IHR annual report 2007-8 - Institute of Historical Research

Contents
Council, Staff, Fellows and Associates of the Institute 2
Advisory Council 2
The IHR Trust 3
Staff of the Institute of Historical Research 4
Library 4
Premises 4
Development 4
Publications 5
The Victoria County History 5
England’s Past for Everyone 6
Victoria County History: County Staff 6
Centre for Metropolitan History 8
Centre for Contemporary British History 8
IHR Research Students 9
Fellows of the Institute 12
Honorary Fellows 12
Senior Fellows 13
Junior Research Fellows 2007–8 14
Reports – Heads of Department 16
Director 16
Centre for Contemporary British History 18
Centre for Metropolitan History 22
Library 25
Publications 27
Victoria County History 29
Associated Institutes 32
History of Parliament 32
Academic and Professional Activities of Staff 34
Research Students’ Activities 42
Activities and Publications of Fellows 45
History Lab 49
Events at the Institute 50
Seminars 50
Training Courses 2007–8 54
Public Lectures organised by the Institute 56
Groups which held meetings/ conferences at the Institute 57
Conferences organised by the Institute 59
Membership and Accounts 61
Membership 61
Accounts 61
Friends of the IHR 62
Appendix 1: Seminar Programme 63
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Council, Staff, Fellows and Associates of the
Institute
Advisory Council of the Institute of Historical Research
Chair of the Advisory Council
Professor R Trainor
Members
Professor D Arnold
Dr J Arnold
Dr R Baldock
Professor W G Clarence-Smith
Sir J Chilcot
Professor P Croft
Professor P Hudson
Dr E Impey
Dr H Jones
Professor B Kaplan
Ms H McCarthy (representing the postgraduate student community)
Professor M Ormrod
Dr J Pellew
Mr Martin Cook (representing the IHR staff)
Professor A N Porter
Professor A Smith
Dr A Sked
Professor G Stedman Jones
Mr R Suddaby
Dr G Varouxakis
Mr M Wood
Dr P Seaward
Ex Officio Members
Professor D Bates (to March 2008)
Professor D Keene (from March 2008)
Secretary
Ms E Walters
The IHR Trust
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The IHR Trust
Trustees
Professor David Cannadine
Mr Peter Golob
Dr Elisabeth Kehoe, IHR
Mr Mark Lewisohn, Chairman
Ms Elaine Paintin
Dr Jill Pellew
Ex-Officio Trustees
Professor David Bates, IHR (to March 2008)
Professor Sir Roderick Floud, FBA (SAS)
Professor Derek Keene, IHR (from March 2008)
Professor Peter Marshall, FBA CBE (to March 2008)
Professor Richard Trainor (Chair, Advisory Council)
Staff of the Institute of Historical Research
Director’s Office
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Staff of the Institute of Historical Research
Director
David BATES, BA, PhD (Exeter) (to March 2008)
Derek KEENE, MA, DPhil (Oxford) (from March 2008)
Executive Officer and Assistant to the Director
Samantha JORDAN, BA (London)
Institute Administrator
Elaine WALTERS, BA (Sheffield), DipMgt, CIPD, MEd
Training Officer
Simon TRAFFORD, MA, DPhil (York)
Finance Officer
Edward CROWTHER, BSc, MSc (London)
Conference Administrator
Julie ACKROYD, BA, MA (Open)
Fellowships Officer
James LEES, BA, MA (London)
Administrative Assistant
Jennifer WALLIS, BA, MA (Leeds) (from April 2008)
Library
Library
Librarian
Robert LYONS, BA (York), DipLib (London)
Reader and Technical Services Librarian
Kate WILCOX-JAY, BA (York), MSc (City)
Periodicals Librarian
Sandra GILKES, MA (Oxford and London), MCLIP (maternity leave)
Collection Librarians
Mette LUND NEWLYN, BA (Aarhus), MA (Aarhus and North London)
Michael TOWNSEND, BA, MA (London)
Bibliographical Services Librarian
Alison GAGE, BA (London), DipLib (North London)
Graduate Trainee Library Assistant
Claire DAVIES
Library Assistant
Stuart HANDLEY, BA (Swansea), PhD (Lancaster)
Premises
Administrative Assistants/Premises
Glen JACQUES
Beresford BELL, BA, MA (London)
Development
Development
Development Consultant
Heather PLANT, BA (Connecticut), MA (London)
Development Officer
Michelle WATERMAN, BA, BS (Connecticut), MA (London) (maternity leave)
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Development Officer
Mira CHOTALIYA, BSc (London) (from July 2008)
Development Assistant
Jennifer LEDFORS, BS (Arizona) MA (London) (from March 2008)
Publications
Head of Publications and Executive Editor, Historical Research
Jane WINTERS, MA (Oxford), MA, PhD (London)
Assistant Editor, Historical Research
Julie SPRAGGON, BA (London), MA (Sussex), PhD (London)
Publications Manager
Emily MORRELL, BA (York)
Deputy Editor, Reviews in History
Oliver BLAIKLOCK, BA, MA (London) (from November 2007)
Website Manager
Martin COOK, BA, MSc (North London)
Project Editor, Royal Historical Society Bibliography
Peter SALT, BA (Cambridge)
Assistant Project Editor, Royal Historical Society Bibliography
Simon BAKER, BA (Leicester), DipLib (Thames Valley)
Cataloguer, Royal Historical Society Bibliography
Helen GLASS, BA, MSc (London) (from November 2007)
Project Manager, British History Online
Bruce TATE, BA (Southampton)
Project Editor, British History Online
Jonathan BLANEY, BA (Oxford), MA (Exeter) (from November 2007)
Editorial Controller, British History Online
Peter WEBSTER, BA, MA, PhD (Sheffield)
Project Officer, Making History
Danny MILLUM, BA, MA, MSc (Leeds) (from November 2007)
The Victoria County History
Director
John BECKETT, BA, PhD (Lancaster), FSA, FRHistS
Executive Editor
Alan THACKER, MA, DPhil (Oxford), FSA
Architectural Editor
Elizabeth WILLIAMSON, BA (London), FSA
Business Manager
William PECK, BSBA (Arizona), MBA (Thunderbird)
Publications Manager
Kerry WHITSTON, BA (Sheffield), MA (Oxford)
Web Manager
Andy STOKES, BSc (Wolverhampton), MSc (Northumbria) (to June 2008)
Dmitri NEMCHENKO, BSc (London) (from July 2008)
Production Assistant
Jessica DAVIES, BA (Leeds), PGCE (London) (from December 2007)
Administrative Assistant
Carlos Lopez Galvis, BA (Colombia), MSc (Amsterdam) to December 2007
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England’s Past for Everyone
Project Manager
Catherine CAVANAGH, BA (Birmingham)
Communications Manager
Mel HACKETT, BA (Open)
Education and Skills Manager
Aretha GEORGE, BA (De Montfort), MA (London) (to April 2008)
Skye Dillon, BSocSc (Hons), PGCE (Natal) (from July 2008)
Historic Environment Research Manager
Matthew BRISTOW, BA, MA (Leicester)
Finance and Contracts Officer
Nafisa GAFFAR, MAAT (Association of Accounting Technicians)
Administrator
Neil PENLINGTON, BSc (London), MA (UCL)
The Victoria County History: County Staff
Bristol (in association with the University of the West of England)
Team Leader
Madge DRESSER, BA (cum laude) (UCLA), MSc (LSE), MSc (Bristol), FRHistS
Cornwall (in association with the University of Exeter)
Team Leaders
Jo MATTINGLY, BA, PhD (London)
Nicholas ORME, MA, DPhil, DLitt, DD (Oxford), FSA, FRHistS
Educational Co-ordinator
Coral PEPPER
Derbyshire (in association
Derbyshire (in association with the University of Nottingham)
County Editor
Philip RIDEN, MA, MLitt (Oxford)
VGL and Team Researcher
Dudley FOWKES, BA, MA (Liverpool), PhD (Keele), DAA (Society of Archivists), DMA
(Leicester)
County Durham (in association with the Universities of Sunderland and
Durham)
County Editor
Gill COOKSON, BA (Leeds), DPhil (York)
Assistant Editor
Christine NEWMAN, BA, DPhil (York)
Essex (in association with the University of Essex)
County Editor
Christopher THORNTON, BA (Kent), PhD (Leicester) (to May 2008; at IHR from June
2008)
Assistant Editor
Herbert EIDEN, PhD (Trier) (to May 2008; at IHR from June 2008)
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Gloucestershire (in association with the University of Gloucestershire)
County Editor
John JURICA, BA (Kent), PhD (Birmingham)
Assistant Editor
Simon DRAPER, BA, MA, PhD (Durham)
Kent (in association with the University of Greenwich)
Team Leader
Sandra DUNSTER, BA (UEA), MA, PhD (Nottingham)
Exmoor (in association with Exmoor National Park and the University of
Exeter)
Team Leaders
Mary SIRAUT, BA (Wales), MLitt (Cambridge)
Rob WILSON-NORTH, BA (York)
Middlesex
Consultant County Editor
Patricia CROOT, BA, PhD (Leeds)
Northamptonshire
County Editor
Veronica ORTENBERG, Mèsl, PhD
Oxfordshire
County Editor
Simon TOWNLEY, BA, DPhil (Oxford)
Assistant Editors/Team Researchers
Robert PEBERDY, MA (Oxford), PhD (Leicester)
Antonia CATCHPOLE, BA (Cambridge), MA (Durham), PhD (Birmingham)
Stephen MILESON, BA (Warwick), MSt, PhD (Oxford)
Mark PAGE, BA (London), DPhil (Oxford)
Somerset
County Editor
Mary SIRAUT, BA (Wales), MLitt (Cambridge) (in association with the
Staffordshire
County Editor
Nigel TRINGHAM, BA (Wales), MLitt, PhD (Aberdeen)
Assistant County Editor
Ian ATHERTON, BA, PhD (Cambridge)
Sussex
County Editor
Chris LEWIS, MA, DPhil (Oxford)
Editor (volunteer)
Sue BERRY, BA (London), MSc (Surrey), PhD (London)
Wiltshire
County Editor
Virginia BAINBRIDGE, BA (Cambridge), PhD (London)
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Assistant County Editor
Alex CRAVEN, BA (MMU), MA, PhD (Manchester) Riding (in association with the
Yorkshire East Riding
County Editor
Sue PARKINSON, BA (Leicester), MA (Lancaster), PhD (Southampton)
Consultant Editors
David NEAVE, BA, MPhil, PhD (Hull)
Susan NEAVE, PhD (Hull)
Centre for Metropolitan History
Director
Matthew DAVIES, MA, DPhil (Oxford)
Deputy Director
James MOORE, BA (Oxford), PhD (Manchester)
Administrative and Research Assistant
Olwen MYHILL, BA (Birmingham), Dip RSA
Leverhulme Professor of Comparative Metropolitan History
Derek KEENE, MA, DPhil (Oxford) (to March 2008)
Research Officers, Londoners and the Law
Jonathan MACKMAN, BA, DPhil (York)
Matthew STEVENS, BA, PhD (Aberystwyth)
Senior Research Officer, Housing Environments and Health
Mark MERRY, BA, MA, PhD (Kent)
Research and Data Officer, Housing Environments and Health
Philip BAKER, BA (London), MA (Sheffield)
Centre for Contemporary British History
Centre for Contemporary British History
Director
Richard ROBERTS, BA (London), PhD (Cambridge)
Leverhulme Professor of Contemporary British History
Pat THANE, MA (Oxford), PhD (London)
Deputy Director
Virginia PRESTON, BA (Oxford)
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Professor of British History
David CANNADINE, MA, LittD (Cambridge), DPhil (Oxford)
Research Assistant to the QEQM Professor of British History
Helen MCCARTHY, BA (Cambridge), MA (London)
Director of the Witness Seminar Programme
Michael KANDIAH, BA (Victoria), MA, PhD (Exeter)
IH
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IHR Research Students
Judith Bourne (Professor Patricia Thane)
Helena Normanton: her legal practice
Benedict Coffin (Dr Alan Thacker and Professor Derek Keene)
The Anglo-Saxon church in politics and society: bishops, church councils and
ministers
Mark Crowley (Professor Patricia Thane)
Women workers in the General Post Office, 1939–45: gender conflict or political
emancipation? (AHRC studentship)
Helen Draper (Dr Matthew Davies and Joanna Woodall)
Mary Beale and her ‘paynting room’ in London, 1655 to 1665 and 1670 to 1699
Miguel Ángel García Sánchez (Professor Derek Keene and Dr Matthew Davies)
Poverty, inequality and social networks in two European metropolises: a comparison
between Madrid and London, 1550–1700 (AHRC studentship)
Mark Gardner (Professor Patricia Thane)
The British and French advertising industries, 1945–65: a comparative study with
particular reference to the development of the J Walker Thompson Company
Helen Glew (Professor Patricia Thane and Libby Buckley)
Women’s experiences of employment in the Post Office, c.1914–c.1939 (AHRC
collaborative award)
Samantha Harper (Dr Matthew Davies and Dr Vanessa Harding)
Henry VII and London
Richard Harvey (Professor Derek Keene and Dr James Moore)
The stud tram fiasco
Cholki Hong (Dr James Moore and Professor Derek Keene)
Visual representation of centrality in London and its districts, 1880–1939
Yoichiro Horikoshi (Dr Alan Thacker)
Churchscot, tithes and society in England before 1200
Jordan Landes (Dr Matthew Davies and Dr Vanessa Harding)
London’s role in the creation of a Quaker transatlantic community
Mary Lester (Dr James Moore, Professor Derek Keene and Dr Cathy Ross)
Suburban identity and the idea of London: a comparative study of two boroughs,
c.1885–1925 (AHRC collaborative award)
Catherine Letouzey (Professor David Bates)
The economic and social life of a great Anglo-Norman nunnery: a comparative study
of La Trinitè de Caen’s Norman and English possessions (11th–15th centuries)
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Laurie Lindey (Professor Derek Keene and Dr Matthew Davies)
The London furniture trade 1640–1720
Carlos López Galviz (Professor Derek Keene and Dr Matthew Davies)
Polis of the metro: the introduction of the city railway in 19th-century London and
Paris
Christopher Knowles (Professor Patricia Thane)
Winning the peace: the British in occupied Germany, 1945–51
Helen McCarthy (Professor Patricia Thane)
The League of Nations Union and democratic politics in Britain, c.1919–39 (AHRC
studentship)
Alyson Mercer (Professor Patricia Thane and Suzannah Biernoff)
Historical representations of women in British War Museums and the future of
exhibiting the past
Simon Millar (Dr Michael Kandiah)
Servicemen and civilian experience of facial disfigurement following the Second
World War (AHRC studentship)
Tomonori Mizuta (Professor Patricia Thane)
The modernisation process of the lower division of the Civil Service in the late 19th
century
Jennifer Murray (Dr Alan Thacker and Dr Virginia Bainbridge)
Medieval Marlborough: the relationship of royal forest, borough and castle
James Nye (Professor Richard Roberts)
The role of the company promoter in the London capital market: 1877–1914
Michael Passmore (Professor Patricia Thane)
Collaboration and resistance by local authorities over major changes in housing
policy, 1971–83
Kathrin Pieren (Dr James Moore, Professor Derek Keene and Dr Cathy Ross)
Migration and identity constructions in an imperial metropolis: the representation of
Jewish heritage in London between 1887 and 1956 (AHRC studentship)
Dean Rowland (Dr Matthew Davies and Professor Derek Keene)
The reception and implementation of local and parliamentary legislation in England,
1422-c.1485
Mary Salinsky (Professor Patricia Thane)
Writing British national history since 1945
Iain Sharpe (Dr Michael Kandiah and Professor Patricia Thane)
The electoral recovery of the Liberal party, 1899–1906: the career of Herbert
Gladstone as Liberal Chief Whip
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Kathleen Sherit (Professor Patricia Thane and David Edgerton)
The integration of women into the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force in the second
half of the 20th century
Peter Sutton (Professor Patricia Thane)
Technological change and the workplace: the Post Office, 1960–90 (AHRC
collaborative award)
Minoru Takada (Professor Patricia Thane)
Centralisation and delegation in the Liberal welfare reform policies: the central state,
local government and non-governmental organisations, c.1890–c.1914
Mari Takayanagi (Professor Patricia Thane)
Women and parliament, c.1886–c.1939
Julie Thomas (Professor Patricia Thane)
Miners and workmen at war: South Wales on the Western Front and Ottoman Empire
(AHRC studentship)
Catherine Wright (Professor Derek Keene and Dr Matthew Davies)
The Dutch in London: connections and identities, c.1660–c.1720
Dhan Zunino Singh (Professor Derek Keene and Dr James Moore)
The history of the Buenos Aires underground railways: a cultural analysis of the
modernisation process in a peripheral metropolis (1880–1940) (SAS bursary)
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Professor David Cannadine
Modern British history
Professor Michael Clanchy
Medieval education, law and archives
Miss Valerie Cromwell
Modern parliamentary history
Ms Heather Creaton
Metropolitan history
Fellows of the Institute
Honorary Fellows
Professor Martin Daunton FBA (Cambridge)
Taxation and politics in Britain since 1842
Professor Christopher Elrington
English local history
Marie Faroux
Anglo-Norman charters
Professor Diana Greenway FBA
Medieval history and palaeography
Dr Clyve Jones
Parliamentary history
Professor Peter Marshall FBA
The British Empire in the 18th century
Dr Keith Manley
Services to Librarianship
Mr Donald Munro
Services to Librarianship
Professor Janet L Nelson FBA
Early medieval political and social history
Professor Patrick O'Brien FBA (LSE)
Economic history
Professor Linda Levy Peck
Stuart England
Professor Jacob M Price (Michigan)
Eighteenth-century merchant families
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Dr Alice Prochaska (Yale)
Archives and manuscript collections
Dr Frank Prochaska (Yale)
Modern British history
Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith (Cambridge)
The Crusades and the Latin East
Sir John Sainty
Office-holders
Professor Barry Supple CBE, FBA
Economic history
Professor Michael Thompson FBA
Twentieth-century British landed society
Dr Eveline Cruickshanks
Seventeenth- and 18th-century political history
Miss Susan Reynolds FBA
States and nations in the middle ages and after
Dr Graham Twigg
Epidemics in London, 1540–1625
Dr Peter Catterall (QMUL)
Twentieth-century British history
Senior Fellows
Dr Christopher Currie
European vernacular architecture and historical xylosiology; chorography
Dr Estelle Cohen
Cultural history of science and medicine
Dr Catherine Delano-Smith
History of cartography
Dr Amy Erickson
The life histories of university-educated women over the 20th century
Dr Jim Galloway
Economic history and the historical geography of medieval England
Dr Sandra Holton (Trinity College, Dublin)
The private lives and public worlds of Quaker women, 1780–1927
Professor Henry Horwitz (Iowa)
English legal history
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Dr Harriet Jones
Contemporary British history
Dr Philip Mansel
The city of Paris
Dr Andrew Miles
Contemporary social history
Dr Robert Oresko
The House of Savoy
Dr Paul Seaward (History of Parliament)
Seventeenth-century English politics
Mr Daniel Snowman
Current and changing attitudes to history
Dr Silvia Sovic
Nineteenth-century historical demography and family history
Dr Jenny Stratford
Late medieval history and material culture (England and France)
Dr Lynne Walker
History of women and architecture, 1600–2000
Dr Giles Waterfield
British museum history in the 18th to 20th centuries
Junior Research Fellows 2007–8
Ayowa Afrifa-Taylor (LSE) EHS Power Fellow, one year
An economic history of the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, 1895–2004: land, Labour,
capital, enterprise
Gareth Atkins (Cambridge) Scouloudi Fellow, six months
Wilberforce and his milieu: the politics of the Clapham Sect reconsidered
Katie Barclay (Glasgow) EHS Anniversary Fellow, one year
Marital relationships in Scotland 1650–1850
Hannah Crawforth (Princeton) IHR Mellon Fellow, one year
Forging Anglo-Saxon etymologies in Renaissance poetry
Alan Drosdick (California, Berkeley) IHR Mellon Fellow, one year
In danger of undoing: the literary imagination of apprentices in early modern London
Emma Flatt (SOAS) Scouloudi Fellow, one year
Courtly culture in the Indo-Persian states of the medieval Deccan, 1450–1600
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Catherine Fletcher (RHUL) Scouloudi Fellow, six months
Renaissance diplomacy in practice: the case of Gregorio Casali, England's
ambassador to the papal court 1525–33
Michael Goebel (UCL) Past and Present Fellow, one year
Argentina’s partisan past: nationalism, Peronism and historiography, 1955–76
Jessica Hanser (Yale) IHR Mellon Fellow, one year
Britain and China 1660–1800
Jonathan Healey (Oxford) EHS Tawney Fellow, one year
Marginality and misfortune: poverty and social welfare in Lancashire, c.1630–1760
Sophie Heywood (Edinburgh) Scouloudi Fellow, six months
La Comtesse de Ségur: a 'new biography'
Benjamin Jones (Sussex) Scouloudi Fellow, six months
Work, 'community' and home: urban working class cultures and identities in England,
1920–c.2000
Jan Lemnitzer (LSE) RHS Marshall Fellow, one year
The 1856 Declaration of Paris and the abolition of privateering – an international
history
Loren Ludwig (Virginia) IHR Mellon Fellow, one year
'Equal to all alike': a social history of the viol consort
Claire Martin (RHUL) Scouloudi Fellow, six months
Transport for London 1250–1550
Sebastian Prange (SOAS) Thornley Fellow, one year
The social and economic organisation of Muslim trading communities on the Malabar
Coast, 12th to 16th century
Alan Ross (Oxford) Scouloudi Fellow, one year
A teacher and his pupils in Zwickau/Saxony. A case study in the social and
intellectual history of 17th-century education, 1612–87
Mark Smith (SSEES) EHS Postan Fellow, one year
Rubble to communism: the urban housing programme in the Soviet Union, 1944–64
Nicholas Tosney (York) Scouloudi Fellow, six months
Gaming in England, c.1540–1760
Mark Towsey (St. Andrews) Past and Present Fellow, one year
Reading the Scottish Enlightenment: libraries, reading experiences and intellectual
culture in provincial Scotland, c.1750–c.1820
Emma Willoughby (Cornell) IHR Mellon Fellow, one year
A transnational study of white captivity and the captivity narrative drama in North
America and Australia
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Reports – Heads of Department
Director
Recent news
The IHR is delighted to welcome Professor Miles Taylor, at present head of the
department of history at the University of York, as its new Director. He will take up
the post on 1 October 2008 on a five-year secondment from York. At the time of
writing the details of this arrangement between the two universities are being
finalised.
The University of London has recently conferred the title of Professor on Richard
Roberts, Director of the Centre for Contemporary British History. Other CCBH
achievements include a collaborative and AHRC collaborative award with the
Rothschild Archive for three doctoral students, an AHRC training award with The
National Archives focusing on the use of modern government records; and a
conference on the Olympics with a special focus on its legacy (with a view to
promoting research on this theme). History & Policy has organised discussions
between historians and all-party parliamentary groups on a variety of current issues.
The Centre for Metropolitan History has been awarded an ESRC grant of £733,000
for a project on life in the suburbs of 17th-century London. In collaboration with City
Livery Companies it is developing a long-term project to create a database of
apprenticeships and freedoms from the 15th century to 1900. In October it will hold
an international conference to celebrate its 20th anniversary. Anticipating Derek
Keene’s retirement in October, it has reorganised its remaining funding from the
Leverhulme Trust to support professorial and postdoctoral fellowships in comparative
metropolitan history.
The Victoria County History has launched the website for the new Centre for Local
History and has received a promise of a substantial grant towards the intended chair
in Local History. An ‘England’s Past for Everyone’ book on Burford has appeared and
two more are in press. A ‘Red Book’, being the eighth volume in the series covering
the East Riding, will be published shortly.
The Publications section has coordinated a major application to the AHRC for the
digitisation of Felix Liebermann’s great edition of early English laws. Liebermann’s
achievement was celebrated with a conference at the IHR on 16–17 July on English
laws before Magna Carta. The British History Online project, using Mellon funding,
sponsored a successful conference which explored the opportunities offered by
digitisation for Record Societies. British History Online recently made available the
100th volume of the State Papers Colonial. The proceedings of the seminar on
‘History and Philanthropy’ were published and in August Reviews in History presented
a ‘Sport History Month’ to mark the Beijing Olympics.
The IHR’s general conference programme is moving ahead. The conference on ‘Public
History’, organised jointly with the University of Liverpool and National Museums
Liverpool, was held in April. Although registrations were not as numerous as had
been hoped, the conference covered a wide range of types of public history and
included a stimulating international session on museums and minorities organised by
a doctoral student at the IHR. The Russian and other historians present at the Anglo-
Russian conference in May expressed enthusiasm for continuing to collaborate with
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the IHR. The 77th Anglo-American Conference, on the theme of ‘Communication’,
took place on 2–4 July. The theme for 2009 is ‘Cities’, for which a programme
committee is currently being established. The next Anglo-Japanese conference will
be held in Tokyo in September 2009. There has been a fruitful correspondence with
Professor Chengdan Qian of Beijing University concerning arrangements and topics
for the first in a series of British-Chinese conferences of historians, probably to be
held in 2009.
Impact of the HEFCE reviews
Across the entire School of Advanced Study (SAS), a great deal of effort has been
devoted to implementing the recommendations of the reviews of SAS and the Senate
House Library (SHL). From now on HEFCE funding for SAS and its libraries,
amounting to about a third of the overall budget of SAS, is to support Research
Facilitation (RF). The School’s definition of RF has been agreed by HEFCE and the
School is developing a method of allocating the HECFE resource between its
institutes. The latter is based on measures of the RF input of core staff in each
institute (in FTEs) and on measures of RF outputs. Using the imperfect data at
present available, an allocation has been made for the year 2008–9. This allocation
had an adverse effect on the larger institutes, the impact of which has been softened
by use of a share of the funding held in reserve. The method is explained in the
Dean’s letter to be discussed under item 5 on the Agenda. The outcome for the IHR
(excluding the library) has been a 4% reduction in its HEFCE funding. The sharp
increase in central charges levied by the University (for administration, accounting,
human resource services and space) makes this situation worse, moving the IHR
from a enjoying the small surplus predicted for 2007–8 to a position of deficit and
substantially increasing the deficit which had already been predicted for 2008–9. In
addition, HEFCE requires SAS over the next five years to arrive at a position where it
is able to meet full economic costs (FEC). The increase in University charges
represents some part of the move towards meeting FEC, but the actual cost of FEC
and the appropriate method of accounting over the period of transition remain
unclear. SAS is taking further advice from HEFCE on this. Over the coming year, SAS
will also devote intensive effort to developing and testing accurate and robust
performance indicators for RF outputs. The new TRAC system about to be introduced
should provide accurate information on the time devoted to RF by core staff.
The IHR’s share of HEFCE funding will depend on effective performance in RF and
methods similar to those employed within SAS will be used for allocating HEFCE
funding between the sections of IHR. This will involve some refocusing of objectives,
but at least, and for the first time in many years, the purpose of the IHR’s core
funding is clear. This helps us clarify our other objectives, which include:
• to maintain and increase external funding for research and RF projects in
ways which meet FEC, contribute towards the costs of core posts where
possible, and involve a minimal use of HEFCE core funds;
• through the IHR Trust to establish an endowment fund, the income from
which will allow the IHR some flexibility in pursuing its overall aims.
In recent years the IHR library has been administered as part of SHL. As a result of
the HECFE reviews, special funding was withdrawn from SHL but will be retained for
the SAS libraries. The outcome for the IHR library is that its budget will become part
of the overall HEFCE allocation to IHR and that IHR and other SAS institutes will
establish a service level agreement with SHL concerning the administration of their
libraries. It will be for IHR to determine the policy of its library and the share of its
overall budget to be devoted to the library. For the year 2008–9, however, we are
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assuming that the library will receive the funding determined by SHL in relation to
present estimates of cost. The current SAS project on RF performance indicators
includes devising indicators that will apply to its libraries. Library budgets have been
hit particularly hard by the recent increase in central charges, especially those for
space. Moreover, in the case of IHR and two other institutes library budgets have
been further hit by the disappearance of RSLP funding, earlier supplied by HEFCE.
Thus, the IHR library income for 2008–9 will be 7% less than its level in 2007–8.
SAS has just established a special committee of its directorate with responsibility to
investigate and monitor the relationship between SAS libraries and SHL.
An additional complication for the IHR and its library concerns the University’s
current review of its use of space in the north block of Senate House. It is very
important that the IHR be fully consulted about its functional needs and about how
they might be met in any reconfiguration of space, not least so as to provide the
most efficient and economical use of the space available in Senate House for SAS
libraries and SHL.
The first estimates for the main part of the IHR budget in 2008–9 indicate a
substantial deficit. This will be less if funding bids whose outcome is not yet known
are successful, but the deficit will nevertheless be severe and only a small part of it
can be met from reserves. The IHR faces some difficult choices in the immediate
future and the likelihood of some restructuring.
That said, the IHR has much to be proud of in its recent achievements and in its
plans for research and other activities. We must regard the severe difficulties of
adjustment that we now face as a phase of transition to a more securely based
future.
Centre for Contemporary British History
The Centre for Contemporary British History continued to undertake a variety of
activities during the year: teaching, research, oral history and History & Policy. In
April Richard Roberts, Director of CCBH, was appointed a Professor of the University
of London.
Teaching
The MA in Contemporary British History saw its fifth intake in October 2007, of nine
new students. Students from Royal Holloway also took classes at CCBH under the
Intercollegiate MA Scheme and a student from the Institute for the Study of the
Americas joined the Core Course 1 classes. Nine students graduated from the MA in
December 2007, six with Distinction, one with Merit and two with Passes. Peter
Sutton was awarded the third of three AHRC collaborative doctoral awards, working
with the British Postal Museum and Archive. His research is on ‘Technological change
and the workplace: the Post Office, 1960–90’. Kathleen Sherit joined the CCBH as a
PhD student, researching ‘From substitutes to team members: how women became
part of the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force’, as did Christopher Knowles, working
on ‘Winning the peace: the British in occupied Germany, 1945–51’.
Other CCBH research students included: Judith Bourne, working on ‘Helena
Normanton: a woman before her time’; Mark Gardner, ‘The British and French
advertising industries, 1945–65: a comparative study with particular reference to the
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development of the J Walter Thompson Company’; Helen Glew (AHRC collaborative
studentship holder), ‘The employment of women in the General Post Office, 1914–
1939’, Helen McCarthy (AHRC studentship holder), ‘The League of Nations Union and
democratic politics in Britain between the wars’, Simon Millar (AHRC studentship
holder), ‘The Rooksdown Club’, Michael Passmore, ‘Collaboration and resistance by
local authorities over major changes in housing policy, 1971–83’, Mary Salinsky,
‘Writing British national history since 1945’; Iain Sharpe, ‘The electoral recovery of
the Liberal party, 1899–1906: the career of Herbert Gladstone’; Mari Takayanagi,
‘Women and parliament, c.1886–1939’ and Julie Thomas, (AHRC studentship
holder), ‘Miners at war: South Wales on the Western Front’.
All made good progress during the year, including presenting conference and
seminar papers. Helen McCarthy, Helen Glew, Iain Sharpe and Julie Thomas all
taught on the MA in Contemporary British History.
Vanessa Chambers (AHRC studentship holder), working on ‘War, popular belief and
British society in the 20th century’, successfully completed her PhD with Pat Thane in
December 2007 and took up a research post at Exeter working on the ‘Bombing
States and Peoples’ project.
Research
CCBH completed its work on the ESRC-funded project on ‘Unmarried motherhood in
England and Wales, 1918–90’, led by Pat Thane. This project used 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 was the CCBH Research Fellow on this project. As part of the
dissemination of the project’s findings, Dr Evans curated an exhibition at the
Women’s Library on ‘Sinners, Scroungers, Saints: the experience of unmarried
mothers in Britain since 1918’, which ran from October 2007 to March 2008. She
also organised a witness seminar on the making of the Child Support Agency, in
collaboration with the Social Policy and Social Work Department, Oxford University,
held on 16 November 2007. At the end of the project Dr Evans took up a fellowship
in the Department of Modern History, Macquarie University, Australia, in January
2008.
Oral History
The oral history programme, directed by Dr Michael Kandiah, continued during the
year. The following witness seminars were held:
Cold War Operational Research in support of the British Army on the Rhine
(1945–91)
6 March 2008
This witness seminar was organised by the CCBH in conjunction with Dr Matthew
Godwin of the University of Lancaster and the Ministry of Defence. It examined the
history of British postwar military operational research (OR), which can be traced
back to the development of radar technology in the 1930s, with special reference to
the support of the British Army on the Rhine (BAOR). Often defined as the
application of scientific method to military problems, operational research was
increasingly systematised during the Second World War such that its use was
widespread in the British, American and Canadian military. After the success of OR
techniques during the war, the British military opted to maintain its OR units into
peacetime and the Cold War.
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Cassini-Huygens Exploration Mission to Saturn
28 March 2008
This witness seminar was organised jointly by the CCBH and the British Rocketry
Oral History Programme. The Huygens lander was part of the Cassini-Huygens
exploration mission to the Saturn System, and it reached the moon Titan. A
collaboration between NASA and ESA (the European Space Agency) the project
illustrated the technical skill, scientific knowledge and ambition of UK Space Science
teams and is probably the European Space Agency’s greatest achievement in solar
exploration. This witness seminar explored the UK contribution to this historic space
exploration mission.
The 150th anniversary of the University of London’s External System – ‘The
People’s University’
14 July 2008, London and 19 July 2008, Hong Kong.
The University of London’s External System, which awards distance learning degrees,
and the Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, were so pleased with the
outcome of the first witness seminar on the University of London’s External System,
held in June 2007, that two further witness seminars were held in July 2008.
The first seminar, on 14 July 2008, took place as part of the Pan-Commonwealth
Forum, an international conference on the developments in education in the
Commonwealth, held at the Institute of Education. This witness seminar explored the
impact of the External System on the development of higher education across the
Commonwealth. The second, on 19 July 2008 in Hong Kong, focused on the External
System in Hong Kong, where the External System has been active for 120 years, and
today there are 6,000 students. Both seminars were chaired by Professor Robert
Holland of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies.
In October 2007, Pat Thane chaired a session on ‘Using the digital archive’, with
contributions from Virginia Preston, Michael Kandiah and Vanessa Chambers, at a
seminar on Digital Horizons: how the digital revolution changes the relationship
between historians and their historical sources organised by The National Archives
and the Royal Historical Society at the British Library.
Thirty-five seminar transcripts are now available on the CCBH website,
www.ccbh.ac.uk, which continues to attract thousands of visitors each month. It
provides news and information for contemporary historians, and access to the online
archive of witness seminars on aspects of political, defence, economic, science and
technology and diplomatic history. The full list is available in the oral history section
of the CCBH website. Over 1,200 people had registered to read and download
seminars by July 2008.
Other Events
‘Experiencing the Law’ conference
The second ‘Experiencing the Law’ conference was held with the Institute of
Advanced Legal Studies and SOLON in December 2007 on ‘Activity or inactivity? The
issue of failure in law’s response to violence’. Speakers included Heather Harvey
from Amnesty International, Jasvinder Sanghera of Karma Nirvana, Nazir Afzal of the
Crown Prosecution Service, Les Moran Candida Harris and Alistair Gillespie. The
conference was well attended by historians, policymakers and legal experts.
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CCBH Conference, 9–11 July 2008: ‘Olympic City: London, Britain and the
World: 1908, 1948, 2012’
This conference took place at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, and attracted
a varied audience of those interested in the history and future of London, of sport,
and of government. Speakers included Dilwyn Porter, Martin Polley, Rebecca Jenkins
and Janie Hampton. On the final afternoon a roundtable discussion looking ahead to
‘London 2012: project, spectacle and legacy’ was held, chaired by Jerry White, and
including Tony Travers, Derek Wyatt MP, Dilwyn Porter, Ashling O’Connor (The Times
Olympic correspondent), John Bryant (The Marathon Makers and former editor of the
Daily Telegraph) and Richard Simmons (Commission for Architecture and the Built
Environment). The discussion transcript will shortly be published on the CCBH
website. The Cohen Foundation kindly provided £1,000 towards the costs of this
conference.
Pimlott Lecture
The 2008 Pimlott Lecture, in collaboration with Twentieth Century British History,
was given by Professor Christopher Andrew, Cambridge, on ‘Secret intelligence and
20th-century British history’. It took place in the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Lecture Theatre on 10 July and attracted a large audience.
History & Policy
History & Policy aims to demonstrate the relevance of history to contemporary
policymaking and increase the influence of historical research over current policy. It
puts historians in touch with those discussing and deciding public policy today, and
advises historians wanting to engage more effectively with policymakers and media.
History & Policy encourages historians to make their work more accessible to policy
and media audiences by commissioning briefings, facilitating media work and holding
events for historians and policymakers. Nearly 80 briefing papers by expert
historians are available on the History & Policy website, www.historyandpolicy.org.
Mel Porter runs History & Policy under the direction of Pat Thane in collaboration with
colleagues at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine. From February to October 2008, Sonia Christie acted as External
Relations Manager during Mel Porter's maternity leave.
On 5 December 2007 History & Policy had its public launch at the Churchill Museum
and Cabinet War Rooms. The event – ‘Why Policy Needs History’ – was held in
collaboration with the All-Party Parliamentary History Group. It showcased the
contribution historians can make to the most pressing policy issues facing the
