ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 - Institute of Historical Research

ANNUAL REPORT 

2005-2006 

Institute of Historical Research 

School of Advanced Study 

University of London 

Senate House, Malet Street 

London WC1E 7HU 

Telephone 020 7862 8740 

Fax 020 7862 8745 

www.history.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research Annual Report 2005-2006 

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Contents 

Key Facts 5 

Council, Staff, Fellows and Associates of the Institute 7 

Advisory Council 7 

Director’s Office 9 

Library 9 

Premises 10 

Development 10 

Publications 10 

The Victoria County History 11 

Centre for Metropolitan History 14 

Centre for Contemporary British History 15 

IHR Research Students 16 

Fellows of the Institute of Historical Research 18 

Junior Research Fellows at the IHR 2005–2006 20 

Reports – Heads of Department 23 

Director 23 

Centre for Contemporary British History 25 

Centre for Metropolitan History 27 

Library 30 

Publications Department 31 

Victoria County History 33 

Associated Institutes 36 

Academic and Professional Activities of Staff and Fellows 37 

Research Students’ Activities 2005–2006 44 

Activities and Publications of Fellows 46 

Events at the Institute 49 

IHR Seminar Programme 49 

Training Courses 2005–2006 53 

Public Lectures Organised by the Institute 55 

Groups which held Meetings/Conferences at the Institute 56 

Conferences Organised by the Institute 57 

Other IHR Events 66 

Membership and Accounts 67 

Membership 67 

Accounts 67 

Friends of the IHR 68 

Life Friends 68 

Appendix 69 

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Key Facts 

During 2005/6, the Institute of Historical Research: 

• Secured in excess of £1.5m in research grants and 

contracts 

• Purchased over 2,000 new volumes for the Library 

• Ran 43 seminars, attracting almost 8,000 visitors and 

involving over 500 speakers from around the world 

• Began four new major research projects 

• Ran 18 training courses for almost 200 participants from 

around the country 

• Attracted over 8 million page views to its website 

• Taught and supervised almost 40 Master’s and PhD 

students 

• Attracted over 2,000 delegates to its events, involving 

almost 350 speakers 

• Received visits from over 34,000 members 

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Council, Staff, Fellows and Associates of the Institute 

Advisory Council of the Institute of Historical Research 

Ex Officio Members 

Professor D Bates 

Professor C N J Mann 

Chair of the Advisory Council 

Professor R Trainor 

Members 

Dr T Abse (until August 2005) 

Professor D Arnold 

Dr J Arnold (from July 2005) 

Dr R Baldock 

Dr M Cherry 

Sir John Chilcot 

Professor WG Clarence-Smith (from July 2006) 

Dr P Croft 

Dr J Ellison (until June 2006) 

Dr C Field (until July 2006) 

Professor C Hall (until June 2006) 

Dr E Hallam-Smith (until August 2005) 

Dr V Harding 

Professor P Hudson 

Dr E Impey (from July 2006) 

Ms E Jones (until June 2006) 

Dr H Jones (from July 2005) 

Ms H McCarthy (from July 2006) 

Professor M Ormrod (from July 2006) 

Mr W Peck (from July 2006) 

Dr J Pellew 

Professor A Porter 

Dr P Seaward 

Dr A Sked 

Professor A Smith 

Professor G Stedman Jones 

Mr R Suddaby 

Dr B Taylor (until June 2006) 

Professor M Taylor (until June 2006) 

Dr G Varouxakis (from July 2006) 

Ms E Williamson (until June 2006) 

Mr M Wood (from July 2005) 

Secretary 

Ms E Walters 

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Staff of the Institute of Historical Research 

Director 

Professor David BATES, BA, PhD (Exeter) 

Personal Assistant to the Director 

Samantha JORDAN, BA (London) 

Institute Administrator 

Elaine WALTERS, BA (Sheffield), DipMgt, CIPD 

Training Officer 

Simon TRAFFORD, MA, DPhil (York) 

Finance Officer 

Edward CROWTHER, BSc (London) 

Conference Administrator 

Richard BUTLER, BA, PGDip (Surrey) 

Fellowships Officer 

James LEES, BA, MA (London) 

Director’s Office 

Administrative Assistant 

Catherine WRIGHT, MA, MSt (Oxon) (until October 2005) 

Wendy BIRCH (from December 2005) 

Librarian 

Robert LYONS, BA (York), DipLib (London) 

Library 

Collection Development Librarians 

Clyve JONES, BA, MLitt (Lancaster), MA (Sheffield), DLitt (Lancaster) (until January 2006) 

Donald MUNRO, MA (Aberdeen), DipLib (London) (until March 2006) 

Bibliographical Services Librarian 

Keith MANLEY, DPhil (Oxon), MCLIP, FSA 

Reader and Technical Services Librarian 

Kate WILCOX-JAY, BA (York), MSc (City) 

Periodicals Librarian 

Sandra GILKES, MA (Oxon and London), MCLIP 

Collection Librarians 

Mette SCHMIDT-LUND, BA, MA (Aarhus and North London) 

Michael TOWNSEND, BA, MA (London) 

Graduate Trainee Library Assistant 

Rima DEVEREAUX, BA (Oxon), MPhil, PhD (Cantab) 

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Library Assistant 

Stuart HANDLEY, BA (Swansea), PhD (Lancaster) 

Premises Manager 

Amitabh KOTHARE, BSc (East London) 

Receptionists 

Glen JACQUES (from October 2005) 

Meritxell ASENSIO JUHE, MA (Barcelona) 

Catering Assistant 

Victoria HERRERA 

Director of Development 

Felicity JONES, MA (Edinburgh), DPhil (York) 

Development Assistant 

Kathryn DAGLESS, BA (Reading), MA (Leicester) 

pPremises 

Development 

Publications 

Head of Publications and Executive Editor, Historical Research 

Jane WINTERS, MA (Oxon), MA, PhD (London) 

Assistant Editor, Historical Research 

Julie SPRAGGON, BA (London), MA (Sussex), PhD (London) 

Publications Manager 

Frances BOWCOCK, BA (Northampton), MA (London) (until March 2006) 

Emily SMYTH, BA (York) (from May 2006) 

Deputy Editor, Reviews in History & Editorial Assistant 

Lindsey DODD, BA, MA (Sussex) (until July 2006) 

Website Manager 

Janet HASTINGS, BA (Lancaster), MSc (Kent) (until August 2005) 

Martin COOK, BA, MSc (North London) (from August 2005) 

Website Assistant 

Annie CRAMP, BSc, MSc (London) (from November 2005) 

Project Editor, Royal Historical Society Bibliography 

Peter SALT, BA (Cantab.) 

Assistant Project Editor, Royal Historical Society Bibliography 

Simon BAKER, BA (Leicester), DipLib (Thames Valley) 

Project Manager, British History Online 

Bruce TATE, BA (Southampton) 

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Editorial Controller, British History Online 

Peter WEBSTER, BA, MA, PhD (Sheffield) 

Project Officer, Peer Review of Digital Resources for the Arts and Humanities 

Catherine WRIGHT, MA, MSt (Oxon) (from October 2005) 

Research Editor, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 

William CAMPBELL, BA (Pittsburgh), PhD (St Andrews) (from August 2005) 

Director 

John BECKETT, BA, PhD (Lancaster) 

The Victoria County History 

Executive Editor 

Alan THACKER, MA, DPhil (Oxon), Reader in Medieval History 

Architectural Editor 

Elizabeth WILLIAMSON, BA (London), Reader in Architectural History 

Administrator 

Rebecca ALLMARK, BA (Leeds) (until March 2006 (maternity leave from July 2005)) 

William PECK, BSBA (Arizona), MBA (Thunderbird) (from August 2005) 

Production Manager and Web Assistant 

Kerry WHITSTON, BA (Sheffield), MA (Oxon) (from August 2005) 

England’s Past for Everyone (EPE) 

Project Manager 

Catherine CAVANAGH, BA (Birmingham) 

Production and Editorial Controller 

Stephen LUBELL, BA (Harvard College) 

Web Manager 

Ian CALDER (until June 2006) 

Andrew STOKES, BSc (Wolverhampton), MSc (Northumbria) (from July 2006) 

Communications Officer 

Mel HACKETT 

Education and Skills Manager 

Aretha GEORGE, BA (De Montfort), MA (London) 

Historic Environment Research Manager 

Matthew BRISTOW, BA, MA (Leicester) 

Finance and Contracts Officer 

Nafisa GAFFAR 

Administrator 

Orla HOUSTON-JIBO, BA (Manchester), MA (London) (until July 2006) 

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County Staff 

Bristol (in association with the University of the West of England) 

Team Leaders 

Madge DRESSER, BA (UCLA), MSc (London and Bristol) 

Peter FLEMING, BA, PhD (Wales) 

Cornwall (in association with the University of Exeter) 

Team Leaders 

Jo MATTINGLY, BA (London), PhD (London) 

Nicholas ORME, MA, DPhil, DLitt, DD (Oxon) 

Derbyshire (in association with the University of Nottingham) 

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) 

Editor 

Gill COOKSON, BA (Leeds), DPhil (York) 

Assistant Editors 

Maureen MEIKLE, MA, PhD (Edinburgh) 

Christine NEWMAN, BA, DPhil (York) 

Essex (in association with the University of Essex) 

Editor 

Christopher THORNTON, BA (Kent), PhD (Leicester) 

Assistant 

Herbert EIDEN, PhD (Trier) 

Exmoor (in association with Exmoor National Park and the University of Exeter) 

Editor 

Spencer Dimmock, BA, MA, PhD (Kent) 

Team Leaders 

Tom MAYBERRY, MA (Cambridge) 

Rob WILSON-NORTH, BA (York), MIFA 

Gloucestershire (in association with University of Gloucestershire) 

Editor 

Carrie SMITH, PhD (Southampton) 

Acting Editor 

John JURICA, BA, PhD (Birmingham) (from June 2006) 

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Assistant Editor 

John JURICA, BA, PhD (Birmingham) (until June 2006) 

Herefordshire (in association with the University of Gloucestershire and Herefordshire Council) 

Team Leader 

Sylvia Pinches, MA, PhD (Leicester) 

Kent (in association with the University of Greenwich) 

Team Leader 

Andrew HANN, BA, PhD (Oxon) 

Middlesex 

Consultant Editor 

Patricia CROOT, BA, PhD (Leeds) 

Northamptonshire (in association with University College, Northampton) 

Editor 

Veronica ORTENBERG, MèsL, PhD 

Oxfordshire (in association with the University of Oxford and Oxfordshire County Council) 

Editor 

Simon TOWNLEY, BA, DPhil (Oxon) 

Assistant Editors/Team Researchers 

Antonia CATCHPOLE, BA (Cantab), MA (Durham), PhD (Birmingham) 

Stephen MILESON, BA (Warwick), MSt, DPhil (Oxon) 

Mark PAGE, BA (London), DPhil (Oxon) 

Robert PEBERDY, MA (Oxon), PhD (Leicester) 

Somerset 

Editor 

Robert DUNNING, BA, PhD (Bristol) (until September 2005) 

Acting Editor 

Mary SIRAUT, BA (Wales), MLitt (Cantab) (from September 2005) 


Mary SIRAUT, BA (Wales), MLitt (Cantab) (until September 2005) 

Staffordshire (in association with the University of Keele) 

Editor 

Nigel Tringham, BA (Wales), MLitt, PhD (Aberdeen) 

Assistants 

Ian ATHERTON, BA, PhD (Cantab) 

Alanna TOMKINS, BA (Keele), DPhil (Oxon) 

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Sussex (in association with the University of Sussex) 

Editor 

Jayne KIRK, BA (Wales), MA, DPhil (Sussex) 

Team Leaders 

Maurice HOWARD, BA (Cambridge), MA, PhD (Courtauld Institute London) 

Chris LEWIS, MA, DPhil (Oxon) 

Wiltshire 

Editor 

Douglas CROWLEY, BA, PhD (Sheffield) (until January 2006) 

Virginia BAINBRIDGE, BA (Cantab), PhD (London) (from January 2006) 


Virginia BAINBRIDGE, BA (Cantab), PhD (London) (until December 2005) 

Yorkshire East Riding (in association with the University of Hull) 

Editor 

Graham KENT, BA, PhD (Keele) 

Consultant Editors 

David NEAVE, BA, MPhil, PhD (Hull) 

Susan NEAVE, PhD (Hull) 

Director 

Matthew DAVIES, MA, DPhil (Oxon) 

Centre for Metropolitan History 

Deputy Director 

Heather CREATON, BA, MPhil (London) (until August 2005) 

James MOORE, BA (Oxon), PhD (Manchester) (from October 2005) 

Administrative and Research Assistant 

Olwen MYHILL, BA (Birmingham), Dip RSA 

Leverhulme Professor of Comparative Metropolitan History 

Derek KEENE, MA, DPhil (Oxon) 

Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow 

Jennifer HOLMES, BA (Bristol), MA (Leicester), PhD (EUI, Florence) (from October 2005) 

Research Officers, Londoners and the Law 

Jonathan MACKMAN, BA, DPhil (York) (from June 2006) 

Matthew STEVENS, BA, PhD (Aberystwyth) (from June 2006) 

Senior Research Officer, People in Place 

Mark MERRY, BA, MA, PhD (Kent) 

Research and Data Officer, People in Place 

Philip BAKER, BA (London), MA (Sheffield) 

Views of Hosts 

Helen BRADLEY, BSc (Southampton), BA (Kent), PhD (London) (until September 2005) 

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Centre for Contemporary British History 

Director and Leverhulme Professor of Contemporary British History 

Pat THANE, MA (Oxon), PhD (London) 

Deputy Director 

Virginia PRESTON, BA (Oxon) 

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Professor of British History 

David CANNADINE, MA, LittD (Cantab), DPhil (Oxon), FBA 

Research Assistant to the QEQM Professor of British History 

Charlotte ALSTON, BA, MLitt, PhD (Newcastle) (until May 2006) 

Helen McCarthy, BA (Cantab), MA (London) (from May 2006) 

Director of the Witness Seminar Programme 

Michael KANDIAH, BA (Victoria), MA, PhD (Exeter) 

Administrative Assistant 

Liza FILBY, BA (Durham), MA (London) 

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Contemporary British History 

Adrian BINGHAM, BA, DPhil (Oxon) (until July 2006) 

Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow 

Chris MURPHY, BA (Cardiff), MA (Sussex), PhD (Reading) (until May 2006) 

ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow 

Tanya EVANS, MA (Edinburgh), MA, PhD (London) 

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IHR Research Students 

Katharine Bradley (Professor Patricia M Thane) 

‘Poverty and philanthropy in East London, 1918-59: the university settlements and the urban 

working classes’. Leverhulme Studentship. Graduated December 2005. 

Judith Bourne (Professor Patricia M Thane) 

‘Helena Normanton: a woman before her time’ 

(intermission 2005/6) 

Vanessa Chambers (Professor Patricia M Thane) 

‘War, popular belief and British society, 1900-1951’. AHRC Studentship. 

Elizabeth Filby (Dr Michael A Kandiah and Professor Patricia M Thane) 

‘Clash of faith: church and state relations during the premiership of Margaret Thatcher’ 

Mark Gardner (Professor Patricia M Thane) 

‘The British and French advertising industries, 1945–65: a comparative study with particular 

reference to the development of the J Walker Thompson Company’ 

Carlos López Galviz (Professor Derek J Keene and Dr Matthew Davies) 

‘Polis of the metro: organising urban movement in 19th-century London and Paris’ 

Helen Glew (Professor Patricia M Thane and Libby Buckley) 

‘Women's experiences of employment in the Post Office, c.1914-c.1939’. AHRC Studentship. 

Matthew Godwin (Professor David Bates and Dr Jane Gregory) 

‘The Skylark rocket, British space science and the European Space Research Organisation, 1957- 

72’. Graduated December 2005. 

Yoichiro Horikoshi (Dr Alan T Thacker) 

‘Churchscot, tithes and society in England before 1100’ 

Jordan Landes (Dr Matthew Davies and Dr Vanessa A Harding (Birkbeck)) 

‘The role of London in the creation of a Quaker transatlantic community in the late 17th and 

early 18th centuries’ 

Laurie Lindey (Professor Derek J Keene and Dr Matthew Davies) 

‘The London furniture trade 1640–1720’ 

Helen McCarthy (Professor Patricia M Thane) 

‘Middle-class voluntary associations in Britain between the wars’. AHRC Studentship. 

Mary Salinsky (Professor Patricia M Thane) 

‘Writing British national history since 1945’ 

Iain Sharpe (Dr Michael D Kandiah and Professor Patricia M Thane) 

‘The electoral recovery of the Liberal party, 1899–1906: the career of Herbert Gladstone as 

Liberal Chief Whip’ 

Minoru Takada (Professor Patricia M Thane) 

‘Centralisation and delegation in the Liberal welfare reform policies: the central state, local 

government and non-governmental organisations, c.1890–c.1914’ 

(intermission 2005/6) 

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Mari Takayanagi (Professor Patricia M Thane) 

‘Parliament and women c.1886-c.1939’ 

Julie Thomas (Professor Patricia M Thane) 

‘Miners at war: South Wales on the Western Front’. AHRC Studentship. 

Ayako Towatari (Professor Patricia M Thane) 

‘A wide field of action: religion, gender and old age welfare in England, c.1820–c.1880’ 

Catherine Wright (Professor Derek J Keene and Dr Matthew Davies) 

‘The Dutch in London: connections and identities, c.1660–c.1720’ 

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Fellows of the Institute of Historical Research 

Honorary Fellows 

Professor Michael Clanchy 

Heather Creaton 

Valerie Cromwell 

Professor Martin Daunton FBA 

Professor Christopher Elrington 

Professor Diana Greenway FBA 

Professor Peter Marshall FBA 

Professor Janet L Nelson FBA 

Professor Patrick O’Brien FBA 

Alan Pearsall (deceased May 2006) 

Professor Linda Levy Peck 

Professor Jacob M Price 

Dr Alice Prochaska 

Dr Frank Prochaska 

Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith 

Sir John Sainty 

Professor Barry Supple CBE, FBA 

Professor Michael Thompson FBA 

Medieval education, law and archives 

London history 

Modern parliamentary history 

Taxation and Politics in Britain since 

1842 

English local history 

Medieval history and palaeography 

The British Empire in the 18th century 

Early medieval political and social 

history 

Economic history 

Maritime history 

Stuart England 

18th century merchant families 

Archives and manuscript collections 

Modern British history 

The Crusades and the Latin East 

Office-holders 

Economic history 

20th century British landed society 

Emeritus Research Fellows 

Dr Eveline Cruickshanks 

17th and 18th century political history 

Susan Reynolds FBA 

States and nations in the middle ages 

and after 

Dr Graham Twigg Epidemics in London, 1540-1625 

Senior Research Fellows 

Dr Peter Catterall 

Dr Estelle Cohen 

Dr Christopher Currie 

Dr Catherine Delano-Smith 

Dr Amy Erickson 

Dr Jim Galloway 

Dr Sandra Holton 

Professor Henry Horwitz 

Dr Harriet Jones 

Dr Philip Mansel 

Dr Andrew Miles 

Dr Robert Oresko 

Dr Paul Seaward 

Mr Daniel Snowman 

Dr Jenny Stratford 

20th century British history 

Cultural history of science and 

medicine 

European vernacular architecture and 

historical xylosiology; chorography; 

Roman imperial expansion in the age of 

Gibbon 

History of cartography 

The life histories of universityeducated 

women over the 20th century 

Economic history and historical 

geography of medieval England 

The private lives and public worlds 

of Quaker women, 1780-1927 

English legal history 

Contemporary British history 

City of Paris 

Contemporary social history 

The House of Savoy 

17th century English politics 

Current and changing attitudes to 

history 

Late medieval history and material 

culture (England and France) 

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Dr Lynne Walker 

History of women and architecture, 

1600-2000 

Dr Giles Waterfield 

British museum history, 18th century to 

20th century 

Dr Giles Worsley (deceased January 2006) British architectural history, 1615- 

1815, and the social, political and 

economic context of the country house, 

1600-2000 

Visiting Research Fellows 

Dr Elisabeth Kehoe 

Dr Teruhisa Komuro 

Dr David Mitchell 

Dr Evgeny Sergeev 

Dr Jenny West 

Biography of the Jerome sisters 

The welfare state 

Social and cultural history of dining 

The ‘Great Game’ in Russo-British 

relations in the 19th and 20th centuries 

Aspects of Gladstone 

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Junior Research Fellows at the IHR 2005-2006 

Emily Archer (UEA) 

‘The family in the Islendingasogur: myth or reality?’ 

Katherine Borum (MIT) 

‘Renaissance architectural history at the rise of modernism in Great Britain’ 

D’Maris Coffman (Pennsylvania) 

Excise taxation in the British Isles, 1650-1700’ 

Katherine Chambers (Sheffield) 

‘The laity in the writings of Paris masters in the late 12th and early 13th centuries’ 

Nichola Clayton (Sheffield) 

‘Land and free labour during the Civil War and reconstruction’ 

Jonathan Eacott (Michigan) 

‘Owning Empire: East Indian goods in the development of the Anglophone world, 1740-1830’ 

Miatta Fahnbulleh (LSE) 

‘The elusive quest for industrialisation in Africa: a comparative study of Ghana and Kenya, 

c.1950-2000’ 

Isla Fay (UEA) 

‘Health and disease in medieval and Tudor Norwich’ 

Catherine Gibbons (York) 

‘Catholic exile? The English Catholic community in Paris in the 1580s’ 

Ultán Gillen (Oxford) 

‘Monarchy, republic and empire: Irish public opinion and France, c.1787-1804’ 

Paul Gillingham (Oxford) 

‘Writing the unwritten rules: the dynamics of political culture in 1940s Mexico’ 

Michael Goebel (UCL) 

‘Peronism, nationalism and historical narratives, 1955-73’ 

Christian Goeschel (Cambridge) 

‘Suicide in Weimar and Nazi Germany’ 

Emma Jones (RHUL) 

‘Abortion in England, 1861-1967’ 

Simone Laqua (Oxford) 

‘Women and the Counter-Reformation in early modern Munster, 1535-1650’ 

Avi Lifschitz (Oxford) 

‘Debating language: academic discourse and public controversy at the Berlin Academy under 

Fredrick the Great’ 

Tracey Loughran (QMUL) 

‘The anatomy of shell shock: diagnoses and discourses of mental disorder in First World War 

Britain’ 

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Lee Manion (Virginia) 

‘(Mis)recognition in late medieval English literature: three generic modes of perception and 

understanding’ 

Lindsay Rudge (St Andrews) 

‘Texts and contexts: women’s monastic life from Caesarius to Benedict’ 

Marie Rutkoski (Harvard) 

‘The mouths of babes: children and knowledge in early renaissance drama’ 

Matthew Stevens (Aberystwyth) 

‘Race, gender and wealth in a medieval Welsh borough: access to capital, market participation 

and status in Ruthin, 1312-1322’ 

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Reports 

Director’s Report – David Bates 

This has been an important year for the IHR, full of activity and achievements and notable for 

the consolidation of the successes of previous years. It has also been a year when I and my 

colleagues have become increasingly aware of the potential dangers arising from the 

proportionate decline over time in the core funding derived from the HEFCE grant. From the 

IHR’s perspective the review of the School conducted by Sir Martin Harris, although a 

favourable one in its conclusions, was disappointing because it did not make recommendations 

for increased funding for the School from which the IHR undoubtedly deserves to benefit. In the 

circumstances the industry and ingenuity with which IHR colleagues continue to generate 

income and to produce research projects and important services to the profession deserve the 

highest praise. I must also express particular thanks to the IHR’s many supporters, to its 

Trustees, and to the many members of our advisory committees who do such excellent work on 

our behalf. And I must express special congratulations to Professor Pat Thane, Leverhulme 

Professor of Contemporary British History, who was elected a Fellow of the British Academy 

during the year. 

An unquestionable highlight of the year was the celebration held in the River Room at the 

House of Lords on 1 November to mark the achievement of the £10m fund-raising target set by 

David Cannadine and the IHR Trust. Attended by Friends and friends of the IHR, benefactors 

and members of the IHR staff, it was a marvellous occasion. The speeches by the Chair of the 

IHR Trust Mark Lewisohn and by David Cannadine stressed yet again the important role that the 

IHR plays in the life of UK historians and the importance of attracting more donations to sustain 

all our successful projects. The event underlined yet again how important the vision of my 

predecessor David Cannadine was in setting us on the exciting course which expansion and 

extensive fund-raising involves. As I said in slightly different language in last year’s report, the 

challenge for the IHR in the immediate future is to consolidate into its core the expansion 

which this fund-raising has supported. The creation of an endowment and the procurement of 

continuation funding for major projects must now become top priorities. 

