representation and Society
Fintan Cullen (Nottingham)
Francis Wheatley, The Irish House of Commons (1780)
Michael Hannan
Karl Anton Hickel, The House of Commons (1793)
Miles Taylor (IHR)
‘A school of discipline?’: Mr Gladstone and Parliament, 1833-94
Stephen Farrell (History of Parliament)
John Singleton Copley, Charles I Demanding the Five Impeached Members of the House of Commons (1782-95)
Paul Seaward (History of Parliament)
John Singleton Copley, Charles I Demanding the Five Impeached Members of the House of Commons (1782-95)
Niels van Manen (York)
The Climbing Boy Reforms, 1788-1840: Revisiting the Earliest Labour Regulations in Britain
‘The Trial of Henry Sacheverell’; a conference to mark the 300th anniversary of the impeachment in Westminster
Hall.
Mari Takayanagi (IHR)
‘The ladies are not yet born who can do this work’: Women staff in Parliament, c.1900-1939
James McGuire (Royal Irish Academy)
The composition and character of the 1689 Parliament of Ireland
John Bergin (Queen’s, Belfast)
The legislative work of the 1689 Parliament of Ireland
Geoffrey Lock
The bishops in the House of Lords in the nineteenth century
Philosophy of History
Martin L. Davies (Leicester)
The Redundancy of History in the Historicized World
Peter Icke (Chichester)
Frank Ankersmit’s ‘Narrative Substance’ and its Implications for Historians
Sally Hart (Chichester)
Re-figuring the Postmodern Subject Beyond the End(s) of History: A Comparative Study of Jacques Derrida and
Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth
Eric Farge (Berlin)
History, Fiction and the Impossibility of Completion
Gavin Parkinson (The Courtauld Institute of Art, London)
Narrative and Sublime in the Art and Art History of Modernity
Simon Morgan Wortham (Kingston)
‘The Fidelity of a Guardian’: Jacques Derrida and the Unconditional University
Gerard Delanty (Sussex)
Democracy, the Public Sphere, and the University
Ron Barnett (IoE)
The Re-Coming of the Metaphysical University
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Robert Burns
Karl Jaspers’ Idea of the University: Science as a Whore, or Subject to an Ideal beyond itself?
David Lines (Warwick)
Reforming a University: the Case of Bologna in the Late Renaissance
Colloquium
Professor Robert Anderson (Edinburgh), Professor Miles Taylor (IHR), Rev Dr Ian Ker (Oxford), Professor James
Connelly (Hull), Dr Martin Davies (Leicester)
The Idea of the University: Past, Present, and Future
Postgraduate and Early Careers
Catharina Clement (Canterbury Christchurch)
‘The Apple War’: Was this a reflection of the relationship between Medway Quakers and the local community?
Steve Ridge (Wellcome/UCL)
Bodies Politick and Animal Economies: reconsidering the relationship between healthcare and statecraft in late
seventeenth-century England
Kate Bradley (Kent)
Book Launch: Poverty, Philanthropy and the State: Charities and the Working Classes in London 1918-1979
Mike Carr (RHUL)
A new enemy: The emergence of the Turks as a target for crusade and collaboration with Byzantium (1300-1350)
Eugenia Russell (RHUL)
The cult of St Demetrius in light of the Turkish threat (1360-1430)
Rebecca Conway (Manchester)
‘Modern England is Rapidly Blackpooling Itself’: J.B. Priestley, Blackpool and Englishness
David Turner (York)
Managing the ‘Royal Road’: The Development and Failings of Managerial Structure on the London and South
Western Railway 1836-1900
Simon Lambe (St Mary’s)
The Tudor Monarchy and the Somerset Gentry
Caroline Watkinson (QMUL)
Exiled English Convents and the French Revolution
Rebecca Roberts (Teesside)
The houses of Sir Arthur Ingram and Lionel Cranfield, earl of Middlesex: a comparative study of elite architecture in
England, 1600-1645
Psychoanalysis and History
Lucy Scholes (Birkbeck)
Hermine Hug-Hellmuth: Pioneering the childhood (sibling) experience 1913-1924
Neil Vickers (KCL)
Roger Money-Kyrle and the culture of British psychoanalysis, 1920‒1935
Roundtable discussion of Michael Roper’s
The Secret Battle: Emotional Survival in the Great War (Manchester, 2009)
Respondants: Peter Barham, Deborah Thom (Cambridge), Sally Alexander (Goldsmiths), Michael Roper (Essex)
Elspeth Graham (Liverpool John Moores)