government, with papers by David Cannadine, David Reynolds and Pat Thane and a
discussion chaired by David Goodhart, editor of Prospect magazine. The audience
included politicians, civil servants and representatives of NGOs, charities and thinktanks
and the event attracted widespread media coverage.
Other events during the year included two public events on the past and present of
local government, both supported by the British Academy, one at the British
Academy on 27 November 2007, the second at the Institute for Local Government
Studies, University of Birmingham, 12 March 2008, both chaired by Pat Thane.
Professor Bill Speck gave a lecture on constitutional reform at a History & Policy
event in parliament on 10 December 2007, organised with the House of Commons
Library. History & Policy held two discussions in parliament in May 2008; the first
examined the history of gypsy and traveller communities in Britain and the second,
organised with the All-Party Parliamentary History Group, explored governing with
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history. In June, a public discussion on the security state launched an event series
run in partnership with the Raphael Samuel History Centre. History & Policy also
organised media training courses for historians, funded by the SAS Initiatives Fund,
and collaborated with BBC History magazine to produce a monthly article.
At the Anglo-American Conference in July 2008, History & Policy organised a session
where Peter Riddell of The Times, Michael Crick of Newsnight and Chris Bowlby of
Radio 4 discussed the media’s role in communicating history and influencing policy,
chaired by Virginia Berridge. It also took part in the Options for Britain conference in
Cambridge, July 2008, which evaluated Britain’s performance on climate change,
social inequality, transport, business innovation, and Britain’s role in the world over
the past ten years, making recommendations for future policy options.
The History & Policy website was redesigned during the year and visitor numbers
continue to grow. A new opinion section was added along with case studies of
historian's policy involvement. Future plans include adding video content and an
‘Opportunities for Historians’ section.
Fellows and Visiting Scholars
Visiting scholars during the year included Dr Elisabeth Kehoe, who taught on the MA
in Contemporary British History including a successful option on ‘Museums and
National Identity’.
Centre for Metropolitan History
The Centre has had a typically busy year, during which it obtained funding for a
major new research project and welcomed several new postgraduate research
students. We made good progress with our existing projects and with our
programmes of conferences and other events. At the end of the 2007–8 session the
Centre comprised nine members of staff, five of whom are working on externallyfunded
projects. Professor Keene was due to retire from the University of London
after 29 years at the end of July 2008. However, following the departure of Professor
Bates as IHR Director, he took on the duties of Acting Director of the Institute for the
period from March to September. From October 2008 onwards, with the permission
of the Leverhulme Trust, the funding allocated for the Chair in Comparative
Metropolitan History was reallocated to a Visiting Professorship. The post for 2008–9
was advertised in the summer, and attracted a very good field: Professor Vivian
Bickford-Smith from the University of Cape Town, an expert on South African cities,
was appointed. Joining him at the CMH in October will be Dr Katrina Gulliver,
previously a research fellow at the National Library of Singapore, who obtained her
PhD from the University of Cambridge. Her research for her Leverhulme Postdoctoral
Fellowship will be a comparative study of the colonial port cities of Malacca and
Havana in the early modern period.
In terms of attracting new projects and funding, the highlight of the year was the
award of a grant of £733,779 by the ESRC for ‘Life in the suburbs: health,
domesticity and status in early modern London’. The project, which began on 1 June,
is the third in a series of projects undertaken in collaboration with Birkbeck and the
Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. It therefore
succeeds ‘People in Place’ (AHRC, 2003–6) and ‘Housing Environments and Health’
(Wellcome Trust, 2006–8). The news enabled us to retain our by now very
experienced research team, based in CMH and Cambridge, and in addition to recruit
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a large number of data inputters. As the title suggests, the project will examine
suburban development, in this instance through a detailed study of the rapidly
expanding eastern suburb of Aldgate. It will employ and develop some of the
methodological approaches developed by the earlier projects, and will lead to a
number of publications and the creation of datasets for wider use. A particularly
significant output will be an electronic edition of the ‘Parish Clerks’ Memoranda
Books’ from St Botolph Aldgate: a detailed diary-like record of baptisms, marriages
and burials at the church, containing a huge amount of information as well as social
commentary. In early 2008, thanks to an AHRC dissemination grant, the project
team was able to publish an illustrated pamphlet People in Place: Families,
Households and Housing in Early Modern London, and to create a new project
website at www.history.ac.uk/cmh/pip. In the meantime, the researchers and project
directors presented papers at various conferences and other events, including at an
international conference in Bordeaux in February.
Further funding, this time from a private source, was obtained during the year for a
small pilot project which examined the gin distilling industry in Southwark in the
18th century. Catherine Wright, a CMH research student, was commissioned to
investigate the source material and to write a report with recommendations about
the feasibility of a larger study. Aside from the value of the research itself, it is
hoped that this will be a useful means to develop contract research services in the
Centre, as part of broader IHR strategies.
Two further projects got off the ground this year. The first was our Livery Companies
Membership Records database project. With funding from the Clothworkers’
Company, a pilot project began in April, during which the first tranche of Freedom
records from the company were entered into a database designed by Dr Merry. In
the meantime discussions began with other livery companies which still hold their
own records, with a view to others joining the project over the next couple of years.
The end result will be an online database of Freedoms and Apprenticeships for some
of London’s largest and most important livery companies, covering the period from
around 1500 to 1900. The other project to begin was ‘London and the Tidal Thames
1250–1550: marine flooding, embankment and economic change’ (Principal
Investigator, Dr Galloway). This project, funded by the ESRC, will draw upon rich
surviving documentary sources to study the impact of storm flooding upon the
reclaimed marshlands bordering the tidal Thames and its estuary. It will use year-byyear
accounts of the management of riverside properties to assess the degree to
which reclaimed land was lost to the sea during the later Middle Ages. Other themes
to be looked at include the impact of population decline and agrarian recession upon
the economics of coastal and riverside defence; and the flood threat to medieval
London’s low-lying suburbs. Parallels will be sought in the modern policy of managed
retreat or realignment. Dr Galloway presented papers on the results of his research
at the International Maritime History Congress in Greenwich in June 2008, and at the
Leeds International Medieval Congress in July, where he focused on a case study of
Barking in Essex in a paper entitled ‘From farmers to fishermen: the flooding of
Barking marsh in the later middle ages’.
Our other projects continued to make good progress. Work on checking the 1666
Hearth Tax returns was nearing completion in our AHRC-funded project, with the aim
of filtering the data into a new database by the end of January 2008 ready for
analysis and delivery online. Meanwhile, our two researchers on ‘Londoners and the
Law’ (also AHRC) reached the final phases of the project. With more than 6,300
cases extracted from the Plea Rolls, a huge amount of data has been gathered
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(including references to more than 18,000 individuals) which will shed important
light not only on the workings of the Court of Common Pleas, but will aid in the
understanding of London’s connections with regions through patterns of trade and
litigation. Work has now commenced on analysing the data and writing up the
results, but in the meantime outputs from the project have already started appearing
in print, with the publication as: ‘“Hidden Gems” in the Records of the Common
Pleas: New Evidence on the Legacy of Lucy Visconti’, in L. Clark (ed.), The Fifteenth
Century VIII: Rule, Redemption and Representations in Late Medieval England and
France (Woodbridge, 2008), pp.59–72.
CMH staff were involved in two other IHR projects during the year. In November
2007, thanks to a grant from the Vice-Chancellor’s Development Fund, Dr Davies
and Dr Winters (Head of Publications) began work on ‘Making History: the discipline
in perspective’. This project is designed to create and put online a range of resources
which examine the development of the historical profession and the discipline over
the past century or so. Danny Millum was appointed as Project Officer for this
project, which is due to be completed in November 2008. The latest issue of History
in Focus was also published on the Institute website in the spring of 2008. For this
issue the History in Focus team collaborated with the CMH to provide an introduction
to aspects of the history of cities through a series of articles, book reviews,
bibliography and links to websites and resources. Contributors include Professor
Keene, Dr Richard Dennis, Professor John Gold, Professor Richard Rodger and
Professor Roey Sweet.
The Centre has continued to recruit new graduate students. In October 2007 we
welcomed Samantha Harper, who is working on the relationship between the Crown
and Henry VII; Helen Draper (co-supervised with Dr Joanna Marchant at the
Courtauld), whose research focuses on the 17th-century artist Mary Beale; Dhan
Singh, studying ‘The history of the Buenos Aires underground railways. A cultural
analysis of the modernisation process in a peripheral metropolis (1890–1950)’; and
Richard Harvey, working on ‘The stud tram fiasco: the surface contact experiment of
the London County Council tramways’. An existing student, Mary Lester, was
appointed to the second of our AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Studentships. In January
they were joined by Dean Rowland, who will be studying ‘The reception and
implementation of local and parliamentary legislation in England, 1422–c.1485’.
Another student, Pat Ostler, is registered at Birkbeck but co-supervised by Dr
Davies, and is looking at the London livery companies from the end of the Civil War
until the late 18th century. At the end of the 2007–8 session, therefore, the Centre
had a total of 15 postgraduate research students.
Under the direction of Dr Moore, the MA programme in Metropolitan and Regional
History was revamped during the academic year. For 2008–9 onwards there will be
three pathways, in Urban and Metropolitan History, Local and Regional History, and
Historical Research. A common core training programme is accompanied by a range
of options, including a new ‘project-based’ option for students taking the Historical
Research pathway. The new-look programme has proved successful in terms of
recruitment, with ten new students registered for 2008–9, to add to those returning
to complete their degrees under the old regulations. The core programme also
attracted a visiting student from the École des Chartes in Paris.
Two very successful conferences were held in the autumn of 2007. The first, ‘London
in Text and History 1400–1700’ was a collaboration with Bath Spa University and the
University of Oxford, and was held in the congenial surroundings of Jesus College,
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Oxford in September. This attracted a large audience, who heard papers on a wide
range of themes, ranging from Civic Memory to Networks and Cultural Exchange to
Languages and Identity. Some of the papers are due to be published in a volume
edited by the conference organisers. The other event was ‘Tall buildings in the
London landscape’, co-organised with Michael Hebbert and Elizabeth McKellar and
held at the IHR in October. A highly topical conference, it attracted a diverse
audience including representatives from English Heritage and DCMS. The papers
included an account of London’s early tall buildings, as well as a discussion of the
building of Senate House, and the controversial plans for new skyscrapers south of
the Thames. Most of the papers from the conference were due to be published in a
special issue of the London Journal in late 2008. By the end of the academic year the
programme was in place for the CMH’s 20th anniversary conference, ‘Metropolitan
History, Past, Present, Future’ to be held in honour of Professor Keene in October.
Confirmed plenary speakers were Vanessa Harding, Maryanne Kowaleski and
Maarten Prak. The year 2008–9 was shaping up to be an important one for the CMH
and for metropolitan history in general, with the 2009 Anglo-American Conference
due to be held on the theme of ‘Cities’. Dr Davies was asked to chair the
conference’s programme committee, whose members included Dr Moore and other
colleagues from the IHR and the School.
Library
The end of 2007 saw the completion of the third review by HEFCE of the School of
Advanced Study, and it is pleasing to report that this review once more praised the
School’s libraries, describing them as “the heart of the Institutes”.
The session was also characterised by the striking physical changes arising from the
need to provide a temporary entrance to Senate House Library by way of the IHR.
This was not through the Institute’s ground floor entrance as originally planned, but
by way of the second floor route used by IHR members during the reconstruction of
our own entrance in the previous session. Large numbers of (mostly) very young
people were seen on the Institute staircase and, inevitably, some of them got lost,
but the invasion of IHR space which the most pessimistic view of these arrangements
envisaged did not materialise. For IHR users, the greatest inconvenience was the
much longer waiting period for the lift, but there was also a gain in the form of more
direct access to Senate House Library for IHR members who used both libraries.
Where difficulties did arise, it fell to our reception staff to resolve them, and, as
always, we were grateful for the patience with which they coped with changing
circumstances.
In comparison with the last few years, there were fewer changes among the staff,
but Sandra Godwin (formerly Gilkes) took maternity leave, and Mette Lund Newlyn
was able to increase her hours of work to cover some of Sandra’s duties. Sandra’s
son Marcus, who was born in February, is very much a child of the Institute, as his
father is a former student and receptionist. The annual progression of graduate
trainees continued with the arrival of Claire Davies to replace Martha Krumbach.
However, we were able to continue to employ Martha on a part-time basis during her
postgraduate course, so she was transformed into a Reclassification Assistant, to
increase the rate of progress with that project. During her year as trainee, Martha
acted as the trainee co-ordinator for the programme of visits and training sessions
operated across the School, and Kate Wilcox-Jay assumed the permanent staff
member’s role in the programme.
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The work of reclassification continued. Michael Townsend completed Spain and
Portugal and began work on Scotland, whilst Martha Krumbach made substantial
progress with the particularly difficult Low Countries collection. Meanwhile, Claire
Davies began work on the English Local History Collection. The reclassification of this
section delivered the added benefit of easing the overcrowding of parts of the
collection.
Our fundamental work of augmenting the collections continued, with the addition of
1,757 volumes, bringing the total size of the collection to 177,586 volumes and
41,835 microforms. There were 234 accessible electronic resources, an increase of
32 on the previous year.
As always, the library was particularly grateful to the Friends and the American
Friends for their support. The former purchased the six volumes of Scientific
correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks as well as committing funds to future purchases.
The latter supported the first series of British pamphlets on the American Revolution,
The entring book of Roger Morrice, The collected letters of Harriet Martineau, The
journals of Thomas Babington Macaulay and The African American national biography
as well as two microfilm sets of York civic records and The Indian papers of the Rt.
Hon. Charles John, Earl Canning.
Editions of the speeches of Thomas Erskine (five volumes) and Henry Grattan (four
volumes) formed part of a significant gift of material on British and Irish history from
the Home Office Library. Other substantial sources acquired included Atti ufficiali
della Provincia Osservante Francescana di Bologna (four volumes) and The papers of
Abraham Lincoln: legal documents and cases (four volumes). The first volumes of
Scritti e discorsi politici of Alcide De Gasperi began a work which is likely to occupy a
significant amount of space. Major new reference works and guides to sources
included Les ministres des finances de la Révolution française au Second Empire:
dictionnaire biographique (three volumes) and Baltic connections: archival guide to
the maritime relations of the countries around the Baltic sea (three volumes). Titles
such as Die deutschsprachige Presse: ein biographisches Handbuch, Diccionari
d’historiografia catalana, and Brazilië in de Nederlandse Archieven (1624–1654)
reflected the wide range of areas of study which the library continued to support.
Perhaps the year’s most topical title was Prisoners’ letters to the Bank of England
1781–1827.
Over 7% of non-periodical acquisitions were gifts to the library, mostly from the
editors or authors themselves, and the Institute is grateful to all the individual
donors who are too numerous to be named here.
In a year in which the University’s charges for space and associated services rose by
182%, obliging the library to liquidate the bulk of its reserves in order to avoid a
deficit, the extent to which the library was dependent upon the generosity of its
collective and individual supporters to maintain the level of acquisitions was more
apparent than ever.
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Publications
In 2007–8 the Publications department once again enjoyed considerable success in
securing research grants. The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
awarded funding of £510,563 for the three-year Early English Laws project, which
will start in January 2009. The project, a collaboration with the Centre for Computing
in the Humanities at King’s College London, aims to edit or re-edit, translate,
introduce and comment on all 142 early legal codes, edicts and treatises composed
in England before the issuing of Magna Carta in 1215, and to make these materials
available online and in a printed volume. The period from c.600 to 1215 saw the
origins of England's common law, and the publication of these documents in a
searchable and freely accessible form has the potential both to transform scholarship
in the field and to open up a potentially difficult subject to a wider, non-specialist
audience.
In May 2008, the department was also awarded funding of £12,500 from the
University of London Vice-Chancellor’s Development Fund to continue the work of
British History Online; and of just over £4,000 from the School of Advanced Study
Development Fund to support the development of Reviews in History as a forum for
the evaluation of digital research resources.
The department has been engaged in three major research projects this year, two of
long standing – British History Online and the Royal Historical Society Bibliography of
British and Irish History – and a new one-year project which began in November
2008 – Making History. As of 1 August 2008, British History Online moved into a new
phase as a not-for-profit enterprise, with a requirement to generate sufficient income
to cover its core running costs in the long term. Consequently, the main focus of
activity this year has been on the development of the new ‘premium content’
element of the site and the management of subscriptions, both institutional and
personal. The generous funding that the project has received from the Andrew W
Mellon Foundation of New York has supported us in this activity, and the first months
of operation under the new conditions have been extremely successful. It is hoped
that British History Online will be able to offer a model for other UK projects facing
the problem of academic and financial sustainability at the end of periods of research
council and philanthropic funding.
Work has also continued on the AHRC-funded project to digitise the Calendars of
State Papers through British History Online, and notably on the development of an
annotation feature which will allow historians to comment on and correct the
calendars. With the addition of the State Papers and other free material, there are
now over 800 volumes in the digital library, attracting on average more than 1.25
million page views per month.
Two conferences were organised this year under the auspices of British History
Online. A second Record Society Conference, held on 23 June 2008, expanded upon
the main themes identified during the 2007 event, specifically the recruitment of
volunteers, promotion and marketing, editorial and technical standards, copyright
and licensing, and the obligations of charitable trusts under the new Charities Act
(2006). In July 2008 BHO sponsored and organised the third day of the IHR’s annual
Anglo-American Conference of Historians, the theme of which was ‘Communication’.
In a departure from usual practice, two plenary panel sessions were held,
investigating the communication of history to a wider audience, and, 15 years after
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the code for the World Wide Web was placed in the public domain, the digital
revolution in historical perspective.
The RHS Bibliography is currently in the second of its three years of AHRC funding,
and work continues to progress well. A number of new features have been added and
others enhanced, including: improved Open URL links to online resources; new
thematic lists for county history and 20th-century British prime ministers; item-level
links to the online library of the Archaeology Data Service and to Oxford Scholarship
Online; and links to the online ‘Who was Who’ for individuals appearing in the
Bibliography. Finally, an upgrade to the online software was launched in the course
of the year, bringing various improvements to functionality.
The Making History project, a collaboration between the Publications department and
the Centre for Metropolitan History, began in November 2007. Supported by the
University of London Vice-Chancellor’s Development Fund, it aims to trace the
development of the history profession and discipline over the past century, focusing
on particularly significant individuals, organisations and projects, journals and
themes. The main output of the project, to be launched in November 2008, will be a
major online resource presenting audio recordings of interviews with historians,
statistical material, a unique image gallery, and more than 70 newly-commissioned
contextual essays and studies. As an adjunct to the Making History project, the IHR
Friends also generously funded a full survey of the IHR archive.
In December 2007, the Head of Publications and the Publications Manager attended
the second meeting of the Porta Historica network for editors of historical sources in
Vienna. A proposal to develop common standards for the peer review and evaluation
of digital research resources at the European level is being developed by the member
institutes, drawing on the IHR’s earlier AHRC-funded peer review project. The Head
of Publications will be attending a follow-up meeting in The Hague in September.
The IHR’s journal, Historical Research, continues to be extremely successful, and the
growth in the number of articles downloaded from the Blackwell Synergy site has
been particularly gratifying. This year also saw the launch of the journal’s digitised
back catalogue, with all articles published since 1923 now available online and fully
searchable alongside the new material. Articles published in 2007–8 include: ‘The
“Last Night of the Proms” in historical perspective’, by David Cannadine; ‘What are
historians for?’, by Justin Champion; ‘The shiring of East Anglia: an alternative
hypothesis’, by Lucy Marten; ‘“For refreshment and preservinge health”: the
definition and function of recreation in early modern England’, by Elaine McKay; ‘The
war against heresy in medieval Europe’, by R.I. Moore; and ‘Nature, production and
regulation in eighteenth-century Britain and France: the case of the leather industry’,
by Giorgio Riello.
The IHR’s 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. Also published this year was History and Philanthropy: Past,
Present Future, ed. David Cannadine and Jill Pellew (June 2008).
There have been several staffing changes in the department this year. In May 2008
Emily Morrell was seconded from the IHR to take up the new role of Publications
Manager for the School of Advanced Study. She continues to be based in the IHR,
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and to handle the production of IHR publications, but has considerable additional
responsibilities across the School. The Head of Publications has also been seconded
to the School for a day a week to oversee the development of a central School
publications team.
In November 2007 we were joined by Danny Millum, seconded from the Institute for
the Study of the Americas as Making History Project Officer, and by Jonathan Blaney,
as Project Editor for the AHRC-funded element of British History Online. Mark Hagger
left the IHR in the autumn of 2007 to take up a lecturing post at the University of
Bangor, and was replaced by Oliver Blaiklock as Deputy Editor of Reviews in History.
Jen Wallis joined the department in April as part-time Publications Assistant. Finally,
in July 2008 Martin Cook left the IHR after a number of years as first Web Assistant
and then Website Manager. He has been succeeded by Martin Steer, who took up the
post on 28 July.
Victoria County History
Publications
VCH Staffordshire X: Tutbury and Needwood Forest.
This volume was available from late last year but we held the formal launch on 11
April at Burton upon Trent town hall, courtesy of our hosts the East Staffordshire
Borough Council. About 50 guests attended, led by the Lord Lieutenant of
Staffordshire, James Hawley, and his wife. Guests included local MP Janet Dean.
They were welcomed by Councillor Alex Fox, leader of East Staffordshire Borough
Council, who subsequently led a guided tour of the Council Chamber. Michael
Richards, marketing director of Boydell & Brewer, manned a very impressive stall of
VCH products, including a complete set of the Staffordshire set to date (all back in
print).
VCH Northamptonshire VI: Modern Industry
Volume 6 of the Victoria County History for Northamptonshire was launched in the
grand art deco setting of Towcester Race Course. The launch was officially presided
over by Lord Naseby, the Chairman of the Northamptonshire Victoria County History
Trust, and was attended by many local personalities, including the Vice-Chancellor of
the University of Northampton Mrs Ann Tate, the Chairman of the County Council,
the Mayor of Towcester, various members of the VCH Northamptonshire Trust
including Mr John Church of Church Shoes, the designated future Chairman of the
Trust from 2008 Mr Tim Boswell MP, and the Director of the VCH Professor John
Beckett. Speeches of thanks to the volume editor Dr Charles Insley, the Trust and
the University of Northampton, where the VCH is based, were made; current work on
Volume 7, on Corby and its hinterland, was presented by the County Editor Dr
Veronica West-Harling, as was the newly designed website, now live at
www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk/northamptonshire; and plans for Volume 8 on the
Towcester area were unveiled.
England’s Past for Everyone Publications
Cornwall and the Cross: Christianity 500–1560 explores the history of Christianity in
Cornwall to the Reformation. The book was launched by the Bishop of Truro at an
event at St Michael’s Mount on 29 September 2007. Bristol: Ethnic Minorities and the
City 1000–2001, launched on 12 March 2008, is the first time that immigration and
ethnic minorities have been explored in such depth over the recorded history of a
single city. Sunderland and its Origins: Monks to Mariners, which tells the story of
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Sunderland from its prehistoric origins to its establishment as an independent parish
in 1719, was launched on 30 April 2008 by historian Michael Wood at an event at the
National Glass Centre. Finally, Burford: Buildings and People in a Cotswold Town,
launched on 6 June 2008, includes a gazetteer of all buildings in the main streets of
the town, making it of interest to locals and visitors alike. All books in the series are
published by local history specialists Phillimore & Co. Ltd. They are selling well and
have received favourable reviews.
Events
Marc Fitch Lecture 2007, Royal College of Surgeons
More than 100 friends, supporters and staff of the VCH gathered at the Royal College
of Surgeons in Lincoln’s Inn Fields on 31 October to hear Professor Linda Colley’s
lecture ‘County, nations, empire and coasts: the VCH and the divisions of the British
past’.
Professor Colley took us back to the origins of the VCH, and to the milieu in which
the founding fathers operated, to contextualise its foundation within wider issues of
contemporary cultural politics. The early pioneers were not, she suggested, little
Englanders; rather, they saw the VCH as one part of the expression of Empire in the
closing years of Queen Victoria’s reign – hence, for example, the appearance of the
Imperial Crown on the cover of early volumes of the History.
Professor Colley also surprised many in the audience by highlighting the extent to
which the VCH was part of a wider movement for county histories in both Scotland (a
scheme pioneered by the publishers William Blackwood & Sons), Wales, Ireland and
even the Isle of Man.
The mental geography of the early pioneers extended far beyond England; indeed,
from the outset they looked to raise awareness in Continental Europe, and to raise
funds in North America.
But in the longer term, Professor Colley argued, the underlying problems of funding
led to a foreshortening of ambition, with the VCH increasingly coming to represent a
rather old-fashioned view of English county history, predominantly associated with
the Home Counties and the rural heartlands of central England. The extremities, and
the maritime counties, were virtually untouched territory.
A stimulating, provocative, and most enjoyable lecture followed by a reception in
which guests were encouraged to inspect the exhibits of the Hunterian Museum. This
was not for the squeamish, particularly on Halloween!
75th Anniversary of the VCH & IHR
Many staff, past and present, were able to be with us at the IHR for the 75th
Anniversary Party on 13 February. It was a superb occasion, marking a milestone in
the history of the VCH. Professor David Bates, as Director of the IHR, said a few
supportive words on behalf of himself and previous Directors, and Professor John
Morrill spoke enthusiastically about the project and its past. He recalled writing for
the VCH Cheshire in the 1970s, and being refused permission to use direct
quotations! During the evening we launched The Little Big Red Book, edited by Kerry
Whitston and Mel Hackett. The LBRB is an update to the general introduction
supplement of 1990, but as its name implies on a rather different scale. Among the
highlights are some wonderful quotes from the archives. Copies are available for £10
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(£12.99 retail), via William Peck or the ground floor Bookshop. We were pleased to
welcome at the party, among many others, Professor Rick Trainor of KCL who is
Chairman of the IHR Advisory Council, and Professor Sir Roderick Floud, Dean of the
School of Advanced Study.
Who Do You Think You Are?
Following a sector launch at the Houses of Parliament last year, the VCH/EPE
‘Explore’ website (www.ExploreEnglandsPast.org.uk) was launched to the public at
the Who Do You Think You Are? Live event at Olympia in May. The site was well
received and staff and volunteers continue to upload new material as it is discovered.
A co-ordinated web links campaign over the summer saw traffic levels increase,
including movement from high profile websites such as English Heritage and the
Society of Genealogists.
England’s Past for Everyone
This has been another busy year for the England’s Past for Everyone project.
Local volunteers are continuing to provide support to county projects. For example,
volunteers in Oxfordshire are researching wills and inventories and census records.
Their research will feed into the 16th and 17th century chapters of the Henley
paperback, due for publication at the end of 2009.
School projects in Cornwall, Herefordshire, Kent and Oxfordshire are now complete.
The first Cornwall project, with Camborne Science and Community College, looked at
religious history in the county. Pupils helped to create teaching packs on topics such
as the lives of the saints and pilgrimage. The second, with Mounts Bay Secondary
School, explored the comings and goings of the ports of Mousehole and Newlyn.
Pupils also had the chance to present their own ideas for a ‘port of the future’. In
Herefordshire, pupils from Ledbury Primary School studied Tudor history on their
doorstep. The project included field trips to key sites, access to local archives and
the opportunity to create wattle and daub and use quill pen and ink. In Kent, pupils
from Holy Family School learnt about the impact of the papermaking industry on the
local area, as a part of the wider impact of 19th-century industrialisation. In
Oxfordshire, pupils from Mabel Pritchard School investigated the towns of Burford
and Henley engaging with artefacts and discovering ‘treasures’ in town and along the
river. In Sussex and Bristol education consultants have produced learning resources
based on the paperback research completed by EPE volunteers and academics. The
projects were delivered in partnership with a number of local organisations including
county councils, universities, museums and record offices.
The resources from these projects are currently being edited and will be uploaded to
our online Schools Learning Zone, to be launched next year. The site will provide free
access to units of work, timelines and interactive resources aimed at Key Stages 1 to
3, and will show how local history can be studied creatively across the curriculum.
Further school projects in Derbyshire and County Durham are scheduled for early
2009 (www.EnglandsPastforEveryone.org.uk/schools).
Staffing
Professor Carole Rawcliffe retired as member of the VCH National Committee in the
summer. We extend thanks to her for her service and contributions to the VCH. We
would also like to extend a hearty welcome to our new National Committee member,
Professor Rosemary Sweet, who joins us from the University of Leicester. Chris
Thornton and Herbert Eiden, VCH Essex County Editors, officially joined the IHR on 1
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June as they transferred from the University of Essex. We are grateful to the HR
departments of the Universities of London and Essex for making this transition
possible, and to Essex County Council and the VCH Essex Appeal for providing the
necessary funding.
Sue Parkinson joined the VCH staff as East Yorkshire Editor on 16 June and will hold
an honorary research fellowship within the Department of History at the University.
Dr Alex Craven joined the VCH Wiltshire office on 10 December as Assistant Editor
for the county. Dr Craven succeeds Dr James Lee who has left for a position at the
University of the West of England.
We are also pleased to welcome our new staff to Central Office: our new Production
Assistant, Web Manager and Education and Skills Manager. Jessica Davies,
Production Assistant, joins us from Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts
London). Skye Dillon, Education & Skills Manager, joins us from the UCL Centre for
Sustainable Heritage where she ran a number of short courses for heritage
professionals. She has also worked as a supply teacher. Dmitri Nemchenko, Web
Manager, has an extensive background in private sector websites. He joins us after a
successful stint as Senior Technical Consultant at a web agency. Carlos Lopez Galviz,
our Administrative Assistant, left to complete his doctorate in Comparative
Metropolitan History and we wish him all the success for the future.
Associated Institutes
History of Parliament: Director’s Report
The year 2007–8 saw the completion of the volumes covering 1820–32, whose
publication (by Cambridge University Press) is planned for 2009. The six or seven
volumes will contain 1,367 biographies of the men who sat in the House of Commons
during the protracted and tense debates over Catholic Emancipation and the Reform
Act, and articles covering politics and elections in each constituency during the
period. Its publication will complete the History’s coverage of the House of Commons
in the long 18th century (1660 to 1832). Meanwhile, the volumes covering 1604–29
are expected to be completed around July next year and are scheduled for
publication in late 2010.
Work is also proceeding on preparing the text of the History for publication online,
which we plan for late 2009. Apart from the previous publications, we plan to include
in the online publication additional explanatory and some educational material, which
will make it an exceptionally valuable resource for students of British history up to
1832. As part of this project, we are constructing a content management system
which will hold all pre-publication as well as published articles.
Work will begin soon on the programme of work to succeed the 1820–32 section.
The programme is planned to deal with the period 1832–1945, but our initial work
will cover 1832–68. Dr Philip Salmon has been appointed Programme Editor and Dr
Kathryn Rix, from New Hall, Cambridge, Assistant Editor: they begin work on the
project in January.
Meanwhile, we continue to work on the other three projects, covering the Commons
in 1422–1504 and 1640–60, and the Lords in 1660–1832. Over the period October
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2007 to September 2008 the staff for these sections researched and wrote a total of
342 articles on Members and constituencies, containing over 1,036,000 words.
We continue, as ever, to be closely involved with the IHR’s project, British History
Online, and many other activities of the Institute. These included the Annual Lecture,
given in November 2007 by Professor David Hayton, the editor of our volumes on
1690–1715, on the impact of the 1707 Act of Union on Westminster; our now regular
competition for schools, this year on the theme of the life and times of Oliver
Cromwell; a new undergraduate dissertation competition; and collaborations within
the House of Commons and House of Lords on a number of planned exhibitions. A
seminar was held in January at our offices in Bloomsbury Square on the work and
intellectual legacy of Geoffrey Holmes, a partnership between the History, the journal