As ever, the traditional activities of the IHR and the many events which others organise at the 

IHR have remained as important as ever. The seminar programme was as varied and exciting as 

it has always been, the Library continues to be enormously valued by those who use it, and the 

long-established parts of the publications programme go from strength to strength. The 75th 

Anglo-American Conference on the theme ‘Religions and Politics’ was held in July, with a wideranging 

programme featuring many distinguished speakers. A special celebratory reception was 

held under the auspices of the US Embassy at Wychwood House. This year was also the first of 

my Directorship when I was able to attend the annual meeting of the North American 

Conference on British Studies; a splendid gathering in Denver which provided me with the 

opportunity to talk extensively with the many North American supporters of the IHR and with 

the American Friends. Line-management of the IHR Librarian and IHR Library funding were both 

transferred to the ULRLS at the start of the financial year. While this process has 

understandably provoked considerable anxiety among IHR supporters and users, it has so far 

operated constructively and amicably as far as the IHR is concerned, even if all of us are very 

aware that many uncertainties lie ahead. At this point it would be fair to say that neither the 

worst fears of the pessimists, nor the hopes of those, like myself, who foresee potentially 

enhanced benefits for historians in the new arrangements have been fulfilled. All must, I think, 

accept that a combination of an IHR Library with a sustained and vigorous identity of its own 

and closer collaboration between the many libraries within the Institutes and in Senate House 

is bound to be a feature of the future, whatever framework of governance finally evolves out 

of ongoing discussions. 

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Activities which are nowadays customarily described as knowledge transfer, early career 

development and public engagement have featured heavily in the IHR’s work in 2005-6. The 

award of $900,000 (approximately £475,000) by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation to fund the 

second phase British History Online is exceptionally welcome because the project has now 

become a flagship, not just for making high-quality publications available online and for its 

academic importance, but because it reaches historians never previously involved with the IHR. 

The ‘Humanities Beyond Digitisation’ conference, held in September 2005, was attended by 

almost all who matter in this crucial field. In June 2006 the AHRC made a large award under its 

Resource Enhancement Scheme to develop the Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British 

and Irish History Online until 2009. 

The IHR’s own postgraduates have during the year taken a magnificent initiative and launched 

The History Lab, a national network of postgraduate students whose achievements are 

described more fully elsewhere in this report. Other developments are the creation of bursaries 

by the Friends of the IHR and from the Alwyn Ruddock Bequest for postgraduates from outside 

London to work at the IHR and in London. Likewise, the creation of the Sir John Neale Prize for 

an essay in Tudor History, sponsored by an anonymous donor, will further encourage early 

career development. Taken alongside the many research fellowships for postgraduate and 

postdoctoral scholars which the IHR continues to administer and its research training provision, 

these are very important developments. My meetings with the holders of the bursaries and 

afternoons devoted to presentations by the Junior Research Fellows are for me among the most 

enjoyable events of the academic year. It is crucial that we continue with these endeavours. 

England’s Past for Everyone, the national project supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund to 

build links between academic research, volunteers, local communities and schools and to 

publish high-quality popular local history, was successfully launched within the VCH. Professor 

John Beckett took up the post of Director of the VCH on secondment from the University of 

Nottingham and has set about using England’s Past for Everyone and the VCH’s unique 

reputation to stimulate activity in counties where the VCH is currently dormant and, more 

ambitiously, to transform the VCH into the national centre for Local History. The History and 

Policy Unit became operational within the Centre for Contemporary British History on 15 

March, in collaboration with the History Faculty of the University of Cambridge and the London 

School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and is already achieving considerable success in 

forming links between historians and politicians. The Centre for Metropolitan History has had 

exceptional success in gaining research grants and has strengthened further its links with the 

Museum of London through the AHRC collaborative doctoral awards programme on the theme 

‘London on Display: Civic Identities, Cultures and Industry, 1851-1951’. Its role within London 

and beyond grows increasingly influential. Dr James Moore became Deputy Director of the 

Centre in succession to Heather Creaton and has already begun to broaden the chronological 

and thematic range of the Centre’s projects. 

An important aspect of the IHR’s national role during the year has been my regular meetings 

with the Presidents of the Royal Historical Society and the Historical Association and the 

Convenor of History HE(UK). These discussions of the major issues facing History are leading to 

a much more coordinated approach by those formally charged with speaking on the discipline’s 

behalf. A collaboration which brought all four together, the History and the Public Conference 

held on 13-14 February 2006, was a great success and has stimulated further events in which 

the IHR will collaborate with colleagues in other universities, specifically Liverpool and 

Swansea in 2007 and 2008. Another project of unquestioned national importance, which also 

involved the Royal Historical Society and the Institute of Classical Studies, was the AHRC ICT 

Strategy Projects Scheme project on the peer review of digital resources in the Humanities, 

whose report has attracted widespread interest and will be very influential. Discussions also 

began during the year to develop an international network of research institutes involved with 

these issues, Porta Historica, led in its early stages by colleagues in the Netherlands. The 

second stage of the Anglo-Russian Conference, which the IHR organises in collaboration with 

the British Academy and the Russian Academy of Sciences was held in London in September. We 

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have also become involved with the United Nations Development Project and a research unit in 

Cambridge to carry out a pilot survey of the libraries and archives of Jerusalem in order to 

record and, where possible, digitise the contents of the many archives of the city. A visit to the 

city concluded with a meeting (which I chaired) at the UNDP headquarters in East Jerusalem 

attended by many senior representatives of the various communities involved. That the IHR 

should be trusted to co-ordinate so politically delicate a project is a clear indication of its 

national and international standing. 

As always, I will conclude with heartfelt thanks to the staff of the IHR for their superb work 

during the year. And finally I must pay tribute to three members of the Library staff who will 

be known to all IHR users, Clyve Jones, Donald Munro and Keith Manley, who have retired after 

employment going back, in the case of the first two to the 1960s, and of the third to the 1970s. 

I am one of the multitude of IHR users who have benefited from their expertise and advice over 

the decades. All three will be much missed. 


Director’s Report 

The Centre for Contemporary British History continued to work in a variety of areas, including 

teaching, research and oral history. 

The MA in Contemporary British History saw its third intake in October 2005, once again 

including a student holding an AHRC award. Five students graduated from the MA in December, 

three with Distinctions and one with Merit. Helen McCarthy, one of the graduates, is continuing 

at the IHR to study for a PhD on ‘Middle-class voluntary associations in Britain between the 

wars’ with Pat Thane, having secured an AHRC scholarship. Helen Glew was awarded the first 

of three AHRC collaborative doctoral awards, working with the British Postal Museum and 

Archive. Her research is on ‘Women’s experiences of employment in the Post Office, c.1914- 

c.1955’. 

During the year Matthew Godwin was awarded his PhD for his thesis on ‘Skylark and the 

European Space Research Organization (ESRO)’ and Kate Bradley was awarded her PhD for her 

thesis on ‘Poverty and philanthropy in East London 1918–1959’. Other CCBH research students 

include: Judith Bourne, working on ‘Helena Normanton: a woman before her time’; Vanessa 

Chambers, AHRC studentship holder, working on ‘War, popular belief and British society in the 

20th century’; Mark Gardner, ‘The British and French advertising industries, 1945–65: a 

comparative study with particular reference to the development of the J Walker Thompson 

Company’; Mary Salinsky, ‘Writing British national history since 1945’; Iain Sharpe, ‘The 

electoral recovery of the Liberal party, 1899–1906: the career of Herbert Gladstone’; Minoru 

Takada, ‘Centralisation and delegation in the Liberal welfare reform policies: the central state, 

local government and non-governmental organisations, c.1890–c.1914’; Mari Takayanagi, 

working on ‘Women and Parliament, c.1886-c.1939’; Julie Thomas, AHRC studentship holder, 

‘Miners at war: South Wales on the Western Front’; Ayako Towatori, ‘A wide field of action: 

religion, gender and old age welfare in England, c.1820–c.1880’. All made good progress during 

the year, including presenting conference and seminar papers. Vanessa Chambers, Iain Sharpe 

and Julie Thomas all taught on the MA in Contemporary British History. 

Dr Adrian Bingham was in the third year of his British Academy fellowship, which he holds at 

CCBH. His first book, Gender, Modernity, and the Popular Press in Inter-War Britain (OUP), 

appeared in the summer of 2004. He is continuing his work on sex, private life and the British 

popular press, and his article on ‘The popular press and venereal disease during the Second 

World War’ appeared in the Historical Journal in winter 2005. In the summer of 2006 he was 

appointed to a permanent history lectureship at the University of Sheffield. 

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Dr Christopher J Murphy continued as the Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow until September 

2005, researching the work of SOE’s Security (D/CE) Section, and the relationship between SOE 

and the Security Service during the Second World War. In October 2006 he was appointed to a 

lectureship in intelligence studies at Salford University. 

CCBH continued its work on the ESRC-funded project on ‘Unmarried motherhood in England and 

Wales, 1918–1990’, led by Pat Thane. This project uses newly available data from the National 

Council for One Parent Families archive, together with other evidence, to study changes since 

1918 in the experience of unmarried mothers and their children, and the formation of 

government policy and administration in this area. Dr Tanya Evans is the CCBH Research Fellow 

on this project. Her PhD was on ‘Unmarried motherhood in 18th–century London’ which was 

published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2005, and her other publications include ‘“Unfortunate 

objects”: London’s unmarried mothers in the 18th century’, in Gender and History (17:1, 

2005). 

The oral history programme, directed by Dr Michael Kandiah, continued during the year. A 

witness seminar on ‘Old gilt edge markets’ was held at the Bank of England on 22 March 2006, 

sponsored by Lombard Street Research. After the ‘Big Bang’ in 1986 the structure of the giltedged 

market changed radically, with the new gilt-edged market-makers combining the old 

roles of jobber and broker. Under the Stock Exchange’s old rules gilt-edged jobbers, who were 

the market-makers, were only allowed to make prices on the Floor of the Exchange to those 

within ear shot. Compared with making prices globally on television screens, this was horseand-cart 

technology in an electronic age. The old structure of the market was obsolete. The 

old market was nevertheless a superb precision instrument in its day. If it had been a physical 

substance it would have been preserved in a museum. Lord George of Tudy (Eddie George) 

chaired this event. Participants included: Sir Nigel Althaus; John Brew; Bryce Cottrell; 

Laurence Gooderham; Mike Higgins; Professor Gordon Pepper; Brian Peppiatt and Jack 

Wigglesworth. 

On 5 July 2006, as part of the Anglo-American Conference, a witness seminar was held on 

‘Faith in the City: the Archbishop's report into urban priority areas’. A pivotal event in modern 

Church history, Faith in the City was significant not only for its sharp observations on the state 

of Britain's inner-city poor but also for the radical agenda it put forward for the revitalisation 

of the urban Church. There have been many follow-up conferences and publications on the 

impact of the report, yet none of these has sought to address the importance of Faith in the 

City as a historical document. Professor Hugh McLeod, Professor of Modern Church History at 

the University of Birmingham, chaired the event and participants included Canon Eric James, 

Sir Richard O'Brien (former Chairman of the Commission), Revd. Kenneth Leech, Ronnie 

Bowlby, the former Bishop of Southwark and Bishop Tom Butler, the current Bishop of 

Southwark. 

Following on from the witness seminar on ‘Britain and Rhodesian UDI: the road to settlement’ 

held on 5 July 2005, Dr Kandiah and Dr Sue Onslow (LSE) started an interviewing programme 

with relevant witnesses who could not attend the seminar. This interviewing project was 

generously supported by Charles Chadwyck-Healey. 

The online seminar publication programme continued, and The Falklands War and Skylark 

Sounding Rockets 1957–72 appeared during 2005. For more information see the CCBH website, 

www.icbh.ac.uk, which continued to attract thousands of visitors a month. It provides news 

and information for contemporary historians, and access to the online archive of witness 

seminars, which now includes the annotated transcripts of 30 seminars on aspects of political, 

defence, economic, science and technology and diplomatic history. The full list is available in 

the witness seminar section of the CCBH website. About 700 people had registered to read and 

download seminars by the summer of 2006. 

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The Inaugural Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture was held on 26th October 2005 at Senate House, in 

honour of the late Professor Ben Pimlott, who served on the CCBH committee for many years. 

It was organised by CCBH, in collaboration with Twentieth Century British History and Oxford 

Journals, and was given by Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies, University of 

Oxford, on ‘Why Britain is in Europe?’ 

The Cairncross Lecture in Contemporary Economic History took place on 28 November 2005 at 

St Peter’s College, Oxford. It was given by Paul A Volcker, Professor Emeritus of International 

Economic Policy, Princeton University, then chairing the independent inquiry into the United 

Nations Oil for Food Programme, on 'International institutions in a global economy'. 

In April 2006 the History & Policy Unit was launched at CCBH with a grant of $196,000 from a 

US donor. The unit is directed by Pat Thane in collaboration with colleagues at the University 

of Cambridge and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. It aims to address the 

lack of communication between historians and those who analyse, discuss and decide public 

policy. It encourages historians to make their work more accessible to policy and media 

audiences, by writing briefings, establishing media contacts and holding events for historians 

and policy makers. Written briefing material by over 40 historians is available on the History & 

Policy website, www.historyandpolicy.org. 

The Summer Conference in June 2006 was on ‘From “Voluntary Organisation” to “NGO”? 

Voluntary action in Britain since 1900’. Over 40 speakers, including Jose Harris (Oxford), Frank 

Prochaska (Yale), Tim Shaw (Institute of Commonwealth Studies), Pat Thane (CCBH) and Kate 

Green (Child Poverty Action Group), discussed the roles of voluntary organisations, whether 

volunteering is in decline, the professionalisation of charities, the role of civil society, overseas 

aid since the Second World War and other aspects of the voluntary movement. 

The ‘Women and citizenship’ ESRC seminar series, organised by Pat Thane, concluded with a 

one-day workshop on ‘Women and the law’ on 11 November 2005, and a final seminar on 25-26 

November. Baroness Hale of Richmond spoke about ‘Women and the judiciary’ on 11 

November, and researchers from around the UK and Ireland presented their findings on 

women’s involvement with the law as practitioners. The final seminar brought together 

speakers from all events in the series to sum up what is understood and what remains to be 

understood about women and political participation in Scotland, the Republic of Ireland, 

Northern Ireland, England and Wales and the differences across these countries since 

enfranchisement. It focused especially on seeking to identify the factors that have promoted 

and/or impeded participation. 



The Centre has had a successful year, during which it obtained funding for two new major 

research projects and a collaborative doctoral programme. We also welcomed a new Deputy 

Director, and made good progress with our existing projects and with our programmes of 

conferences and other events. At the end of the 2005-6 session the Centre comprised nine 

members of staff, five of whom are working on externally-funded projects, as well as four 

doctoral students. 

In October 2005 the Centre was joined by James Moore, who took over as Deputy Director of 

the Centre following Heather Creaton’s retirement. James previously held a lectureship at the 

University of Lancaster, and was formerly Research Centre Administrator at the Centre for 

Urban History at the University of Leicester. His research interests focus on comparative urban 

politics and culture, and during the year he published The Transformation of Urban Liberalism: 

Party Politics and Urban Governance in Late-Nineteenth Century England (2006). As well as 

contributing to the MA programme as a tutor and course administrator, James developed a 

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number of outline research proposals, one of which (on urban governance) is likely to be 

submitted to a funding body during 2006-7. 

Our new Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow is Jennifer Holmes, who recently completed her PhD 

thesis at the European University Institute in Florence on ‘“A Futurism of Place”: 

representations of the city and the rejection of domesticity in Vorticism and Italian Futurism, 

c.1909-1918’. Her postdoctoral project is a comparison between Rome and London in the early 

20th century, examining the ways in which the cities looked to their own and each other’s 

pasts and presents as sources of identity and of ideas for planning the future. In particular, 

Rome (or at least one political group there) looked to London as a model of modernity. Apart 

from throwing light on this little-known cultural exchange between metropolises, the research 

promises to put the subsequent Fascist remodelling of Rome in a new context. She was due to 

give a paper on ‘Critiques of urban tourism in early 20th-century Italy’ at the international 

urban history conference in Stockholm in September 2006. 

Particularly pleasing was the news that the Centre had been awarded funding of just over 

£243,000 by the AHRC for a new project, ‘Londoners and the law: pleadings in the court of 

common pleas, 1399-1509’. The aim of the project, co-directed by Dr Davies and Dr Hannes 

Kleineke (History of Parliament) is to analyse and make available online information from the 

'plea rolls' of the court of common pleas - the largest surviving body of medieval English 

common law records. These are held in The National Archives (series CP 40). The project will 

examine cases involving Londoners, many of which arose from disputes with commercial and 

other contacts in the English counties, and it is hoped that the research will shed a great deal 

of light on the nature of the links between the city and the regions in the later middle ages. 

The project also seeks to enlarge our knowledge of how individuals and groups (such as guilds) 

understood and used the law in relation to their business, family or property interests. Many 

cases revolved around such matters as unpaid debts, runaway apprentices and servants, or 

disputes over land. The project will not only open up a major source of information about 

medieval Londoners and their activities, but will significantly deepen our understanding of how 

the law interacted with everyday life, whether it be in the areas of work, domestic and family 

life or urban regulation. We were delighted to be able to appoint Jonathan Mackman and 

Matthew Stevens as the two postdoctoral researchers on the project from 1 June 2006. 

Work on the ESRC-funded project, ‘Views of hosts: reporting the alien commodity trade 1440- 

1445’, came to an end in September 2005. This project will result in an edited volume of these 

important records of alien trade, to be published in 2007 by the London Record Society. In the 

meantime, a database of transactions extracted from the ‘views’ is in the queue for delivery 

online via British History Online. The transcripts of the records themselves, together with 

indexes, will be made available on the CMH website during 2006-7. 

The ‘People in place’ project (AHRC) entered its final year of work on families, households and 

housing in early modern London. The principal outcome of the project will be a database 

containing over 75,000 records drawn from a comprehensive range of parish, taxation and 

property sources for Cheapside, St Botolph Aldgate and Clerkenwell from c.1540 to 1710. The 

database enables the linkage between individuals, families, households and properties across 

the period and thus comprises a significant resource for historians with an interest in the 

metropolitan family and household. It will be deposited with the Arts and Humanities Data 

Service and the data will also be available via the British History Online website within the next 

few months. The results of the analysis of the data, both as overviews of the domestic 

characteristics of the sample areas and as detailed case studies of particular parishes and 

families, were presented in a series of conference and seminar papers, including the Economic 

History Society in Reading, and the European Association of Urban Historians meeting in 

Stockholm. A Supplementary Pilot Research Dissemination Award from the AHRC was obtained, 

and this will enable the project team to produce an enhanced website and a booklet which we 

hope will encourage greater access to the project, its data and findings. 

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With the funding for ‘People in place’ coming to an end, the project team led by Dr Vanessa 

Harding and co-directed by Dr Davies (CMH) and Professor Richard Smith (Cambridge Group for 

the History of Population), was pleased to hear that the Wellcome Trust had awarded funding 

of £197,000 for a follow-up project. Entitled ‘Housing environments and health in early modern 

London 1550-1750’, the project will investigate issues of environment and mortality in 

contrasting areas of London. Individual property-level mapping created during the latter stages 

of ‘People in place’ will be adapted and developed in order to place this investigation into a 

topographical framework. We are pleased that we will be able to retain the same team of 

researchers for this exciting new project. 

The edited volume London and Middlesex Religious Houses is nearing completion, and it is 

hoped that this will be published in early 2007. The book, edited by Dr Davies and Professor 

Caroline Barron (RHUL), will bring together all the original accounts of the religious houses of 

London and Middlesex, first published by the Victoria County History in 1909 and 1963 

respectively, supplemented by short bibliographical introductions. The lists of the heads of the 

houses have been extensively revised. Also forthcoming, at the end of 2006, will be Guilds and 

Association in Early Modern Europe, 900-1900, edited by Ian Gadd and Patrick Wallis. 

The new MA in Metropolitan and Regional History admitted its first cohort of students in 

October 2005. The course, developed jointly by the CMH and the VCH, draws on the expertise 

of staff in both research centres. It takes as its guiding theme the variety and importance of 

the relationships between metropolis and region from the 12th to the 20th centuries, with a 

particular focus on London and southern England. The first year has gone well, with useful and 

positive feedback from the students. A particular feature of the course has been the use of 

field trips to encourage an awareness of the landscape and the urban environment, and so far 

excursions have been undertaken to Norwich, Winchester and Colchester, as well as to the City 

of London and the Museum of London. During the year the School of Advanced Study developed 

plans for a Virtual Learning Environment for use with MA and research degree programmes, and 

the MA will be among the programmes that will be piloting the VLE during 2006-7. 

Our existing students made good progress during the year. Laurie Lindey’s work on the 

furniture trade in early modern London has resulted in a comprehensive analysis of the social 

and geographical origins of apprentices enrolled by the Joiners’ Company, while Catherine 

Wright has undertaken a similarly impressive examination of the membership of the Dutch 

church in London as part of her thesis on the Dutch presence in the capital in the late 17th 

century. Meanwhile, Jordan Landes began her work on transatlantic Quaker networks, while 

Carlos Galviz (our Leverhulme-funded student) started his comparative research on 

underground systems in London and Paris at the end of the 19th century. During the year the 

Centre was pleased to hear that the AHRC had awarded funding under its Collaborative 

Doctoral Awards Scheme to the CMH and the Museum of London. The overarching project is 

entitled ‘London on display: civic identities, cultures and industry, 1851-1951’, and the codirectors 

are Dr Davies and Dr Darryl Macintyre of the Museum of London. An open competition 

was held for the first of three postgraduate studentships, and Kathrin Pieren was the successful 

candidate. She will begin work in October on her thesis, supervised by Dr Moore (CMH) and Dr 

Cathy Ross from the Museum, on ‘Migration and identity constructions in an imperial 

metropolis: the representation of Jewish heritage in London between 1887 and 1956’. Working 

on a related theme will be Mary Lester, who will be studying ‘London on display: Dalston and 

West Ham 1886-1923’. A third student, Cholki Hong, will be joining the Centre fresh from an 

MA at LSE, and will be working on ‘The City of London and image change: Queen Victoria’s 

Diamond Jubilee 1897 to Queen Elizabeth II’s Golden Jubilee’. 

The Centre’s events this year included a one-day conference in October at the London 

Metropolitan Archives on ‘Beyond Shakespeare's Globe: people, place and plays in the 

Middlesex suburbs 1400-1700’. This attracted a large audience, and was followed by a 

performance by the Lion’s Part Theatre Company. As part of our programme in comparative 

metropolitan history we also held a conference in March on the theme of ‘Metropolis and state 

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in early modern Europe’, organised jointly with the University of Amsterdam, and supported by 

the Leverhulme Trust and the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO). Plans are 

in place for a day conference on ‘Teaching London’, to be held in November 2006 and 

organised jointly with the University of Westminster. Looking further ahead, in late January 

2007 the CMH, in association with the University of Southampton, the Institut national 

d’histoire d’art (Paris) and the Institute of Fine Arts (NYU), is organising the first of what is 

intended to be a series of seminars on exchanges and comparison between London and Paris in 

the field of urban space and architecture. There is also a major conference planned for 13-15 

September 2007 on the theme of ‘London in text and history, 1400-1700’, to be held at Jesus 

College, Oxford, jointly with the Centre for Early Modern British and Irish History, University of 

Oxford, and Bath Spa University. Finally, the CMH and The London Journal will be organising a 

day conference on ‘Building high: tall buildings and London’s landscape’ on 12 October 2007. 

The Centre’s Director, Matthew Davies, will be taking two terms’ sabbatical leave during 2006- 

7, which he will use to take forward his work on a book on late medieval London. The Centre 

was pleased to hear the news of his promotion to Reader in London History, with effect from 1 

October 2006. James Moore will be Acting Director from 1 January to 30 June 2007. 

Librarian’s Report 

During the session three of the longest serving members of the Library staff, Clyve Jones, Keith 

Manley and Donald Munro retired. Their total service to the Institute and its Library exceeded 

one hundred years, and they had become a significant part of the public face of the Institute 

for several generations of readers. All three have been made Honorary Fellows of the Institute, 

and their continued engagement both with history and the historical community should ensure 

that they will continue to be seen often in the Institute during the many years of happy and 

fulfilling retirement which all at the IHR wish them. Full tributes to their contributions to the 

Institute can be found in the IHR Newsletter (Summer and Autumn 2006). 