Horses falling, horses flying: a seventeenth-century royalist’s management of death and defeat
Eva Hoffman (writer), Bill Schwarz (QMUL), Susannah Radstone (UEL), Esther Leslie (Birkbeck)
History and Time
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Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World 1600‒1900
Richard Drayton (KCL), Clare Midgley (Sheffield Hallam), Alan Lester (Sussex)
A roundtable on transnational and global histories
Penny Russell (Sydney)
Making heroes, making histories: Jane Franklin and the Lost Polar Expedition
John Stevens (UCL) and Laura Ishiguro (Wellcome/UCL)
Between Britain and India: representation and imperial mobility in the mid to late C19
Bernard Porter (Newcastle)
Architecture and Empire: the case of the battle of the styles
Sumita Mukherjee (Oxford)
‘A Warning against Quack Doctors’: the Old Bailey trial of Indian oculists
Inge Dornan (Brunel)
‘Unspeakable Things Spoken’: Sex and Violence in Britain’s Slave Colonies, confessions of the Parliamentary
Investigation into the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Gretchen Gerzina (Oxford)
The Black Wife in the British Novel: From Inkle and Yarico to Zadie Smith
Please note: this session has been postponed
Erica Wald (LSE)
Problematic bibis and ‘disorderly’ European women: gender and the regulation of space in the Indian cantonment in
the early nineteenth century
Shompa Lahiri (QMUL)
Seeing Subject and Walking Zoo: Indian Women Tourists in 1930s Europe
A roundtable on
What difference does gender make to empire?
Jo McDonagh (KCL), Sonya Rose (Michigan), John Tosh (Roehampton)
Gretchen Gerzina (Oxford)
The Black Wife in the British Novel: From Inkle and Yarico to Zadie Smith
Ann Curthoys (Sydney)
The Perverse Politics of Settler Colonialism: Indigenous Petitioners, Settler Governments, and British authority in
the Australian colonies
Religious History of Britain 1500‒1800
Andrew Foster (Kent)
The English and Welsh Dioceses 1540‒1700
Tom Betteridge (Oxford Brookes)
William Shakespeare and the Problem of Religion
Alan Cromartie (Reading)
The Mind of Archbishop Laud
Anthony Milton (Sheffield)
Sacrilege and Compromise: Court Divines and the King’s Conscience, 1642‒9
Anne Dillon (Cambridge)
Michelangelo and the English Martyrs
David Manning (Cambridge)
Primitive Christianity, Polemical Theology and Blasphemy: Reinterpreting the Character and Reception of Thomas
Woolston’s ‘Discourses on the Miracles of our Saviour’ (6 vols, 1727‒9)
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Judith Maltby (Oxford)
‘Extravagancies and Impertinencies’: Set Forms and Conceived Prayer in Revolutionary England
Alexandra Tompkins (QMUL)
‘The Popish Royall Favourite’? English Catholicism during the Interregnum
Ruth Ahnert (Cambridge)
The Posthumous Publication of Reformation Prison Writings
Felicity Heal (Oxford)
Holinshed’s Chronicle and Religious Identity in late 16thC Britain
Torrance Kirby (McGill)
The Pulpit at Paul’s Cross and Tudor Origins of the Early-Modern Public Sphere
Ric Whaite (KCL)
Religious Practice and Scientific Benefaction: the Case of Thomas Hollis the 3rd (1659‒1731)
Paul Lim (Vanderbilt)
Between Radicalism and Rationalism: the Strange Case of English Antitrinitarianism between 1640 and 1660
Arthur Burns (KCL), Kenneth Fincham (Kent) and Stephen Taylor (Reading)
New Questions in the History of the early modern Clerical Profession: a prolegomenon for Research
Joint with British History in the Long 18 th Century seminar
Tom Reid (Kent)
Clerical Pluralism and Incomes in Canterbury Diocese, 1600‒1715
Caroline Bowden (QMUL), Katharine Keats-Rohan and Katrien Daemen DeGelder (Ghent)
Free Will and Enclosure: Recruitment and Motivation in the English Convents in Exile 1600‒1700
Rethinking Modern Europe
Peter Burke (Cambridge)
The European Republic of Letters, 1500‒2000
Chair: Lucy Riall
Katherine Fleming (New York)
Herzl at the Akropolis-or-Big Histories, Small States: Greece, Israel, and the Limits of the Nation
Chair: Axel Körner
Maria Todorova (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Historical legacies between Europe and the Near East
Chair: Dejan Djokić
Dominic Lieven (LSE)
The Napoleonic Wars: European or Global Conflict?