Parliamentary History, and Bath Spa University. The History, again together with
Parliamentary History, mounted a very successful one-day conference in April 2008
on the Speakership, which included a fine description by the last Speaker, one of our
Trustees, Baroness Boothroyd, on her experience of the job, which provided an
excellent context for discussion of her predecessors.
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Academic and Professional Activities of Staff
Philip Baker
Until the end of May 2008, Philip worked with colleagues at the CMH and the
University of Cambridge on completing the Wellcome Trust-funded project ‘Housing
environments and health in early modern London, 1550–1750’. At the beginning of
June, he and the same research team started a successor project, the three-year
ESRC-funded ‘Life in the suburbs: health, domesticity and status in early modern
London’, which will provide a detailed study of the development of the eastern
suburban parishes of St Botolph Aldgate and Holy Trinity Minories between 1550 and
1700. The aims of the project are to assess the impact of burgeoning population and
industrialisation on the topography of the area; to examine the social and economic
characteristics of the parishes’ population; and to study the relationship between
rapid urbanisation and health and mortality. In the initial months of the project,
Philip has shared the management of a team of data inputters who are transcribing a
wide variety of parish and ward sources in preparation for later analysis.
In the course of the year, Philip gave a number of seminar and conference papers. In
October 2007, he delivered a paper entitled ‘Rhetoric, reality and the varieties of civil
war radicalism’ at the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University
of Kent; and, together with Dr Mark Merry, in January 2008 he gave a paper
‘Parishioners, pews and perimeters: residence and status in early modern London’ at
the Metropolitan History Seminar at the IHR. At a workshop on Les Grandes Bases de
Données et l’Histoire Sociale des Populations at Université Michel de Montaigne
Bordeaux 3 in March, Dr Matthew Davies gave a presentation that he and Philip had
written on ‘Families, household groups and demographic behaviour in London, 1550–
1720’; and at the Urban History Group Conference at the University of Nottingham in
March, Philip delivered a paper entitled ‘Parishes, parishioners and peripheries:
residence and status in early modern London’. His publications included an edited
collection of Leveller writings and speeches, with an introduction by Geoffrey
Robertson QC, which appeared as The Levellers: the Putney Debates (Verso, 2007).
John Beckett
During the session 2007–8 John gave papers at academic conferences in Lisbon,
Portugal and Lund, Sweden.
His publications during the year were: (with Michael Turner), ‘End of the Old Order:
F.M.L. Thompson, the Land Question, and the burden of ownership in England,
c.1880–c.1925’, Agricultural History Review, 55, 2 (2007), 269–88; ‘75 years of
fruitful co-operation’, in K Whitston and M Hackett (eds.), The Little Big Red Book
(2008), 17–42; ‘Local history, family history, and the Victoria County History: new
directions for the twenty-first century’, Historical Research (vol. 81, no. 212, May
2008), 1–16.
John also published book reviews in the following: Local Historian, Agricultural
History Review, Midland History, Economic History Review and Agricultural History.
Talks given included: ‘Libraries and the Victoria County History’, Historic Libraries
Forum, Royal Asiatic Society, London, 15 November 2007; ‘Two Christian counties:
Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and the Diocese of Southwell, 1884–1927’, Roy
Christian Memorial Lecture, Derby WEA and Derbyshire Archaeological Society,
University of Derby, 11 January 2008; ‘The survival of the aristocracy in England:
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how did they do it?’, Beaconsfield and District Historical Society, Old Beaconsfield, 12
January 2008; ‘Hampshire and the VCH’, Basingstoke, University of Winchester, 16
January 2008; ‘The VCH and the discipline of local history since 1933’, Institute of
Historical Research, 22 January 2008; ‘Volunteers and transcription: the experience
of the VCH’, Record Society Conference, 2008, IHR, 23 June 2008
John’s research time was limited by the demands of the Directorship of the VCH, but
he continued to work with various associates on projects relating to the history of
churches and chapels in Nottinghamshire, and on the Cust family papers in
Lincolnshire.
David Cannadine
David Cannadine spent his last year at the IHR as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Professor of British History in the same way that he had spent the previous four. He
delivered lectures on a wide range of subjects in Sheffield, London, Edinburgh,
Boston, Milwaukee, New York and Melbourne, and participated in conferences and
symoposia on both sides of the Atlantic. He contributed his third series of broadcasts
to the BBC Radio 4 programme, ‘A Point of View’, and was historical consultant for an
exhibition marking the centenary of the birth of Ian Fleming at the Imperial War
Museum. He co-edited History and Philanthropy: Past, Present and Future, edited
Empire, the Sea and Global History: Britain’s Maritime World, c.1763–1840, and
published Making History Now and Then, which was launched on 1 July 2008, after
he delivered his valedictory lecture: ‘Making History, Then?’.
Throughout the year, Professor Cannadine continued his work as Chair of the IHR
Appeal, Chair of the Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery, and Chair of the Blue
Plaques Panel. He also served as Vice-Chair of the Kennedy Memorial Trust and of
the editorial board of Past and Present, as a Commissioner of English Heritage, as a
Trustee of the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum and of the Rothschild
Archive, as a member of the Royal Mint Advisory Committee, the Eastern Regional
Committee of the National Trust, and the editorial board of the History of Parliament,
and as one of the judges of the Wolfson History Prize. Much of his time was spent
working with his colleagues on the 30 Year Rule Review Committee, and in drafting
its preliminary report.
Matthew Davies
Matthew has continued to direct or co-direct five research projects based at the
CMH, and to develop proposals for new projects for which funding will be sought. He
now supervises eight graduate students, in collaboration with colleagues at the IHR,
Birkbeck and the Courtauld. In connection with the Centre’s research on early
modern London he attended an international symposium in Bordeaux in February
where he spoke about the current Wellcome-funded project. He was principal
applicant for ‘Life in the suburbs’, a third phase in this research, which was awarded
funding of £733,000 by the ESRC in May 2008. In the summer of 2008 he published
London and the Kingdom: essays in honour of Caroline M Barron, co-edited with
Andrew Prescott. The volume contains 25 essays, ranging widely over the medieval
and early modern history of the capital. His other work continues to centre on the
late medieval volume of the new seven-volume history of London, to be edited by
Professor Derek Keene, but he was also able to make further progress with more
specific work on the guilds, their archives and representations of history. He was
invited to deliver a Gresham Lecture in April 2009 as part of a series on late 16thcentury
London and trade. Within the IHR he served for the first time on the IHR
Fellowships Committee and was asked to chair the newly established Research
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Strategy Group. Elsewhere, he was appointed to the steering group of the latest
AIM25 project funded by the Vice-Chancellor’s Development Fund, and continued to
act as an advisor to the Records of Early English Drama project and a related AHRC
project based at the University of Southampton.
Jim Galloway
Jim rejoined the staff of the IHR on 1 March 2008 when his research project London
and the Tidal Thames 1250–1550: Marine Flooding, Embankment and Economic
Change began at the CMH, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
This two-year part-time project investigates the impact of storm flooding upon the
lands bordering the tidal river Thames and the Thames Estuary in the period 1250–
1550, and studies the changing human response to these environmental challenges
over the course of three centuries. This is Jim’s second spell at CMH, where he
worked from 1988–2000, and subsequently held an IHR Senior Research Fellowship.
Jim gave a paper outlining the aims and themes of the project at an inter-disciplinary
conference entitled An End to History? Climate Change, the Past and the Future,
organised by Rescue History and held at the Birmingham and Midland Institute in
April 2008, and presented further papers at the International Maritime History
Congress in Greenwich in June and the Leeds International Medieval Congress in
July, where he focused on a case study of the flooding of the marshlands at Barking
in Essex.
Chris Lewis
Chris’s activities outside the VCH included publishing ‘Welsh territories and Welsh
identities in late Anglo-Saxon England’, in Britons in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Nick
Higham (Woodbridge, 2007), and ‘Edgar, Chester, and the kingdom of the Mercians,
957–9’, in Edgar, King of the English 959–975: New Interpretations, ed. Donald
Scragg (Woodbridge, 2008). He directed the 31st annual Battle Conference on
Anglo-Norman Studies (July 2008) and edited the proceedings of the previous year’s
conference, Anglo-Norman Studies, 30. In October 2007 he gave the second
Cameron Lecture at the Institute for Name Studies, University of Nottingham. Other
papers given during the year included ‘Personal names and cultural identity in 19thcentury
Britain’ (International Aleksandras Vanagas Conference, Institute of the
Lithuanian Language, Vilnius), ‘Writing history from British archives: dirty-hands
research in the digital age’ (Boston College), ‘Communities and conflict at Lichfield,
Chester and Coventry in the time of the Norman bishops’ (Canterbury Christ Church
University), ‘Hunting with birds of prey in early medieval England’ (St Andrews
University), ‘The king’s sister: the fourth life of Countess Goda’ (Leeds International
Medieval Congress), and ‘The Dunsæte code in historical context’ (Early English Laws
Conference, IHR).
Mark Merry
The ESRC funded project ‘Life in the suburbs: health, domesticity and status in early
modern London’ began in June 2008 hosted by the CMH in collaboration with the
Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, under the
directorship of Dr Matthew Davies. This project seeks to investigate the character
and development of London’s eastern suburb by examining the life of the inhabitants
of the extra-mural parishes of St Botolph Aldgate and Holy Trinity Minories from
c.1550–c.1700. The early stages of this project have focused upon an intense data
gathering effort, involving a large number of data inputters transcribing and
calendaring information from a diverse range of sources. Mark delivered a paper
based on very early findings from the project at The British Academy Hearth Tax
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Project Third Annual Conference, ‘Life and living in later Stuart England’, at
Roehampton University. Jointly with Philip Baker he also contributed a paper to an
Oxford University day school on ‘Houses and households in later Stuart London’.
In addition to this project Mark has continued to act as consultant and database
manager to two projects involving the CMH: the Livery Company Membership
Database Project (CMH/The Clothworkers Company), and the London Hearth Tax
Project (Roehampton). He has also been preparing an edition of 17th-century
Warwickshire gentry household accounts for the Dugdale Society.
Danny Millum
Danny has spent the last year working on the IHR Making History project, the result
of which is a new website providing a guide to the development of the profession and
discipline of history in Britain over the last hundred years and more. It details major
individuals, organisations, projects, journals and themes in history, and features
around 70 specially commissioned articles, interviews with current historians,
images, statistics and more. The website is the outcome of a one-year project
funded by the University of London Vice-Chancellor’s Development Fund, and can be
found at www.history.ac.uk/makinghistory.
James Moore
This year saw completion of the book Reinventing History: The Enlightenment
Origins of Ancient History. The study was developed from a collaborative
historiographical project between ancient and modern historians based at the
Universities of Nottingham, Birmingham and London. Following a successful
conference at the IHR in Summer 2007, James Moore, Ian Macgregor Morris and
Andrew Baylis have edited a volume composed of specially-commissioned essays on
the contribution of enlightenment scholarship and research to the discipline of
ancient history. The volume includes sections on methods and interpretations,
historical controversies and historical consciousness, and the politics of
historiographical development. Individual contributions range widely and include a
chapter from Malcolm Wagstaff on William Martin Leake and the development of
historical geography, Gareth Sampson on the Roman historical tradition, Doohwan
Ahn on Greek history and British political thought and John Seed on a re-evaluation
of the context of Gibbon’s religious perspectives in The Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire. The editors have received a number of invitations to discuss and promote
the publication and have already given papers to conferences on the classical
tradition in Canada and Italy. They are particularly grateful to Catherine Tite
(University of Regina) and Luna Figurelli (University of Palermo) for their support in
this respect. In January 2009 the editors organised a panel on themes from the book
for the British Society of Eighteenth Century Studies annual conference at Oxford
and they will also be addressing related issues at the forthcoming 2009 Anglo-Italian
conference.
Dr Moore continues to supervise a range of doctoral students, including those on the
AHRC-funded collaborative doctoral award scheme. This project, now entering its
third year, has proved remarkably productive with research students engaged in a
wide range of innovative research surrounding the ‘exhibitionary culture’ of London
in the late 19th and early 20th century. The first student, Kathrin Pieren, is now
progressing rapidly towards completion, while last year’s new student, Mary Lester,
is also progressing well. Kathrin’s work on the public display of Jewish culture and
history has been well received at a number of seminars and conferences while Mary’s
work shows signs of developing a genuinely innovative approach to the study of
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identity and locality within the London landscape. They were joined in October 2008
by Joanne Marchant, a recent graduate from the Centre for Museology at the
University of Manchester. Joanna will be studying the relationship between London
museums and their neighbourhood environments and wider cultural landscapes.
This, again, is an interesting and innovative topic as while museum studies literature
is dominated by debates and the content and form of museums there is much less
about the impact of the museum on the wider urban landscape and patters of urban
cultural activity. The project is due to terminate on the graduation of the final
student in October 2011. The possibility of a public display of project work, possibly
via the internet, is currently under discussion.
In 2008 Dr Moore oversaw the rearrangement of the MA programme organised by
the Centre for Metropolitan History and the Centre for Local History. This saw the
creation of a new course structure with three parallel pathways, allowing students to
complete an MA in Historical Research, an MA in Local and Regional History or an MA
in Urban and Metropolitan History. The new structure attracted a significantly larger
number of students than previously and has made a significant contribution to the
ongoing increase in the number of postgraduate students at the IHR. Dr Moore
continues to act as Director of Studies for this programme.
During the year work continued on a number of other projects, including a privatelyfunded
project on the Phillips of Southwark exploring their commercial, business and
social networks and their involvement in the gin trade. Extensive preparatory work
has also been undertaken for a new project on the ancient city and 18th-century
understandings of history and modernity. This will be the subject of a funding
application in 2009.
Richard Roberts
Papers presented
• Conference on ‘Financial Centres as Competing Clusters’, University of Paris X
Nanterre, 30 January 2008: ‘The competitive position of London as an
international financial centre – strengths and challenges’
• European Association for Banking History Annual Conference, Frankfurt, 30
May 2008: ‘Development and dynamics of the business models of the City
merchant banks’
• UBS, City of London, 12 June 2008: “Historical perspectives on the financial
crisis”.
• Conference on ‘War and International Finance’, University of Paris X Nanterre,
20 June 2008: ‘The systemic financial crisis of August 1914’.
Publications
Richard Roberts, The City: A Guide to London’s Global Financial Centre, (London: The
Economist, 2008) An updated and extensively revised second edition published in
March 2008.
Matthew Stevens
Over the 2007–8 period Matthew has continued to conduct research on the society
and economy of later medieval London. At the 2008 Economic History Society annual
conference he presented findings from the Centre for Metropolitan History, AHRCfunded
‘Londoners and the Law’ project in a paper entitled ‘Credit relationships in
15th-century London: evidence from the Court of Common Pleas’. During the last
year, Matthew has completed work on his forthcoming monograph, Urban
Assimilation in Post-Conquest Wales: Ethnicity, Gender and Economy in Ruthin,
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1282–1348, which is to be published with the University of Wales Press in summer
2009. He has recently submitted an article stemming from the ‘Londoners and the
Law’ project to The Journal of Legal History, under the title of ‘The practicalities of
arbitration in the fifteenth century: evidence from the Westminster Court of Common
Pleas’, which is currently under review. Lastly, working together with Dr Matthew
Davies, Matthew authored an ESRC small grant proposal for a project entitled
‘London women and the economy before and after the Black Death’, which has now
been awarded funding, and is due to run from January to December 2009.
Alan Thacker
Alan is Reader in Medieval History and Executive Editor of the Victoria County
History. His publications this year include ‘Gallic or Greek? Archbishops in England
from Theodore to Ecgberht’, in Frankland: the Franks and the World of Early
Medieval Europe, ed. Paul Fouracre and David Ganz (Manchester University Press,
2008); ‘Rome of the Martyrs: Saints’ Cults and Relics, Fourth to Seventh Century’, in
Roma Felix – Formation and Reflections of Medieval Rome, ed. Éamonn Ó Carrigáin
and Carol Neuman de Vegvar (Ashgate, 2008); ‘Martyr Cult within the Walls: Saints
and Relics in the Roman Tituli of the Fourth to Seventh Centuries’, in Text, Image,
and Interpretation: Studies in Anglo-Latin Literature and its Insular Context in
Honour of Éamonn Ó Carrigáin, ed. Jane Roberts and Alistair McKinnis (Brepols,
2007). He has also published contributions to the England’s Past for Everyone
volume, Sunderland and its Origins. Monks to Mariners, by Maureen Meikle and
Christine Newman (Phillimore, 2007), including ‘Introduction’, ‘Before the Written
Record’ (with Matthew Bristow, Christine Newman and David Heslop), and ‘The
Anglo-Saxon Monastery of Wearmouth’ (with Rosemary Cramp).
He has given papers in Utrecht and Leeds and continues to serve on the council of
the Henry Bradshaw Society.
Pat Thane
This year, Pat acted as International Advisor to the Nordic Research Centre on ‘The
Past and Present of Nordic Welfare States’, coordinated by the University of Helsinki.
She was also a member of the organising committee for the European Gender and
Well-Being Network, funded by the European Science Foundation and coordinated
from the University of Barcelona. As well as acting as Assessor for research grant
applications for the Research Councils of Denmark and France, Pat acted as member
of an external review panel, assessing Arts and Humanities Degree programmes at
the Open University in September. In summer 2008, she became Specialist Adviser
in Modern Social History to the RAE History panel. Her work on pensions and old age
led to her advising the Institute of Actuaries on a history of pensions, which they are
publishing to commemorate the passing of the first British Old Age Pensions Act in
1908.
Pat spoke, on behalf of History & Policy, at two public events on the past, present
and future of local government, both supported by the British Academy: one at the
British Academy on 27 November, the second at the Institute for Local Government
Studies, University of Birmingham, 12 March; she chaired both events.
She is pleased to report a successful joint application with The National Archives to
the AHRC for funding to run a two-year collaborative training programme in
Contemporary History for research students from January 2009.
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Pat has examined PhDs at Royal Holloway and St Andrews, and acted as external
examiner for MA History at the University of Manchester.
She was appointed Christensen Visiting Fellow of St Catherine’s College, Oxford,
Trinity term 2008.
Pat ceased to chair the Social History Society, but continues to act as Vice-President
of the Royal Historical Society and as member of Research Committee and
Communications Committee, British Academy; the Advisory Board, Modern Records
Centre, University of Warwick; and the Colleges of Assessors of ESRC and AHRC.
Papers presented
• University of Edinburgh, 11 December 2007, seminar, Department of
Economic and Social History: ‘Unmarried motherhood in 20th-century
England’. Another version of the paper was given at the University of
Durham, 13 March 2008.
• American Historical Association, Washington, 4 January 2008: ‘Women and
pensions in the UK since 1908’.
• House of Commons, 6 February 2008, talk on ‘Women and the vote since
1918’ to a meeting organised by the Electoral Reform Society to
commemorate the anniversary of the first enfranchisement of women in UK.
• Commented on sessions on history of old age and history of healthcare,
European Social Science History conference, Lisbon, 2008.
• Paper on ‘Transnational women’s organisations in the interwar years’,
conference on Women, Politics and History, University of Lisbon, 25 February
2008.
• ‘The history of ageing in Europe’, Heidelberg University, 9 May 2008.
• ‘What difference has the vote made? Women and European politics since
1906’, University of Turin, 23 May 2008.
• Lecture and graduate seminar on the history of ageing in Britain, Max Planck
Institute for Demography, Rostock, Germany, 16–17 July 2008.
Publications
‘Generations and Intergenerational Relationships, Public and Private, in Twentieth-
Century Britain’ in Stephen Lovell ed. Generations in Twentieth-Century Europe
(Palgrave, 2007) pp. 190–204.
‘La Vejez en la historia inglesa’ (‘Old age in English history’) in Vejez y
envejecimiento en Europa occidental ed. H Dubert (Universidade de Santiago de
Compostela, 2007), pp. 13–30.
‘Das Bild des Alters im Laufe der Geschichte’ (‘Images of older people in the past’) in
Kultur und Alter, ed. Nord Rhein Westfalen Kultursecretariat (2007), pp. 61–80.
‘Donne, familiglie e welfare state nell’ Europa tra le due guerre’ in Roberta Nunin and
Elisabetta Vezzosi eds. Donne e Famiglie nei Sisterni di Welfare Carocci (Roma,
2007), pp. 17–27.
Elizabeth Williamson
Elizabeth’s work this year included co-operating in the editing of several Victoria
County History volumes now in the press and preparing others for publication. The
HLF-funded EPE project provided other challenges, including contributions to the
editing of several volumes and the supervision and editing of Parham: an Elizabethan
House and its Restoration. She continued to be involved in teaching the MA in Local
and Regional History, convening the Locality and Region seminar, and representing
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the VCH on the British History Online working group and the IHR’s Research Group.
Research ventures have involved the preparation of an application to the ERSC for
work on the development of manorial sites and working with CMH and the Survey of
London on a case for a collaborative doctoral student programme on private housing
in the London in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 2007 Elizabeth was
reappointed as a Commissioner of English Heritage, for whom she is serving as Chair
of the Historic Parks and Gardens Panel and as a member of their Advisory
Committee.
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Research Students’ Activities 2007–8
Mark J Crowley
This was the second year of Mark's research on women workers in the General Post
Office during the Second World War under the supervision of Professor Pat Thane at
the CCBH and Dr Adrian Steel at the British Postal Museum and Archive. During this
year, he completed his archival research at the British Postal Museum and Archive,
the Imperial War Museum, The British Library Sound Archive and the Modern
Records Centre. He presented conference papers at the Western Conference on
British Studies in Albuquerque, the Social History Society Annual Conference in
Rotterdam and the Anglo-American Conference of Historians at the IHR. Mark
successfully completed his upgrade examination in May and is currently writing up
his findings. As part of his AHRC collaborative award, Mark is also organising a
conference for postgraduate students to be held in 2009 at the British Postal
Museum and Archive, and has recently completed research for the British Postal
Museum and Archive’s exhibition on Post Office Counter Services, which will be
showcased in Easter 2009 at the Ironbridge Blists Hill Victorian Town.
Carlos Lopez Galviz
Carlos was successfully upgraded to the PhD in November 2007. The research and
writing of new chapters of his thesis has been combined with papers he gave at the
Metropolitan History seminar (IHR, March 2008), the Descriptio Urbis conference
(Rome, March 2008), and the 77th Anglo American conference (July 2008). He has
been invited to present at the conference which will commemorate the 20th
anniversary of the CMH and the retirement of Professor Derek Keene in October
2008. The work in archives of various institutions in Paris was carried out in February
for a period of three weeks. Similar work is underway in various places in London. A
new Paris visit is planned in September as he aims to submit a complete draft of his
thesis by the end of 2008.
Helen Glew
This was Helen's third year of doctoral study. As well as continuing to research and
write her thesis, Helen presented seminar papers to the IHR’s Modern British History
seminar and to the History Seminar Series at the University of Greenwich. She also
presented papers at the Western Association of Women Historians’ annual
conference at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada and the Anglo-
American Conference of Historians. The latter paper was part of a panel with
colleagues at the British Postal Museum and Archive, with whom Helen worked
throughout the year on various learning and outreach ventures as a result of her
AHRC collaborative doctoral award.
Richard Harvey
In 2007–8 Richard undertook his first year’s part-time research into the stud tram
fiasco: the London County Council’s ultimately unsuccessful experiment with a
surface-contact (‘stud’) system of current collection on the tramway between
Whitechapel and Bow in the period 1907–9. He became interested in this topic both
as a tram enthusiast and as a result of his professional work as a librarian at
Guildhall Library, and welcomed the opportunity to shed some light on an affair
which, although of considerable interest to tram historians and enthusiasts, has so
far seemed to have escaped the notice of academic historians. His work has mainly
been in Guildhall Library, the British Library and the records of the LCC at the London
Metropolitan Archives.
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Christopher Knowles
Christopher completed the first year of his part-time research into ‘Winning the
peace: the British in occupied Germany, 1945–51’. He gave a presentation at the
German Historical Institute (London) annual postgraduate conference in January
2008 and a paper on ‘How three British army officers reacted to the transition from
war to peace in Germany’ at the History Lab 2008 conference in June on ‘Turning
Points’. He also attended the fifth Balzan workshop at Birkbeck College on
reconstruction in postwar Europe. On an entirely different subject, he finished editing
the transcript of the IHR Witness Seminar on ‘The Friends of Nunhead Cemetery
1975–85’, which he had organised the previous year as part of his coursework as
an MA student at the Institute, and preparing this for publication on the CCBH
Witness Seminar website.
Jordan Landes
Jordan continued research into London's role in the creation of the Quaker
transatlantic community, spending the year focusing on Quaker merchants in
London, as well as on the transatlantic book trade. She began her third year in the
Centre for Metropolitan History by spending a month at Haverford College in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the Gest Fellowship. The Gest Fellowship is given to
researchers examining religious connections in the world, with a specifically Quaker
focus. In June 2008, she gave a paper, ‘The transatlantic Quaker book trade’, at
Woodbrooke in Birmingham for the Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists.
The Friends Historical Society provided a bursary for her to attend the conference.
Alyson Mercer
Alyson spent her first year developing a solid background in contemporary British
history by auditing the Master of Arts module ‘Britain since 1900’ at the CCBH, as
well as participating in their ‘Gender and women’s history’ module. During this
period, she also conducted preliminary visits to the museums which will form the
basis of her research, and broadened the scope of primary and secondary sources
which have proven essential in the development of her theoretical and
methodological framework. During the summer, Alyson also travelled to the
Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, Ontario and spent a week interviewing curators
and conducting research in their archives.
James Nye
James commenced work in January 2008 on a thesis entitled ‘The role of the
company promoter in the London capital market: 1877–1914’. This will analyse the
poor reputation of the company promoter, in fiction, contemporary journalism and
subsequent historical commentary, to determine if that reputation is justified or
requires revision. It will involve some case studies of both particular companies and
individual promoters. Work commenced with a review of the literature and an
experimental essay focusing solely on 1895, a frantic year for company formation.
This highlighted the scale of capital being raised for private companies by the mid–
1890s, against the more visible backdrop of funds being raised in the public markets.
It also allowed James to develop his analysis of the mechanisms employed by the
company promoter. James then moved on to work on two thesis chapters. The first
of these offers a survey of the development of limited liability and the emergence of
the promoter, particularly as seen in literature and financial journalism, and the way
in which this has coloured subsequent historical analysis. The second chapter takes a
more statistical approach to provide a broader market analysis against which to set
the story of the promoter and company formation in general.
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Drawing on a combination of his research into late Victorian and early Edwardian
corporate histories, and the field of timekeeping, James presented a paper at the
Greenwich Time Symposium on 25 October 2008, entitled ‘Saving daylight or saving
their bacon? Money as the motive force in Edwardian timekeeping', which analysed
the ways in which several entrepreneurs used the opportunity of presenting evidence
to the 1908 Select Committee on Daylight Saving to advance their own business
interests. Together with David Rooney, he co-authored ‘Greenwich Observatory Time
for the Public Benefit: Standard Time and Victorian Networks of Regulation’ in the
British Journal for the History of Science, published online by Cambridge University
Press, 15 July 2008. See http://journals.cambridge.org/repo_A19TH2XQW0gR2Q.
Michael Passmore
Michael spent the year researching part-time in several local authority archives
around London. He examined material on the boroughs’ varied responses to
controversial housing legislation introduced by the government of Edward Heath in
1972. He also visited the Labour History Archive in Manchester and the Conservative
Party Archive at the Bodleian Library where he researched documents on the
formulation of national policy on council housing. In June 2008 he presented a paper
in London entitled, ‘Selling the family estate: the introduction of the Right to Buy for
council tenants’ (History Lab Conference, IHR).
Kathrin Pieren
Kathrin sat the upgrade from MPhil to PhD in October 2007. Subsequently, she
carried out primary research in Britain on several Jewish cultural associations and for
a small comparative study at the archives of the Musée d'art et d'histoire du
Judaïsme in Paris. In winter/spring she worked part-time as a visiting lecturer
teaching 19th-century London history at the University of Westminster. Kathrin
presented her research at the IHR postgraduate seminar (October 2007) and at the
following international conferences: European Social Science History Conference
(Lisbon, February–March 2008); Public History Conference, co-organised by the IHR
and the University of Liverpool (Liverpool, April 2008); ‘Whatever happened to
British Jewish studies?’ Conference, organised by the Parkes Institute, University of
Southampton (Southampton, July 2008).
Kathleen Sherit
After successfully completing her MA in Contemporary British History in the autumn
of 2007, Kathleen embarked on part-time research under the supervision of
Professors Pat Thane and David Edgerton. She is undertaking a comparative study of
the Women's Royal Naval Service and the Women's Royal Air Force, investigating
key factors influencing the integration of women into the armed forces.
Dhan Zunino Singh
Dhan’s thesis, ‘The history of Buenos Aires’ underground railways: a cultural analysis
of the modernisation process in a peripheral metropolis (c.1880–1940)’, began in
November 2007. He has attended various courses related to theory and methodology
in history, workshops on research skills and seminars. He has also carried out the
first stage of fieldwork searching for primary and secondary sources in London’s
archives and libraries. Finally, apart from the organisation and reading of the
material gathered, he has moved forward with writing a thesis outline, along with
some preliminary chapters. As a result, he has achieved an overview of the material
modernisation of Buenos Aires and Argentina’s political and economic context.
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Activities and Publications of Fellows
Valerie Cromwell
Valerie published a short celebratory essay for the 90th birthday on 24 October 2008
of Professor H.G. Koenigsberger, FBA in Parliaments, Estates and Representation,
vol. 28 (2008), pp. 1–3 on his contribution to the work of the International
Commission for the History of Parliamentary and Representation Institutions. She
also published with Luca Verzichelli ‘The Changing Nature and Role of European
Conservative Parties in Parliamentary Institutions from 1848 to the Twenty-first
Century’ in Democratic Representation in Europe: Diversity, Change, and
Convergence, eds. Maurizio Cotta and Heinrich Best (Oxford, 2007), pp. 193–216.
Eveline Cruickshanks
In 2007–8, Eveline Cruickshanks prepared for publication a paper given in the
University of Lille at a conference on the European nobility in the 17th and 18th
centuries, entitled ‘The English Jacobite nobility, 1689–1760’.
As Chairman of the Jacobite Studies Trust, she organised several sections of its
website (see www.jacobitestudiestrust.org). She compiled a full bibliography of her
publications for a volume edited by Murray Pittock, Paul Monod and Daniel Szechi, to
be published by Palgrave/Macmillan.
Catherine Delano-Smith
Summer 2007 saw the first round of what is proving to be an exciting, if demanding,
annual venture: the History of Cartography course in the London Rare Books School.
In June and early July 2008, two courses were on offer, both—‘The history of maps
and mapping’ and ‘Mapping land and sea before 1800’—organised by Catherine and
Sarah Tyacke (Royal Holloway, University of London and SAS). Catherine’s lectures
account for nearly half of the first course and deal with such aspects as ‘Words,
books, maps: an introduction to the map as image’; ‘The importance of the reader’;
‘Deconstructing the map image’; ‘Constructing the map image: simple and complex
maps’ and ‘The map as commodity’.
Other activities in the last year included a lecture on medieval exegetical maps in the
Beineke Library, Yale University (November); a talk to IHR Fellows on ‘Styling the
image to the reader: what early maps can tell us about their readers’ (December);
and a seminar on ‘Maps as book illustrations’ for the MA in the History of the Book,
Institute for English Studies (January).
Catherine continues to co-organise the Maps and Society lecture series, held at the
Warburg Institute, and to edit Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History
of Cartography.
Amy Erickson
Amy Erickson attended a special seminar on Gender & Work in the Early Modern
Northern European World in Uppsala in December 2007, as part of her ongoing
research with the Leverhulme-funded Occupational Structure of Britain c.1379–1911
(project website: www.hpss.geog.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/occupations);
published ‘Married women’s work in eighteenth-century London’ in Continuity &
Change 23 (2008), pp. 267–307; and spoke about clockmakers, milliners and
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mistresses at ‘Letters before the Law, 1640–1789’, a conference at the Clark
Library in Los Angeles in October 2008.
Philip Mansel
Philip is continuing to write and research a history of mixed cities of the Middle East
to be called Levant. He edits The Court Historian, journal of the Society for Court
Studies (www.courtstudies.org), and organised a conference on Monarchs and Exile
at the German Historical Institute, London in December 2007 with Torsten Riotte. He
also attended meetings of the Research Centre of the Chateau de Versailles.
He wrote introductions for a life of Lord Stuart de Rothesay by Robert Franklin (Book
Guild) and Three Kings in Baghdad by Gerald de Gaury (IB Tauris), as well as a
biographical essay on Thomas Hope for the V&A’s exhibition catalogue. Philip
lectured on the Prince de Ligne and the Princes de Rohan in Bohemia at the Austrian
Cultural Forum, on ‘Dress and fear’ at Newcastle University and on ‘The French Court
1770–1870: grandeur and catastrophe’ to the French Porcelain Society. Currently he
is preparing a third conference for the Society for Court Studies with the Victorian
Society on ‘Courts and Capitals 1815–1914’ to be held on 3 October 2009.
Peter Marshall
This year Peter was awarded the degree of Doctor of Letter, honoris causa, by Bristol
University.
Frank Prochaska
Frank continues to teach modern British history at Yale. He completed his