As the staffing pattern of the Library, along with all the libraries within the ULRLS, is liable to 

further change within the next few years, these posts were not immediately filled. Instead, the 

three staff on short-term contracts were added to the permanent establishment, and duties 

reallocated across the staff in general. In addition, further support from a post to be shared 

with the Senate House Library is anticipated early in the next session. These new arrangements 

worked well, the only casualty being the reclassification project, for which far less staff time 

was available. The Library continued to be grateful for the support for Library staffing provided 

by the Rayne Foundation. 

Discussion on the managerial relationship between the Library, the Institute and the ULRLS 

continued, but although a great deal of effort was expended, no agreement had been reached 

at the end of the session. On a more positive note, the ULRLS online catalogue, which 

combines the catalogues of the School of Advanced Study and the Senate House Library, was 

launched early in the session, enabling readers once again to search all the Libraries 

simultaneously. Equally encouragingly, as a result of sharing access to existing subscriptions 

across the ULRLS, a number of electronic resources became available within the Institute. 

Among the most notable were: Early English books online, Eighteenth century collections 

online, International medieval bibliography, and The Times digital archive. On the basis of 

discussions with the History Librarian of Senate House Library, some duplicate serial 

subscriptions were cancelled. The current subscription will be retained in whichever Library is 

most appropriate, and will remain accessible to all readers. 

The Library staff were able to take advantage of space in the Basement Reading Room to move 

the International Relations collection from the second floor. This enabled the European 

collections to be rearranged to provide more space for the recent bequests to the French 

collection, and to bring the Swiss and Portuguese collections back onto the European floor. As a 

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consequence of these changes the room formerly called International Relations was renamed 

Germany. 

Despite these efforts, the Library remained extremely crowded and continued to grow at a 

steady rate, boosted by the incorporation of the bequests to the French collection: the total 

catalogued stock at the end of the session was 174,148 volumes. New subscriptions were 

established to the Journal of global history, the Journal of medieval military history and 

Stadsgeschiedenis. New electronic resources included an Index of Irish wills 1484-1858 and the 

Oxford University historical register 1220-1900. As always, new titles reflected the 

chronological and geographical range of the Library’s collections. Editions of letters included 

those of the Imperial ambassador at Constantinople, 1554-1562, and the complete 

correspondence between Roosevelt and Stalin. Historical atlases ranged from North Yorkshire 

to Nicaragua, and general biographical dictionaries from Bavaria to Guatemala, whilst specific 

titles covered groups as diverse as Scottish secular priests, 1580-1653 and Pioneer aviators of 

the world. 

The two groups of Friends donated the great majority of the most substantial additions to the 

collections. The American Friends gave the 20 volumes of Records of Convocation and the 11 

volumes of Monumenta Centroamericae, and the Friends gave the new edition of The 

Parliament rolls of medieval England (16 volumes and an electronic version), Hitler’s Reden, 

Schriften, Anordnungen (1928-33) (6 volumes in 13), and also supported the purchase of five 

volumes in the series Germania Pontificia. 

In this, as in every year since their foundation, the Library remained enormously grateful to the 

Friends on both sides of the Atlantic for their continued support. 

Publications 

Head of Department’s Report 

The undoubted highlight of 2005–6 was the success of our applications to secure funding for the 

department’s two flagship digital projects. In March 2006, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation of 

New York awarded the IHR US$900,000 to develop British History Online (www.britishhistory.ac.uk), 

the digital library for the medieval and early modern history of the British Isles. 

The award, made under the Foundation’s Scholarly Communications Program, will fund 

additional digitisation, the creation of new partnerships, outreach activity and the 

establishment of a sustainable long-term business model. Phase II of the project, for two years 

from 1 August 2006, will see the expansion of the British History Online digital library to 

include The National Archives Calendars of State Papers, Domestic (1547–1704, 1760–75), a 

further 40 volumes of the Victoria County History and a range of sources for the social, 

administrative, economic and political history of Britain. 

In June 2006, the AHRC awarded the Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish 

History Online (www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl/) £392,571 under the final round of its Resource 

Enhancement Scheme. The grant secures the future of the project to the end of 2009 and will 

support the development of the Bibliography’s role as a gateway to other resources. The 

Bibliography now contains over 420,000 entries and has established itself as an essential guide 

to the available literature for all those interested in the history of Britain and Ireland and the 

British overseas. 

A second AHRC-funded project, ‘Peer review and evaluation of digital resources for the arts 

and humanities’, began in October 2006. The aim of the project is to establish a framework for 

evaluating the quality, sustainability and impact over time of digital resources for the arts and 

humanities, using History, in its broadest sense, as a case study. The final report will be 

published in September 2006. 

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With Online Early publication fully in place, and a range of other services being developed for 

authors, the IHR’s journal, Historical Research, has again enjoyed a very successful period of 

growth and development. Articles published in 2005–6 include: ‘Empires: a problem of 

comparative history’, by Susan Reynolds; ‘Gender studies in Russian historiography in the 

nineteen-nineties and early twenty-first century’, by Lorina Repina; ‘By the book or with the 

spirit: the debate over liturgical prayer during the English Revolution’, by Christopher Durston; 

‘Did serfdom matter? Russian rural society, 1750–1860’, by T K Dennison; ‘1066: does the date 

still matter?’, by David Bates; and ‘The culture of judgement: art and anti-Catholicism in 

England, c.1660–c.1760’, by Clare Haynes. 

The IHR’s three annual publications, Teachers of History in the Universities of the UK, 

Historical Research for Higher Degrees in the UK and Grants for History were published as 

usual, in January, June and October respectively. All three titles continue to sell well, and 

offer a unique insight into the state of the history profession in the UK. This year also saw 

considerable progress towards the completion of the long-running Fasti project. In the 1066– 

1300 series, the volume for Exeter, compiled by Diana Greenway, was published in November 

2005. Research for two of the three outstanding volumes in the 1541–1857 series, those for 

Exeter and Hereford, is also now well underway, thanks to a generous grant from the University 

of London Publications Fund. David Spear’s companion volume to the Fasti series, The 

Personnel of the Norman Cathedrals during the Ducal Period, 911–1204, was published in 

January 2006. It provides a chronology for the personnel of the seven Norman cathedrals - 

Avranches, Bayeux, Coutances, Evreux, Lisieux, Rouen and Sées - and includes more extensive 

biographical information than is typical for the Fasti. 

The second edition of Internet Resources for History, produced jointly with Intute: Arts and 

Humanities, was published in March 2006. A second title in this series of research and early 

career guides, How to get Published: a Guide for Historians, was published in early June. It 

includes contributions from David Cannadine (IHR), Michael Strang (Palgrave), Arthur Burns 

(KCL), Stephen Taylor (Reading), Anne Curry (Southampton), Philippa Joseph (Blackwell), 

Stephen Church (East Anglia) and Derek Keene (Centre for Metropolitan History). Both of these 

guides can also be downloaded freely from the IHR website. 

The new IHR website was launched at the beginning of September, and reactions have been 

extremely positive. The core content of the site is unchanged, but navigation has been 

improved, a consistent colour scheme and structure have been applied, and the relationship 

between various online projects and resources has been clarified. The site now conforms to the 

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Guidelines Priority Levels 1, 2 and 3 

(Level 'AAA'), and uses valid XHTML throughout. 

Of the IHR’s other online projects, Reviews in History continues to flourish and now has around 

1,500 subscribers, from more than 40 countries, to its weekly email digest. The Reviews pages 

receive approximately 30,000 visits every month (120,000 accesses), making it one of the most 

well-used resources on the IHR website. In February 2006 Reviews hosted an extremely popular 

Irish History month, with special offers on relevant titles. Two new issues of History in Focus 

were produced this year, in October 2005 and March 2006, looking at ‘The Sea’ and ‘The Cold 

War’. In addition to the usual reviews, bibliographies and lists of evaluated websites, both 

issues featured a range of specially-commissioned articles, including: ‘The seaside resort: a 

British cultural commodity', by John Walton; 'Front door, back door: seascapes, immigration 

and the Australian psyche', by Ruth Balint; ‘“A Karachi stowage”: dockers and the sea in 

twentieth-century Britain’, by Jim Phillips; ‘The world the superpowers made’, by Jeremy Suri; 

‘Superpowers and periphery: a religious perspective’, by Dianne Kirby and Michael Mahadeo; 

‘Who used whom? Baathist Iraq and the Cold War, 1968-90’, by Geraint Hughes; and ‘The Berlin 

Wall crisis: the view from below’, by Patrick Major. 

Finally, there have been several staffing changes in the course of the year. In August 2005, we 

said goodbye to Janet Hastings, the Department’s Website Manager for almost five years. The 

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transition was managed very smoothly, with the promotion of Janet’s assistant, Martin Cook, 

ensuring continuity of knowledge and experience. A half-time Website Assistant, Annie Cramp, 

was appointed in turn in November. Also in August, William Campbell joined us from the 

University of St Andrews to take up the new post of Fasti Research Editor. Catherine Wright 

joined the Department in October as Administrator for the peer review project. In March 2006, 

the Publications Manager, Frances Bowcock, relocated to Manchester, and her successor, Emily 

Smyth, joined us on 2 May. Emily previously worked as Editorial Manager for the journal 

Antiquity, based in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York. At the end of 

July, Lindsey Dodd, the Deputy Editor of Reviews in History, left the IHR to train as a teacher. 

Her successor, Mark Hagger, will take up post in October 2006. 

Victoria County History 


The Victoria County History published Oxfordshire XV and Somerset IX this year. VCH 

Oxfordshire XV covers a swathe of west Oxfordshire parishes just west of Witney. The volume 

was given a highly successful launch on 13 September at Asthall Manor, one of the places 

covered in the book. In origin a large 17th-century Cotswold manor house, Asthall Manor was 

home in the 1920s to the (Freeman-) Mitford family, including the writer Nancy Mitford and her 

sisters, who lived there as children. We were therefore delighted to welcome to the launch the 

last of the 'Mitford girls', now Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, who has retained links with the 

area and is a frequent visitor. 

The launch of Somerset volume IX: Glastonbury and Street, was very successful. It was held on 

31 October in Glastonbury Abbey Barn, which today forms part of the Somerset Rural Life 

Museum. The magnificent medieval building was the perfect setting and the display of wicker 

animals lent an additional rural quality to the proceedings! Alan Gloak, chairman of Somerset 

County Council and county councillor for Glastonbury, hosted the event, which was attended 

by the Lord Lieutenant and Mayor of Glastonbury, Boydell and Brewer, and other local 

dignitaries. The Chairman welcomed everyone and the Lord Lieutenant thanked the county 

council for its support for the VCH. The editor, Mary Siraut, then introduced the volume and 

outlined its content. Afterwards, Professor John Beckett, Director of the VCH, spoke of the 

value of the VCH and thanked the county for its support. Tom Mayberry, the County Heritage 

Officer, praised the achievements of VCH Somerset and outlined the history of the Abbey Barn. 

The England’s Past For Everyone project is now in its second year. Fifteen research projects 

are running in 10 counties, from Durham in the north east to Cornwall in the south west. 

Volunteers are working with researchers to produce 15 paperback publications, an interactive 

website and schools and learning resources. In October the project celebrated the successful 

conclusion of its flagship school project in Wiltshire. The first draft of the Wiltshire paperback 

is now with the publishers. Our interactive ‘Explore’ website will be launched at an event at 

the Houses of Parliament in summer 2007. 

Mrs Elizabeth Williamson, Dr Alan Thacker and Professor John Beckett, in conjunction with the 

Centre for Metropolitan History (Dr. Matthew Davies (Course Director), Dr James Moore (Course 

Administrator) & Professor Derek Keene), are involved with teaching an MA in Metropolitan and 

Regional History for the IHR for their second year. The MA is designed to appeal to anyone 

interested in the history of localities, a comparative study of cities and regions, the historic 

environment and its development, and learning a broad range of transferable skills. They are 

running an option, Local Authority and its Architectural Expression, which is closely based on 

VCH approaches to history and uses our complementary knowledge and skills. Formulating this 

option has proved a useful way of developing our thoughts about the development of 

institutions, keeping up to date with the literature and thereby, we trust, of improving our 

input into the editing and writing of VCH histories. The students have enjoyed the option and 

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have recommended it to fellow students. Even students who thought they had no interest in 

architecture now see the value of buildings as historical evidence which is very cheering. 

The 2006-7 seminar season was launched on 17 October with a well-attended paper by Sarah 

Webster. The programme this year has a strong landscape component. The aim of the seminar 

is to further the academic development of the subject and to help VCH staff with new 

approaches to a range of topics relevant to our work. The seminar also welcomes all those who 

are interested in the relationship between local and national history and who wish to share 

ideas, viewpoints and work in progress. It seeks to make an original contribution to local and 

regional history by drawing upon the long-established national resources of the VCH and cooperating 

with participants from universities, record offices, local history societies and 

heritage organisations, as well as with those engaged in independent research. 

The seminars meet at 5.15p.m. in the Ecclesiastical Room in the IHR. If you would like to join 

our e-mailing list, please contact Juliepmoore@aol.com 

Charles More, Harold Fox, Lord Naseby and David Crook retired as members of the VCH National 

Committee in the Summer. Nick Kingsley was appointed as Chairman at the beginning of the 

previous year and, along with John Beckett, welcomed new committee members: Richard 

Childs, West Sussex Archive Office, Nigel Clubb, English Heritage, Professor John Morrill, 

Cambridge University, Nigel Pittman, ex DCMS and Professor Tony Pollard, University of 

Teesside. The VCH National Committee also approved the development of a Sub-Committee on 

Funding last February. It is chaired by Robert Gent. John Beckett, William Peck (Secretary), 

Nick Kingsley, Jill Pellew and Felicity Jones are members. Nigel Pittman also agreed to join in 

November. 

One of the first tasks of the Fundraising Committee was to host a conference last July in the 

Wolfson and Pollard rooms designed to raise awareness of the modern VCH/EPE with a view to 

interesting currently dormant counties in restarting work. Every county south of the River Trent 

which is not currently active was represented, and the five counties restarting for EPE sent 

delegates. The aim of the conference was to look at some of the practical issues involved in 

restarting and sustaining VCH work. Restarting, or re-opening a county (since the VCH is looking 

at new work in counties finished a long time ago), is not an easy business, and some of the 

funding issues were aired at an open forum in the afternoon, chaired by Robert Gent of the 

VCH Funding Sub-Committee. Contributors included Felicity Jones. 

Delegates were asked to discuss the possibilities for new work in their counties and to contact 

the central office for further discussion. The VCH is going through an exciting transitional 

period as EPE comes on stream with its emphasis on paperback books, education and web 

delivery, and the possible development opportunities for the 'traditional' VCH are enormous. 

This event was the first of what we hope will be a number of similar meetings, at least one of 

which will be in northern England, designed to see what might be achieved. Our many thanks 

to the Victoria History Trust for sponsoring the event! 

We held our annual conference on Saturday 23 September, and it was a huge success. There 

was a real buzz in the air and feedback suggests that delegates found the day useful and 

enjoyable. 

John Chandler, Wiltshire, provided an update on the Wiltshire VCH volumes, speaking about 

the reasons for selecting the parish of Codford for the EPE project. Andrew Hann, Kent, 

provided an overview of the Kent EPE project, with particular focus on the successful volunteer 

programme. Andrew emphasised that the project is raising awareness of the VCH amongst local 

historians, producing new local history resources and developing links between universities, 

archives and local historians. The afternoon session included papers by two very experienced 

County Editors, Simon Townley and Chris Thornton. Simon showed, using a sequence of 

excellent photographs of Burford, how work by volunteers from the Oxfordshire Buildings 

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Record, led by David Clark, was contributing to the Burford EPE study. Chris described the 

political shenanigans - a positive 'Punch and Judy Show' according to a contemporary 

description - that were involved in the development of Clacton. Following the sessions was the 

Marc Fitch Lecture which was given by John Beckett. He took this opportunity to look at where 

the subject stands today and how it might evolve. Developments in technology are 

internationalising local history, and bringing new dimensions to the scope and content of the 

subject. His lecture will shortly be published in Historical Research. 

Finally, there have been several staff changes over the year. At VCH-HQ there were the 

appointments of Kerry Whitston (Production Manager) and William Peck (Administrator), in 

addition to the EPE staff: Catherine Cavanagh (Project Manager), Matthew Bristow (Historic 

Environment Research Manager), Andy Stokes (Web Manager), Mel Hackett (Web Assistant), 

Aretha George (Educational and Skills Manager), Steven Lubell (Production and Editorial 

Controller), Nafisa Gaffar (Finance Officer) and Orla Houston-Jibo (Administrative Assistant). In 

the Counties, Graham Kent (Yorkshire East Riding) and Douglas Crowley (Wiltshire) retired from 

county editorships. Virginia Bainbridge was appointed as Wiltshire County Editor and James Lee 

joined the Wiltshire staff as Assistant Editor. In Somerset, Bob Dunning also retired and Mary 

Siraut is Acting County Editor. 

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Associated Institutes 

History of Parliament 


In December 2005 the History of Parliament left Woburn Square after over 13 years, and moved 

to 18 Bloomsbury Square. Although no longer tenants of the University, we retain our close and 

historic links with the Institute of Historical Research, and the School of Advanced Study at the 

University of London. We remain in a historical environment: the German Historical Institute is 

just across the road; the British Museum is along the road; and we continue to be in a period 

building, on an historic site. No. 18 was built in the 1790s as part of the development of the 

north side of the square (the rest of the square was developed as early as the 1660s, one of the 

earliest planned squares in London), on the site of the front garden of Southampton, later 

Bedford House. 

Five sections, covering the Commons in 1422-1504, 1604-29, 1640-60 and 1820-32 and the Lords 

from 1660-1832, are in progress. Over the period October 2005 to September 2006 the History’s 

research staff researched and wrote a total of 354 articles on Members and constituencies, 

containing over 861,118 words. This is in addition to work on revising the articles written for 

two of our current projects - those covering 1820-32 and 1604-29 - which we are planning to 

publish in 2009 and 2010 respectively. Between them the staff for these sections revised a total 

of 1,144 articles. Trustees have now decided that when these projects are complete, the 

History should begin to work on the Commons in the period after 1832, and (with the 

agreement of the House of Lords) should expand its work on the House of Lords in the 17th 

century. Working beyond 1832 presents particular challenges, and the History has begun a 

consultation process to invite the views of the historical community about how best to tackle 

it. 

Trustees have spent 2006 investigating the practicability of online publication for the History, 

and some of the issues involved. The History worked with a consultant, Laura Elliott (formerly 

of Oxford University Press), whose report was very helpful in helping us to refine our plans 

further. Meanwhile, the History continues to work with the IHR on the Andrew Mellon-funded 

British History Online project, described in more detail elsewhere in this report, and with a 

number of other partners on the digitisation of sources connected to parliamentary history. 

The History’s broader activities continue to grow. Over the year, they included involvement in 

work to prepare for Parliament’s slave trade exhibition for 2007, which will be accompanied by 

a seminar series and a book, both arranged by the History’s staff; our regular competition for 

schools, which this year was connected to the commemoration of the Gunpowder Plot; and also 

connected with the Plot, we held a conference on the anniversary itself in Westminster Hall, in 

collaboration with the Royal Historical Society; our annual lecture was given in December 2005 

in Portcullis House by Professor Paul Langford FBA. 

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Academic and Professional Activities of Staff and Fellows 

Activities and Publications of Staff 

David Bates – Director, IHR 

This year, like David’s previous two as Director, has been filled with the many duties which the 

post involves. Unquestionably the most moving moment of the year occurred on 19 May when 

he was among 25 historians who received the title of Centenary Fellow of the Historical 

Association at a special dinner in the Banqueting Hall of the Palace of Whitehall. Whatever the 

personal contribution which caused the Historical Association to honour him in this way, he is 

certain that the Fellowship is very much a recognition of the part that the IHR has played, and 

continues to play, in the life of the UK historical profession. 

David Bates’s main publications during the year were the text of his Inaugural Lecture as 

Director: ‘1066: does the date still matter?’ in Historical Research, 78 (2005); ‘Charters and 

historians of Britain and Ireland’, in Charters and Charter Scholarship in Britain and Ireland, 

ed. Marie Therese Flanagan and Judith A Green (London: Palgrave, 2005); ‘William the 

Conqueror and his wider western European world’ (the Henry Loyn Memorial Lecture given in 

2003), Haskins Society Journal, 16 (2006); ‘William the Conqueror, William fitz Osbern and 

Chepstow Castle’, in Chepstow Castle. Its History and Buildings, ed. Rick Turner and Andy 

Johnson (Logaston Press, 2006). He was co-editor, along with Véronique Gazeau, Eric Anceau, 

Frédérique Lachaud and François-Joseph Ruggiu of Liens personnels, réseaux, solidarités en 

France et dans les îles britanniques (XIe-XXe siècle) (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2006), 

a volume of papers from a conference held at the University of Glasgow in 2002. 

He was on the appointment committees for a Professor of Medieval History in the University of 

Reading and the Director of the Centre for the Public Understanding of the Past at the 

University of York. He gave talks at the Universities of Hull, Caen-Basse-Normandie, 

Southampton and Glasgow, to the Hampstead Branch of the Historical Association, and to the 

Battle and District Historical Society. He was appointed an Honorary Professorial Research 

Fellow of the University of Glasgow and an Associate of Clare Hall, Cambridge. He continued as 

a Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society and as external examiner for the MPhil in 

Medieval History at the University of Cambridge. He supervises a research student under a cotutelle 

arrangement with the Université de Paris I. He attended the Prince of Wales Education 

Summer School by invitation as an observer, is a member of the group which advises the 

Secretary of State for Education on the place of History in British Education, and was an invited 

participant in a seminar organised by David Willetts MP, Shadow Secretary for Education. He 

was appointed Deputy Dean of the School of Advanced Study to serve from 1 August 2006. 

David Cannadine – Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Professor of British 

History 

Much of Professor Cannadine’s time this academic year has been devoted to the completion of 

his life of Andrew Mellon, to be published Autumn 2006 in both the US and the UK. Other 

publications this year included an edited volume of essays on the battle of Trafalgar, which 

began life as papers at a conference organised jointly by the IHR and the National Maritime 

Museum. This volume was published by Palgrave and launched on 5 July as Trafalgar in History: 

A Battle and its Afterlife. Professor Cannadine also contributed to Gunpowder Plots: A 

Celebration of 400 Years of Bonfire Night, published by Allen Lane in October 2005, and spoke 

about the book at the Cheltenham Literary Festival. He has been working recently on a short 

book entitled The National Portrait Gallery: A Brief Outline History, to be published in 2007 by 

the Gallery. At the end of January Professor Cannadine wrote the Guardian’s obituary for Giles 

Worsley, who was a Senior Research Fellow at the IHR. 

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During July and August 2005 Professor Cannadine held a visiting fellowship at the Humanities 

Research Centre at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. He gave the summing 

up at a conference on ‘Race, empire and captivity’, and delivered a public lecture on ‘Anglo- 

America, Winston Churchill, and the Special Relationship’ at the University of Tasmania, as 

well as delivering lectures at ANU and to the Australian Council for the Humanities, Arts and 

Social Sciences. In October he delivered a public lecture on Winston Churchill’s oratory as part 

of a series of lectures at the new Churchill Museum at the Cabinet War Rooms, and officially 

opened the new Sainsbury Archive at the Museum of London in Docklands. In November 

Professor Cannadine took part in a fundraising event in New York to mark the 500 anniversary 

of Christ’s College, Cambridge, participating in a panel discussion on ‘Why History matters’, 

alongside Professor Simon Schama and Professor Eric Foner. In December he gave a lecture at a 

conference organised by the British Agricultural History Society in honour of F M L Thompson at 

the IHR, entitled ‘The country house from the 20th to the 21st century’. 

In January 2006 Professor Cannadine took up a visiting fellowship at the National Humanities 

Center in North Carolina. He gave a lecture on ‘Andrew Mellon: from art collector to the 

National Gallery’ at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles in March, and a lecture on 

‘Andrew Mellon: a fortune in history’ at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. Also 

that month Professor Cannadine gave a lecture at the National Portrait Gallery in London on 

the Gallery’s history up to its 150th anniversary this year. In April he delivered the Annual 

Distinguished Historians Lecture at Stockton State College, and in May the Ramsay Murray 

Lecture at Selwyn College, Cambridge, speaking on ‘Winston Churchill and the Special 

Relationship’. 

Between October 2005 and January 2006 Professor Cannadine occupied the ‘Point of view’ slot 

on BBC Radio 4, the successor to Alistair Cooke’s long running ‘Letter from America’, and 

commenced a second series of broadcasts in summer 2006. 