Chair: Stephen Lovell
Bianca Gaudenzi (Cambridge)
Commercial Advertising in Germany and Italy, 1918 – 1945
In cooperation with the Modern Italian and German History seminars
Chair: Stephen Gundle (Warwick)
Emma de Angelis (LSE)
Eastern Europe and European identity in the discourse of the European Parliament, 1974‒2004
Chair: Dejan Djokić
Catriona Kelly (Oxford)
A European City in Russia: Rethinking the History of St Petersburg
Chair: Stephen Lovell
Richard Overy (Exeter) and Richard Vinen (KCL)
Britain through a European prism
Chair: Helen Jones
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Fascism and the historians: past, present and future
Geoff Eley (Michigan)
Where are we now with theories of Fascism?
Giulia Albanese (degli Studi di Padova)
National and transnational outlooks. New approaches to Italian fascism
Christian Goeschel (Birkbeck)
Entanglements between Fascism and Nazism before 1933
Chair: Lucy Riall (Birkbeck); Commentator: Daniel Pick (Birkbeck)
In co-operation with the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and the Department of History, Classics and
Archaeology, Birkbeck University of London
Followed by a roundtable discussion with Geoff Eley, Kevin Passmore, Naoko Shimazu and Stephen Gundle, chaired
by Jessica Reinisch (Birkbeck).
Socialist History
Roger Seifert (Warwick)
Bert Ramelson and the communist way: powerful theory made real and real theory made powerful
Terry Ward (Newcastle, and North-East Labour History Society)
Class struggle in Shakespearian England
Gareth Dale (Brunel)
20 years since the events in Eastern Europe
Ian Goodyer
Crisis Music: The Cultural Politics of Rock Against Racism in the 1970s
Conference
The Vote - What Went Wrong?
Speakers include Owen Ashton (Staffordshire), Logie Barrow (Bremen), Ian Bullock (Sussex), Neil Davidson
(Strathclyde), Keith Flett (London Socialist Historians Group), Mike Haynes (Wolverhampton)
John Charlton (Newcastle)
Don’t You Hear the H Bombs Thunder; Youth & Politics on Tyneside in the late 1950s and early 1960s
Roundtable:
1910‒2010 A century since the Great Labour Unrest, histories and present day implications
Ralph Darlington (Salford) & Keith Flett (London Socialist Historians Group),
Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800
David R.M. Irving (Cambridge)
Music and nascent notions of a global consciousness in the early modern world
Arnold Hunt (British Library)
The ear and the eye in early modern preaching
Helen Berry (Newcastle)
Hearing the castrato: the limits of masculine performance
Margaret Pelling (Wellcome Unit, Oxford)
Barber’s shop music: literary stereotype or social practice?