manuscript, The Eagle and the Crown: Americans and the British Monarchy, which
will be published by Yale University Press at the end of 2008.
Michael Questier
During this year, Michael Questier has, in conjunction with Dr Caroline Bowden of
Royal Holloway College, applied for and secured AHRC major research grant funding
(£527,000 FEC adjusted £659,000) for a project which is being hosted by the QM
history department and is entitled ‘Who were the Nuns?’, a complete prosopography
of all English women religious (estimated at 3,750 individuals) between 1558 and
1720. The project will recover and analyse the records and membership of twentytwo
religious institutions in exile, and will reveal, by means of a prosopographicallymodelled
relational database, the links between institutions, families and wider
international communities, and the extent of these religious houses’ patronage
networks, administrative practices and contributions to contemporary politics and
culture. It is hoped that it will become an important research tool for scholars
concerned with the cultural politics of gender in the early modern period. If
successful, the project’s findings will be made available through the internet.
Michael Questier secured a chair in the QM history department in August 2007. He
recently published ‘Catholic Loyalism in Early Modern England’ in English Historical
Review 123 (October 2008), pp. 1132–1165. A volume entitled Stuart Dynastic
Policy and Religious Politics, 1621–1625 is currently in press and will be published
early next year by the Royal Historical Society, as part of the Camden Society fifth
series.
Susan Reynolds
Susan Reynolds retired from chairing the Friends of the IHR and from its Library
Committee. She completed work on expropriation which will be a book called Before
Eminent Domain. A small part of it was published as ‘Compulsory purchase in the
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earlier middle ages’, in Frankland: the Franks and the world of the early middle ages:
essays in honour of Dame Jinty Nelson, ed. P. Fouracre and D. Ganz (Manchester,
2008), pp. 28–43. She also published ‘Did all the land belong to the king?’ in In
Laudem Hierosolymitani: Studies in Crusades and Medieval Culture in honour of
Benjamin Z. Kedar, ed. I Shagrit and others (Aldershot, 2007), pp. 263–71. She is
now starting work on medieval combinations of hierarchy and solidarity and on
objects used in the middle ages to symbolise gifts of land.
Sir John Sainty
During this year Sir John Sainty published a list of Lord-Lieutenants of the British
Isles from 1585 as an appendix to Miles Jebb, The Lord-Lieutenants and their
deputies (Phillimore); Vice Admirals of the Coast (with A D Thrush) (List and Index
Society); Peerage Creations: Chronological List of Creations in the Peerages of
England and Great Britain 1649–1800 and of Ireland 1603–1898 (Parliamentary
History: Texts & Studies I); and ‘The office of housekeeper of the House of Lords’,
Parliamentary History, xxvii, pt. 2, pp. 256–60.
In October he delivered a paper entitled ‘The Royal Household and Parliament’ to the
Society for Court Studies Conference on the Palace of Westminster. This is to be
published in the forthcoming issue of the Court Historian.
He remains special adviser to the Lords section of the History of Parliament.
Silvia Sovic
During Silvia’s first year as Senior Research Fellow she published two articles.
‘European Family History: Moving Beyond Stereotypes of “East” and “West”’, Cultural
and Social History, 5:2 (2008), revisits Hajnal’s and Laslett’s models of family and
household which have dominated research for over three decades. It explores the
‘East-West’ paradigm as used by family historians, challenging both the evidence and
its conceptual premise, and argues that socio-economic factors are much more
important determinants of household structure than geographical and cultural ones
for an understanding of families in the past. She also published ‘Definitions and
Documents in Family History: Towards an Agenda for Comparative Research’, in
Social Behaviour and Family Strategies in the Balkans (16th–20th Centuries). Actes
du colloque international 9–10 Juin 2006, New Europe College Bucharest, eds. I.
Baluta, C. Vintila-Ghitulescu and M.R. Ungureanu (Bucharest, 2008), takes two case
studies of 19th-century communities in Slovenia to investigate some methodological
problems inherent in the use of a variety of similar but not identical types of source,
to argue that clarity of definition is an indispensable preliminary for successful
comparative research.
Silvia is also organising a conference on ‘The History of Families and Households;
Comparative European Dimensions’, to be held in June/July 2010. The Institute has
kindly agreed to support this event. This is intended as a follow-on from a
symposium on ‘Social Behaviour and Family Strategies in the Balkans’ held in
Bucharest in 2006. The specific aim is to place Balkan family history in its wider
European context.
Jenny Stratford
Jenny Stratford’s principal research has continued to be for her forthcoming book,
Richard II and the English Royal Treasure. As reported last year, the full text of the
inventory has been delivered to British History Online at the Institute of Historical
Research. After publication of the monograph, it will be available electronically and
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will be fully searchable. An illustrated website, ‘Richard II’s treasure’, has been
prepared in collaboration with the Institute of Historical Research. It is available at
www.history.ac.uk/RichardII.
She taught a course in palaeography and manuscript studies throughout the first two
terms of the academic year to PhD students of Queen Mary and Royal Holloway, and
a day course on Books of Hours for the Palaeography summer school organised by
the Institute of English Studies. She has served as an advisor to several students
preparing doctoral dissertations, among them Junior Research Fellows of the IHR.
During the year she has spoken at conferences in England and France and chaired
sessions.
Her publications for this year include: J. Stratford and C. Reynolds, ‘The Foyle Breviary
and Hours of John, Duke of Bedford in the British Library’, in Tributes to Lucy Freeman
Sandler. Studies in illuminated manuscripts, ed. K A Smith and C H Krinsky (Turnhout,
2007), pp. 345–71; ‘Richard II’s treasure and London’, in London and the Kingdom:
Essays in Honour of Caroline M. Barron. Proceedings of the 2004 Harlaxton
Symposium, ed. M Davies and A Prescott (Donington, 2008), pp. 212–28, Harlaxton
Medieval Studies XVI.
Lynne Walker
Lynne set up and now runs the course ‘An introduction to visual sources for
historians’ at the IHR and contributes to the MA in Contemporary British History at
the Centre of Contemporary British History. She is writing a history of gender, space
and architecture in Britain (17th century to the present) and her current research
interests include ‘Women and Church Art’ (Sage); a special study of Lady Anne
Clifford (Lund Humphries) and women architects (1898–2008) in Britain and Ireland
(éditions, Paris).She also acts as a consultant on the history and preservation of
historic buildings.
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History Lab
History Lab Plus
January 2008 saw the founding of History Lab Plus, a new initiative to cater for the
needs of early career researchers in history and related disciplines.
History Lab Plus, which operates under the aegis of the Institute, is aimed at PhD
students coming to completion of their theses through to probationary lecturers. It is
free to join. History Lab Plus provides training for early career historians in the skills
they need to develop as successful researchers and future faculty members. March
2008 saw the first new research showcase, which enabled early career historians to
hone their skills in delivering the kinds of high impact presentations needed to job
presentations. Dr Helen McCarthy organised the advanced teaching skills workshop
in July 2008. The workshop speakers, Professor Matthew Cragoe, Dr Jon Lawrence
and Dr Kate Bradley, demystified the quality assurance process, whilst providing
attendees with sterling guidance on developing special subjects and handling survey
courses. History Lab Plus has also supported the work of History Lab, through
sponsoring a panel on academic careers at the IHR/History Lab Careers in History
day in March and the Getting a Postdoctoral Fellowship session in May.
Between May and July 2008, History Lab Plus undertook a survey of early career
historians – Joining the Profession – the results of which will be published by January
2009. As with other aspects of History Lab Plus’s work, the survey was carried out in
consultation with senior members of the IHR, the HEA and the learned societies. This
survey is intended to serve as a foundation for History Lab Plus’s work in acting as
the voice of early career historians in presenting their needs to policy makers at all
levels.
Forthcoming plans include the presentation master class on Friday 27 February 2009
and a session on successfully developing knowledge transfer in partnership with The
National Archives and other major repositories. For more information or to join,
please contact historylabplus@googlemail.com.
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IHR Seminar Programme
American History
Adam Smith (UCL), Mara Kiere (QMUL), John Kirk (RHUL), John Howard (KCL),
Elizabeth Clapp (Leicester), Joel Isaac (QMUL), Bruce Baker (RHUL), Kendrick Oliver
(Southampton)
Archives and History
Elizabeth Danbury (UCL)
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 (IHR), Michael Thompson (IHR), Frank Trentmann
(Birkbeck)
British History in the 17th Century
Justin Champion (RHUL), John Miller (QMUL), Ariel Hessayon (Goldsmiths)
British History in the Long 18th Century
Arthur Burns (KCL), Penelope Corfield (RHUL), Tim Hitchcock (Hertfordshire), Julian
Hoppit (UCL). Seminar administrator: Anne Stott
British Maritime History
David Cannadine (IHR), Margarette Lincoln, Nigel Rigby, N A M Rodger (Exeter)
Collecting and Display (100BC to AD1700)
Andrea Gáldy, Adriana Turpin, Susan Bracken
Comparative Histories of Asia
Chi-Kwan Mark (RHUL), Naoko Shimazu (Birkbeck), Sunil Amrith (Birkbeck),
Chandak Sengoopta (Birkbeck), Jon Wilson (KCL), Owen Millar (SOAS)
Contemporary British History
Rodney Lowe (Bristol), Pat Thane (IHR), Richard Roberts (IHR)
Conversations and Disputations
Alison Light (Newcastle), Barbara Taylor (East London)
Crusades and the Latin East
Jonathan Phillips (RHUL), Thomas Asbridge (QMUL), William Purkis (Birmingham)
Earlier Middle Ages
Stephen Baxter, Wendy Davies, David Ganz, John Gillingham, Sarah Lambert, Jinty
Nelson (KCL), Alan Thacker (IHR)
Economic and Social History of the Pre-Modern World, 1500–1800
Negley Harte (UCL), David Ormrod (Kent), Nuala Zahedieh (Edinburgh), S R Larry
Epstein (LSE)
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European History 1150–1550
David Carpenter (KCL), David d’Avray (UCL), Sophie Page (UCL), Miri Rubin (QMUL),
Anne Duggan (KCL), Joe Canning
European History 1500–1800
Roger Mettam (QMUL), Philip Broadhead (Goldsmiths), Julian Swann (Birkbeck),
Peter Campbell (Sussex), Filippo de Vivo (Birkbeck), John Henderson (Birkbeck)
Film History
Mark Glancy (QMUL)
History of Education
Gary McCulloch (IES)
History of Gardens and Landscapes
Janet Waymark (Birkbeck), Rebecca Preston (Kingston)
History of Political Ideas
Richard Bourke (QMUL), Gregory Claeya, Janet Coleman (LSE), Michael Levin
(Goldsmiths), Georgios Varouxakis (QMUL), Jeremy Jennings (QMUL)
History of the Psyche
Howard Caygill (Goldsmiths), David Reggio (Goldsmiths)
Imperial History
Andrew Porter (KCL), David Killingray (Goldsmiths), Sarah Stockwell (KCL)
International History
Dr Baxter (QUB), Dr Best (LSE), S. Dockrill (KCL), Dr Ellison (QMUL), Michael
Kandiah (IHR), Dr Kelly (KCL), Dr Maiolo (KCL), Dr Otte (East Anglia), Dr Pedaliu
(UWE), Mrs. Staerck (IHR), J. Young (Nottingham)
Knowledge and Society
Andrew Mendelsohn (Imperial), Mary Morgan (LSE)
Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy
Trevor Dean (Roehampton), Georgia Clarke (Courtauld)
Late Medieval Seminar
Clive Burgess (RHUL), Linda Clark (History of Parliament Trust), Sean Cunningham
(TNA), Hannes Kleineke (History of Parliament Trust), Stephen O’Connor (TNA)
Life-Cycles
Mary Clare Martin
Locality and Region
Matthew Cragoe, Carol Davidson-Cragoe, Alan Thacker (IHR), Chris Thornton (IHR),
Elizabeth Williamson (IHR)
London Group of Historical Geographers
David Lambert, Miles Ogborn, Jenny Robinson
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London Society for Medieval Studies
Director: Alice Rio. Joint Chairs: John Gillingham and Sarah Lambert. Secretary: Ann
Robbins (KCL). Treasurer: Catherine Rider (UCL). Committee: Marie-Pierre Gelin,
Caroline Goodson, Sarah Halton, Vanessa King, Lindsay Rudge
Low Countries History
Raingard Esser (UWE), Anne Goldgar (KCL), Benjamin Kaplan (UCL)
Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture
Warren Carter (UCL), Steve Edwards (Open), Andrew Hemingway (UCL), Esther
Leslie (Birkbeck), David Margolies (Goldsmiths), Frances Stracey (UCL)
Medieval and Tudor London
Caroline Barron (RHUL), Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck), Julia Merritt (Nottingham)
Metropolitan History
Matthew Davies (IHR), Richard Dennis, Derek Keene (IHR), Patrick Wallis
Military History
David French (UCL), Brian Holden-Reid (KCL), Andrew Lambert (KCL), Michael
Dockrill, William Philpott (KCL)
Modern French History
Colin Jones (QMUL). Organising committee: Julian Jackson (QMUL), Jeremy Jennings
(QMUL), Colin Jones (QMUL), Debra Kelly (Westminster), Pamela Pilbeam (RHUL)
Modern German History
Mark Hewitson (UCL), Christina von Hodenberg (QMUL), Egbert Klautke (SSEES),
Eckard Michels (Birkbeck), Bernhard Rieger (UCL), Rudolf Muhs (RHUL), Cornelie
Usborne (Roehampton), Nikolaus Wachsmann (Birkbeck)
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 Seminar
Arthur Burns (KCL), Dominic Erdozain (KCL), John Wolffe (Open), Matthew Grimley
(RHUL)
Music in Britain: A Social History Seminar
Simon McVeigh (Goldsmiths), David Wright (Royal College of Music), Leanne Langley
(Goldsmiths)
Parliaments, Representation and Society
Colin Brooks (Sussex), Valerie Cromwell, John Sainty, Paul Seaward (History of
Parliament)
Philosophy of History
Robert Burns (Goldsmiths)
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Postgraduate Seminar
Liza Filby (IHR), Helen Glew (IHR), John Clarke (University College Dublin),
Catherine Wright (IHR), Helen McCarthy (IHR), Simon Lambe (Surrey), Elena
Woodacre (Bath Spa)
Psychoanalysis and History
Sally Alexander (Goldsmiths), Barbara Taylor (East London)
Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World, 1600–1900
Catherine Hall (UCL), Keith McClelland (UCL), Clare Midgley (Sheffield Hallam), Zoe
Laidlaw (RHUL)
Religious History of Britain 1500–1800
David Crankshaw (KCL), Kenneth Fincham (Kent), Tom Freeman (Sheffield), Susan
Hardman Moore (Edinburgh), Nicholas Tyacke (UCL), Brett Usher (Reading), Arnold
Hunt (British Library), Liz Evenden (Brunel)
Socialist History
Keith Flett, David Renton, John Geoffrey Walker
Society, Culture and Belief, 1400–1800
Laura Gowing (KCL), Michael Hunter (Birkbeck), Miri Rubin (QMUL), Adam Sutcliffe
(KCL)
Tudor and Stuart History
Pauline Croft (RHUL), Simon Healy (History of Parliament), Richard Hoyle (Reading),
Michael Questier (QMUL), Rivkah Zim (KCL)
Women’s History
Kelly Boyd (Middlesex), Anna Davin, Amy Erickson (IHR), Laura Gowing (KCL),
Catherine Hall (UCL), Marybeth Hamilton (Birkbeck), Clare Midgley (Sheffield
Hallam), Jinty Nelson (KCL), Pat Thane (IHR), Cornelie Usborne (Roehampton)
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Training Courses 2007–8
In 2007–8 the IHR ran a number of successful training courses. These attracted
students from the IHR and other London-based institutions, but also a sizable
number of researchers from the rest of the UK, as well as some international
scholars.
Methods and Sources for Historical Research
12–16 November 2007
17–21 March 2008
7–11 July 2008
This long-standing course is an introduction to finding and using primary sources for
research in modern British, Irish and colonial history. The course includes visits to
the British Library, The National Archives, the Wellcome Institute and the House of
Lords Record Office.
Methods and Sources for Gender and Women’s History
31 March–4 April 2008
An introduction to the sources available in London for the history of women in the
early modern and modern periods, with visits to the major national repositories and
lectures at the IHR. Archives visited include the British Library, the Women’s Library,
The National Archives and the Parliamentary Archives.
Visual Sources for Historians
Tuesdays, 12 February–12 March 2008
An introduction to the use of art, photography, film and other visual sources by
historians (post–1500). Through lectures, discussion and visits the course explores
films, paintings, photographs, architecture and design as historical sources, as well
as providing an introduction to particular items both in situ and held in archives and
libraries.
An Introduction to Oral History
Mondays, 21 January–31 March 2008
This course addresses theoretical and practical issues in oral history through
workshop sessions and participants’ own interviewing work. It deals with the
historiographical emergence and uses of oral history, with particular reference to the
investigation of voices and stories not always accessible to other historical
approaches.
Interviewing for Researchers
3 December 2007
5 June 2008
For those who wish to investigate the recent past, collecting the testimony of
relevant individuals is a vital resource. This course offers practical information and
training on how to interview and how to use interviews for the purposes of research.
The course is led by Dr Michael Kandiah, Director of the Oral History Programme at
the Centre for Contemporary British History.
Basic Statistics for Historians
Mondays, 12 November 2007–11 February 2008
For complete beginners, a basic introduction to the use of statistical techniques and
quantitative methods in historical research.
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Dealing with the Media
7 December 2007
Historians are increasingly called upon by print and broadcast media for expert
comment and opinion. This course throws open the enormous range of opportunities
offered by the mass media’s interest in history and teaches the skills and techniques
academics need to make the most of it.
Explanatory Paradigms: An Introduction to Historical Theory
Thursdays, 24 April–26 June 2008
A critical introduction to current approaches to historical explanation, taught by
Professor John Tosh, Dr John Seed and Professor Sally Alexander. The contrasting
explanatory frameworks offered by Marxism, psychoanalysis, gender analysis and
Paul Ricoeur’s work on narrative form the central discussion points of the course,
equipping students to form their own judgements on the schools of thought most
influential in the modern discipline.
An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Latin I
Tuesdays, 23 October–11 December 2007
This course provides an introduction to Latin grammar and vocabulary, together with
practical experience in translating typical post-classical Latin documents.
An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Latin II
Tuesdays, 8 January–11 March 2008
This course builds upon the basis of Medieval and Renaissance Latin I, deepening
and extending understanding of the language.
Databases for Historians
6–9 November 2007
1–4 April 2008
This four-day course introduces the theory and practice of constructing and using
databases. Through a mixture of lectures and practical hands-on sessions, students
are taught both how to use and adapt existing databases, and how to design and
build their own.
Databases for Historians II: Practical Database Tools
16–18 July 2008
This course aims to develop the practical skills necessary for constructing and fully
exploiting a database for use in historical research.
Internet Sources for Historical Research
28 November 2007
6 June 2008
This course provides an intensive introduction to use of the internet as a tool for
serious historical research.
Qualitative Data Analysis Workshop
18 February 2008
Researchers in the social sciences and humanities are increasingly using computers
to manage, organise and analyse non-numerical data from textual sources. This oneday
workshop introduces historians to this rapidly growing field.
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Public Lectures Organised by the Institute
The Creighton Lecture
26 November 2007
As in previous years, the IHR was responsible for staging the Creighton Lecture. This
year marked the centenary of the lecture and the topic chosen was ‘The Creighton
Century: British Historians and Europe, 1907–2007’. The paper was presented by
Robert Evans, Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford.
A video of the lecture can be viewed at:
http://fora.tv/2007/11/26/Robert_Evans_Lecture_on_Creighton_Century
Prothero Lecture
2 July 2008
The Royal Historical Society’s Prothero Lecture, ‘Communicating empire: the
Habsburgs and their critics, 1700–1919’, was given by Professor Robert Evans.
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Groups which held Meetings/Conferences at
the Institute
Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS)
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives (AGRA)
BBC (Time Shift documentary)
British Agricultural History Society
British Association for Local History (BALH)
British Association of Paper Historians (BAPH)
British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies
British International History Group (BIHG)
British Record Society
British Society of Sports History
Capitis Partners Ltd
Chicken Working Group (RSPCA)
Clergy of the Church of England Database (CCEd)
Community Archives Development Group (CADG)
Cromwell Association meeting
Cultural and Social History
Curriculum Partnership
Early Modern Virtual Research Group
Ecclesiastical History Society
Economic History Society
Farm Animals Department (RSPCA)
Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
Gender & History
Gunpowder and Explosives History Group
Henry Bradshaw Society
Historical Association
History of Parliament
History UK
Home Office – APC Secretariat
Huguenot Society
Institute of Field Archaeologists
Interwar Rural History Research Group
Jacobite Studies Trust
List and Index Society
Local Population Studies Society
London Anatomy Centre Working Group
Monetary History Group
National Motor Museum Trust
Navy Records Society
Railway & Canal Historical Society 2015 Group
Renaissance Society
Richard III Society
Royal Historical Society
Science Group (RSPCA)
Society for the Study of French History
Society for the Study of Labour History
Society of Archivists – Film, Sound & Photography Group
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Subject Association Working Group (SAWG)
Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology
The Astrological Association
The Change Institute
The Curriculum Partnership
The Medieval Dress & Textile Society
Tiles and Architectural Ceramics Society
University of London Extramural History of Art Society (ULEMHAS)
William Shipley Group
Women’s History Network
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Conferences Organised by the Institute
The University Undergraduate History Curriculum – In and After 2007–8
28 February 2008
This one day conference for teachers of history included discussions and papers on
‘Current curricula and their evolution’, ‘The role of research in the curriculum’, ‘The
impact of student interest and past experience on the curriculum’, ‘Tradition and
innovation: the influence of IT’ and ‘The impact of Quality Assurance and the QAA
benchmarks’. Findings and recommendations from each discussion group were later
published.
Public History Conference 2008
10–12 April 2008
This year’s Public History Conference was held at the Liverpool Maritime Museum and
was organised in conjunction with the University of Liverpool and National Museums
Liverpool. The selection of papers and discussion topics was designed to develop a
debate ‘on the uses of history for public purposes and the involvement of the public
in the study and consumption of history’.
This event complemented those of previous years and was a truly international
conference, with delegates and speakers attending from Texas, Washington,
Amsterdam, Jamaica, the Yukon & Western Arctic and the Isle of Man.
The keynote lecture, ‘Inspiration and Identity: What is Represented in Public
Galleries?’ was delivered by Sandy Nairne, Director of the National Portrait Gallery.
This lecture and a small selection of papers are available online in mp3 format at
www.liv.ac.uk/history/public-history/.
A blog for the conference can be found at www.livpubhistory.wordpress.com.
The internet also allowed the Liverpool conference to link up with the North American
National Council on Public History Annual Conference which took place at the same
time in Louisville. For further details see www.ncph.org.
Britain and Russia from the 18th Century to the Present Day: Images,
Relations and Perceptions
1–3 May 2008
The IHR, in collaboration with the Institute of General History of the Russian
Academy of Sciences and the London School of Economics, hosted the second of two
collaborative conferences on the theme of ‘Britain and Russia from the 18th century
to the present day: images, relations and perceptions’. This was funded by the
Russian Academy of Sciences and the British Academy, and complemented the first
conference which was held in April 2004 in Moscow.
Early English Law Conference
16–17 July 2008
The Early English Law conference, celebrating the centenary of the publication of
Liebermann’s Gesetze der Angelsachsen (1903–16), was jointly sponsored by the
Institute of Historical Research, the Institute of English Studies and the Institute of
Advanced Legal Studies. It evaluated the impact of Liebermann’s writings, explored
new work on English law from Ætherlberht to the London Leges Anglorum, and
launched a new edition of the texts.
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Featured speakers included Mary Richards on ‘I-II Cnut: Wulfstan’s Summa’; R D
Fulk on ‘Localising and dating Old English prose: the evidence of Anglo-Saxon
legislation’, and John Hudson on ‘Leges, law and legal history’.
Anglo-American Conference of Historians 2008
2–4 July 2008
The annual Anglo-American Conference of Historians chose ‘Communication’ as its
topic for 2008. The two-day conference covered a wide historical base, ranging from
Michael Clanchy’s plenary lecture: ‘Clanchy revised? Did the Normans really make a
new start in the use of written record in England?’, through to Natalie Zemon Davis’s
paper, ‘Creoles and their uses: the example of colonial Suriname’.
Speakers travelled in from Indiana, Ohio, Dubai, Bordeaux, Belfast, Florence and
Milan to share their thoughts with us.
In an unusual addition to the programme the conference was pleased to host the
British première of a new documentary from America, In the Shadow of Little Rock:
The Life of Daisy Bates. This work focused on the life of community organiser and
newspaper publisher Daisy Bates, a civil rights pioneer in the school desegregation
movement. The showing was followed by a discussion with its director and producer,
Sharon La Cruise.
The final day of the conference, sponsored by British History Online, was devoted to
two special plenary panel sessions looking at communicating history and the history
of digital communication.
The main conference reception was kindly hosted by Yale University Press at their
beautiful Grade I listed Georgian townhouse in Bedford Square, whilst a lunchtime
buffet reception was sponsored by the History Lab.
The closing remarks gave the IHR’s Acting Director, Derek Keene, a chance to
introduce Professor Miles Taylor of the University of York as the new Director of the
IHR.
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Membership and Accounts
Membership
University of London 1,961
Other UK universities 1,119
Overseas universities 403
Private individuals 964
Visitors/temporary members 904
TOTAL 5,351
Accounts
Income
HEFCE grants: allocated by curators £986,176
HEFCE grants: paid direct –
Tuition fees £130,864
Research grants and contracts £2,071,896
Research grants and endowments income –
Research grants IHR: VCH East Riding only £5,197
Other income £415,116
Donations £85,158
Income from endowments –
Interest £68,827
TOTAL INCOME £3,763,235
Expenditure
Pay
Academic departments £777,722
Academic services –
General educational –
Administration £161,440
Student and staff amenities £22,985
Premises –
Research grants and contracts –
Miscellaneous £1,069,563
Extraordinary payments –
TOTAL PAY EXPENDITURE £2,031,711
Non-pay
Academic departments £322,614
Academic services £67,029
General educational £22,915
Administration £75,971
Student and staff amenities £7,353
Premises £177,405
Research grants and contracts £999,366
Miscellaneous –
Central services £86,996
TOTAL NON-PAY EXPENDITURE £1,759,648
(SURPLUS)/DEFICIT BEFORE TRANSFERS TO/(FROM) RESERVES -£28,124
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Friends of the IHR
Chair: Professor Caroline Barron
Hon Treasurer: Dr Stephen Taylor
Committee Members: Professor F M L Thompson FBA, Dr A Jenny Stratford (from
March 2008), Dr Roland E Quinault FRHS (from March 2008)
American Friends: 135
Friends of the IHR: 533
Life Friends
Mr Brian Gordon Awty
Professor Caroline Barron
Professor G W S Barrow
Mr J E G Bennell
Mrs M Berg
Mr G C Bird
Dr Philip W Blood
Professor C N L Brooke
Dr Robert Bud
Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey
Dr L S Clark
Mrs Evelyn E Cowie
Dr Eveline Cruickshanks
Dr Jean Dunbabin
Professor Sir John Huxtable Elliott
Professor Christopher R Elrington
Ms Amelia C Fawcett CBE
Dr G C F Forster
Ms Kathleen Frenchman
Dr Claire Gapper
Professor Susan Hansen
Dr Negley Harte
Mr Peter W Hasler FRHS
Miss Cynthia L Hawker MBE
Mr John M Hayward
Miss M E Higgs
Mr G A J Hodgett
Professor C J Holdsworth
Dr M Hori
Mrs Patricia G M Hyde
Dr I J E Keil
Professor Roger Knight
Lady Lawrence
Professor J Michael Lee
Dr P I Lewin
Mrs J Lewin
Professor Peter J Marshall FBA CBE
Miss Betty R Masters
Mr R A Molyneux-Johnson
Ms Sono Morishita
Professor K Nakagawa
Professor P K O'Brien
Ms Elaine Paintin FSA
Dr J R Peaty
Professor J M Price
Mr A Radford
Professor P Rich
Dr E A Robinson
Professor Maria-José Rodríguez-Salgado
Professor T Sasage
Mr Michael L Scollan
Ms Alexandra Serowinska
Mr Tom Sharp
Dr J A Sheppard
Dr A Simpson
Miss R J L Spalding
Professor Robin J Swales
Miss R Taylor
Professor F Michael LThompson
Mr R G Thorne
Count Dmitri N Tolstoy-Miloslavsky
Mr John A B Townsend
Professor H Tsurushima
Baron Tugendhat of Widdington
Dr D M Webb
Dr A W Webb
Mr Nicholas C E Wright
In addition to those listed, the IHR has a number of anonymous Life Friends.
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Appendix 1: Seminar Programme
American History
Heather Cox Richardson (U Mass, Amherst)
Innocence lost: American politics and the road to Wounded Knee
Michael O’Brien (Cambridge)
The Americans and secularisation
Daniel Geary (Nottingham)
Maverick on a motorcycle? C Wright Mills reconsidered
Joel Isaac (QMUL)
The problem of positivism in American history
Craig Wilder (Dartmouth College/UCL)
Abolitionist in name, but not in sentiment: slavery and the struggle for the American
college
Karen Jones (Kent)
Bear hunting today: sport, nature and identity in late 19th-century Montana
Catherine Armstrong (Manchester Metropolitan)
Wilderness, plantation or laboratory? the American landscape in text and image,
1660–1776
Lizabeth Cohen (Harvard/Oxford)
The rebuilding of American cities in the age of mass suburbanisation
Alex Goodall (York)
The big truth: a look at interwar anti-communism in the United States
Shane White (Sydney)
When black kings and queens ruled in Harlem
Archives and History
Roger Kain CBE (Exeter)
The mapping of English towns, 1700–1850: a locally oriented record
Else Churchill (Society of Genealogists)
Challenges and new directions in genealogical research
Caroline Williams (TNA)
Re-defining the role of research for The National Archives
Nigel Ramsay
A special lecture to celebrate the publication of the first three volumes in the English
Monastic Archives project
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Roland Quinault (London Metropolitan)
Gladstone and slavery
British History 1815–1945
Jane Hamlett (Manchester)
‘A certain distance’? Middle-class domestic interiors and family relations in 19thcentury
Britain
Paul O’Leary (Aberystwyth)
Performing imperialism: empire day and urban processional culture in early 20thcentury
South Wales
David Monger (KCL)
Remobilising local patriotism: the National War Aims Committee, Ramsay MacDonald
and May Day 1918 in Leicester
Helen McCarthy (IHR)
Why was there no fascism in Britain? Political extremism and political culture
between the wars
Clare Pettit (KCL)
‘Dr. Livingstone, I presume?’ Newspapers, celebrity and Anglo-American relations in
the 1870s
Anne Summers (Birkbeck)
‘I have written to Madame Dreyfus’: some reflections on British women and the
Dreyfus affair, c.1895–1900
Krista Cowman (Lincoln)
Suffragette militancy and class, 1904–14
Barbara Caine (Monash)
Cosmopolitan identities in 19th-century Britain
Tony Taylor (Sheffield Hallam)
‘A thousand defamatory pens have lied upon the characters of Ball and Tyler’: radical
militancy and the historical memory of peasant revolt in 19th- and early 20thcentury
British popular politics
Helen Glew (IHR)
Women workers in the General Post Office and campaigns for equal pay, c.1914–39
Adam Kuper (Brunel)
Family networks and cousin marriage in 19th-century England
Saho Matsumoto-Best (Nagoya City)
Collecting Italian art for the nation: British diplomats and the collection of Italian
Renaissance paintings for the National Gallery, 1855–1919
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Ian Cawood (Newman University College, Birmingham)
The Liberal Unionist vote: the persistence of patronage and regionalism in late
Victorian politics
Roger Stearn (Oxford DNB)
‘Compulsory militarism’? The campaign for National Service in Britain, c.1902–14
Barbara Gribling (York)
The two Edwards: contrasting representations of Edward, the Black Prince, in
Victorian English culture
British History in the 17th Century
Richard Ross
Puritan godly discipline in comparative perspective: legal pluralism and the sources
of ‘intensity’
Peter Lindenbaum and Steven Roberts
Sir William Dugdale and the origins of book contracts in the 17th century
Inga Volmer
‘A sea of blood’? Anti-Catholicism, Hibernophobia and atrocities during the Wars of
the Three Kingdoms, 1641–53
Ariel Hessayon
Restoring the Garden of Eden in England’s green and pleasant land: the Diggers and
the fruits of the earth
Jason Peacey
Popular print and public education: Sir Balthazar Gerbier’s Academy, 1648–51
Alex Barber
News culture and the Sacheverell trial
Laura Stewart
Serving God and Mammon: Scotland, the state and the British civil war
Iain Taylor
Bible commentaries, polemic and reformed theology in England, 1611–31: the
influence of Aquinas and Anselm
Joel Halcomb
Piety and practicality in revolutionary religion: the formation and breakdown of
Congregationalism, 1640–c.1660
Ted Vallance
The ‘captivity’ of James II and the politics of gesture
David Cressy
The de-meaning of Charles I
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British History in the Long 18th Century
Anthony Fletcher (IHR)
Growing up in England, 1680–1850
Ian Barrett (KCL)
Radical intellectual or self-interested merchant? Benjamin Vaughan MP and his ideas
on slavery and abolition, c.1765–94
Erica Charters (Liverpool)
The caring imperial fiscal-military state: the welfare of British troops during the
Seven Years’ War
Matthew White (Hertfordshire)
London’s ‘Norwegian neckcloth’: pillory punishments, popular culture and collective
action in the late 18th century
Ruth Paley (History of Parliament)
The history of parliament and the House of Lords, 1660–1832
Iñaki Rivas (UCL)
British and European intelligence systems before the industrial revolution
Junko Akamatsu (RHUL)
Restitution of conjugal rights: legal practice and narratives in the 18th-century Court
of Arches
Philippe Minard (Université Paris–8)
Historical myths and clichés: ‘Colbertist’ France versus ‘Laissez-Faire’ England in the
18th century
David Feldman (Birkbeck)
Settlement, removal and the law, 1595–1865
Andrew Lambert (KCL)
Following Franklin: recreation and history
British Maritime History
Donna Landray and Caroline Rooney (Kent)
‘There was a ship, quoth he’: sea studies, postcolonial studies and the trope of reenactment
Pieter van der Merwe (NMM)
Instant replay: scenic history and ‘A trip to Antwerp in the steam frigate
Rhadamanthus’
Jonathan Lamb (Vanderbilt University)
Re-enactment and the supplements of maritime journals
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Jan Rüger (Birkbeck)
Why re-enactment mattered in the imperial age
Amy Miller (NMM)
‘To the immortal memory’: uniform, invented tradition and Nelson’s legacy
Sarah Monks (York)
Culture, conflict and compensation: the naval battlescape and the exhibition space in
late 18th-century London
Jonathan Rayner (Sheffield)
Naval narratives of re-enactment: In Which We Serve to Sea of Fire
Quintin Colville (Kent)
Enacted, inhabited and deployed: the persona of the Jack Tar, 1920–60
Gillian Russell (Australian National University)
‘Real water’: re-enactment in the aquatic theatre of war, 1780–1815
John M. Mackenzie (Edinburgh)
Imperial objectives and settler identities: re-enacting the empire through the colonial
museum
Collecting and Display 100BC to AD1700
Helen Jacobsen
Ambassadorial plate and the collection of the Earl of Stafford 1700–15
Catherine Eagleton (BM)
How to collect coins in late 18th-century London: from HRH Princess Elizabeth to Mr.
Thompson (waiter at the White Hart Inn, Lincoln), via Sarah Sophia Banks
Susan Haskins
Mary Magdalen and 16th-century Hapsburg politics
Stephanie Castelluccio
The cabinet of paintings of the Surintendance des Bâtiments du roi at Versailles
Michael Bury (Edinburgh)
Controlling the viewing of private collections in 16th- and early 17th-century Rome
Hadrien Rambach
Collectors at auction, auctions for collectors
Contemporary British History
David Kynaston (author of Austerity Britain, 1945–51)
Did ‘community’ exist? The 1950s and the final phase of ‘classic working class
culture’?
Brian Balmer (UCL), Jane Gregory (UCL) and Matthew Godwin (Lancaster)
Brains, drains and mobility: scientific migration in the 1960s
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Alex von Tunzelmann (author of Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an
Empire)
Dead dogs and empty archives. Researching controversial history: personalities and
the end of empire in India and Pakistan
Enda Delaney (Edinburgh)
‘No blacks, no Irish’: British responses to immigration, 1945–62
Penny Summerfield (Manchester)
Home Front amnesia: gender and the popular memory of the Second World War,
1945–70
Hugh McLeod (Birmingham)
The religious crisis of the 1960s [joint meeting with Modern Religious History
seminar]
Laura Beers (Emmanuel College, Cambridge)
‘Labour’s Britain: fight for it now!’: Labour party publicity and propaganda during the
Second World War
Mark Gardner (IHR)
British cinema advertising 1954–1960s: an example of managerial conservatism?
Tanya Evans (IHR)
The other woman and her child: extra-marital affairs and illegitimacy in 20th-century
England
Alex Mold (LSHTM)
Doing good by stealth? Voluntary organisations and illegal drugs since the 1960s
Bernard Ingham (former Press Secretary to Margaret Thatcher)
Life with the lioness: what Margaret Thatcher was really like
Brian Thomas (Research assistant to Konni Zilliacus, 1947–67)
Campaigning for a socialist foreign policy: Konni Zilliacus and the Labour left, 1947–
52
Jameel Hampton (Bristol)
The 1970 Chronically Sick and Disabled Act
Crusades and the Latin East
Andrew Jotischky
The Christians of Jerusalem, the Holy Sepulchre and the origins of the First Crusade
Michael Lower (Minnesota)
Louis IX, Charles of Anjou and the Tunis Crusade of 1270
Roundtable discussion
The future of Crusader studies
68