Since autumn 2005 Professor Cannadine has been responsible for mentoring a postdoctoral 

researcher, Andrew Smith, who holds a fellowship at the CCBH from the Social Science 

Research Council (SSRC) of Canada. Andrew is working on a project entitled ‘Imperial 

Canadians: 1849-1899’. He has also been involved in the process of upgrading CCBH students 

from MPhil to PhD status and contributing to the MA in Contemporary British History. 

Professor Cannadine remains the Chairman of the Trustees of the Institute of Historical 

Research and the National Portrait Gallery, a Trustee of the Kennedy Memorial Trust, the 

Rothschild Archive and the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Vice Chairman of the 

Editorial Board of Past and Present, and a member of the Editorial Board of the History of 

Parliament, the Eastern Regional Committee of the National Trust, the Advisory Committee for 

the Royal Mint, and the judging panel for the Wolfson Prize. He is a Commissioner for English 

Heritage and in June 2006 became Chairman of English Heritage’s Blue Plaques Panel. He is 

also Historical Advisor to the Penguin Press, an Honorary Fellow of the IHR, and has been 

serving on the British Academy’s Committee for Copyright and Research in the Humanities and 

Social Sciences. In September 2005 Professor Cannadine was elected an honorary fellow of 

Christ’s College, Cambridge. 

Matthew Davies – Director, CMH 

Matthew has continued to work on a number of research projects during the year. He 

completed his proposal for his volume of a newly commissioned multi-volume history of 

London, which will focus on many different facets of the city’s history between 1300 and 1550. 

Research and writing for this will be the principal task for his sabbatical leave from 1 January 

to 30 June 2007, which was granted by the School. He has also been researching ideas of civic 

history in medieval and early modern London, looking in particular at the emergence of heroic 

figures as elements in the histories of the guilds. This will be the subject of a forthcoming 

publication. 

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He has continued to collaborate with Caroline Barron (RHUL) on London and Middlesex 

Religious Houses, a volume which will bring together the existing VCH accounts of the religious 

houses, supplemented by new bibliographical introductions written by a team of researchers. 

The volume will be published in early 2007 by the CMH and VCH. He and Andrew Prescott 

(Sheffield) have made good progress with editing the proceedings of the 2004 Harlaxton 

Symposium, and the resulting volume, London and the Kingdom, will also appear in 2007. 

Alongside these research activities, Matthew has continued to direct or co-direct CMH research 

projects, particularly ‘Views of hosts’ (ESRC) and ‘People in place’. Progress on these is 

described elsewhere in this report. During the year he was awarded funding for another major 

research project, ‘London and the law: pleadings in the court of common pleas, 1399-1509’, 

which began on 1 June. The co-director on the project is Dr Hannes Kleineke (History of 

Parliament). He was also a co-applicant on the successful application to the Wellcome Trust by 

Dr Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck) for funding for a successor project to ‘People in place’. These 

two new projects are also described more fully elsewhere. 

Matthew’s other activities included steering the new MA in Metropolitan and Regional History 

through its first year, and providing teaching on both the Core Module and one of the Optional 

Modules. He was on a steering group within the School of Advanced Study which developed a 

successful proposal for the creation of a new Virtual Learning Environment, which will be 

piloted by the IHR and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies during 2006-7. 

Elsewhere, Matthew has continued to be a member of the Council of the London Record Society 

and Chair of the Editorial Committee of the London Journal. His four-year stint as a member of 

the Editorial Board of Cultural and Social History came to an end in 2006. In the summer of 

2006 he was appointed as a Senior Advisor to the Records of Early English Drama project, based 

at the University of Toronto. He has continued to serve on the History Advisory Panel of the 

Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology, and on the panel for the National Awards 

for History Teaching in Higher Education. 

During the year he delivered papers at a number of seminars and conferences, including the 

London Record Society’s AGM, the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, the Dean’s 

Seminar in the School of Advanced Study, and the Medieval and Tudor London Seminar at the 

IHR. He also chaired panel sessions at the Economic History Society Conference in Reading, and 

the conference of the European Association of Urban Historians held in Stockholm. 

Matthew was appointed Reader in London History in the University of London with effect from 

1 October 2006. 

Clyve Jones – Collection Development Librarian 

Clyve published: ‘“Lord Oxford's jury”: the political and social context of the creation of the 

twelve peers, 1711-12’, in Partisan Politics, Principle and Reform in Parliament and the 

Constituencies, 1689-1880: Essays in Memory of John A Phillips, ed. Clyve Jones, Philip Salmon 

and Richard W Davis (Edinburgh, 2005), pp. 9-42; ‘Further evidence of the splits in the anti- 

Walpole opposition in the House of Lords: a list of the division of 9 April 1741 on the subsidy for 

Austria’, Parliamentary History, 24 (2005), 368-75; ‘The commons address of thanks in reply to 

the king's speech, 13 November 1755: rank and status versus politics’, Parliamentary History, 

25 (2006), 232-44; ‘New parliamentary lists, 1660-1800’, Parliamentary History, 25 (2005), 401- 

9; ‘The London topography of the parliamentary elite: addresses for peers and bishops for 1706 

and 1727-8’, London Topographical Record, 29 (2006), 43-64. 

He continues to edit the journal Parliamentary History (he is now in his 21st year as editor), 

and his other projects are progressing slowly. He retired from the Institute at the end of 

January 2006, and became an Honorary Fellow. 

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Michael Kandiah – Lecturer in Contemporary British History and Director of the 

Oral History Programme 

Dr Kandiah contributed a section relating to British politics and the economy to the Annual 

Register 2005. 

On 6 June 2006 with Dr Sue Onslow of the LSE he presented a paper on ‘British policymaking 

toward Rhodesia, 1977-80’ to the International History Seminar at the IHR. 

He participated in a conference on the ‘Cold War in Southern Africa’ on 8 January 2006, 

organised by the Cold War Studies Centre and held at the London School of Economics. He 

attended and chaired various panels at the CCBH Annual Summer Conference on ‘“Voluntary 

organisation” to “NGO”? Voluntary action in Britain since 1900’, 28-30 June 2006. On 12 July he 

attended and participated in a conference to mark the 50th anniversary of the Suez Crisis, held 

at Queen Mary, University of London. 

Dr Kandiah was a co-organiser of the 8th Annual Conference of the British Rocketry Oral History 

Programme, which was held at Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey, 6-8 April 2006. He 

continued to be one of the convenors of the International History Seminar, held at the Institute 

of Historical Research, and to serve on the board of Prospero, the journal of British nuclear 

history. 

Derek Keene – Leverhulme Professor of Comparative Metropolitan History 

Derek is Leverhulme Professor of Comparative Metropolitan History and his research interests 

focus on those dominant cities that we recognise as metropolises, principally over the last 

1,500 years. In association with the University of Amsterdam, he organised the very successful 

conference on ‘Metropolis and state in early modern Europe, 1400-1600’ held at the Institute 

of Historical Research on 27-28 March 2006 and sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust and the 

University of Amsterdam. He began to organise the special strand on ‘Medieval cities’ which 

will be the principal theme of the Leeds International Medieval Congress in July 2007, and was 

also of member of the Commissioning Panel for the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s 

forthcoming Landscape Programme. He contributed to the teaching of the CMH’s new MA 

programme on metropolitan and regional history and supervised three graduate students 

dealing with the Dutch community in London around 1700, the development of London 

furniture making in the same period and a comparison of ideas and experiences concerning 

metropolitan railway systems in London and Paris up to about 1900. 

He completed extensive editorial work on Cities and Cultural Exchange in Europe, 1400-1700 

(Cambridge University Press, 2007), one of a series of volumes arising from the recent 

programme of research on cultural exchange supported by the European Science Foundation. 

He also completed his substantial historical and archaeological contribution to the forthcoming 

report on the excavations at No. 1 Poultry in the City of London. His research for a book on 

London between AD 600 and 1300, which will be written over the next few years, focused on 

Londoners’ ideas concerning the law and how they related to their sense of the history of the 

city, its visible identity and politics around 1200. This picked ideas arising from earlier research 

on urban landscapes. Most of his lectures and seminar papers this year related to these themes. 

He served as a member of the Urban Panel of English Heritage and the Commission for 

Architecture and the Built Environment, the International Commission for the History of Towns, 

the Fabric Advisory Committee of St Paul’s Cathedral and the British Historic Towns Atlas 

Committee. He is a Trustee of the London Journal, a member of the international advisory 

panel to Belgian inter-university research group on ‘Urban society in the Low Countries (later 

Middle Ages-16th century)’, and a member of the editorial board of the Associazione Italiana di 

Storia Urbana. 

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Publication 

‘Cities and empires’, Journal of Urban History, 32 (2005), pp. 8-21 

Public lectures and seminar papers 

16 September 2005: ‘Medieval metropolises: Poland and England compared’, The Jagiellonian 

University, Cracow 

25 October 2005: ‘St Paul’s and the city to 1300’, Guildhall Historical Society, London 

3 December 2006: ‘Museums of London’ at the I musei della città conference, Università Roma 

Tre, Rome 

6 April 2006: ‘London, a metropolis over 2000 years’, Historical Association, Richmond 

29 April 2006: ‘London and Winchester’ at the conference ‘Early English shire towns: the 

physical impact of county government’, University of Oxford 

18 May 2006: ‘Archiving the charters of the city of London before 1300’, Late Medieval London 

seminar, IHR 

8 June 2006: ‘The idea of the metropolis’, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin 

15-17 June 2006: discussant, ‘Seminario poster’; and speaker, ‘Tavola rotunda conclusiva’, at 

conference of the Associazione Italiana di Storia Urbana, La città e le regole, Politecnico di 

Torino 

19 July 2006: ‘Signs and symbols: the medieval city’, Harlaxton Medieval Symposium 

Theses examined 

November 2005, LSE PhD, ‘Recruitment training and knowledge transfer in the London Dyer’s 

company’ 

January 2006, UCL, Institute of Archaeology PhD, ‘Validating classical multivariate models in 

archaeology: English medieval bellfounding as a case study’ 

James Moore – Deputy Director, CMH 

James Moore continues to act as Deputy Director of the Centre for Metropolitan History and 

will take over as Director in the absence of Matthew Davies between January and June 2007. 

He is currently developing two new research projects - one on policy formation and policy 

communities in British local government, the other on the comparative growth of association 

football as an urban consumer activity. 

James’s first book The Transformation of Urban Liberalism was published by the Ashgate press 

in July 2006. His recent paper ‘Collecting and cultural leadership: the Whitworth Art Gallery 

and the institutional politics of civic art, 1880-1914’, has been accepted for publication in the 

Journal of the History of Collections. James’s and Professor Richard Rodger’s article ‘Who 

really ran the cities?’ will shortly be published in R Rolf’s Who Ran the Cities?, an edited 

collection on European comparative urban governance. James and Dr. Ian Macgregor Morris are 

now in the final stages of preparing their publication on the 18th-century search for Troy. 

James’s other work in recent months has included finalising his book on the history of art 

patronage in the North West of England with his co-author Vicky Whitfield and conducting 

preliminary research for a possible publication on modernism, fascist culture and grand prix 

motor racing in the years before the Second World War. During the past year James organised a 

conference on the British general election of 1906 and gave papers to conferences of the 

Classical Association and the European Association of Urban Historians. 

Pat Thane - Leverhulme Professor of Contemporary British History 

Pat was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in July 2006. She was elected a Vice-President 

of the Royal Historical Society in November 2005 and chairs the Research Policy Committee of 

the RHS. She continues as Chair, Social History Society, UK. She is a member of the Advisory 

Committee, Modern Records Centre, Warwick University; the Steering Committee, History UK 

(formerly HUDG); the College of Assessors, Arts and Humanities Research Council; the College 

of Assessors, Economic and Social Research Council; the British Academy Records in Economic 

and Social History sub-committee; The National Archives, Records Appraisal Committee; the 

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External Review Panel, School of History, University of St Andrews, December 2004; and is an 

External Member of the Professorial Appointment Committee, University of East Anglia. Pat 

examined PhDs at: the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Goldsmiths College 

and the University of Cambridge. In addition, she is an external examiner for the Master’s 

programme at Essex University, and at Undergraduate level at the University of Warwick. She 

was external assessor of Research Quality, History Program, Research School of Social Sciences, 

Australian National University. She was a member of the panel reviewing outcomes of research 

funding in Modern History by the AHRC, September 2005-April 2006. She was also an assessor 

for the ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship applications, 2005-6 and an external assessor for the 

periodic review of the MA in Women’s History, London Metropolitan University, May 2006. 

Pat was Research Fellow at the Research School of Social Sciences, the Australian National 

University, July–September 2005. She served on the editorial boards of the journals Twentieth 

Century British History, which she chaired; the Journal of Family History (Canada); Cultural 

and Social History; and the Labour History Review. 

Her publications included: The Long History of Old Age (Thames and Hudson), also published as 

A History of Old Age (Getty Museum, LA); Das Alter. Eine Kulturgeschgichte (Primus, 

Darmstadt); ‘The history of retirement’, in Oxford Handbook of Pensions and Retirement 

Income, ed. G L Clark, A H Munnell and J M Orzag (OUP, 2006), pp. 33-51; ‘Women and ageing 

in the twentieth century’, in L’Homme. Europaische Zeitschrift fur Feministische 

Geschtswissenschaft (Vienna), 17 (2006), pp. 59-76; ‘Sociology and history: partnership, rivalry 

or mutual incomprehension?’ (with Roderick Floud), in British Sociology Seen from Without and 

Within, ed. A H Halsey and W G Runciman (British Academy/OUP, 2005), pp. 57-69. 

Pat is currently principal investigator on the ESRC-funded ‘One parent families in Britain, 1918– 

1990’ project. She was an award-holder for the ESRC seminar series ‘What difference did the 

vote make? Women and citizenship in the British Isles since 1918’, which concluded in 

December 2005. With colleagues at the University of Cambridge and the London School of 

Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, she directs the externally funded History and Policy Unit in 

CCBH. 

She gave the following lectures, seminar and conference papers: 

‘Single mothers since 1918’, at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Western 

Australia, Perth, August 2005 

‘Old age: burden or benefit’, Battle of Ideas, Institute of Ideas Festival, London, 30 October 

2005 

‘Historical images of ageing’, MaxNet Aging Conference II, Max Planck International Research 

Network on Aging, Marbella Spain, 3 November 2005 

‘Things really have got better. The changed experience of ageing in the past century’. 

Goodenough College, in association with ESRC and Age Concern: Age and Ageing: Just the 

Concern of the Old? 

‘Family relationships of older people’, to a seminar of All-Party Parliamentary Groups on 

Parents and Families and Ageing and Older People on ‘What does an ageing society mean for 

family policy in the 21st century?’, House of Commons, 18 January 2006 

‘Evidence of value: value of evidence’, Keynote lecture, conference of the National Council on 

Archives, Birmingham, 21 February 2006 

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‘Life histories of women graduates in Britain, 1920s-1980s’, European Social Science History 

Conference, Amsterdam, 21-24 April, 2006. She commented upon another session and chaired a 

third session at this conference 

‘The long history of old age’, Oxford Book Festival, 26 March 2006 

‘Ageing in history. What is new about old age today?’, Staffordshire University, 6 April 2006 

‘British social legislation 1975-1985’, lecture to staff of The National Archives, 24 April 2005 

‘Women in higher education in Britain, 1920s-present’, seminar paper, University of 

Greenwich, 27 April 2006 

‘Dennis Marsden’s interviews with lone mothers, 1960s: an evaluation’, conference on 

secondary analysis of qualitative data, South Bank University, 3 May 2006 

Media 

‘Nightwaves’, Radio 3, 21 October 2005, discussion of The Long History of Old Age 

‘You and Yours’, Radio 4, 26 October 2005, ditto 

BBC Radio Wales, 28 November 2005, ditto 

Hecklers, Radio 4, 7 December 2005, ditto 

Consultant, BBC2 Drama, ‘Decades’, 24 January 2006 

Financial Times, ‘Blair must not repeat Attlee’s pensions mistake’, 24 May 2006 

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Research Students’ Activities 2005-6 

The History Lab 

In August 2005 two IHR postgraduate students successfully applied to the Vice-Chancellor’s 

Development Fund for financial support to set up a postgraduate network. ‘The History Lab’, 

named after A F Pollard’s original vision of the IHR as a ‘historical laboratory of ideas’, was 

finally launched in October 2005 by Prof. Ludmilla Jordanova. The event was attended by over 

200 postgraduates and was featured in the educational supplement of The Independent. 

Since then the Lab’s postgraduate membership has gone from strength to strength, currently 

we have over 400 members, from all over the UK and abroad, including members from the US, 

Australia and Japan. We have an executive committee, which has representatives from London 

universities as well as those from Manchester, Durham, Dublin and Harvard. Our aim is to 

create a vibrant postgraduate community at the IHR and to provide a social and intellectual 

forum for postgraduates across the UK and beyond. The PhD can be a lonely experience and we 

believe that interacting and socialising with your peers, whether for intellectual stimulation or 

simply to vent your frustrations, is an important part of one’s development as a PhD student. 

For the past two years the History Lab has organised a tour of all history departments in 

London and beyond during the induction week of the autumn term. The purpose of this 

exercise has been to inform new students about the History Lab and the IHR. The ‘tour’ is an 

invaluable way of making direct contact with students early on in their research careers and 

letting them know that the IHR actively welcomes postgraduates. 

The History Lab is focused around the IHR’s fortnightly seminar. This year’s papers have 

addressed wide ranging issues including ‘Fatherhood in early modern Britain’, ‘The 

southernization of Richard Nixon’ and the ‘Church of England’s Faith in the City report on 

Thatcher’s Britain’. A stimulating and lively discussion always follows each paper and 

attendance has significantly increased since the establishment of the Lab. 

The History Lab also organises various skills workshops. Previous workshops have included a 

teaching session, freelance research for postgraduates and a public speaking workshop. These 

sessions are led by PhD students who are in the latter stages of their thesis and operate as 

‘peer-based training’. A workshop entitled ‘Thinking of doing a PhD?’ took place. Run by 

current PhD students, the workshop offered advice on various matters such as finding a 

subject, supervisor and institution, and the funding options available for both Master’s and 

PhD, including AHRC funding, collaborative doctoral awards and part-time options. This session 

was opened up to third-year BA students as well as Master’s students. This session was 

enormously successful with over 40 people in attendance including students from the University 

of York and Nottingham. It is hoped to produce a small pamphlet for students considering a 

PhD. 

Social events are central to the work of the Lab; during the year a speed-networking event was 

held - based on the speed-dating format - which proved an entertaining way of meeting new 

people. We also held a pub quiz hosted by Tristram Hunt, presenter of The English Civil War 

and author of Building Jerusalem. Another major highlight of last year was our seminar entitled 

Talkin’ Bout my Generation which featured Professors Sally Alexander, Pat Thane and 

Catherine Hall. All three speakers gave fascinating accounts of their routes into the historical 

profession and the barriers they faced during their careers. The session was recorded and will 

be available to buy on CD soon. At the start of this term we also had a welcome event for new 

postgraduate students with a short talk by TV historian Dan Snow - over 80 students attended. 

The Lab also organises an annual summer postgraduate conference. We obtained funding from 

the IHR Friends for the 2005/6 conference on ‘Faith and ideologies’. This enabled us to grant 

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travel bursaries for speakers coming from outside London. With 49 per cent of the participants 

from outside the South East and 11 per cent from outside the UK, we can certainly claim that it 

was a ‘national’ gathering of postgraduates. Next year’s conference will address the theme of 

‘Generations’. We have already had significant interest from a number of postgraduates 

including many from Europe. 

Another session of Talkin’ Bout my Generation featuring the former students of J H Plumb, a 

careers day for PhD students on postdoctoral fellowships, a skills workshop on vivas and an 

event to mark the 20th anniversary of the IHR postgraduate seminar are planned. We intend to 

invite former seminar convenors to the latter. 

Vanessa Chambers 

Vanessa is continuing to research her thesis ‘War, popular belief and British society 1900-1951’ 

and is currently working on a database of those who were prosecuted for fortune-telling, 

astrology or spiritualism under section four of the Vagrancy Act (1824) or the Witchcraft Act 

(1735). Analysis of this database will complement a chapter on the law. She has given a paper 

at the Postgraduate Seminar entitled ‘Spiritualism and remembrance 1914-1924’ and a paper 

at the Contemporary British History Seminar entitled ‘Gremlins: the Second World War and the 

supernatural’. 

She has planned and taught two undergraduate courses at the University of Hertfordshire, one 

on American history from colonisation to Civil War and another on historical writing. She has 

also taught a session on historical writing to MA students at the IHR. 

Vanessa has been co-writing (with Daniel Grey) an article on ‘Gender, class and the influence 

of popular belief in the supernatural on criminal trials in Britain, 1902-1943’. It is hoped this 

will be submitted for publication in 2007. 

Helen McCarthy 

Helen’s first year as a PhD student has been a full one. As well as plunging into her primary 

research on the League of Nations Union in Britain c.1918-1939, she has given several 

conference papers and one full-length seminar paper, and has had an article accepted by 

Historical Research based on material from her MA thesis (completed in 2005 at the IHR). She 

also worked as a teaching assistant at UCL on Professor Catherine Hall’s undergraduate course 

on British History, 1850-1990, spoke at a SAS research training session on giving a paper to nonacademic 

audiences (based on her pre-PhD experience of working for a public policy think 

tank), and has been an active member of the History Lab. 

Catherine Wright 

Catherine continued her work on her thesis, which is now called ‘The Dutch in London: 

connections and identities, c.1660–c.1720’. The project investigates the social and cultural 

presence of Dutch people in London, in the distinctive context of a period encompassing two 

Anglo-Dutch wars, the accession and reign of William III, and alliances during the Nine Years’ 

War and the War of the Spanish Succession. In 2005-6, the first body of work on the registers of 

the Dutch Church at Austin Friars was completed, along with work on the register of the Dutch 

Chapel Royal at St James’s Palace, Westminster. The results included many interesting insights 

into occupational and residential patterns among these communities. 

Catherine presented papers at the Association of Low Countries Studies conference, ‘Trading 

places’, held at UCL in January 2006, and at the CRASSH conference on ‘The intellectual and 

cultural lives of Protestant strangers in early modern England’, held at King’s College London 

on 26 March 2006. 

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Activities and Publications of Fellows 

Peter Catterall 

Peter Catterall's main publication was ‘Twenty-five years of promoting free markets: a history 

of Economic Affairs’, a specially-commissioned history of the Institute of Economic Affairs’ 

journal published in December 2005. He served on the organising committee of the colloquium 

on ‘La Mise en scène du politique’ at Lille 3 in October 2005 and gave a paper on ‘Beer and 

circuses: temperance and electoral tactics in the inter-war Labour party’. He also gave a paper 

on ‘Macmillan and Britishness’ at the Social History Society conference in Reading in April 2006, 

a paper which he published as a chapter in Angleterre ou Albion, entre fascination et 

repulsion, ed. Gilbert Millat (Lille, 2006). Other activities included acting as historical adviser 

in R. v. Attorney-General ex parte Jackson et al., a court case which revolved around 

interpretations of the 1911 and 1949 Parliament Acts. He also participated in a workshop on 

digitising Hansard in May 2006. In that month as well he was appointed to the board of Bexley 

Heritage Trust, which maintains two historic houses in South East London. 

Michael Clanchy 

Michael Clanchy published England and its Rulers, 1006-1307 in a 3rd edition with three new 

chapters (on wealth, Britain, and lordship). He also gave the following talks: ‘Literacy across 

the medieval millennium: continuities in learning the ABC’ (Southampton University and the 

Medieval Manuscripts Seminar, London); ‘Idealising the word and idealising books: images of 

the Virgin Mary’ (Seminar on the History of the Book, All Souls College, Oxford); ‘The eyre as 

an institution, 1194-1294: justice, judges, jurors and records’ (Surrey Record Society 

Symposium). At the Leeds International Medieval Conference he chaired sessions on ‘The Henry 

III of England Fine Rolls Project’, ‘The individual in relation to self-reference and reference to 

others’ and ‘Comparing politics: opportunities, risks, practices’. He continues as the Patron of 

the London Medieval Society, which held three one-day meetings. 

Eveline Cruickshanks 

During the 2005-6 academic year Eveline Cruickshanks published an article on ‘Walpole’s tax on 

Catholics’, in Recusant History. 

Christopher Currie 

This year Christopher gave talks on ‘Aspects of timber-framed structures in a European 

context’ at the Social History and Archaeology of Buildings conference, Centre for Wessex 

History and Archaeology (University of Winchester) at Salisbury, 8 April 2006; ‘Odda's Chapel, 

Ealdred's inscriptions? Deerhurst texts in imperial and other contexts’, at the Earlier Middle 

Ages seminar, 31 May 2006, at the Institute of Historical Research. He also continued with 

research and fieldwork on the history of other Londons. 