Michael Fleming (Huddersfield)
‘Old English viols’: what they were and where they went
Penelope Gouk (Manchester)
Theories of hearing in the Enlightenment: some English examples
Katherine Hunt (London Consortium)
From ‘allowed ceremonie’ to ‘enchanting melody’: the changing sound of church bells in the English Reformation
Stefan Putigny (KCL)
‘Sounding British’: Song culture and British nationhood, 1718‒63
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Caroline Warman (Oxford)
‘Ouïe difficile à expliquer’: Diderot and the difficulty of explaining hearing from the Lettre sur les sourds et muets
(1751) to the Eléments de physiologie (c.1780)
Sport and Leisure History
Richard H Richard Holt (DMU), Alan Tomlinson (Brighton) and Christopher Young (Cambridge)
Creating a History of Sport in Europe
Robert Lake (St Mary’s)
Class, Gender and Etiquette in British Lawn Tennis: 1870‒1939
Simon Martin (British School at Rome/ Hertfordshire)
Peasants into Sportsmen: Sport and the Making of Modern Italy
Sue Simpson (Southampton)
Sir Henry Lee and the Elizabethan Tournaments – Merely a Sporting Occasion?
Malcolm MacLean (Gloucestershire)
Home is Where the Ball Is: Sport, Colonial Nationalism, and Imperial Culture in Aotearoa New Zealand
Mark Clapson (Westminster)
Competing against Segregation: Sport and Leisure on a ‘Problem’ Council Estate in South East England since the
1930s
Seth Alexander (Warwick/History of Parliament)
‘When Will My Club Be Released from War Work?’ Patriotism and National Identity in London Clubs, c.1870‒1918
Dikaia Chatziefstathiou (Canterbury Christ Church)
Hellenism and Olympism: Pierre de Coubertin and the Greek Challenge to the Early Olympic Movement
Paul Gilchrist (Brighton)
A Palingenetic Paladin? George Mallory and the Resurrection of British Heroic Masculinity
Timothy Harding (Trinity College Dublin)
Home Accomplishment or Public Competition: The Dilemma of the Victorian Chess Queens
Russell Holden (In the Zone Sport and Politics Consultancy)
‘Never Forget You’re Welsh’: The Role of Sport as a Political Device in Post-Devolution Wales
Tony Mason (DMU) and Eliza Riedi (Leicester)
Sport in the British Army, 1880‒1920
Joan Tumblety (Southampton)
Physical Culture, Manly Ideals and Social Hygiene in Inter-War France
Joint meeting with the Modern French History Seminar
Tim Shakesheff (Worcester)
Anglers, Poachers and the Commercial Interest: Conflict on the River Wye, 1861‒1915
Mark Glancy (QMUL)
Domesticating the Western: Hollywood Westerns on British Screens
Postgraduate Conference
All-day event
Richard Coopey (LSE)
Celebrity and Enterprise: The Pop Music Business in Britain 1950‒1975
Tudor & Stuart History
Justin Clegg (British Library) and David D’Avray (UCL)
The Medieval Church: new ideas about old images
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Caroline Bowden (QMUL) with James Kelly (Queen’s University Belfast)
Painters, Popery and Professions: Van Dyke’s sitters and the English convents in exile
Two short postgraduate papers:
Lonnie Robbins (Northwestern)
Poor Scholarships and the construction of social authority: charity and the educational revolution
Bill Bird (RHUL)
Robert Cecil’s Son: William 2nd earl of Salisbury
Rivkah Zim (KCL)
The Politics of Tudor-Stuart Prison Writing re-visited
Michael Questier (QMUL)
Catholic Separatism, Church Popery and late Elizabethan Politics
Laura Stewart (Birkbeck)
‘Functional Breakdown’, a Scottish Perspective: Politics and Finance before the British Civil Wars
Michelle Beer (Illinois)
Catherine of Aragon: queenship and household in the early 16th century
David Coast (Sheffield)
‘The forging of fictions’: Rumour, anti-Spanish Sentiment and the Politics of Attribution during Buckingham’s Illness
in 1624
Chris Kyle (Syracuse)
Parliament and the Public in the 1620s: Re-assessing Conrad Russell
Eva Johanna Holmberg (QMUL)
Englishness, European-ness and Travel to the Ottoman Empire in the 16th and 17th centuries
Joint meeting with the European History 1500‒1800 Seminar
David Colclough (QMUL)
Courtly Decorum and Pastoral Edification: two sermons preached by John Donne to the court of Charles I, April 1626
Peter Lake (Vanderbilt)
Going Public: Thomas Norton, Mary Queen of Scots and the paradoxes of publicity
Voluntary Action History
Lynsey Cullen (Oxford Brookes)
The First Lady Almoner: The Appointment, Position and Findings of Miss Mary Stewart at the Royal Free Hospital,
1895‒1899
Timothy Cook
The History of the Carers’ Movement: A Remarkably Successful Story. Why?