Jochen Schenk (Cambridge)
Relics in the Temple and the use of the Templars in hagiography: ideas on the
popular appeal of a military order
Natasha Hodgson (Nottingham Trent)
Honour, shame and the crusading knight
Rebecca Rist (Reading)
Salvation and the Albigensian Crusade: the forty day indulgence of 1210
Marcus Bull (Bristol)
The narrativity of the Gesta Francorum
Susan Edgington (QMUL)
Translating the Chanson d’Antioche
Osman Latiff (RHUL)
The spiritual appeal of Jerusalem in the Muslim effort to recapture the city during the
Crusades
Earlier Middle Ages
Sinead O’Sullivan (QUB)
Why did the Carolingians read Martianus? The evidence of the earliest commentary
in De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii
Hilary Powell (Oxford)
Landscapes of legend: folklore in Anglo-Latin hagiography
Thomas Clancy (Glasgow)
The churches of the Picts: when, where and what were they for?
Jinty Nelson (KCL)
Spades and lies? Interdisciplinary encounters
Hugh Kennedy (SOAS)
Landed estates and incomes in the early Islamic world
Nancy Edwards (Bangor)
Sculpture and society in North Wales, c.400–1150
Caroline Goodson (Birkbeck)
The Vassals’ postholes: living in medieval Villamagna (Italy)
Stephen Baxter (KCL)
The Earls of Mercia: lordship and power in late Anglo-Saxon England
Peter Heather (KCL)
Vandal religious policy under Geneseric
Tom Brown (Edinburgh)
Life after Byzantium: Ravenna and its hinterland in the Carolingian and Ottonian
periods
69