Martin Daunton 

Martin has continued to deliver his presidential lectures to the Royal Historical Society, and 

completed a book on the economic history of Britain, 1851-951 to be published by OUP in 2007. 

Amy Erickson 

In 2005-6 Amy presented her co-edited collection, The Marital Economy, at the American 

Economic & Social History Conference in Portland, Oregon in November, and new work on 

women in the labour market in 18th-century London to the European Economic & Social History 

Conference in Amsterdam in March. 

Jim Galloway 

Jim Galloway held the inaugural Crown Estate-Caird Fellowship in the History of the Marine 

Environment at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich from January to June 2006. During 

the tenure of the fellowship he carried out research on the incidence and effects of marine 

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flooding in and around the Thames Estuary between 1250 and 1450. Two papers have been 

written based on this work and the first is currently being revised for publication in the Royal 

Geographical Society’s journal Area. Jim presented a paper on ‘Supplying an Irish port town: 

Drogheda and its hinterland in the later middle ages’ at the Leeds International Medieval 

Congress in July. During the year he had book reviews published in The Ricardian and Midland 

History. 

Sandra Holton 

Sandra has been working on her forthcoming book, Women Quakers, to be published by 

Routledge in May 2007. This looks at three generations of women Friends among the Priestman- 

Bright circle, one formed initially by the marriage of John Bright and Elizabeth Priestman. It 

looks at the relationship between domestic life and the involvement of women Friends in 

church, civil society and radical politics. Two articles relating to this research also appeared 

and a joint article with Robert Holton was also completed, and will appear in a collection next 

year. 

Linda Levy Peck 

In 2005-6, Linda published Consuming Splendor: Society and Culture in Seventeenth Century 

England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) and curated an exhibition at the Folger 

Shakespeare Library, entitled ‘Consuming splendor: luxury goods in England 1580-1680’, 15 

September 2005–31 December 2005. She also published an article entitled ‘The built 

environment and luxury consumption’, Journal of Architectural History, 65 (March 2006) 

and gave a paper entitled ‘Encounters with revisionism’ at a panel on the work of Conrad 

Russell at the North American Conference on British Studies. While teaching at George 

Washington University, she co-directed a seminar for doctoral candidates entitled ‘Researching 

the archive’ with David Scott Kastan, at the Folger Shakespeare Library. The Mental World of 

the Jacobean Court, which she edited (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 

appeared in paperback in 2005. 

Peter Marshall 

This year Peter published ‘The Muharram Riot of 1779 and the struggle for status and authority 

in early colonial Calcutta’, in the Journal of the Asiatic Society Bangladesh. He also 

contributed ‘British-Indian connections c.1780 to c.1830: the empire of the officials’, to 

Romantic Representations of British India, ed. Michael Franklin. 

Robert Oresko 

2006 was dominated by conferences and exhibitions in the German-speaking world, largely but 

not exclusively connected with the bicentenary of the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire. 

The one exception was a conference held in Potsdam on court historiography at which he spoke 

on dynastic historiography in Portugal, Lorraine, Savoy-Piedmont, Modena and Baden. This will 

be published early in 2008. The second exception was a conference on female regents in 

Torino, in which he put the last two Sabaudian regencies, that of Marie-Christine de Bourbon 

(1606-1663) and Maria Giovanna Battista of Savoy-Genevois-Nemours (1644-1722) into an 

international context. This will be published by Olschki late this year. The autumn was 

dominated by Reich conferences, mainly one at New College Oxford which he helped to 

organise with Robert Evans, Peter Wilson, Lyndal Roper and David Parrott. Here he spoke on 

juridical ties between Reichitalien and Vienna. He also participated in conferences on the 

dynastic ties between Munich and Paris at the Deutsches Historisches Institut, Paris and the 

Golden Fleece, organised in honour of Archduke Otto’s 94th birthday, at Heiligenkreuz. He has 

reviewed extensively for the English Historical Review and Apollo (a large article on the 

Bellotto exhibition in Paris and the Poussin-Chardin-Watteau exhibition in Paris) and has 

recently started reviewing for Francia and the Bibliothèque d’humanisme et de la Renaissance. 

Like all good vampires, he changes at sunset and becomes an opera and theatre critic. His 

article on the Vienna Staatsoper appeared in Opera, which is also publishing his interview with 

the great Flemish mezzo-soprano Rita Gorr. He is currently working on a long article of Pierluigi 

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Pizzi and Luca Ronconi for the same journal. The historical main project remains a study of the 

political career and cultural patronage of Maria Giovanna Battista of Savoy-Genevois-Nemours, 

and a much shorter study on princely bastards in the late medieval and early modern periods. 

In 2006, he was elected one of the 20 foreign members of the Deputazione subalpina per la 

storia patria, Torino. 

Frank Prochaska 

Frank Prochaska continues to teach at Yale. At the beginning of 2006 he published Christianity 

and Social Service in Modern Britain: The Disinherited Spirit with the Oxford University Press. 

Sir John Sainty 

In 2005-6 much of Sir John’s time has been devoted to the preparation of a list of vice-admirals 

of the coast in conjunction with Dr Andrew Thrush for publication by the List and Index Society. 

He has also completed lists of lord-lieutenants of counties to form part of a forthcoming 

publication. Otherwise his work has been mainly for the House of Lords section of the History 

of Parliament both on the revision of the biographies and on the institutional history. 

Paul Seaward 

Paul Seaward’s publications this year included ‘Clarendon, Tacitism, and the civil wars of 

Europe’, in The Uses of History in Early Modern England, a special edition of the Huntington 

Library Quarterly (68, 2005), edited by Paulina Kewes. With Professor Martin Dzelzainis, of 

Royal Holloway, University of London, he is beginning to prepare a general edition of the works 

of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon. 

Jenny Stratford 

Jenny Stratford has continued to teach palaeography and manuscript studies to graduate 

students of the University of London. Her main work has focused on the edition of the 

inventory of Richard II's treasure which she is preparing for publication. After publication of the 

book an electronic version of the medieval text will be available through British History Online. 

She is also collaborating with the IHR on an introductory website with images about the 

inventory to be ready early in 2007. She has spoken at several conferences. Her publications 

include a review article, ‘The Cambridge illuminations’, in Bulletin du Bibliophile (1/2006), 

and a joint chapter with Tessa Webber ‘Bishops and kings: the book collections and libraries of 

individuals, c. 13th to 15th centuries’, in The Cambridge history of libraries in Britain and 

Ireland, vol. 1 (Cambridge, 2006). 

Lynne Walker 

Lynne Walker ran the IHR training course, ‘Visual sources for historians’, and contributed on 

that topic to the CCBH MA. In addition to external examining, organising a public lecture series 

and giving papers at conferences in the USA and Britain, she published ‘Locating the 

global/rethinking the local: suffrage politics, architecture and space’, WSQ [USA], 34, 

(Spring/Summer 2006), pp. 174-196; and ‘Women patron-builders in Britain: identity, 

difference and memory in spatial and material culture’, in Local/Global, ed. D Cherry and J 

Helland (Ashgate, 2006), pp. 121-136. 

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Events at the Institute 

IHR Seminar Programme 

American History Seminar 

Adam Smith (UCL), Mara Kiere (QMUL), John Kirk (RHUL), John Howard (KCL), Elizabeth Clapp 

(Leicester), Vivien Miller (Middlesex), Bruce E Baker (Royal Holloway), Kendrick Oliver 

(Southampton) 

British History in the 17th Century 

Justin Champion (RHUL), John Miller (QMUL), Ariel Hessayon (Goldsmiths) 

British History 1815-1945 

Sally Alexander (Goldsmiths), Matthew Cragoe (Hertfordshire), David Feldman (Birkbeck), 

Catherine Hall (UCL), Roland Quinault (London Metropolitan), Paul Readman (KCL), Pat Thane 

(CCBH/IHR), Michael Thompson (IHR), Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck) 

British History in the Long 18th Century 

Arthur Burns (KCL), Penelope Corfield (RHUL), Tim Hitchcock (Hertfordshire), Julian Hoppit (UCL), 

Anne Stott 

British Maritime History 

David Cannadine (IHR), Margarette Lincoln (NMM), Nigel Rigby (NMM), N A M Rodger (Exeter) 

Collecting & Display 100 BC to AD 1700 

Andrea Gáldy (IESA), Adriana Turpin (IESA), Susan Bracken (IESA) 

Contemporary British History 

Rodney Lowe (Bristol), Pat Thane (CCBH/IHR) 

Crusades and the Latin East 

Jonathan Phillips (RHUL), Thomas Asbridge (QMUL) 

Earlier Middle Ages 

Stephen Baxter (KCL), Wendy Davies (UCL), David Ganz (KCL), John Gillingham (London), Sarah 

Lambert (Goldsmiths), Jinty Nelson (KCL) , Alan Thacker (VCH/IHR) 

European History 1500-1800 

Roger Mettam (QMUL), Philip Broadhead (Goldsmiths), Julian Swann (Birkbeck), Peter Campbell 

(Sussex), Filippo de Vivo (Birkbeck) 

History of Political Ideas 

Richard Bourke (QMUL), Gregory Claeys, Janet Coleman (LSE), and Michael Levin (Goldsmiths), 

Georgios Varouxakis, Jeremy Jennings 

History of Education Seminar 

Gary McCulloch (Institute of Education, University of London) 

Imperial History Seminar 

Andrew Porter (KCL), David Killingray (Goldsmiths), Sarah Stockwell (KCL) 

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International History Seminar 

Chris Baxter (The Queen’s University Belfast), Antony Best (LSE), Saki Dockrill (KCL), James 

Ellison (QMUL), Michael Kandiah (CCBH/IHR), Saul Kelly (KCL), Joseph Maiolo (KCL), Thomas 

Otte (East Anglia), Gill Staerck (IHR), John Young (Nottingham), Stephen Twigge (Foreign and 

Commonwealth Office) 

Issues in Film History 

Mark Glancy (QMUL) 

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) 

Late Medieval & Early Modern Italy 

Trevor Dean (Roehampton), Georgia Clarke (Courtauld Institute) 

Locality & Region 

Matthew Cragoe (Hertfordshire), Carol Davidson-Cragoe (English Heritage), Alan Thacker 

(VCH/IHR), Chris Thornton (IHR and Essex), Elizabeth Williamson (VCH/IHR), Julie Moore 

(Hertfordshire) 

London Group of Historical Geographers 

David Lambert, Miles Ogborn 

Low Countries 

Raingard Esser (UWE), Anne Goldgar (KCL), Benjamin Kaplan (UCL) 

Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture 

Warren Carter (UCL), Andrew Hemingway (UCL), Esther Leslie (Birkbeck), David Margolies 

(Goldsmiths), Steve Edwards (Open University), Frances Stracey (UCL) 

Medieval European History 1150-1550 

David Carpenter (KCL), David d’Avray (UCL), Sophie Page (UCL), Miri Rubin (QMUL), Anne 

Duggan (KCL) 

Medieval and Tudor London History 

Caroline M Barron (RHUL), Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck), Julia Merritt (Nottingham) 

Metropolitan History Seminar 

Matthew Davies (CMH/IHR), Richard Dennis (UCL), Derek Keene (CMH/IHR), Patrick Wallis (LSE) 

Military History Seminar 

David French (UCL), Brian Holden-Reid (KCL), Andrew Lambert (KCL), Michael Dockrill, William 

Philpott (KCL) 

Modern French History 

Julian Jackson (QMUL), Jeremy Jennings (QMUL), Colin Jones (QMUL), Debra Kelly 

(Westminster), Pamela Pilbeam (RHUL) 

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Modern German History 

Mark Hewitson (UCL), Egbert Klautke (SSEES), Eckard Michels (Birkbeck), Rudolf Muhs (RHUL), 

Cornelie Usborne (Roehampton), Nikolaus Wachsmann (Birbeck), Christina von Hodenberg 

(QMUL) 

Modern Italian History 

Claudia Baldoli (Newcastle), John Foot (UCL), Stephen Gundle (RHUL), Maurizio Isabella 

(QMUL), Axel Körner (UCL), Carl Levy (Goldsmiths), Jonathan Morris (Hertfordshire), Giuliana 

Pieri (RHUL), Maria Quine (QMUL), Lucy Riall (Birkbeck) 

Modern Religious History since 1750 

Arthur Burns (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 

Trust) 

Philosophy of History 

Robert Burns (Goldsmiths) 

Postgraduate Seminar 

Jennifer Ledfors (RHUL), Liza Filby (CCBH/IHR), Helen Glew (CCBH/IHR), John Clarke 

(University College Dublin), Catherine Wright (CMH/IHR), Helen McCarthy (CCBH/IHR) 

Psychoanalysis and History 

Sally Alexander (Goldsmiths), Barbara Taylor (UEL) 

Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World 1600-1900 

Catherine Hall (UCL), Keith McClelland (Middlesex), Clare Midgley (Sheffield Hallam), Zoe 

Laidlaw (RHUL) 

Socialist History 

Keith Flett, Dr David Renton, John Geoffrey Walker 

Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 

Laura Gowing (KCL), Michael Hunter (Birkbeck), Miri Rubin (QMUL), Adam Sutcliffe (KCL) 

The Economic and Social History of the Pre-Modern World 

Negley Harte (UCL), David Ormrod (Kent), Nuala Zahedieh (Edinburgh), S R Larry Epstein (LSE) 

The History of Gardens & Landscapes 

Janet Waymark (Birkbeck), Rebecca Preston (Kingston) 

The History of the Psyche 

Howard Caygill (Goldsmiths), David Reggio (Goldsmiths) 

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The Religious History of Britain 1500-1800 

David Crankshaw (KCL), Kenneth Fincham (Kent), Tom Freeman (Sheffield), Susan Hardman 

Moore (Edinburgh), Lucy Kostyanovsky (KCL), Nicholas Tyacke (UCL), Brett Usher (Reading), 

Arnold Hunt (British Library), Liz Evenden (Newnham College, Cambridge) 

Tudor & Stuart 

Pauline Croft (RHUL), Simon Healy (History of Parliament Trust), Richard Hoyle (Reading), 

Michael Questier (QMUL), Rivkah Zim (KCL) 

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), Pat 

Thane (CCBH/IHR), Cornelie Usborne (Roehampton) 

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Training Courses 2005-2006 

Methods and Sources for Historical Research 

14-18 November 2005 

Simon Trafford 

Databases for Historians 

22–25 November 2005 

18–21 July 2006 

Mark Merry 

Internet Sources for Historians 

29 November 2005 

16 June 2006 


An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Latin 

13 October 2005–15 December 2005 

Guido Giglioni 

Interviewing for Researchers 

8 December 2005 

8 June 2006 

Michael Kandiah 

Oral History 

23 January 2006–3 April 2006 

Anna Davin 

Methods and Sources for Women’s History 

27–31 March 2006 


Methods and Sources for Medieval History 

20–24 March 2006 


Methods and Sources for Historical Research 

3–7 April 2006 


British Sources and Archives 

10-14 July 2006 


An Introduction to Family History 

26–30 June 2006 


Visual Sources for Historians 

17 February 2006–17 March 2006 

Lynne Walker 

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Basic Statistics for Historians 

7 March 2006–30 May 2006 

Silvia Sovic 

Dealing with the Media 

11 April 2006 

Ivor Gaber 

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Public Lectures Organised by the Institute 

Alec Cairncross Lecture in Economic History 

Paul A Volcker (Princeton) 

‘International institutions in a global economy’ 

28 November 2005 

The Creighton Lecture 

Professor Roy Foster (Carroll Professor of Irish History, Oxford) 

‘Changed utterly? Historical transformations and contradictions in late twentieth-century 

Ireland’ 

1 December 2005 

The Inaugural Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 

Timothy Garton Ash 

‘Why Britain is in Europe’ 

26 October 2005 

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Groups which held Meetings/Conferences at the Institute 

Archives UK Consortium 

Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) 

Arts and Humanities Research Council 

(AHRC) 

Association of Genealogists and Researchers 

in Archives 

Biographical Dictionary Trust 

British Agricultural History Society 

British Association for Local Historians 

(BALH) 

British Association for Paper Historians 

(BAPH) 

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) 

British Empire and Commonwealth Museum 

British International History Group 

British Record Society 

British Society of Sports History 

Christianity and History Forum 

Commonwealth Museum 

Community Archives Development Group 

Coral Research Colloquium 

Cromwell Association 

Curriculum Partnership 

Ecclesiastical History Society Committee 

Economic History Society (EHS) 

Gender & History Editorial Collective 

Henry Bradshaw Society 

Historical Association 

Huguenot Society 

Journal of Leisure Studies Editorial Board 

Journal of Gender and History 

List and Index Society 

London Economic Society 

London Journal 

Monetary History Group 

Navy Records Publications Committee 

Navy Records Society 

Parliamentary History 

Railway and Canal Society 

Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 

to Animals (RSPCA) 

Society for the Study of French History 

Annual Committee 

Society for the Study of Labour History 

Society of Archivists 

Subject Centre for History, Classics and 

Archaeology 

The National Archives 

The William Shipley Group 

Welsh Institute for Social and Cultural 

Affairs 

Women’s History Network 

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Conferences Organised by the Institute 

History and the Public: 13-14 February 2006 

The History and Public conference brought together a broad range of people from universities, 

archives, museums, publishers and the media to discuss how the public study and consume 

history. 

Conference Programme 

Monday, 13 February 2006 

Plenary lectures 

John Tosh (Roehampton) 

Historical thinking and the enhancement of public debate 

Ludmilla Jordanova (King’s College London) 

Public history and aesthetic education 

Sessions 

The challenge of public history 

Chair: Kate Bradley (Centre for Contemporary British History) 

Hilda Kean (Ruskin College, Oxford) Public history: radical challenges to representations of the 

past? 

Daniel Snowman (Institute of Historical Research) Why the public loves history – and historians 

Graeme Black (Nottingham Trent) Integration, integration, integration: bringing together 

archives, local studies libraries and museums 

Archaeology and the public (I) 

Chair: Catherine Cavanagh (Victoria County History) 

Don Henson (Council for British Archaeology) They can’t come, they’re not qualified! 

James Doeser (University College London) Public archaeology as government policy 

Kim Biddulph (Buckinghamshire County Council County Archaeological Service) Unlocking 

Buckinghamshire’s past 

Museums and the construction of public memory 

Chair: Roderick Suddaby (Imperial War Museum) 

Susan Ashley (York, Toronto) Museums, citizenship and the public interest 

Stuart Davies (Bournemouth) Public history and the museum 

Mary Stevens (University College London) A ‘duty of history’? Rethinking national identity in 

the future museum of immigration in France 

Museums, country houses, communities and their publics 

Chair: Tanis Hinchcliffe (Westminster) 

Miles Taylor (York) Public understandings of the past: York case studies 

Allen Warren (York / Yorkshire Country House Partnership) The YCHP Project 

Laurajane Smith (York) and Gary Campbell (York) Knowing your place: landscapes of class, 

deference and resistance 

Colin Divall (York / National Rail Museum) Transport museums and their visitors 

Shared histories: museums in the 21st century 

Chair: Virginia Preston (Centre for Contemporary British History) 

Margarette Lincoln (National Maritime Museum) Museums, public history and memory 

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Robert J Blyth (National Maritime Museum) Britain and the transatlantic slave trade: the 

challenges of museum display and interpretation 

Douglas Hamilton (National Maritime Museum) Beyond the display: the National Maritime 

Museum and the public histories of the slave trade 

Making a secret history public 

Chair: Alan Thacker (Victoria County History) 

Andrew Prescott (Sheffield) Prospects and problems in masonic historiography 

Diane Clements (Library and Museum of Freemasonry) Displaying fraternalism 

Roger Burt (Exeter) Reconstructing lost networks 

Plenary lecture 

Liz Forgan (Heritage Lottery Fund) 

Whose heritage? 

Tuesday, 14 February 2006 


Charles Saumarez Smith (The National Gallery) 

Art history and the public at the National Gallery 

Sessions 

Archivists and public history 

Chair: David Bates (Institute of Historical Research) 

Elizabeth Hallam Smith (The National Archives) Can archivists shape history? 

Michael Moss (Glasgow) Archives - a choreographed encounter? 

Lucy Fulton (The National Archives) Marketing archives: the impact on public history 

The public understanding of history 

Chair: Mark Connelly (Kent) 

Rosemary Sweet (Leicester) Eighteenth century antiquaries and their relationship to public 

interest in history 

John Law (Swansea) The public and the italian renaissance in Victorian Britain 

Ian Archer (Oxford) London livery companies and their publics, 1300–2005 

Archaeology and the public (II) 

Chair: Elizabeth Williamson (Victoria County History) 

John Graham (Historic Scotland) The work of Historic Scotland 

Peter Wakelin (Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales) The 

twenty first century guidebook – providing mobile public access to Welsh historic environment 

data 

Gabriel Moshenska (University College London) and Faye Simpson (Museum of London) Second 

World War archaeology as public history 

The creation of public memory 

Chair: Chris Murphy 

Carole Holohan (University College Dublin) More than a revival of memories? The legacy for 

youth of the heroic generation 

Jenny Macleod (Edinburgh) Military history and identity in Scotland 

Stefan Goebel (Kent / Centre for Metropolitan History) Collective memory in the age of total 

war 

National record or historical debate? The public roles of the DNB 

Chair: Paul Seaward (History of Parliament) 

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Henry Summerson (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography) Lives and afterlives: shifts in 

reputation in the DNB 

Vivienne Larminie (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography) Which lives? Following and leading 

collective memory 

Philip Carter (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography) Whose life is it? Public responses to the 

DNB 

Historical sources and domestic life made public 

Chair: James Moore (Centre for Metropolitan History) 

Margaret Ponsonby (Wolverhampton) Interpreting domestic interiors at historic house museums 

Tanis Hinchcliffe (Westminster) History in the house: popular representations of the 

nineteenth century and urban gentrification 

Tim Arnold and Jonathan Draper (The Norfolk County Record Office) Norfolk E-Map Explorer: 

making historical sources easier to access 

Plenary Lecture 

Darryl McIntyre (Museum of London) 

An Australian perspective on public history 

Sessions 

The Creation of public histories 

Chair: Matthew Davies (Centre for Metropolitan History) 

Elizabeth Edwards (University of the Arts London) ‘A credit to yourself and your country’: 

popular historical consciousness and the photographic survey movement 1890-1914 

Mary Salinsky (Institute of Historical Research) Usable pasts? Interpretations of English history 

1900–1939 

Ellen McAdam (Glasgow Museums) The creation of a public history: Glasgow’s medieval history 

The view from the USA 

Chair: Hilda Kean (Ruskin College, Oxford) 

Travis Henline (The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) A new face at a mythic place: the 

American Indian initiative at Colonial Williamsburg 

Veronica Ortenberg (Victoria County History) Hollywood and the creation of public history 

Hilary Soderland (Cambridge) Archaeology and the public: the historical context for the legal 

regulation of archaeology on public lands in the United States 

Built history, daily use and public understanding 

Chair: Don Henson (Council for British Archaeology) 

Simona Valeriani (London School of Economics and Political Science) The historical value of the 

built heritage: specialist and public perceptions 

Johannes Cramer (Technische Universität Berlin) How real is history? 

Wilfried Lipp (Paris-Lodron-Universität) Built heritage, politics and the public 

Roundtable conclusion 

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Anglo-American Conference of Historians 2006: 5-7 July 2006 

The 75th Anglo-American Conference of Historians, Religions and Politics, featured six plenary 

lectures given by Callum Brown, Richard Carwardine, David Cesarani, Patrick Collinson, Barbara 

D Metcalf and Jinty Nelson. Over 350 delegates registered for the conference. 