Elizabeth Harvey (UCL)
Fashioning Mothers of the Next Generation: Philanthropy in Birmingham and Sydney, 1860‒1914
Georgina Brewis (IoE) and John Hailey (City)
Other Times, Other Places: Implications for the UK for International Third Sector Practice
Keith Laybourn (Huddersfield)
The Guild of Help and the New Edwardian Philanthropy, c.1904‒1919
Colin Rochester and Meta Zimmeck (Roehampton)
The Service of the Community is best fulfilled by Communities of Service: A Hundred Years of the London Voluntary
Service Council
Oliver Blaiklock (IHR)
Voluntary Action and the Second World War: The Creation of the Citizens Advice Bureau
John Lansley (Liverpool)
Liverpool CVS: From Mercantile Establishment to Social Entrepreneurial Agency
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Matthew Grant (Manchester)
Patriotic Volunteers in Cold War Britain
Barry Doyle (Huddersfield)
The Culture and Politics of Hospital Contributory Schemes in Interwar Leeds and Sheffield
Steve Butter (former trustee of the RVA)
Returned Volunteer Action from 1996 to 2006: an assessment of the life cycle of the fly in the ointment of the
British Returner Volunteer Programme
Alex Mold (LSHTM)
Making the English Patient (Consumer): Patient Groups and Health Consumerism, 1960s‒200s
Lesley Hall (Wellcome Library, London)
To Create Community: Some Contrasting Interwar Initiatives in the UK
Women’s History
Lesley Hall (Wellcome Library)
Interwar British women pushing at the boundaries: or, beyond the Me Tarzan, You Jane, Let’s Make Babies paradigm
Katherine Rawling (RHUL)
The Drama of Disease: Gendered Visual Identities in Paris, 1870‒1900
Lucy Bland (London Met)
‘Hunnish Scenes’ and a ‘Virgin Birth’: the Contested Marriage and Motherhood of Christabel Russell
Anne Summers (Birkbeck)
‘The co-operation of ladies who are not Christians’: sectarianism in British women’s organisations c. 1885‒1914
Kate Hodgkin (UEL)
Scurvy Vapours and the Devil’s Claw: gender, madness and religion in early modern England
Leanne Langley (Goldsmiths)
Women in the Band: Music, Modernity and the Politics of Engagement, London 1913
Kathleen Sherit (CCBH/IHR)
‘Sex and the Service Girl’: the Royal Air Force’s response to the Sex Discrimination Act (1975)
Maria Ågren (Uppsala)
Domestic Secrets: Women and Property in Early Modern Sweden
Olivia Fryman (Kingston/Historic Royal Palaces)
Necessary Stooles and Necessary Women: Dealing with Royal Dirt 1689‒1740
Meridee Bailey (ANU)
Social and economic networks and apprenticeship in London: evidence from Court of Chancery records
Renate Dohmen (Louisiana at Lafayette)
British India and the Female Touch: Albums, Autographs and Amateur Sketches
Adventures in the Needle Trades: Three London Lives 1561‒1750:
Laura Gowing (KCL)
On Agnes Cooper (c1561‒after 1619), Southwark capper to beggar
Jeremy Boulton (Newcastle)
On Elizabeth Laroon (1689‒after 1736), Westminster seamstress to poor relief
Amy Erickson (IHR; Cambridge Population Group)
On Elinor Mosely (1700‒after 1748), prosperous City milliner
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