Mark Handley (London)
Easterners in the West: the who, where, when, why and how many?
Nicholas Brooks (Birmingham)
Archbishop Æthelnoth the Good and his knights: the origins of feudal quotas
reconsidered
Rob Meens (Utrecht)
The myth of the Irish invention of private penance
Helena Frances Carr (Oxford)
From Raetia Prima to Churraetia: the development of a Swiss mountain ‘pass state’
c.450–850
Rosamond McKitterick (Cambridge)
The Liber Pontificalis in its early medieval historiographical context
Gianluca Raccagni (Cambridge)
The Italian Magna Carta: the peace of Constance
Sarah Foot (Oxford)
Should King Æthelstan get a life?
Chris Wickham (Oxford)
Assembly politics in 12th-century Rome
Matthew del Santo (Cambridge)
Gregory the Great, Eustratius Presbyter and aspects of the cult of the saints between
Rome and Constantinople at the end of the 6th century
Steve White (Emory University, Atlanta)
A paranoid style in medieval political culture? The taste for legal melodrama in 12thand
early 13th-century France and England
Alan Cooper (Colgate)
Poverty in a time of prosperity: England, 1200
Julia Barrow (Nottingham)
Uncles and nephews, fathers and sons among the clergy, c.800–c.1200
Charles Insley (Canterbury Christ Church)
Kings, lords, charters and the political culture of 12th-century Wales
Steffen Patzold (Tübingen)
Educating the clergy: rural priests and their knowledge in Carolingian Francia
Yann Coz (Sorbonne)
Antique Rome and late Anglo-Saxon kingship
Hugh Thomas (Miami)
Celibacy and the English clergy in the 12th century: preaching, resistance and
accommodation
70