Conference Programme 

Wednesday, 5 July 


Patrick Collinson (Cambridge) The politics of religion and the religion of politics in Elizabethan 

England 


Barbara D Metcalf (Michigan) Imagining Muslim futures: debates over state and society at the 

end of the Raj 

Seminar sessions 

Religion and politics in England and Scotland in the tenth–twelfth centuries 

Chair: Pauline Stafford (Liverpool) 

Catherine Cubitt (York) The politics of piety: penance and kingship in tenth–twelfth century 

England 

David Bates (Institute of Historical Research) Religion and the politics of 1066 

Melanie Heyworth (Sydney) Moralising legislation, legislating morals: interrelations between 

penitentials and law-codes in late Anglo-Saxon England 

Joanna Huntington (York) St Margaret of Scotland’s conspicuous consumption and the politics 

of post-Conquest reconciliation 

Religion and politics in the three Stewart kingdoms 

Chair: John Morrill (Cambridge) 

Jenny Wormald (St Hilda’s College, Oxford) Religion and politics in Jacobean Scotland 

Grant Tapsell (Darwin College, Cambridge) Whig anti-popery and seventeenth-century 

perceptions of Ireland 

George Southcombe (Lincoln College, Oxford) The political poetry of dissent in Restoration 

England 

Enlightenment, religion and revolution: the case of 1789 

Chair: Clarissa Campbell Orr (Anglia Ruskin) 

Gareth Stedman Jones (Cambridge) The French Revolution as failed reformation and its 

consequences 

Richard Bourke (Queen Mary, University of London) Enlightenment, fanaticism and revolution 

Joseph Clarke (Trinity College Dublin) ‘A second creation’: religion and regeneration in 

revolutionary France 

Protestantism and politics in modern Ireland 

Chair: Ian McBride (King’s College London) 

Ultán Gillen (Institute of Historical Research) Protestantism and counter-revolution in Ireland, 

1786–1804 

Matthew Kelly (Hertford College, Oxford) Sectarian tensions in provincial Ireland (outside 

Ulster): the Protestant street preaching problem in the 1890s 

Robert Tobin (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) Southern Protestantism and national identity in 

Ireland, 1948–72 

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Religious militancy and politics in the late twentieth century 

Chair: John Wolffe (Open) 

Paul Freston (Calvin College, Grand Rapids) Evangelical Christian militancy and politics in late 

twentieth century Latin America and Africa: questioning some myths 

Anna Zelkina (School of Oriental and African Studies) The politicisation of Islam in the former 

Soviet Union in the late twentieth century 

David Herbert (Open) Terror and welfare: the social origins of contemporary Islamic militancy 

Witness seminar 

Faith in the City: the report of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s commission on urban priority 

areas (I) 

Chair: Hugh McLeod (Birmingham) 

Religion, the state and violence in the House of Islam 

Gerald Hawting (School of Oriental and African Studies) The punishment of rebels and heretics 

in the Caliphate 

Michael Bonner (Michigan) Jihad, individual and collective: from pre-modern to modern Islam 

Colin Imber (Manchester) Sacred and the secular in the formation of Ottoman law 

Sacral kingship 1100–1300: Capetian, Angevin and Hohenstaufen 

Chair: David Carpenter (King’s College London) 

Martin Aurell (Poitiers) The Capetians 

Nicholas Vincent (East Anglia) The Angevins 

Björn Weiler (Aberystwyth) The Hohenstaufens 

Monasticism and English politics, c.1400–1630 

Chair: Clive Burgess (Royal Holloway, University of London) 

Virginia Bainbridge (West of England) Prayer and power: mythology, propaganda and the 

supernatural in the history of Syon Abbey, c.1415–1625 

James G Clark (Bristol) Popular politics and the dissolution of the monasteries 

Caroline Bowden (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Michael Questier (Queen Mary, 

University of London) Exiled nuns and English politics: the Mary Ward Sisters in London in the 

1620s 

Religion and war after the Peace of Westphalia 

Chair: Steven Pincus (Yale) 

David Onnekink (Utrecht) The last wars of religion? The Nine Years War and the War of the 

Spanish Succession 

Emma Bergin (Hull) Defending the true faith: religious themes in Dutch pamphlets on foreign 

policy, 1685–89 

Tony Claydon (Bangor) Religion and public discourse in the War of the Spanish Succession 

Irish Catholicism and the state in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries 

Chair: Ian McBride (King’s College London) 

Miriam Moffitt (National University of Ireland, Maynooth) ‘Can ethnicity be modified through 

religious conversion?’ A case study of a nineteenth century Protestant mission to Irish 

Catholics 

Alan Parkinson (South Bank) Shipyard confetti: Belfast’s twenties’ troubles 

Church, clergy and politics in Southern Africa, from the 1940s to the 1990s 

Chair: John Stuart (King’s College London) 

Catherine Higgs (Tennessee) Faith, politics and the Sisters of Mercy in apartheid South Africa 

Eric Morier-Genoud (Lausanne) Catholicism and African nationalism in Mozambique, 1960–74 

Christopher Saunders (Cape Town) Michael Scott and Namibia 

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Witness seminar (continued) 

Faith in the City: the report of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s commission on urban priority 

areas (II) 

Chair: Hugh McLeod (Birmingham) 

Royal Historical Society Prothero Lecture (Beveridge Hall) 

Jeremy Catto (Oriel College, Oxford) The burden and conscience of government in the 

fifteenth century 

Prothero reception 

The IHR’s Pollard Prize (sponsored by Blackwell Publishing) and the Neale Prize were awarded 

alongside the Royal Historical Society’s annual prizes. 

Thursday, 6 July 


Jinty Nelson (King’s College London) Faith and fidelity in the reign of Charlemagne 


Politics and religion in the ancient world: the working of religion in politics 

Chair: John North (University College London) 

Hugh Bowden (King’s College London) Democracy and religion: the case of classical Athens 

James Pawley (University College London) Getting round the gods: Caesar as consul in 59 BC 

Lindsay Allen (King’s College London) The seer as spokesman in post-Achaemenid Persia 

The Crusades and the Near East (I) 

Chair: Thomas Asbridge (Queen Mary, University of London) 

Taif al-Azhari (Helwan, Cairo) The Caliphate and the politics of the medieval Middle East: 

survival and influence 

Carole Hillenbrand (Edinburgh) Jihad under Nural-Din and Saladin: the evidence of poetry and 

sermons 

William Purkis (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) Rediscovering reconquest: the impact of 

crusading ideology on Christian-Muslim relations in Iberia, c.1100–c.1150 

Religious toleration and the rise of political parties in early modern England 

Chair: Stephen Taylor (Reading) 

Noah McCormack (Harvard) Toleration and the first English political party, 1673–1677 

Scott Sowerby (Harvard) The repealer movement: religious toleration and popular politics in 

England, 1687–1688 

Andrew Starkie (Selwyn College, Cambridge) The repeal of the Occasional Conformity and 

Schism Acts, 1719 

Religion and the Victorian monarchy 

Chair: Arthur Burns (King’s College London) 

James Sack (Illinois, Chicago) The Tories and Victoria as governor of the Church of England 

Matthew Cragoe (Hertfordshire) The Whigs and Victoria as governor of the Church of England 

Walter L Arnstein (Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Queen Victoria as religious Liberal 

Christendom from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first: decline and rise, or 

dissolution? (I) 

Chair: John Wolffe (Open) 

Sheridan Gilley (Durham) The last of Christendom? The rule of Christ the King from Pius IX to 

Pius XII 

Colleen McDannell (Utah) Spiritual depression? Religion in the United States in the 1930s 

Hugh McLeod (Birmingham) Did Christendom die in the West in the 1960s? 

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Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus: South Asian diasporas in Britain and religious nationalism in 

South Asia 

Chair: Ian Talbot (Southampton) 

Gurharpal Singh (Birmingham) British multiculturalism and the Sikhs 

Humayun Ansari (Royal Holloway, University of London) Burying the dead: making Muslim space 

in Britain 

Priyanjali Malik (Merton College, Oxford) India’s nuclear arsenal: the Hindu bomb? 

Politics and religion in the ancient world: toleration and persecution 

Chair: John North (University College London) and Hugh Bowden (King’s College London) 

Amélie Kuhrt (University College London) Toleration as policy in the empire of the 

Achaemenids 

Bella Sandwell (Bristol) Religion, power and models of religious toleration in the fourth 

century AD Roman world 

Joseph Streeter (University College, Oxford) Orthodoxy and the state, from the later Roman 

Empire to the early middle ages 

The Crusades and the Near-East (II) 

Chair: Jonathan Phillips (Royal Holloway, University of London) 

Andrew Jotischky (Lancaster) The Holy Sepulchre and the Muslims in Byzantine and Western 

monastic traditions 

Marcus Bull (Bristol) Political identity and the First Crusade 

Thomas Asbridge (Queen Mary, University of London) Latin / Muslim relations at the time of 

the First Crusade: pragmatism v ideology 

The religious roots of North Atlantic evangelical and Protestant politics, 1776–1886 

Chair: Stewart Brown (Edinburgh) 

John Coffey (Leicester) Protestants and patriots: religion and political alignments during the 

American War of Independence 

John Wolffe (Open) Evangelicals, Catholics and nativists in Britain and the United States, 1829– 

1861 

Andrew Holmes (Queen’s Belfast) Whatever happened to Ulster Presbyterian radicalism? 

Religion, land and denominational identity in the nineteenth century 

Christendom from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first: decline and rise, or 

dissolution? (II) 

Chair: Andrew Porter (King’s College London) 

Brian Stanley (St Edmund’s College, Cambridge) Defining the boundaries of Christendom: the 

World Missionary Conference, 1910 

Christopher Abel (University College London) Re-evaluating the history of the Church in Latin 

America 

David Maxwell (Keele) Africa: a new heartland within world Christianity 

Sectarianism, Sufism and cross border intervention: religious politics in Pakistan 

Chair: Francis Robinson (Royal Holloway, University of London) 

Farzana Shaikh (Clare Hall, Cambridge) Sectarian myths and the mirage of citizenship 

Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway, University of London) Religion and politics in Sindh since 1947 

Sana Haroon (Institute of Historical Research) Pakistani ‘madrassas’ and the Afghan ‘Jihad’ 

Religion and the Cold War 

Chair: Dianne Kirby (Ulster) 

Axel Schäfer (Keele) Evangelicals and the Cold War 

Tony Shaw (Hertfordshire) Religion and Cold War cinema 

George Egerton (British Columbia) Religion and Cold War Canada: from MacKenzie King to 

Trudeau 

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Callum Brown (Dundee) Secularisation, the growth of militancy, and the spiritual revolution: 

religious change and cultural power, 1901–2001 

Conference reception 

Hosted by David T Johnson, Minister and Deputy Chief of Mission (Embassy of the 

United States of America) 

Friday, 7 July 2006 

Plenary lectures 

Richard Carwardine (Oxford) ‘The judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether’: 

religion in the politics of the American Civil War 

David Cesarani (Royal Holloway, University of London) Jews and Muslims in Britain: religious 

politics and the politics of religion 


Religion and medieval / modern state-building 

Chair: Catherine Rider (Christ’s College, Cambridge) 

Ian Forrest (All Souls College, Oxford) Did inquisition make or break the state? 

Chris Fletcher (Pembroke College, Cambridge) Morality and office in late fourteenth-century 

England and France 

Andrea Ruddick (Pembroke College, Cambridge) English national sentiment and religious 

vocabulary in the fourteenth century 

Questions of authority: religion and politics in Restoration England 

Chair: John Spurr (Swansea) 

Charles Littleton (History of Parliament) ‘The Cabal of Suffolk House’: old independents and 

new Presbyterians in the Restoration religious settlement 

Beverly Adams (History of Parliament) The Anglican reaction in Hertford, 1673–89 

Robin Eagles (History of Parliament) By what right? The place of the Lords Spiritual and 

Temporal in the Parliament of England, c.1620–1661 

Religion and the shaping of British politics 

William Lubenow (Richard Stockton College of New Jersey) Roman Catholicism, Irish 

nationalism, and the shaping of Liberalism in the nineteenth century 

Chris R Kyle (Syracuse) Catholics in early Stuart parliaments: how, what, why, where and 

when? 

Joseph Coohill (Pennsylvania) Religion and the architectural style for the new Houses of 

Parliament 

The politics of religion in Europe: Protestants, Catholics and Orthodox, c.1750–1918 

Chair: Janet Hartley (London School of Economics and Political Science) 

Simon Dixon (Leeds) Monks in politics in late imperial Russia 

Pasi Ihalainen (Jyväskylä) Clerical constructions of national community in English, French, 

Prussian and Swedish political sermons, 1750–1800: a comparative conceptual analysis 

James McMillan (Edinburgh) Culture war or ralliement? The politics of religious identity in 

Brittany in the Belle Epoque 

The politics of religion in the Americas 

Chair: James Dunkerley (Institute for the Study of the Americas) 

R Bryan Bademan (Sacred Heart, Fairfield) Political ethics and the Protestant nation: American 

intellectuals reflect on the meaning of America, 1865–1900 

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Martin Durham (Wolverhampton) The Christian right and the politics of morality 

Vassiliki Karali (Edinburgh) Anglicanism and the formation of loyalist and patriot groups in the 

Chesapeake at the time of the American Revolution 

Gary Miedema (Toronto) ‘Eternal Truths’: the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the 

construction of a multi-faith Canada, 1938–1970 

Religion and the war on terror 

Chair: Dianne Kirby (Ulster) 

Dianne Kirby (Ulster) The Cold War and roots of Islamic militance and war on terror 

Charles R Gallagher (College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts) Roman Catholic 

social ethics and the US global war on terror 

Daud Abdullah (Muslim Council of Britain) Towards an understanding of politics in Islam 

Concluding discussion 

Religions and politics in the contemporary world: a historical perspective 

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Day for New Research Students 


IHR Open Day: London’s Research Resources 


Other IHR Events 

Careers in History: A One-Day Workshop for Postgraduate Students 

14 March 2006 

IHR/History Lab 2006 Postgraduate Conference: Faiths and Ideologies 

3-4 July 2006 


‘Beyond Shakespeare’s Globe: people, place and plays in the Middlesex suburbs 1400-1700’ 


‘Metropolis and state in early modern Europe (c.1400-1800)’ 

27-28 March 2006 


CCBH Summer Conference, ‘From “voluntary organisation” to “NGO”? Voluntary action in 

Britain since 1900’ 

28-30 June 2006 

Witness Seminars 

‘The changing climate of opinion: economic policymaking, 1975-9’ 


‘British foreign policymaking during the Thatcher era and beyond’ 

6 February 2006 

‘Old gilt edge markets’ 

22 March 2006 

‘Faith in the City: the Church of England’s report into urban priority areas’ 

5 July 2006 

Seminars 

‘Women and citizenship’, seminar series sponsored by the ESRC 

June to December 2005 

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Membership and Accounts 

Membership 

University of London 1715 

Other UK universities 1799 

Overseas universities 441 

Private individuals 831 

Visitors/temporary members 255 

TOTAL 5041 

Accounts 

Income 

HEFCE grants: allocated by curators £915,807.00 

HEFCE grants: paid direct £900.00 

Tuition fees £52,258.00 

Research grants and contracts £1,578,626.93 

Research grants and endowments income - 

Research grants IHR VCH East Riding only £34,402.64 

Other income £310,603.52 

Donations £135,658.37 

Income from endowments - 

Interest £32,267.55 

TOTAL INCOME £3,060,524.01 

Expenditure 

Pay 

Academic departments £777,732.10 

Academic services - 

General educational - 

Administration £202,331.06 

Student and staff amenities £9,170.44 

Premises £65,618.62 

Research grants and contracts £899,856.18 

Miscellaneous - 

Extraordinary payments - 

TOTAL PAY EXPENDITURE £1,954,708.40 

Non-pay 

Academic departments £217,282.58 

Academic services £55,325.49 

General educational £21,996.80 

Administration £45,762.85 

Student and staff amenities £9,987.63 

Premises £70,767.17 

Research grants and contracts £653,631.04 

Miscellaneous - 

Central Services £74,008.63 

TOTAL NON-PAY EXPENDITURE £1,148,762.19 

SURPLUS/(DEFICIT) BEFORE TRANSFERS TO/(FROM) RESERVES £(42,946.58) 

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Friends of the IHR 

Chair: Susan Reynolds 

Hon Treasurer: Stephen Taylor 

Hon Secretary: Felicity Jones 

Other committee members: Professors Michael Thompson and David Bates 

Friends: 746 

American Friends: 183 

Corporate Friends (Institutions): 2 

Complimentary Friends: 17 

Life friends 

Mr B G Awty 

Professor G W S Barrow FBA, FRSE 

Mr J E G Bennell 

Mrs M Berg 

Mr G C Bird 

Professor C N L Brooke FBA 

Sir C Chadwyck-Healey 

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Mrs E E Cowie 

Ms E Crittall 

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Professor Sir J H Elliot 

Professor C R Elrington 

Ms A C Fawcett CBE 

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Professor Susan Hansen 

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Dr M Hori 

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Lady Lawrence 

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American History Seminar 

Appendix 

Seminars held at the Institute 

Claudia Haake (York) 

‘Same Difference – Native American removal in the United States and Mexico’ 

Emma Hart (St Andrews) 

‘Comparative aspects of the social structure in British and American towns during the 18th 

century’ 

Axel R Schäfer (Keele) 

‘Evangelicals, the Cold War state, and the resurgence of conservatism in the US, 1942-1990’ 

Kathryn Kish Sklar (State University of New York, Binghamton) 

‘The centrality of feminism in American political history, 1776-2000’ 

Jessica Gibbs (Reading) 

‘Congressional entrepreneurship and lobby group pressure: the Cuban Liberty and Democratic 

Solidarity Act of 1996 (Helms-Burton)’ 

Kieran Walsh Taylor (North Carolina) 

‘Turn to the working class: the New Left, black liberation, and the American labor movement 

in the 1970s’ 

Melvyn Stokes (UCL) 

‘'Fighting the color line in Montmartre and Montparnasse: the Reception of D W Griffith’s The 

Birth of a Nation in France’ 

Bryant Simon (Temple) 

‘Making the world safe for a double half-caf latte: Starbucks and the branding of experience’ 

Mary Beth Norton (Cornell) 

‘Lady Frances Berkeley and the politics of gendered power in 17th century Virginia’ 

Richard Follett (Sussex) 

‘Unfree labour after emancipation: anomaly or necessity? Louisiana’s sugar workforce’ 

Elizabeth Wells (Mount Allison University) 

‘West Side Story: perspectives on an American musical’ 

British History in the 17th Century 

Stephen Roberts 

‘The curious case of Henry Bowen; or the Gower Ghost of 1655 exorcised’ 

Cesare Cuttica 

‘Kentish cousins at odds: Filmer’s Patriarcha and Thomas Scot of Canterbury’s Defence of 

Freeborn Englishmen’ 

Grant Tapsell 

'Political life during the personal rule of Charles II, 1681-5' 

Manfred Brod 

‘Religion, radicalism and magic in the Thames Valley: Dr Pordage and his circle 1646-54’ 

Alex Barber 

'Blasphemous, irreligious and heretical positions lately published': controlling the press in the 

late 17th and early 18th centuries’ 

Tim Harris 

‘Writing a British history of the Glorious Revolution’ 

D’Maris Coffman 

‘“What do these madmen want?” The chits, Colbert and the origins of Treasury control’ 

Paul Rahe 

‘The epicurean foundations of modern political thought: Machiavelli, Bacon and Hobbes’ 

Linda Waterman-Holly 

‘Interest, benefit and the common good in 17th-century England’ 

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Mark Goldie 

‘Damaris Masham and John Locke: philosophy and femininity in the later Stuart age’ 

Jacqueline Rose 

Restoration royalism and the intellectual roots of revolution’ 

Andreas Pecar 

‘Rule by divine right: James VI and I, interpretation of the Bible and strategies of “selffashioning”’ 

Susannah Randall 

‘Reading between the lines: a cultural reading of the Restoration newspaper’ 

Jeremy Schildt 

‘“Keep your day booke, wright down your sins”: religious diary-writing in 17th century England’ 

British History 1815-1945 

Martin Daunton (Cambridge) 

‘From Exhibition to Festival: writing the economic history of Britain, 1851-1951’ 

Helen Jones (Goldsmiths) 

‘British civilians in the front line, 1939-45’ 

Vanessa Taylor (Birkbeck) 

‘Smelling of the ale-vat: philanthropic London brewers and the mid-Victorian drinking fountain 

movement’ 

Jane Rendall (York), David Feldman (Birkbeck), Pat Thane (IHR/CCBH) and Gareth Stedman 

Jones (Cambridge) 

‘An end to poverty? Roundtable discussion of Gareth Stedman Jones’s recent book’ 

Marc Brodie (Monash) 

‘Trust, distrust and the personal in London politics’ 

Matthew Cragoe (Hertfordshire) 

‘Loose Conservatism: revisiting “Peel appeal”, 1834-41’ 

Clare Griffiths (Sheffield) 

‘A very English socialist? Englishness, internationalism and G D H Cole’ 

Sean Brady (Birkbeck) 

‘The history of homosexual identity in Britain’ 

Robert Saunders (Lincoln College, Oxford) 

‘Rethinking reform: the making of the Second Reform Act, 1848-67’ 

Julia Stapleton (Durham) 

‘The England of G K Chesterton’ 

Vee Barbary (Cambridge) 

‘Liberals and the union: Liberal reactions to Home Rule in south-east Lancashire 1885-1895’ 

Kathryn Beresford (UCL) 

'Men of Kent: militarism and masculinities, 1815-1837’ 

British Maritime History 

Sarah Palmer (Greenwich) 

‘Leaders and followers: the development of an international maritime policy in the 19th 

century’ 

Margarette Lincoln (National Maritime Museum) 

‘Mutinies in the Pacific, 1780-1820’ 

David J Starkey (Hull) 

‘Tarred with the same brush? Pirates and privateersmen, 1560-1856’ 

Christopher Bell (Dalhousie) 

‘Mutinies in the Royal Navy, 1919-39’ 

Jonathan Lamb (Vanderbilt) 

‘Owning up to the loss of property: the salience of missing things in the narratives of Cook’s 

last voyage’ 

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Jane Webster (Newcastle upon Tyne) 

‘The Zong and the beginning of the end of the slave trade’ 

Virginia Preston (Greenwich) 

‘“A little flogging had taken place”: discipline and punishment in the Royal Navy, 1830-1860’ 

Nigel Rigby (National Maritime Museum) 

‘“Something wanting in the matter of command?” George Vancouver's posthumous reputation’ 

Henry Claridge (Kent) 

‘Billy Budd, sailor: Herman Melville’s crime and punishment’ 

Keith Carabine (Kent) 

‘The Cutty Sark incident and Conrad’s The Secret Sharer’ 

Nuala Zahedieh (Edinburgh) 

‘Politics, patronage and plunder: Sir Henry Morgan and the government of Jamaica, 1675-1688’ 

Professor John Gascoigne (New South Wales) 

‘James Cook, the sea, and culture contact in the Pacific’ 

Contemporary British History 

Dominic Sandbrook 

‘Rethinking the myths of the sixties: sex, drugs and rock n’ roll?’ 

Virginia Berridge (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) 

‘An historian’s view of the future: predicting the future of psychoactive drugs and alcohol 

policy’ 

J.M.Lee (Bristol) 

‘The Romney Street Group and post-war reconstruction: its origins and influence, 1916-1922’ 

Gill Bennett (Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1995-2005) 

‘A long time in politics: how a week changed Ernest Bevin’s mind about European Union (Dec 

1945)’ 

David Howell (York) 

‘Clem and Ernie: a Labour partnership’ 

Keith Dowding (LSE) 

‘Ministerial resignations and reshuffles in 20th century Britain’ 

Rosaleen Hughes (QMUL) 

‘The 1970’s and the crumbling of the post-war consensus?’ 

Paddy Scannel (Westminster) 

‘Theory was the answer, but what was the question? The rise of media of media and cultural 

studies in the 1960s’ 

Terry Gourvish (LSE) 

‘The Channel Tunnel: stunning achievement or spectacular failure? An historian’s view’ 

Peter Beck (Kingston) 

‘Learning from history in British foreign policy-making: the influence of the Abadan and Suez 

disputes in the 1960s’ 

Sonya Rose (Michigan) 

‘Masculinity, citizenship and the “civic public”: Britain, 1867-1939’ 

Jeremy Smith (Chester College) 

‘“Walking a real tightrope of difficulties”: Heath, Lynch and the Politics’ 

The Crusades and the Latin East 

Clive Porro (QMUL) 

‘A very Lusitanian affair: the suppression of the Templars in Portugal’ 

William Purkis (Cambridge) 

‘Jerusalem, Compostela and the early development of Crusading in Iberia’ 

Jason Roche (St Andrews) 

‘Conrad III and the Second Crusade: retreat from Dorulaion?’ 

Jonathan Riley-Smith (Cambridge) 

‘The death and burial of Latin Christian pilgrims to Jerusalem and Acre 1099-1291’ 

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Nicholas Morton (RHUL) 

‘The diplomatic role of Herman de Salza and the Teutonic Knights during the Fifth Crusade’ 

Alison Jinks (RHUL) 

‘Philip Augustus and the Crusades’ 

Jochen Schenk (Cambridge) 

‘Family networks in the Temple’ 

Peter Edbury (Cardiff) 

‘The Old French William of Tyre: manuscripts, text and translation’ 

John France (Swansea) 

‘Capuchins and mercenaries’ 

Jonathan Phillips (RHUL) 

‘Rethinking the Second Crusade: origins and outcomes’ 

Earlier Middle Ages 

Julia Hilner (Manchester) 

‘Families, property and patronage: the case of the Roman titular churches’ 

British Academy Conference 

‘Anglo-Saxon/Irish relations before the Vikings’ 

Mia Munster-Swendsen (Copenhagen) 

‘Law and learning in the North: Lawrence of Durham (c.1100-54) and his intellectual 

environment’ 

Jane Martindale (East Anglia) 

‘Fulk of Anjou (1043-1109): a misunderstood autobiography’ 

Damien Bracken (University College, Cork) 

‘Irish reactions to the primacy of Rome in the 17th century’ 

Kriston Rennie (KCL) 

‘Rethinking the extent of Legatine authority under Pope Gregory VII (1073-85)’ 

Paul Hyams (Cornell) 

‘The joy of freedom and the price of respectability (Joint Seminar with England and Europe 

1150-1550)’ 

Richard Gem (London) 

‘St Peter’s, Rome, in the early middle ages: liturgical geography and architectural form’ 

Shoichi Sato (Nagoya) 

‘Observations on the marriage politics of the Merovingian dynasty’ 

Lindsay Rudge (IHR) 

‘Texts and contexts: the monastic works of Caesarius of Arles’ 

Sigbjorn Sonnesyn (Oslo) 

‘Ad bonae vitae institutum: William of Malmesbury and the utility of history’ 

Fiona Edmonds (Cambridge) 

‘Hiberno-Saxon and Hiberno-Scandinavian contact in the west of the Northumbrian Kingdom’ 

Genevieve Buehrer-Thierry (Marne-la-Vallée) 

‘Women and land: transmission of patrimonies and family strategies amongst the aristocracy of 

the Carolingian world’ 

Rachel Stone (Cambridge) 

‘Purity or danger? An alternative view of Carolingian sexual regulation’ 

Max Liebermann (Cambridge) 

‘The origins of the March of Wales: the Powys-Shropshire borders, c.1070-1283’ 

Caroline Goodson (Birkbeck) 

‘Reading S. Cecilia in Trastevere: early medieval saint veneration in Roman churches’ 

Stephane Lebecq (Lille) 

‘The deaths of Merovingian kings’ 

Robin Fleming (Boston) 

‘Status, sanctity and silk in late Anglo-Saxon England’ 

Anne Williams (London) 

‘Offa’s Dyke: a monument without a history?’ 

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Alex Burghart (KCL) 

‘Mercian lordship before Alfred’ 

Simon Yarrow (Birmingham) 

‘Family, gender and identity in the Historia Ecclesiastica of Orderic Vitalis’ 

Sarah Halton (London) 

‘Women as witnesses: female agency in transactions with Cluny 900-1050’ 

Benet Salway (UCL) 

‘St Jerome in Carolingian Germany: the compilation of MS Oxford Merton College 315’ 

George Garnett (St Hugh’s Oxford) 

‘Marsilius of Padua and his critics’ 

Matthew Gillis (Virginia) 

‘The many faces of Gottscalk of Orbais: strategies of self-representation in a 9th century life’ 

Christopher Currie (IHR) 

‘Odda’s Chapel, Ealdred’s inscriptions? Deerhurst texts in imperial and other contexts’ 

Paul Hilliard (St Edmund’s College, Cambridge) 

‘The connexions between history and exegesis in the earlier works of the Venerable Bede’ 

Guy Halsall (York) 

‘Saving Walter Goffart. (Yet) another view of the techniques of accommodating the barbarians’ 

The Economic and Social History of the Pre-Modern World 

Larry Epstein (LSE) 

‘Transforming technological knowledge and innovations in Europe, c.1200–1800’ 

Victoria Bateman (Oxford) 

‘Market integration in Europe, 1350-1800’ 

Patrick Wallis (LSE) 

‘The commercialisation of healthcare in early modern England’ 

David Ormrod (Kent) 

‘Market integration versus customary practice: the evidence of urban and farm rents in 

southern England, 1580-1830’ 

Jeremy Boulton (Newcastle) 

‘Charity universal? Parochial contributions to distressed Protestants in Cromwellian England’ 

Christiaan van Bochove (IISH, Amsterdam) 

‘Innovation and production strategies: the sawmilling industries of northern Europe, 1600-1800’ 

Huw Bowen (Leicester) 

‘Re-estimating the volume and value of British exports to Asia: implications for the 

development of the domestic economy, 1760-1833’ 

Richard Unger (British Columbia) 

‘Thermal energy and early modern European development’ 

Natalie Zacek (Manchester) 

‘“A people so subtle”: Sephardic Jews of the English Caribbean’ 

D’Maris Coffman (Pennsylvania) 

‘New light on “the devil’s remedy”: excise taxation in England, 1650-1700’ 

Craig Muldrew (Queens College, Cambridge) 

‘“Th’Ancient Distaff and Whirling Spindle”. Measuring the contribution of spinning to 

household earnings and the national economy in England, 1550-1770’ 


James H Marrow (Princeton and Cambridge) Chair: David d’Avray 

‘The Passion of Christ: a late medieval view’ 

Eva Holmberg, Chair and comment: Professor Miri Rubin 

‘Cities of the Jews and spatial imagination in late medieval and Renaissance England’ 

Veronique Souche (London) Chair: Brigitte Resl 

‘Jan Gielemans (d. 1487) and the invention of hagiographic patriotism’ 

Marc Morris (London) Chair: David Carpenter 

‘The coronation of Edward I’ 

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Tom Freeman (Sheffield) Chair: Nigel Saul 

‘The Hollow Crown: John Blacman and the cult of Henry VI’ 

Nicholas Orme (Exeter) Chair: Nigel Saul 

‘“Traitorously corrupting the youth of the realm”: erecting grammar schools in England, 1380- 

1530’ 

Eyal Poleg (QMUL) Chair and comment: David Carpenter 

‘Bible and liturgy in 14th century England’ 

Paul Dryburgh and Polly Hanchett (UCL) Comment: Nigel Saul, Chair: David d’Avray 

‘The Henry III Fine Roll Project’ 

Chris Bonfield (East Anglia) Chair and comment: Sophie Page 

‘The regimen sanitatis: health and healing in late medieval England’ 

Katherine Lewis (Huddersfield) Chair: Miri Rubin 

‘Monasticism and masculinity in late medieval England’ 

Peter Clark (Bangor) 

‘The records of the papal penitentiary concerning England and Wales, 1410-1503’ 


Claire Judde (Birkbeck) 

‘Redefining the public and the private in Venice (1450-1550)’ 

Stéphane Van Damme (CNRS – Maison Française d’Oxford) 

‘Local knowledge and metropolitan identity: the case of Paris (17th and 18th centuries)’ 

Maria Fusaro (Chicago) 

‘Politics of justice/politics of trade: English merchants in early modern Venice’ 

Jonathan Davies (Warwick) 

‘Students and violence in early modern Italy’ 

Peter Campbell (Sussex) 

‘The origins of the French Revolution’ 

Fred Anscombe (Birkbeck) 

‘Conversion to Islam in the Balkans, 1675-1725’ 

Tim McHugh 

‘The state and disease in 18th-century Brittany’ 

Simone Laqua (Oxford) 

‘Female piety and the Counter-Reformation: Münster 1535-1650’ 

Cédric Michon (Le Mans) 

‘Crozier and sceptre: state prelates under Francis I and Henry VIII’ 

William Doyle (Bristol) 

‘The American Revolution and the European nobility’ 

Avi Lifschitz (Oxford) 

‘The Great Chain of Thinking and Speaking: debates on language and mind in 18th-century 

France and Germany’ 

Karin Friedrich (Aberdeen) 

‘Notions of citizenship in early modern Poland and Prussia’ 

David Andress (Portsmouth) 

‘The melodramatic imagination of the French Revolution’ 

The History of Gardens and Landscapes 

Christopher Taylor 

‘Early gardens and landscapes from the mediaeval period’ 

Brian Dix 

‘From Tudor to Baroque: some examples from garden archaeology’ 

Tom Williamson (East Anglia) 

‘Archaeological approaches to 18th century designed landscapes’ 

Joe Prentice (Northamptonshire Archaeological Unit) 

‘Private and public pleasure gardens in the 19th century’ 

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Paul Everson (English Heritage) 

‘Uncovering Munstead Wood’ 

Carole Rawcliffe (East Anglia) 

‘The garden of health: an aspect of medieval therapeutics’ 

Amanda Richardson (University College, Chichester) 

‘Clarendon palace, park and forest: high status pleasures and pastimes in medieval and early 

modern Wiltshire’ 

Matthew Johnson (Southampton) 

‘Rethinking vernacular landscapes’ 

Cassy McCleave (Association of Gardens Trusts) 

‘Revisiting the gardens of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili’ 

David Marsh 

‘Moorfields: the creation, care of, and decline of London’s first public park’ 

Hannah Greig (AHRC Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior, Royal College of Art) 

‘Entertaining fashionable London: pleasure gardens and social resorts in the 18th century’ 

History of Education Seminar 

David Vincent (Open University) 

‘Reading, writing and reader response in the 19th century’ 

Tim Allender (Sydney, Australia) 

‘Educating the Empire: colonial imperatives in the Punjab, 1854-1886’ 

Sarah Aiston (Durham) 

‘Educated for what? The career biographies of university-educated women since 1945’ 

Christina de Bellaigue (Merton College, Oxford) 

‘A French Eton? Education, gender and national character in comparison in France and 

England, c.1830-1870’ 

Colin Seymour-Ure (Kent) 

‘Labour and the independent schools’ 

John White (Institute of Education) 

‘Does the English National Curriculum have puritan roots?’ 

William Richardson (Exeter) 

‘Economic success and social division: a new balance sheet for further and technical education 

in England since 1945’ 

Seminar in the History of Political Ideas 

Sudipta Kaviraj (SOAS) 

‘An outline of a revisionist theory of modernity’ 

Ruth Scurr (Cambridge) 

‘Work and the logic of society from Ancien Régime to Revolution: the influence of Adam Smith 

in France’ 

J H Burns (UCL) 

‘Benefit of clerisy: John Fleming (1765-1857) and the Polity of Nature’ 

Ultán Gillen (IHR, London) 

‘Ireland’s Burke-Paine debate: a re-examination’ 

Jennifer Pitts (Princeton) 

‘Boundaries of international law: 19th-century debates’ 

Luiz Felipe de Alencastro (Sorbonne, Paris IV) 

‘Slave trade, slavery and law in 19th century Brazil’ 

Susan James (Birkbeck) 

‘Spinoza’s politics’ 

Karuna Mantena (Yale) 

‘Henry Maine and the transformation of British imperial ideology’ 

Knud Haakonssen (Sussex) 

‘Christian Thomasius and the theory and practice of absolutism’ 

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Sharon Krause (Harvard) 

‘Moral sentiment and the politics of judgment: a Humean account’ 

Iain Hampsher-Monk (Exeter) 

‘Burke’s theory of representation’ 

The History of the Psyche 

Jean Oury and Jacques Schotte 

‘The drive’ 

Warren Niedich (Goldsmiths) 

‘Earthling: the neuro-aesthetic debate’ 

Max Velmans (Goldsmiths) 

‘In what sense is the physical world a projection of the mind?’ 

Tracey Loughran (QMUL) 

‘Hysteria, masculinity and war: concepts and contexts in the intellectual history of shell 

shock?’ 

Christian Haan (Sysresev) 

‘The brain from a physical-chemist’s point-of-view’ 

Imperial History Seminar 

Alan Lester (Sussex) with David Lambert (RHUL) 

‘Colonial lives: William Shrewsbury and the captive audience in the Caribbean and the Cape 

Colony’ 

Jon Brooke (SOAS) 

‘Providentialist nationalism and juvenile missions literature in the 19th century’ 

Rupa Viswanath (Columbia and IHR) 

‘The Pariah problem: missionaries, state intervention and Dalit mobilisation in colonial south 

India, 1885-1925’ 

Tony Stockwell (RHUL) 

‘Knowledge and power: university and nation in the new Malaya, 1938-62’ 

David Killingray (Goldsmiths) 

'Black travellers in 19th century Africa’ 

Norman Etherington (Western Australia) 

‘Putting tribes on the map’ 

Judith Fingard (Dalhousie) 

‘Post-war psychiatry and empire: an Atlantic Canadian perspective’ 

Jonathan Eacott (Michigan and IHR) 

‘“At home in the Empire”: east Indian material culture in the anglophone world, 1750-1830’ 

Linda Kumwemba (SOAS and The National Archives) 

‘Missions and medical dilemmas: “the despised Brethren” in northern Rhodesia, 1890s to 1950s’ 

David Anderson (Oxford) 

‘An empire of atrocities? Coming to terms with Britain’s colonial past’ 

Caroline Keen (SOAS) 

'The power behind the throne: British attitudes towards court marriage and royal women in 

India, 1870-1905' 

Simon Smith (Hull) 

‘Britain, the United States, and the Gulf in the aftermath of Suez, 1956-71’ 

James Renton (UCL) 

‘Justifying Empire: British propaganda and the Middle East during the Great War’ 

Derek Peterson (Cambridge) 

‘Christian revivalism and political tribalism in late colonial Uganda’ 

Luiz Felipe De Alencastro (Sorbonne, Paris IV) 

‘Naval blockade and economic pressures in ending the Brazilian slave trade, 1845-50’ 

Nick White (Liverpool John Moores) and Tony Webster (Edge Hill) 

‘Liverpool and Empire, c.1700-c.1970: preliminary thoughts on a project in progress’ 

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Rachel Bright (KCL) 

‘After the South African War: race debates, reconstruction, and the importation of Chinese 

labour’ 

Jon Wilson (KCL) 

‘Raja Rammohun Roy and the ambivalent origins of Indian liberalism’ 

James Lees (KCL and IHR) 

‘The theory and practice of military government: Rangpur district and the East India Company 

state, 1770-c.1800’ 

Kent Fedorowich (West of England) 

‘Marching to Pretoria: the UK High Commissioners in South Africa during the Second World War’ 

Martin Shipway (Birkbeck) 

‘Rethinking French late colonial rule in sub-Saharan Africa, 1946-58’ 

Scott Anderson (SOAS) 

‘Wesleyan missionaries, native agency, and the language problem on the Gold Coast, 1835- 

1880’ 

Yasmin Khan (RHUL) 

‘Policing partition: regime change in north India, 1946-1952’ 

Charles Ambler (Texas, Al Paso) 

‘Race, civilization and drink: the Gold Coast gin controversy, 1927-1933’ 

Jeff Cox (Iowa) 

‘Missionary positions: itinerant women, medical professionals, and the regulation of sexuality in 

colonial India’ 

Roy Clare (National Maritime Museum) 

‘A museum? All day? Why?’ 

International History Seminar 

K A Hamilton (formerly Foreign and Commonwealth Office) 

‘Regime change and détente: Britain and the transition from dictatorship to democracy in 

Spain and Portugal, 1974-76’ 

John Charmley (East Anglia) 

‘Origins of Anglo-Russian antagonism 1812-34’ 

Stephen Knott (Virginia, USA) 

‘Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy’ 

Geoffrey Warner (formerly Oxford) 

‘British foreign policy in 1950-51 through the eyes of Kenneth Younger, minister of state’ 

Keith Neilson (Royal Military College of Canada) 

‘The intellectual basis of British strategic foreign policy, 1919-39’ 

Gill Bennett (formerly Foreign and Commonwealth Office Historians) 

‘Man of mystery: Sir Desmond Morton and the role of intelligence in British policy’ 

Simon Case (QMUL) 

‘JIC and Germany after 1945’ 

Chi-Kwan Mark (RHUL) 

‘The problem of people: America, Britain, and the Chinese refugees in Hong Kong, 1949-63’ 

Richard Immerman (Temple, USA) 

‘The USA against the world: the empire strikes back’ 

Geoffrey Hicks (East Anglia) 

‘Conservatives and Europe 1858-74’ 

Tosh Minohara (Kobe, Japan) 

‘The “Hull Note” and Togo Shigenori: the intelligence dimension behind Japan’s decision for 

war’ 

B J C McKercher (Royal Military College of Canada) and Sonia Enjamio (Havana) 

‘The richest slice: Anglo-American economic competition in Cuba, 1898-1939’ 

Michael Kandiah (IHR) and Sue Onslow (LSE) 

‘The “Britain and the Rhodesian problem” oral history project’ 

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Issues in Film History 

John Ramsden (QMUL) 

‘“Films for Cat Lovers”, 1962: contrasting views of the Royal Navy in Billy Budd, HMS Defiant 

and Mutiny on the Bounty’ 

Sue Harper (Portsmouth) 

‘Cinema-going in Portsmouth during the 1940s’ 

Jenny Barrett (Edge Hill) 

‘Personal trials and missing villains: domestic melodrama and the Civil War on screen’ 

Harri Kilpi (East Anglia) 

‘The emergence of the “modern” past: surveying the period films depicting the British past, 

1950-65’ 

Elisabetta Girelli (QMUL) 

‘The traitor as patriot: Guy Burgess, Englishness and camp in An Englishman Abroad and 

Another Country’ 

Robert James (Portsmouth) 

‘Trade attitudes toward audience tastes in the 1930s’ 

Jeffrey Richards (Lancaster) 

‘Errol Flynn: The actor as auteur’ 

Jean O'Reilly (Connecticut) 

‘Beyond comedian comedy: Leo McCarey, Charles Laughton and Ruggles of Red Gap 

(1935)’ 

Mark Glancy (QMUL) 

‘Temporary American citizens? British audiences and Hollywood films’ 

Locality & Region 

Nick Mansfield (National Museum of Labour History) 

‘Foxhunting and the yeomanry: county identity and military culture’ 

Pam Fisher (Leicester) 

‘The people’s choice: the election of country coroners c.1785-1850’ 

Susie West and G Brandwood (English Heritage) 

‘Going, going, almost gone: the vanishing faces of the traditional public house’ 

Paul Readman (KCL) 

‘Commemorating the past in Edwardian Hampshire: King Alfred, pageantry and Empire’ 

John Langton (St John’s College, Oxford) 

‘Forests, landscapes and localities in England and Wales’ 

Briony McDonagh (Nottingham) 

‘Powerhouses of the Wolds landscape: manor houses, parish churches and settlements in late 

medieval and early modern England (1400-1600)’ 

Ewen Cameron (Edinburgh) 

‘Modern Scotland: nation, region and locality’ 

Ian Waites (Lincoln) 

‘English landscape art and the representation of the open field system, c.1725-1840’ 

Graham Jones (St John’s College, Oxford) 

‘Religious dedications: a resource for local and regional historians from an international 

perspective’ 

Edward Impey (English Heritage) 

‘The estate and manor house of Abingdon Abbey at Cumnor, Oxfordshire’ 

Emilia Jamroziak (Leeds) 

‘Opportunities and troubles on the borders: monastic strategies in medieval Scotland and 

Pomerania compared’ 

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London Group of Historical Geographers 

Jill Fenton (RHUL) 

‘“La révolution d’abord et toujours”: Surrealist resistance in Paris’ 

Carl Griffin (Southampton) 

‘Gesture, choreography and custom in popular protest: or, the disciplining of bodies of men in 

18th- and 19th-century England’ 

Dave Featherstone (Liverpool) 

‘The trans-Atlantic mutinies of the 1790s and the formation of Irish subaltern political 

identities’ 

Diana Paton (Newcastle) 

‘Researching the colonial supernatural’ 

Jani Scandura (Minnesota) 

‘Harlem: blue-pencilled place’ 

Steven Connor (Birkbeck) 

‘A grave in the air: death, burial and the elements’ 

Peg Rawes (Bartlett School, UCL) 

‘Sonic spaces’ 

Adrian Forty (Bartlett School, UCL) 

‘Concrete and culture’ 

Thomas Blom Hansen (Yale) 

‘Fire’ 

John Scanlan (St Andrews) 

‘Garbage: matter, metaphor, spectre’ 

Mauricio Abreu (Rio de Janeiro) 

‘European conquest, Indian subjection and the conflicts of colonisation: Brazil in the early 

modern era’ 

Noah Hysler-Rubin (Hebrew University, Jerusalem and QMUL) 

‘The story of Patrick Geddes: a postcolonial study in the history of town planning’ 

Diana Paton (Newcastle) 

‘Spiritual power, popular culture and Caribbean modernities’ 

London Society for Medieval Studies 

Andrew Reynolds (Institute of Archeology, UCL) 

‘Beyond the burghal hidage: Anglo-Saxon civil defence in the localities’ 

Piers Mitchell (Imperial College, London) 

‘Medicine and disease in the Crusades’ 

Colin Imber (Manchester) 

‘The Crusade of Varna, 1443-1445: what motivated a crusader?’ 

Len Scales (Durham) 

‘Beyond infinity: the political identity of the late medieval Holy Roman Empire’ 

(Joint Seminar with England and Europe 1150-1550)’ 

‘The Cathar heresy in 13th-century southern French society’ 

Magnus Ryan (Warburg Institute) 

‘The feudal law in later medieval Europe’ 

Miri Rubin (QMUL) 

‘Mary and the Jews’ 

Paul Brand (All Souls, Oxford) 

‘The origins and drafting of English 13th century legislation: some new discoveries’ 

Christina Pössell (Birmingham) 

‘The Carolingian rebellion of 830 reconsidered’ 

Emma Campbell (Warwick) 

‘The experience of limits in Marie de France Espurgatoire Seint Patriz’ 

Catherine Rider (Christ's College, Cambridge) 

‘The doctor and the witches: Bartholomaeus Carrichter’s On the Healing of Magical Illnesses 

(1551)’ 

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Lindy Grant (Courtauld Institute) 

‘Blanche of Castile, wife, mother and patron of the arts’ 

Long 18th Century 

Amanda Vickery (RHUL) 

‘His and hers: gender, consumption and household accounting in 18th century England’ 

David Green (KCL) 

‘Pauper protests: power and resistance in early 19th-century London workhouses’ 

Wilfrid Prest (Adelaide) 

‘When did the age of improvement begin?’ 

Pieter François (RHUL) 

‘Belgium: country of liberals, Protestants, and the free: British views on Belgium in the mid- 

19th century’ 

Peter Maw (Manchester) 

‘Exporters and British industrialisation: the 18th-century provincial “merchant” reconsidered’ 

Carolyn Steedman (Warwick) 

‘“How did she get away with it?” Poetry, service and social analysis in Warwickshire, 1789’ 

Gabriel Glickman (Cambridge) 

‘Kings, martyrs and the vision of history in English Catholic scholarship 1688-1742’ 

Peter King (Open University) 

‘Crime, justice and the London press 1770-1820: re-viewing the reporting of the Old Bailey’ 

Chris Mounsey (Winchester) 

‘Persona, elegy and desire: re-voicing the language of same-sex desire in 18th-century poetry’ 

Amanda Moniz (Michigan) 

‘“The diffusion of humanity”: mobility, networks and cosmopolitanism in late 18th-century 

philanthropy’ 

Elizabeth McKellar (Open University) 

‘“A history of everyday things”: interpreting Georgian architecture in the early 20th century’ 

Hal Gladfelder (Manchester) 

‘In search of lost texts: Thomas Cannon's Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and 

Exemplified’ 

Lawrence Klein (Cambridge) 

‘The decline of politeness and the end of the 18th century’ 

Low Countries 

Margit Thofner (East Anglia) 

‘Taking the maiden city: Alexander Farnese’s “joyous” entry into Antwerp on 27 August 1585’ 

Oscar Gelderblom (Utrecht) 

‘Violence and growth: the protection of foreign merchants in the Low Countries (1250-1650)’ 

Wout Troost 

‘Comprehension or toleration? The Williamite solution of 1689’ 

Ulrich Tiedau (UCL), 

‘Belgium 1914-1918: German occupation policy and the Flemish movement’ 

Jonathan Israel (Princeton), Todd Endelmann (Michigan), Emile Schrijver (Menasseh ben 

Israel-Instituut Amsterdam), David Katz (Tel Aviv) and Yosef Kaplan (Jerusalem) 

‘Cromwell, Menasseh ben Israel and the readmission of the Jews to England in December 1655’ 

Luc Duerloo (Antwerp) 

‘The rebirth of Burgundy: the (re)construction of sovereignty under the archdukes’ 

Mirjam de Baar (Groningen) 

‘The spiritual leadership of Antoinette Bourignon (1616-1680)’ 

Mia Rodriguez-Salgado (LSE) 

‘Loyalty and protest: Philip II and the people of the Netherlands before the revolt’ 

Werner Thomas (Catholic University, Louvain) 

‘The implementation of religious tolerance in Spain and the Low Countries, 1598-1621’ 

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Willem Frijhoff, Maarten Prak and Leslie Price 

‘New interpretations of the Dutch golden age’ 

Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture 

Barnaby Haran (UCL) 

‘From the new world to the unworld: e e cummings’s eimi - a journal of Soviet Russia’ 

Keston Sutherland (Sussex) 

‘Anal aesthetics: reflections on passive enjoyment’ 

Greg Sholette 

‘Interventionist art in the age of bureaucratic reproduction’ 

Andy Fisher (Slade School of Fine Art) 

‘Merleau-Ponty’s Lukács and current photographic theory’ 

Sean Bonney (Birkbeck) 

‘Negative poetix: reading some pages of Marx’ 

David Mabb (Goldsmiths) 

‘Smash the bourgeoisie! Victory to the decorating business! Or David Morris in the work of 

William Mabb’ 

Les Levidow (Open University) 

‘Efficiency as capitalist culture’ 

Warren Carter (UCL) 

‘Politics and ideology in Ben Shahn’s Social Security Department murals’ 

Natalie Fenton (Goldsmiths) 

‘Mediating solidarity: new media and mobilisation’ 

Barbara Engh (Leeds) 

‘A sonorous figure has formed around you: Walter Benjamin's acoustics’ 

Martin Gaughan 

‘Art practice and theory in Weimar Germany and the Soviet Union: materialist models?’ 