Peter Darby (Birmingham)
Bede’s eschatological thought
Martin Biddle, David Carpenter, Julia Crick, Richard Gem and Richard Sharpe
Day trip and symposium at St Albans
Economic and Social History of the Pre-modern
World, 1500–1800
John Styles (Hertfordshire)
Fashion and the foundlings: cotton, the industrial revolution and the Foundling
Hospital textiles
David Ormrod (Kent)
Institutions and the environment: shipping movements in the North Sea/Baltic Zone,
1650–1800
Ken Sneath (Darwin College, Cambridge)
Consumption, wealth and indebtedness: Yorkshire and Huntingdonshire in the 17th
and 18th centuries
Oliver Volckart (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Rules, discretion or reputation? Monetary policies and the efficiency of financial
markets in Germany, 14th to 16th centuries
Chris Evans (Glamorgan)
Steel in Britain in the age of enlightenment
Maarten Prak (Utrecht)
The market for architecture in Holland, 1500–1815
Larry Neal (Illinois/LSE)
Lord Londonderry (the Money Pitt), John Law and the Mississippi Company and South
Sea Bubbles
Alysa Levene (Oxford Brookes)
The household and the state: welfare support for children in 18th-century London
Paul Warde (East Anglia)
Economic development and its ecological impact. The trade in timber and its byproducts
in the northern seas
Sebastien Prange (SOAS)
The pepper trade in the pre-European Indian Ocean
Alixe Bovey (Kent)
Broadcasting medieval Britain
71

European History 1150–1550
David d’Avray, David Carpenter and Miri Rubin
Continuities in English history?
Barbara Gaspar (UCL)
The politics of Marian Devotion in late medieval Europe and beyond
Moritz Isenmann (European University Institute, Florence)
Accountability of public officials and statecraft in late medieval Italy and Spain
Guy Geltner (Oxford)
Prisons and prison life in the MA
David Stone (Dulwich College)
Cultivating mentalities: new approaches to manorial account rolls
Isabella Lazzarini (Molise) and Professor Myriam Greilsammer (Bar-Ilan)
Europe north and south: a meaningful divide? A roundtable discussion
Ben Wild (KCL)
Secrecy, splendour and statecraft. The jewel accounts of King Henry III of England
Caroline Humfress (Birkbeck) and John Arnold (Birkbeck)
Heresy and the art of rhetoric
Stephen Mossman (Oxford)
Things every late medievalist needs to know about Markward von Lindau
Robert Swanson (Birmingham)
Practical piety and piety in practice: indulgences in late medieval religion
Kate Rudy (The Hague)
How nuns invented the postcard: single-leaf miniatures in the late middle ages
European History 1500–1800
I.A.A. Thompson (Keele)
Rebranding the nation, Santiago or Sainta Teresa? Changing patron saints in 17thcentury
Spain
Peter Burke (Cambridge)
Uses and abuses of comparative history
Alan Ross (Oxford)
A teacher and his pupils in Zwickau-Saxony. A case study in the social and
intellectual history of 17th-century education
Brian Pullan (Manchester)
The war on begging in early modern Italy
72

Frank Tallett (Reading)
The priest as Shylock; the clergy and credit in old regime France
Tim Blanning (Cambridge)
Bach in Leipzig and Handel in London: music in the public spheres
Orsolya Szakály (SOAS)
“Vitam et Sanguinem”: Hungary’s noble insurrection in the 18th century
Vanessa Harding and John Henderson
Health, disease and the environment: Florence and London compared
Shearer West (Birmingham)
Secrets and desires: art collecting in the early 18th-century Dresden court
Joan Pau Rubies (LSE)
The impact of European encounters in America and Asia: savages and despots
Marie-Laure LeGay (Lille III)
Finance and the state in 18th-century France and Austria
Marta Ajmar-Wollheim (V&A)
Interiors in Renaissance Italy: local or global identity?
Richard Wittman (California)
Architecture, politics and the public sphere in 18th-century Paris
Robert Evans (Oxford)
‘Extra Hungarian Non Est Ita’: 18th-century Hungary in comparative perspective
Film History
James Robertson
Hollywood Rebel: William Wellman, Westerns and The Oxbow Incident (1943)
Myra Cross (Open)
Contradictions in the perceptions of Field Marshal Rommel: Desert Victory (1943)
and The Desert Fox (1951)
Robert James (Portsmouth)
Popular film-going in the 1930s: a comparative study of middle class and working
class tastes
Sarah Street (Bristol)
Exporting the rainbow: Technicolor films in Britain
Anthony Dunn (Portsmouth)
Wolf Mankowitz: fiction, screen and theatre writings in the 1950s
Gil Toffell (Goldsmiths)
‘Come see and hear the mother tongue!’ The Yiddish cinema in interwar London
73

Scott Anthony (Oxford)
Stephen Tallents and the British documentary tradition
Jeffrey Richards (Lancaster)
The gospel according to Hollywood: the biblical epic, 1949–66
History of Education
David Crook and Gary McCulloch (eds.)
Launch of History, Politics and Policy-Making in Education: A Festschrift Presented to
Richard Aldrich
Helen Gunter (Manchester)
School leadership and the New Labour Reform project in historical perspective
Rebecca Rogers (University René Descartes, Paris)
Schooling Muslim girls in Algiers, 1845–1900
Dylan William (Institute of Education)
The history of standardised testing in the USA and its influence on current practices
in assessment
Stuart Foster (Institute of Education)
School history textbooks in the 20th century
Janet Howarth (Oxford)
Educating ladies: the political economy of women’s higher education revisited
History of Gardens and Landscapes
Janet Waymark (Birkbeck)
Maker of the city beautiful or colonialist planner? The work of Thomas Mawson in
Canada and Greece
Monica Brewis (Brighton)
‘A literature of her own’: garden diaries and women’s writings on gardens
Kristina Clode (Birkbeck)
The lost garden of Witanhurst: Harold Peto’s forgotten gem
Jill Raggett (Writtle College)
The Anglo-Japanese Exhibition of 1910: flowers and goldfish
Yvonne Hungerford (Birkbeck)
The arts and crafts house and garden: size doesn’t matter
Clare Hickman (Bristol)
‘They are surrounded with garden space, and add not only to the beauty but to the
healthiness of the city’: the relationship between notions of health and disease and
the role of green spaces in late 19th-century texts
74

Mark Bhatti and Amanda Claremont
‘I love being in the garden’: the (re)enchantment of everyday life
Sarah Rutherford (Consultant, Historic Park and Garden Conservation)
Landscapes for the mind: the asylum garden as healing tool
Helena Chance (Oxford)
‘The factory in a garden’: corporate landscape policy and social reform, 1880–1939
Tom Williamson (East Anglia)
Landscape with trees: recent survey work in East Anglia
Katherine Myers (London Parks and Gardens Trust)
The planting of canons: the ducal garden and afterwards
Emily Sloan (Nottingham)
Trees in the landscape drawing: the sketchbooks of an 18th-century antiquary
Brent Elliott (RHS Lindley Library)
From the arboretum to the woodland garden
Ken Worpole (Cities Institute, London Metropolitan)
Bankside Forest
History of Political Ideas
J.H. Burns (UCL)
Concitoyens: Jeremy Bentham and Jacques-Pierre Brissot
Richard Tuck (Harvard)
Hobbes and Christianity
John Robertson (Oxford)
Political economy and the ‘feudal system’ in Enlightenment Naples
Jonathan Riley (Tulane)
Mills pluralistic ordinal liberalism
Anne McLaren (Liverpool)
Commonwealth and common sense: John Hales, Tom Paine and the early American
republic
Alan Kahan (Florida International)
Mind versus money
David Womersley (Oxford)
Swift and the art of political trepanning
Blair Worden (RHUL)
The political thought of John Milton
James T. Schleifer (New Rochelle College)
Tocqueville’s Democracy in America: some key themes reconsidered
75

Greg Claeys, Christopher Duggan and Bill Scott (Reading)
Roundtable on republicanism in Britain, France and Italy
Malcolm Schofield (Cambridge)
Democratic Aristotle
Carolina Armenteros (Cambridge)
Was Rousseau truly a classical republican? The problem of Sophie’s vanity in Emile
Iain McDaniel (Cambridge)
Ferguson and the Scottish Enlightenment
History of the Psyche
Andrew Aitken and David Reggio (Goldsmiths)
Leib and Korper in Freud
Christian Hahn (Paris VII)
Brain and world
Imperial History
John Stuart (KCL)
British Protestant missions, empire and transnationalism
Ian Barrett (KCL)
The parliamentary defence of the slave trade in the age of abolition
Francisco Bethencourt (KCL), Anthony Disney (La Trobe), Isabel dos Guimaraes Sa
(Minho) and Michael Pearson (Sydney)
The Portuguese empire in Asia: a roundtable discussion
Jayne Gifford (UWE)
Anglo-Egyptian treaty negotiations, 1924–30
Joseph Hardwick (York)
Colonial Anglican networks for clergymen for New South Wales and the Cape Colony,
c.1788–1820
Neil Fleming (Cardiff)
Opposing modernity? Die hard opposition in parliament to the 1935 India Bill
Huw Bowen (Swansea) and Trevor Burnard (Warwick)
British Asia and the British Atlantic 1500–1820: two worlds or one? A project report
Richard J. Ross (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Legal communications and imperial governance: British North America and Spanish
America compared
John McAleer (NMM)
Representing slavery, abolition and the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean
76

Andrew Cohen (Sheffield)
‘A difficult, tedious and unwanted task’: representing the Central African Federation
in the United Nations, 1960–63
Juergen Zimmerer (Sheffield)
Carl Peters: a biography of German imperialism
John Darwin (Oxford)
British empire and the British world
Clare Anderson (Warwick)
Rethinking indentured labour from India in the 19th century
Iftekhar Iqbal (Dhaka/KCL)
Ecology, technology and empire: railways in the Bengal Delta 1845–1947
Emma Willoughby (IHR)
The re-imagining of capture: transformations of white captivity in 19th-century
Australia
Valerie Johnson (KCL)
Defining Britishness: the construction of national identity and expatriate business
communities in the age of empire
Stephanie Cronin (Northampton)
Importing modernity: European military missions to Qajar Iran (1797–1925)
Martin Shipway (Birkbeck)
Decolonisation and its impact: historiographies of the end of empire
Martin Thomas (Exeter)
An anatomy of colonial violence: the Algerian massacres of 1945 and the twisted
logic of state retribution
Sarah Stockwell (KCL)
The Somerset Maugham image: the Colonial Service, decolonisation and postwar
Britain
Rosemary Seton (SOAS)
Revisiting the Calcutta missionary scandal of 1883
Frank Bongiorno (KCL)
Re-considering radical nationalist history: the case of Russel Ward and ‘the
Australian legend’
Emily Manktelow (KCL)
London Missionary Society policy on marriage, 1795–1824
Bain Attwood (Monash/Cambridge)
Sovereignty, possession and the Australian colonies: the problem of ‘Batman’s
Treaty’
77