Jutta Held (Osnabrück) 

‘Titian's Flaying of Marsyas: an analysis of the analyses’ 

Medieval and Tudor London History 

Michelle Warren, Matthew Davies and Jessica Lutkin 

‘A special session to celebrate the 90th birthday of Dr Elspeth Veale’ 

Colin Richmond (Keele) 

‘Edmund Dudley, the cock, and the churchwardens of St Stephen's, Coleman Street, 1500-1507’ 

Erik Spindler (Oxford) 

‘Marginal social groups in the late medieval letter-books’ 

Miu Sugahara (Birkbeck) 

‘The Coopers’ and Brewers’ Companies schools in early modern London’ 

Derek Keene (Centre for Metropolitan History) 

‘City charters and other records: custody and transmission c.1000-c.1270’ 

Henry Summerson (Oxford DNB) 

‘Sources for criminal activity in medieval London: the 1321 eyre and its ancillary records’ 

Caroline Dunn (Fordham) 

‘Stealing women in medieval London’ 

Christine Winter (RHUL) 

‘The Portsoken presentments: an analysis of nuisance in a London ward in the fifteenth 

century’ 

Claire Martin (RHUL) 

‘Whose city is it anyway? Authority and control over the streets and lanes of medieval London’ 

Stephanie Hovland (RHUL) 

‘Riot and recreation: apprentices on the streets in later medieval London’ 

Anthony House (Oxford) 

‘The city of London's response to the liberties, c.1540-1608’ 

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Ian Warren (Oxford) 

‘Some gentry responses to London society c.1580-1640’ 

Helen Carrel (Cambridge) 

‘Defining outsiders in the provincial towns of late medieval England’ 

Anthony Bale (Birkbeck) 

‘A London miracle of St Edmund, 1441, and its occasion’ 

Colette Moore (Washington, Seattle) 

‘A new study of Henry Machyn’s diary’ 

Tom Freeman (Sheffield) 

‘Capital punishments: strategies for executing heretics in Marian London’ 

Metropolitan History 

Leonard Schwarz, Jeremy Boulton, John Black and Peter Jones (Birmingham and 

Newcastle) 

‘The poor in Westminster, 1725-1825: the feminisation of poverty?’ 

Kate Bradley (CCBH) 

‘Growing up with a city: urban youth in London and Chicago 1880-1950’ 

Luke McKernan (Birkbeck and British Universities Film & Video Council) 

‘Diverting time: London cinemas and their audiences, 1906-1914’ 

Tim Strangleman and Bridget Henderson (London Metropolitan) 

‘Guinness was good for us: London, labour and stout, 1935-2005’ 

Barry Venning (Open University) 

‘Turner's London’ 

John Chalcraft (LSE) 

‘The road to Beirut: Syrian migrant labour in Lebanon since 1945 and the politics of disposable 

labour’ 

Simon Dixon 

‘Quakers and the London parish, 1670-1720’ 

Katia Pizzi (Institute of Romance and Germanic Studies) 

‘The pasts and futures of a liminal metropolis: Trieste, 1910-90’ 

Georg Leidenberger (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, México) 

‘Tramways and the emergence of modern Mexico City, 1880-1950’ 

Military History 

M R D Foot 

‘Open and secret war’ 

Sanders Marble (KCL) 

‘Step-by step approach: attrition in British military thought 1915-1917’ 

David Woodward (Marshall, USA) 

‘British campaigns in the Middle East, 1914-1918: the soldiers’ perspective’ 

Nicholas Black (UCL) 

‘The British Naval Staff in the First World War’ 

Howard J Fuller (Wolverhampton) and Tony Hampshire (KCL) 

‘British military and naval assessments for the defence of Canada in the civil war era’ 

Malcolm Llewellyn-Jones (KCL) 

‘The third week in May: the crisis in the Battle of the Atlantic, 1943’ 

Tracey Loughran (QMC) 

‘The anatomy of shellshock in First World War Britain’ 

Chris Martin (Hull) 

‘Manipulating the political process: the Admiralty and the Hague and London conferences’ 

Chris Duffy 

‘The British enemy on the Somme’ 

David Edgerton (Imperial College) 

‘The military-scientific complex in Britain, 1918-1939’ 

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Ian Beckett (Northampton) 

‘Sir Garnet Wolseley and the Ashanti War’ 

Ben Shephard 

‘Why do some wars have psychological aftermaths and others do not?’ 

Kristian Ulrichsen (Pembroke College, Cambridge) 

‘The Indian army and the Great War’ 

Martin S Alexander (Aberystwyth) 

‘France, 1940: the “strange defeat” revisited’ 

Modern French History 

Rod Kedward (Sussex) 

‘Behind La Vie en Bleu: a singular experience’ 

Jim Livesey (Sussex) 

‘Cyberpeasants? The first information revolution and provincial life in the Languedoc 1789- 

1870’ 

Colin Jones (Warwick) 

‘The French Revolution and the smile’ 

Jackie Clarke (Southampton) 

‘Engineering a new middle class in interwar France: Paulette Bernège and the rationalisation of 

the home’ 

Ralph Kingston (UCL) 

‘Going where others have gone before: French geography in the laboratory of the South Seas, 

1800-1821’ 

Eric Fassin (ENS/EHESS) 

‘Science, transcendence and democracy: the politics of same-sex union in France’ 

Andrew Aisenberg (Scripps College and Claremont Graduate School) 

‘What’s in a name? “Malaria” and the problem of morbid specificity in French-occupied Algeria, 

1830-1860’ 

Emma Spray (Cambridge) 

‘Extraordinary eating and the ends of the Enlightenment’ 

Modern German History 

Claudia Koonz (Duke) 

‘One step forward, two steps back in Nazi historiography: searching for gender in the 

Gesamtdarstellung’ 

Martin Sabrow (Potsdam) 

‘Time and legitimacy: comparative reflections on the sense of time in the two German 

dictatorships’ 

Jessica Reinisch 

‘Refugees and the post-war reconstruction of Germany, 1945-1949’ 

Astrid Swenson (Cambridge) 

‘Conceptualising heritage: rivalry and co-operation in 19th-century France, Germany and 

England’ 

Max Horster (Cambridge) 

‘Relations between the two German States 1951-1967’ 

Norbert Frei (Jena) 

‘The politics of memory: Germany sixty years after the war’ 

Peter Longerich (RHUL) 

‘Heinrich Himmler: problems of writing his biography’ 

Modern Italian History 

Giulia Albanese (Padova) 

‘The march on Rome: politics and violence in the crisis of the liberal state’ 

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Maurizio Isabella (Birkbeck) 

‘Exile and nationalism: the case of the Risorgimento’ 

Marta Bonsanti (Birkbeck) 

‘Public and private in the Risorgimento’ 

Oliver Janz (FU, Berlin) 

‘The symbolic capital of mourning: commemorating fallen soldiers in First World War Italy’ 

Thomas Brandt (NNTU, Trondheim, Norway) 

‘The unison beat of small engines and pure, free hearts: the Vespa club community in post-war 

Italy’ 

Piero Colacicchi (Florence) 

‘The judicial system and minorities: Sacco, Vanzetti and Italian emigration to the USA’ 

Efharis Mascha (Essex) 

‘Political cartooning mocking Mussolini’s opposition: the Left targeting itself’ 

Piero Brunello (Venice) 

‘Pietro di Paola, spies, informers and people who can’t hold their tongues: the international 

surveillance of Italian anarchists in London and Geneva’ 

Modern Religious History Since 1750 

Reider Payne (UCL) 

‘George Pretyman, Bishop of Lincoln, and the patronage of the Crown 1787-1801’ 

Catherine Hall (UCL), Hugh McLeod (Birmingham) and John Wolffe (Open University) 

‘Current trends in modern religious history - a panel discussion to mark the tenth anniversary of 

the seminar’ 

Peter Webster (IHR) 

‘Theology, the arts and cultural change in the Church of England, 1940-1970; Walter Hussey, 

Dean of Chichester and patron of the arts’ 

Jim Bjork (KCL) 

‘Religious fervour and national indifference: the phenomenon of borderland piety’ 

Jeffrey Bibbee (KCL) 

‘Anglo-Orthodox ecumenicism and British foreign policy at the end of the 19th century’ 

Michelle Clewlow (Open University/Bath) 

‘Intersecting sets: John Venn (1834-1923) and Victorian religion’ 

John Walsh (Jesus Collegem, Oxford) 

‘John Wesley as “Holy Man”’ 

Philip Williamson (Durham) 

‘The modern British state and religion: national days of prayer 1830-1956’ 

Jeffrey Cox (Iowa) 

‘Missionary positions: itinerant women, medical professionals, and the regulation of sexuality in 

colonial India (Joint session with the Imperial History seminar)’ 

Music in Britain 

Paul Davenport (Maltby) 

‘Songs in dark corners: the blind fiddlers of Sheffield 1780–1830’ 

Lewis Foreman 

‘Recording, the new cottage industry: entrepreneurs, funding, networks and the reconstruction 

of repertoire’ 

Christopher Fifield 

‘Ibbs and Tillett’ 

Stephen Banfield (Bristol) 

‘Music in the British Empire: approaches and issues’ 

John Lowerson (Sussex) 

‘Alan Bush, amateur composers and “The Musical Life of the British Working Classes”’ 

Roberta Marvin (Iowa) 

‘Music, political propaganda and national pride: Verdi’s Inno delle nazioni: a “Weapon of Art”’ 

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Rachel O’Higgens 

‘The Alan Bush/John Ireland correspondence’ 

Peter Holman (Leeds) 

‘Early music in London before Arnold Dolmetsch’ 

Rupert Ridgewell (British Library/RCM) 

‘Prisoner of war concerts at the Alexandra Palace during the First World War’ 

Thomas Schuttenhelm (Hartford) 

‘The letters of Michael Tippett: selection, issues and significance’ 

Gillen Wood (Illinois) 

‘Music in Britain: a social history seminar’ 

Nicholas Till 

‘The virtue of virtuosity’ 

Gillen Wood 

‘Virtuosity and its discontents: Liszt's 1840 tour’ 

David Owen Norris 

‘Virtuosity thrust upon them’ 

Parliaments, Representation and Society 

John Maddicott (Exeter College, Oxford) 

‘English Parliamentary origins: starting points and turning points’ 

Simon Payling (History of Parliament) 

‘Why did men want to sit in the 15th-century House of Commons?’ 

Chris Ballinger (Oxford) 

‘In addition to Wilson's strife: the Parliament (No. 2) Bill, 1968-9’ 

Tom Sebrell (QMUL) 

‘The Parliamentary debates concerning intervention in the American Civil War’ 

Henry Cohn (Warwick) 

‘The German imperial diets of the 1540s’ 

Rosemary Sgroi (History of Parliament) 

‘The electoral patronage of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1604-28’ 

Victoria Barbary (Pembroke College, Cambridge) 

‘Rethinking “factory politics”: popular politics in Bolton and Bury, 1868-1880’ 

Roland Quinault (London Metropolitan) 

'Gladstone and Disraeli: a re-appraisal of their relationship' 

Colin Seymour-Ure (Kent) 

‘Sir Francis Carruthers Gould (1844-1925): pioneer staff cartoonist in the daily press’ 

Michael Wheeler Booth (Magdalen College, Oxford) 

‘Managing Parliament’ 

William McKay (Aberdeen) 

‘Westminster and Washington: legislative sisters under the skin’ 

Jean Garrigues (Université d’Orléans, & Comité d’Histoire Parlementaire et Politique) 

‘A History of the French Parliament under the third republic 1870-1914: a work in progress’ 

Philosophy of History 

Meade McCloughan, (UCL) 

‘Philosophical history and secularisation: from Löwith to Blumenberg’ 

Michael Drolet (Oxford) 

‘Foundations and anti-foundations: Quentin Skinner and Jacques Derrida on power and the 

state’ 

Michael O’Neill (Providence College, RI) 

‘Does Collingwood know what time it is? A question from Heidegger about the nature of selfunderstanding’ 

David Lowenthal (UCL) 

‘The past of the future: from the foreign to the undiscovered country’ 

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Bruce Haddock (Cardiff) 

‘Collingwood, Croce and the characterisation of historical knowledge’ 

Peter Robinson (Sussex) 

‘Rousseau and the history of the government of Geneva: making the case for inductive history’ 

Wendy James (Oxford) 

‘From grassroots tales to coherent history? A Sudanese case study of war and displacement’ 

Ellen O’Gorman (Bristol) 

‘Intertextuality, time and historical understanding’ 

Beatrice Han-Pile (Essex) 

‘Foucault and transcendental history’ 

Luke O’Sullivan (Kingston) 

‘Historical perspectives on disciplinary change’ 

Postgraduate Seminar 

Kate Bradley (CCBH/IHR) 

‘“Crime may be rare but naughtiness is universal”: perceptions of juvenile delinquency in 

Britain 1900-1960’ 

Gemma Betros (Cambridge) 

‘Religious communities in Revolutionary France’ 

Kate Harvey (Cambridge) 

‘Godly ministry in London in the era of the Civil War’ 

Julie Lokis (RHUL) 

‘The Goldsmiths of London - suppliers to the court of Edward III, 1360-1377’ 

Amelia Yeates (Birmingham) 

‘French novels, lemons and lumps of sugar: Ruskin’s visualisations of women readers’ 

Vanessa Chambers (CCBH/IHR) 

‘War, popular belief and British society in the 20th century’ 

Damien Valdez (Cambridge) 

‘The matriarchal imagination: a German debate, 1900-1933’ 

Helen McCarthy (CCBH/IHR) 

‘The people have spoken: constructions of “public opinion” in Britain and the Peace Ballot of 

1934-5’ 

Emma Robinson (RHUL) 

‘There is a science to travel which is perfected only with time and experience: women and the 

etiquette of the steam train and ocean liner, 1870-1940’ 

Michael Passmore (CCBH/IHR) 

’Oh, Minister! How Islington's controversial Packington Estate came to be built in the 1960s’ 

Melissa Hollander (York) and Jennie Jordan (Nottingham Trent) 

‘Fatherhood in early modern Britain’ 

Nichola Clayton (Sheffield) 

‘The policy which dare not speak its name: the Republican party and the issue of confiscation 

in 1867’ 

Leonie Hannan (RHUL) 

‘“Emanations of our selves”: women’s letter writing in the late 17th century’ 

Psychoanalysis and History Seminar 

Laura Mulvey (Birkbeck) 

‘Seeing the past from the present: questions raised by the opening sequence of Imitation of 

Life (Douglas Sirk 1959)’ 

Margaret and Michael Rustin (Tavistock Clinic) 

‘The idea of a narcissistic society’ 

Nancy Yousef (USA) 

‘Being alone together: intimacy in moral philosophy and psychoanalysis’ 

Lee Davidoff (Essex) 

‘Sibling loss and the replacement child’ 

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Josh Cohen (Goldsmiths) 

‘Narcissism, irony and the end of art’ 

Michal Shapira (Rutgers) 

‘Hospitalised children, separation anxiety and motherly love: psychoanalytic experiments in 

postwar Britain’ 

Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck) 

‘Before the body: sexual violation and fantasy, 1860-1960’ 

Reconfiguring the British 

Sonya Rose (Michigan) and Keith McClelland (Middlesex) 

‘Gender, citizenship and empire, 1869-1928’ 

David Feldman (Birkbeck) 

‘Jews and empire c.1900’ 

David Lambert (RHUL) and Alan Lester (Sussex) 

‘Colonial lives across the British Empire: imperial careering in the long 19th century’ 

Susan Thorne (Duke) 

‘Religion and Empire’ 

Simon Morgan (Leicester) 

‘Re-orienting the British: Cobden, the Corn Laws and the American threat to British economic 

power’ 

A discussion led by the Convenors: 

‘A discussion of recent work on empire and colonialism’ 

Mark Harrison (Oxford) 

‘Science, medicine and dissent in early colonial India, c.1750-1820’ 

Andrew Thompson (Leeds) 

‘Writing the history of “Imperial Britain”: some reflections’ 

Kathryn Castle (London Metropolitan) 

‘Blacking-up in Britain: cross-cultural influences on British racial identities’ 

Margaret Williamson (Dartmouth College, USA) 

‘“The mirror-shield of knowledge”: classicising the West Indies’ 

Julie Evans (Melbourne) 

‘Edward Eyre, race and colonial governance’ 

Religious History of Britain 1500-1800 

Reider Payne (UCL) 

‘The patronage networks of Philip Yorke, second earl of Hardwicke, 1770-1790’ 

Stephanie Langton (Peterhouse College, Cambridge) 

‘Bishops as local magnates, 1570s-1630s: strategies as lords and landlords’ 

Jennifer Farooq (Reading) 

‘The language of Protestant debate: Anglican and Dissenting sermons in London, 1702-1763’ 

Charles Prior (Cambridge) 

‘Ecclesiastical historiography and polemic in 17th-century England’ 

Kary Kelly (Jesus College, Oxford) 

‘Praying by the clock: diurnal domestic devotions in England, c.1520-70’ 

Louise Campbell (Birmingham) 

‘Moderating some things indifferent: Matthew Parker in the early 1560s’ 

James Carley (York, Toronto; Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Oxford) 

‘From Pope to Bishop of Rome: revisions to John Leland’s De Viris Illustribus and their 

significance’ 

Ann Hutchison (York, Toronto) 

‘The letters of Elizabeth Sanders and recusant Bridgettine spirituality’ 

Jameela Lares (Southern Mississippi) 

‘Language of Canaan: the role of ‘Biblical Style’ in the rise of the English vernacular’ 

David Cressy (Ohio State) 

‘The man in the moon, pluralities of worlds, and the early modern lunar moment’ 

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John McDiarmid (New College of Florida, emeritus) 

‘Sir John Cheke and the restoration of true religion: the decade at court, 1544-1553’ 

Alice Hunt (KCL) 

‘The monarchical republic of Mary I’ 

Andrew Cambers (Oxford Brookes) 

‘Reading spiritual diaries and memoirs in England, c.1580-1720’ 

Jacqueline Rose (Cambridge) 

‘“Kings shall be thy nursing fathers”: Royal ecclesiastical supremacy and the Restoration 

Church’ 

Lori Ann Ferrell (Claremont Graduate University, California) 

‘Early modern “how-to” books and the early modern English Bible’ 

Socialist History 

Ian Birchall 

‘Writing socialist biography: some methodological problems - the biography of Tony Cliff’ 

Pete Glatter 

‘1905 - not just an anniversary’ 

Pamela Pilbeam 

‘The Saint-Simonians and the Orient’ 

Reiner Tosstorff 

‘Moscow v Amsterdam: the history of the Red International of Labour unions’ 

John Charlton 

‘“The whole district seemed to turn over to the Reformers”: a truly mass demonstration 

unearthed: Newcastle, October 1819’ 

Brian Richardson 

‘Tell it like it is: how schools fail black children’ 

50th anniversary of 1956 one day event: 1956, 50 years on 

Matthias Reiss 

‘Between militancy and co-operation: the National League of the Blind between the World 

Wars’ 

Conor Costick 

‘Marxism and the First Crusade’ 

Dave Lyddon 

‘80 years since the General Strike - what view do historians take?’ 

Marc Mulholland 

‘Karl Marx’s theory of class consciousness: a re-examination in the light of historical 

experience’ 

Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 

Stuart Clark (Swansea) 

‘The de-rationalisation of sight? Vision in cultural debate, 1430-1680’ 

Leslie Brubaker (Birmingham) 

‘Looking at Byzantium’ 

Evelyn Welch (QMUL) 

‘Lotteries and the imagination of acquisition in early modern Italy’ 

Matthew Hunter (Chicago) 

‘Methods of visual representation in the early Royal Society of London’ 

Helen Pierce (York) 

‘Doggerel and designing: prints, politics and the 1681 trial of Stephen College’ 

Ludmilla Jordanova (KCL) 

‘The look of the past’ 

Katie Scott (Courtauld Institute, London) 

‘Invention and privilege: patenting colour in 18th-century France’ 

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Tudor & Stuart 

Blair Worden (RHUL) 

‘Historians and poets in the English Renaissance’ 

Pauline Croft (RHUL) 

‘What did he know and when did he know it? Robert Cecil and the Gunpowder Plot’ 

Jenny Wormald (St Hilda’s College, Oxford) 

‘“The happier marriage partner”: the impact of the union of the Crowns on Scotland’ 

Neil Younger (Birmingham) 

‘War and the Elizabethan regime: the revival of the lieutenancies’ 

Thomas Cogswell (California Riverside) 

‘John Felton, popular political culture and the assassination of the Duke of Buckingham’ 

Michael Questier (QMUL) 

‘The politics of episcopacy in the Caroline Catholic community: the approbation controversy in 

context’ 

Katherine Halliday (New College Oxford) 

‘New light on the 1549 risings’ 

Helen Good (Hull) and Alexander Courtney (Selwyn College, Cambridge) 

‘Winning friends and influencing people: centre and locality’ 

1) ‘Hull and the Elizabethan Privy Council’ 

2) ‘James VI’s secret correspondence’ 

Ralph Houlbrooke (Reading) 

‘Anglo-French diplomacy, 1551: the Treaty of Angers revisited’ 

Diana Newton (Teesside) 

‘Borders and bishopric: regional identities in the early modern North-East of England’ 

Karen Hearn (Curator, Tate Britain) 

‘Early Stuart full-length portraits’ 

Katy Gibbons (IHR Scouloudi Fellow) 

‘Elizabethan Catholic exiles and the cult of St Thomas Becket’ 

Andreas Pecar (Visiting Fellow, QMUL) 

‘King James as author: the paraphrase on the Revelation of St John’ 

Peter Lake (Princeton) 

‘The fall of Archbishop Grindal re-visited: puritans, prophesying and popularity in mid- 

Elizabethan England’ 

A colloquium and conversazione in honour of the life and work of Professor Conrad Russell FBA 

(1937-2004). 

Women’s History 

Claudia Koonz (Rutgers) 

‘Scary scarves: un-veiling in colonial narratives and present day discourse in France’ 

Judith Bennett (Southern California) 

‘Feminist history, women’s history, gender history’ 

Ann Summers (Women’s Library) 

‘Liberty, equality, morality: the attempt to sustain the international campaign against the 

state regulation of prostitution, c.1875–1906’ 

Judith Spicksley (Hull) 

‘Celibacy and lending in 18th-century Hereford: the ‘autograph account book’ of Joyce 

Jeffreys, 1638–49’ 

Ruth Brandon 

‘God and the governess: the effect of religion on women’s education, 1790–1860’ 

Valerie Burton (Memorial University of Newfoundland) 

‘Feminism and the political economy of labour: a study of Eleanor Rathbone and working class 

women and men in Edwardian Liverpool’ 

Marjo Kaartinen (Wellcome Trust, UCL and Turku, Finland) 

‘“The worst of all her afflictions”: experiencing breast cancer in early modern England’ 

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Kathryn Kish Sklar (Oxford) 

‘New approaches to race, class and gender in US history: examples from the women and social 

movements website’ 

Christine Stansell (Princeton) 

‘Sisterhood and sentiment: global feminism and the politics of empathy’ 

Ann Curthoys (ANU) 

‘The impact of feminist history on theories of history’ 

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