Wim van den Doel (Leiden)
The fall of the Dutch empire in Asia
Andrew Porter (KCL)
Whatever happened to Cecil Rhodes?
Tim Blanning (Cambridge)
The rise and fall of the Napoleonic empire
International History
Richard Aldrich (Warwick)
Warning, surprise and special operations: intelligence and British forces in Germany,
1954–73
Philip Bell (Liverpool)
From ‘never again’ to inevitable war: Britain, France and the coming of the Second
World War in Europe (The 2007 Michael Dockrill Lecture)
John Fisher (UWE)
The burden of Nineveh: the Church of England and British policy towards the
Assyrians, 1917–55
Reuben Loffman (Durham)
Britain and Zaire, 1960–71
Paul Corthorn (QUB)
Cold War politics and the Spanish Civil War
Philip Alexander (Cambridge)
British oil supplies, the Six Day War and the political presentation of sterling
devaluation in 1967
Vasil Paraskevov (Sumin, Bulgaria)
Britain and Bulgaria, 1944–56
M. Lemnitzer (LSE/IHR)
That moral league of nations against the United States: the 1856 Declaration of Paris
and the abolition of privateering
Nigel Ashton (LSE)
King Hussein of Jordan and the liberation of Iraq, 1958–99
Alban Webb (QMUL)
The BBC and the Cold War
Helen McCarthy (IHR)
The League of Nations Union in interwar Britain
78

Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy
Barry Collett
Was Tito Livio Frulovisi’s Tract De Republica, a new mirror-for-princes, read by More
and Machiavelli?
Rosa Salzberg
‘In the mouths of charlatans’: performers and cheap print in Cinquecento Venice
Guy Geltner
Brethren behaving badly: a deviant approach to medieval anti-fraternalism
Lucy Whitaker
Polidoro da Caravaggio’s Cupid and psyche panels: the antique, Raphael and a
Neapolitan palace
Catherine Fletcher
‘Expert in war, having also many friends’: Gregorio Casali, an Italian mercenarydiplomat
in the service of Henry VIII
Susan Foister
Holbein, Antonio Toto and the market for Italian painting in early Tudor England
Suzy Knight
Something old, something new: the trousseau and private devotion in 15th- and
16th-century Florence
Clare Robertson
Annibale Carracci and his late Roman patrons
Nico Pizzolato
‘Con gran periculo della vita’: the social meanings of rape in 17th-century rural Sicily
Late Medieval Seminar
Helen Carrel (Cambridge)
A medievalist’s response to Foucault’s Discipline and Punish: the 14th- and 15thcentury
perspective
John Tillotson (ANU, Canberra)
‘Therefore, whoever is wise, let him dispose of his goods while he is alive’ (Fasciculus
Morum): early Tudor executors and their work, with particular reference to the will of
Sir John Rudstone (d. 1531), mayor of London
Rebecca Oakes (Winchester)
Mortality among the young in 15th-century England: new evidence from Winchester
College and New College, Oxford
Nicholas Kingwell (Southampton)
Sir Thomas Arundell of Lanherne (d. 1485) and the cost of Civil War
79

Dominic Summers (East Anglia)
Grand community projects: Norfolk church towers of the later middle ages
Christopher Wright (RHBNC)
Beyond formal control: the Gattilusio lordships in the Genoese network
Adrian Johnson (PRO)
Steadfast loyalty? Richard of Cornwall and the baronial opposition in 1263
Jessica Lutkin (RHBNC)
All the King’s Bling… Edward III’s purchases of goldsmiths’ work, 1360–77
Peter Fleming (UWE)
The Coventry Annals, the Wars of the Roses and 15th-century urban history writing
Christopher Dyer (Leicester)
Diets of the poor in the later middle ages
David Grummitt (History of Parliament)
Household, politics and political morality in the reign of Henry VII
Ralph Griffiths (Swansea)
Owain Glyn Dŵy’s revolt and Henry V’s war
Sean Cunningham (PRO)
St Oswald’s Priory, Nostell v. Stanley: the common pleas of Lancaster, the crown and
the politics of the north-west in 1506
Christian Liddy (Durham)
History, myth and identity in the palatinate of Durham in the late middle ages
Adam Chapman (Southampton)
The Welsh in England’s wars, c.1282–1400
Jim Bolton (QMUL)
London merchants and the Borromei bank in the 1430s: local credit networks and
the transfer of skills
Robert Kinsey (York)
The son of a lawyer: the aspirations and pretensions of Sir William Thorpe (d. 1391)
Simon Payling (History of Parliament)
Military and administrative service, 1422–50
Michael Hicks (Winchester)
Caxton’s and Warkworth’s: two chronicles of the Wars of the Roses
Life-Cycles
Jinty Nelson (KCL)
Trust between genders and trust between generations in earlier medieval Europe
80

Emma Cavell (Wolfson College, Cambridge)
Maidens, mothers and widows in the March, 1066–1300
Suzy Knight (QMUL)
‘It helped me during the births of all my children, and helped her in the birth of all
hers’: the circulation of birthing amulets amongst renaissance Florentine women as
evidence of female support networks in the early modern period
Mary Clare Martin (Greenwich)
The ‘Mercantile Aristocracy’: endogamy, religion and location in the London
hinterland, 1740–1870
Deborah Lafferty (KCL)
Blue knickers to blue rinse: ageism in the Girl Scouts and Guides
Locality and Region
Hilary Crowe (Sussex)
The Westmorland farmer: coping with the legacy of the Great War
Andrew Hann (English Heritage)
Experiencing the urban in a rural setting: the lower Medway Valley of Kent, 1750–
1900
John Beckett (VCH)
The VCH and the discipline of local history since 1933
Carenza Lewis (Cambridge)
Historic village investigation at the dawn of the 21st century: new opportunities, new
directions, new knowledge
Chris Dyer (Centre for English Local History)
Medieval villages: new approaches
Tom Williamson (East Anglia)
Regional landscapes and regional societies: the environmental dimension
David Miles (English Heritage)
Turning on the light in the dark ages: the transformation of society and landscape in
the Upper Thames Valley in the 5th and 6th centuries
Peter Webster (IHR)
Beauty, utility and ‘Christian civilisation’: bombed churches, the Church of England
and the memorialisation of war, 1940–50
Lila Rakoczy
Out of the ashes: destruction, re-use and profiteering in the English civil war
Paul Stamper (English Heritage)
Recent work on understanding battlefield landscapes
81

London Group of Historical Geographers
Danielle Schreve (RHUL)
The return of the native: half a million years of wild horse and human interactions
Louise Curth (Bath Spa)
‘A remedy for his beast’: popular veterinary texts in early modern England
Garry Marvin (Roehampton)
Wolfscapes: intersections of human and wolf lives (and deaths)
Stephen Daniels (Nottingham)
Equestrian landscape: George Stubbs and Creswell Crags
David Atkinson (Hull)
Diffusing geopolitics in 1930s Italy
Marcus Power (Durham)
The Commonwealth and the politics of development in post-colonial Mozambique
Alasdair Pinkerton (RHUL)
A new kind of imperialism: Cold War broadcasting and the contested geopolitics of
South Asia
Richard Powell (Liverpool)
Hydrocarbon histories: the geopolitics of Arctic science
Richard Alston (RHUL)
Transitions in space and time in the cities of the Roman empire
Susan Reid (Sheffield)
Cosy communist homes: making the Soviet apartment in the Krushchev era
Nicholas Baron (Nottingham)
Mapping the Soviet: geopolitical cultures and control, 1918–53
Cindy Weber (Lancaster)
A critical geo-politics of post–9/11 US identity
London Society for Medieval Studies
David d’Avray (UCL)
Royal ‘divorces’ and papal discussions
Caterina Bruschi (Birmingham)
Portraits of inquisitors between literature and judicial texts, 13th to 14th centuries
Paula Higgins (Nottingham)
Josquin and the dormouse: discourses of aesthetic excess, masculinity and
homoeroticism in the reception of Planxit autem David
82

George Ferzoco (Leicester)
The Massa Marittima mural: the context of penis trees and medieval images of
genitalia
Paul Fouracre (Manchester)
Balthild’s ring: a find against the odds or a case of mistaken identity?
Henrietta Leyser (St Peter’s, Oxford)
Christina the Mystic of Markyate
Jinty Nelson (KCL)
Charlemagne revisited
Chris Wickham (All Souls, Oxford)
Assembly politics in 12th-century Rome
Chris Dyer (Leicester)
Trading and farming at the end of the middle ages: John Heritage and Cotswold
society
Helena Hamerow (St Cross, Oxford)
An Anglo-Saxon high-status complex at Sutton Courtenay, Oxon: recent fieldwork
Antony Eastmond (Courtauld)
‘People of consequence and close friends’: the audience for consular diptychs in late
antiquity
Susan Rankin (Emmanuel, Cambridge)
Anglo-Saxon musical notations
Low Countries History
Benjamin Kaplan (UCL)
Intimate negotiations: husbands and wives of opposing faiths in 18th-century
Holland
Herman Roodenburg (Meertens Institute)
Burghers or aristocrats? The Dutch 17th-century elite and its cherishing of art,
science and civility
Garrelt Verhoeven (Rare Books, University of Amsterdam Library)
The Haarlem book trade in the golden age
Peter Illing (Cambridge)
Much in little? the diplomatic representation of the Brabant Revolution
Eddy Verbaan (Sheffield)
On the banks of the Thames and the Old Rhine: nostalgia and civic duty in
descriptions of London (1598) and Leiden (1614)
Hanno Brand (Groningen)
Redefining trading relations: Dutch and Hanseatic diplomacy in the later middle ages
83

Leonard Blussé (Leiden)
Rivalry and partnership: Dutch-American trade relations in Asia, 1784–1808
Hal Cook (Wellcome Institute)
Commerce and the knowledge of nature in the Dutch Golden Age
Cordula van Wyhe (York)
Femininity, sovereignty and exile: Marie de’Médicis and politics in the Spanish
Netherlands 1631–38
Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture
Jody Patterson (UCL)
Modernism for the masses: Stuart Davis and muralism in New Deal New York
Mark Neocleous (Brunel)
Security fetishism
David Margolies (formerly Goldsmiths)
Christopher Caudwell: the most Marxist of Marxist critics
Pete Smith (Thames Valley)
Cultural labour and the role of art: commitment and practice in the work of William
Morris
Suman Gupta (Open)
Representing mass protest: 15 February 2003
Frances Stracey (UCL)
Lessons of the Situationalist International today
Maggie Gray (UCL)
The fantasy bribe: comics, punk and the perfect product
Mike Sanders (Manchester)
Talking by turns of politics and poetry: Chartist poetry and the Chartists imaginary
Bill Rolston (Ulster)
Politics and ideology in Belfast murals
Michael Corris (Sheffield Hallam) in conversation with Andrew Hemingway
Launch of Michael Corris’ Ad Reinhardt
Stathis Kouvelakis (KCL)
Painting the absent God: Sartre’s analysis of Tintoretto
Alex Potts (Michigan)
Joseph Beuys and Asgar Jorn: formations of a political art
84

Medieval and Tudor London
Helen Carrell (York)
Jurisdictional disputes between civic and ecclesiastical authorities in the royal
boroughs of late medieval England
Mary Erler (Fordham)
Records of early English drama in (ecclesiastical) London
Robert Braid
Price and wage regulation in London before the Black Death
Karen Newman (NYU)
‘Goldsmith’s ware’: equivalence in Middleton’s ‘A Chaste Maid in Cheapside’
Hazel Forsyth (Museum of London)
Rediscovering the Cheapside Hoard
Nick Havely (York)
‘I bought this book in London’: selling Dante’s Commedia in 15th-century England
Catherine Casson (York)
Forgery in the market place: London in a national context
Martha Carlin (Milwaukee)
The past in letters: London and the kingdom in an Oxford formulary, c.1220–50
Mavis Mate (Oregon)
Economic and social ties between London and Sandwich in the 15th and 16th
centuries
Lien Luu
Aliens and the process of migration into early modern London
Nick Holder (RHUL)
London’s medieval Guildhall: using archaeology, documentary history and
architectural history to create a narrative
Metropolitan History
Paul Dobraszczyk (Reading)
Out of sight, out of mind? Representing London’s victorian sewers
David Marsh (Birkbeck)
Changing perceptions of public and private open spaces in early modern London
Daniel Antoine (Institute of Archaeology, UCL)
Growing up in London from the 11th to 19th century: the bioarchaeological evidence
Erik Spindler (Oriel College, Oxford)
Suburban prostitution and marginality in late medieval London and Bruges
85

Quentin Russell (RHUL)
Greeks in Victorian London: “A cowardly and dishonest race”, from marginalisation to
acceptance
Catherine Wright (IHR)
Dutch and Anglo-Dutch social networks in late 17th- and early 18th-century London
Philip Baker and Mark Merry (IHR/Birkbeck)
Parishioners, pews and perimeters: residence and status in early modern London
Laurence Scott (KCL)
The aesthetics of terror in the novels of London and Paris
Göran Rydén (Uppsala)
Impressions of London – visions of progress: Swedish 18th-century visits to London
Carlos López Galviz (IHR)
On maps, timetables, cities and railways: London and Paris c.1860–1900
Military History
Brian Bond
Grandeur and misery: guards’ memoirs of the Western Front
Jonathan Fennell (Pembroke College, Oxford)
Disaster to victory, morale and motivation in the Desert War, 1942
Malcolm Llwellyn-Jones
On Neptune’s flank: the anti-submarine operations of the Eleventh Escort Group in
the Bay of Biscay, August 1944
Spencer Jones (Wolverhampton)
Bridles and bullets: the influence of horse supply upon field artillery in the American
Civil War
Duncan Redford
The Washington Naval Treaty: the end of British naval supremacy?
Simon House (KCL)
The unfortunate General Rocques
Dominic Lieven (LSE)
Russia v. Napoleon, 1807–14
Jan Lemnitzer (LSE)
War custom or war crime? Naval bombardment of undefended towns in the 19th
century
Jonathan Krause (KCL)
From gymnastics to ballistics: French field artillery in the First World War
Marcus Faulkner (KCL)
Intelligence and German naval rearmament, 1928–39
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Tim Gale (KCL)
The Artillerie Spéciale in 1918
Carlos Alfaro Zaforteza (KCL)
Caribbean versus Mediterranean commitments: Spanish strategy around 1860
Mike Senior (Northampton)
General Haking: an educated donkey
Mark Connelly (Kent)
Surviving the dark continent: soldiering in the West African Frontier Force and the
King’s African Rifles, 1902–14
Afternoon conference and reception to mark the 50th anniversary of the Military
History seminar: the history of warfare: past, present and future
Modern French History
Jean-Frédéric Schaub (EHESS/Oxford)
Was Louis XIV a Spanish king? [Co-organised with the seminar in European History,
1500–1800]
Kevin Passmore (Cardiff)
Why did people believe the Third Republic was in crisis? The meaning of 6 February
1934
Florian Schui (RHUL)
Observing the neighbours: the transfer of fiscal ideas between France and Germany
in the late 18th century [Co-organised with the Modern German History seminar, in
association with the European History, 1500–1800 seminar]
Simon Burrows (Leeds)
French scandal and British readers from Madame de Pompadour to Marie-Antoinette
Helena Hammond (Warwick)
‘The Sleeping Beauty, with all its Francophilia’: staging France in imperial Russian
ballet
Stephanie Hare-Cuming (LSE)
Duty, death and the Republic: Maurice Papon and the Algerian War, 1945–62
Anne Simonin (EHESS/Maison Française, Oxford)
The Terror as a judicial fiction
Olivier Wieviorka (ENS, Cachan)
Heroes or ordinary men? American and British troops from D-Day to the Liberation of
Paris
Bertrand Taithe (Manchester)
The nature of excess: colonial ultra-violence and the Voulet-Chanoine Affair, 1899–
1900
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Christophe Prochasson (EHESS)
Emotion, histoire et politique: aperçu sur l’historiographie Française de la France
contemporaine
Modern German History
Christian Haase (Nottingham)
Pragmatic peacemakers: Institutes of International Affairs and the liberalisation of
West Germany, 1945–73
Simone Laessig (Universität Braunschweig)
German-Jewish experiences of emancipation and modernity: European and
transnational perspectives
Andreas Gestrich (Director, German Historical Institute, London)
Voices of the poor? German poor relief applications as ego-documents
Claudia Bruns (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Masculinity, sexuality and the German Nation: the Eulenberg scandals in the circle
around Kaiser Wilhelm II (1907–9)
Christian Goeschel (Birkbeck)
Suicides of German Jews in Nazi Germany
Modern Italian History
Roger Parker (KCL)
Verdi, Italian opera and the Risorgimento: the story so far
Lucy Turner-Voakes (EUI, Fiesole)
Risorgimento fictions
John Robertson (St Hugh’s College, Oxford)
Feudalism and political economy
Alberto Banti (Pisa)
How to study nationalism in the Risorgimento
Megan Trudell (Birkbeck)
Radicalism and the military in Fiume, 1919–20
John Dickie (UCL)
Cooking with PoWs: two manuscript sources in the history of Italian food
Paul Baxa (Ave Maria University, USA)
‘A Moral Victory’: the myth of the road in fascist Italy
Patrick Bernhard (German Historical Institute, Rome)
The Rome-Berlin axis: perceptions, cooperation, transfer, 1936–43
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Modern Religious History
Arnold Hunt (British Library)
Religion and magic in Victorian London: the strange career of the Revd. Charles
Maurice Davies
Alana Harris (Wadham College, Oxford)
‘A model for many homesteads’: the Holy Family and English Catholic families,
1945–65
Marc Saperstein (Leo Baeck College)
Ploughshares into swords: Jewish preaching in times of war
Georgina Byrne (KCL)
Knock once for yes? Modern spiritualism and the Church of England, 1850–1939
Hugh McLeod (Birmingham)
The religious crisis of the 1960s
Niall O’Flaherty (Cambridge)
The rhetorical strategy of William Paley’s natural theology
Michael Snape (Birmingham)
Charlie Chaplains? Reappraising the British Army padre, 1914–18
Liza Filby (Warwick)
Christian conscience in the age of conviction politics: the Church of England and the
politics of Thatcherism
Philip Lockley (Oxford)
Rescuing ‘the Deluded Follower of Joanna Southcott’ from the condescension of social
history: a revised view of millenarian religion and radicalism in England, 1820–32
Music in Britain: A Social History seminar
Daniel Snowman with Hin-Yan Wong
The London Philharmonic Choir: 1947–2007
David Wright (Royal College of Music)
William Glock, musical politics and the Salon des Refusés: aesthetics or economics?
Rachel Cowgill (Leeds)
Disputing choruses in 1760s Halifax: Joah Bates, William Herschel and the Messiah
Club
Ruth Finnegan
Revisiting ‘The Hidden Musicians’
Leanne Langley (Goldsmiths), with Richard Ormond responding
Music and portraiture: reflections on the work of John Singer Sargent
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Rosemary Golding (London)
Music and institutional identity: the University of London in the 19th century
Joanna Bullivant (Worcester College, Oxford)
Divided loyalties? Alan Bush, modernism and politics in 1930s Britain
Duncan Boutwood (Leeds)
The provincial critic as social commentator: Herbert Thompson of the Yorkshire Post
Philip Bullock (Oxford)
Rosa Newmarch and Russian music in late Victorian and early Edwardian Britain
Peter Horton (Roya College of Music) and Bettina Mühlenbeck (Schumann Institute,
Düsseldorf)
William Sterndale Bennett in London and Leipzig
Extended seminar: ‘So, what do you play?’ Instruments, consumers and repertory
outside the British Concert Hall, 1800–1950
Parliaments, Representation and Society
Mari Takayanagi (Parliamentary Archives)
The path to equal franchise: the passage of the Equal Franchise Act 1928, and earlier
attempts
Steven Fielding (Salford)
The problematic place of party in modern British history: the interwar years
History of Parliament lecture at Portcullis House: David Hayton on the Act of Union of
1707
Roundtable discussion on defining sessions of Parliament, including Sir John Sainty,
Hannes Kleineke and Andrew Thrush
Boni Sones (Executive Producer, Women’s Parliamentary Radio)
Recording political history: the women’s story
Erie Tanja (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
Good politics: conceptual thoughts on the study of Dutch parliamentary politics and
culture
Valerie Cromwell (History of Parliament)
Triumph out of adversity: the parliaments of Scotland – Burgh and Shire
Commissioners
Christopher Reid (QMUL)
Possessing the house: space and speech in the 18th-century Commons
Philip Cowley (Nottingham)
Parliamentary voting during the Blair era
Stefan Slater (RHUL)
Conflicting interests: attempts to reform the soliciting laws, 1918–39
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Philosophy of History
Keith Jenkins (Chichester)
Nobody does it better: radical history and Hayden White
William Gallois (Roehampton)
Zen history
Sande Cohen (California Institute of the Arts)
Gilles Deleuze and theory of history
Daniel Braw (UCL)
Earthly immortality: Ranke’s conception of history and historiography
Beverley Southgate (Hertfordshire)
‘My racket is history’: some thoughts on fiction and historical theory
Bertram Troeger (Jena, Germany)
Categories of historical reinterpretations: exploring the relationship of the Puritan
past and Victorian present
Robert Burns (Goldsmiths)
What are ‘ideas’, do they have histories, and does it matter?
John Rogers (Keele)
Philosophy and its past
James Connelly (Hull)
History, interpretation and the text: Leo Strauss’s critique of Collingwood
Iain Hampsher-Monk (Exeter)
Conceptual history: European varieties of a German idea
Howard Caygill (Goldsmiths)
Idea and origin: Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of history
Postgraduate Seminar
Michael Townsend (Birkbeck)
The plague and the planets: the origins of the astrological causes of the Black Death
Kathrin Pieren (IHR)
The ‘craze for Anglo-Jewish history’ in the late 19th century: negotiating Jewish
identity through artefacts and history writing
Mary Salinsky (IHR)
Narrative and nation: writing British national history in the 20th century
John Clarke (Dublin)
‘Responsibility without power’: Britain and the United Nations during the Cyprus
Crisis of 1974
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Chris Moran (Warwick)
The riddle of the frogman: the Crabb affair and cultures of secrecy in Britain, 1956–
2007
Marc Calvini-LeFebvre (Goldsmiths)
‘Women! Your country needs you!’: feminism and the gendering of citizenship in
Great War Britain
Hannah Newton (Exeter)
Tending the tender: caring for the sick child in England, 1580–1720
Henry Miller (QMUL)
Demonising drink, selling sobriety: the temperance movement and visual
propaganda in Victorian Britain
Katharina Rietzler (UCL)
Intellectual networks during the ‘Twenty Years’ Crisis’: the impact of American
Philanthropy on interwar idealism
Monica Stensland (Oxford)
Peace or no peace? Habsburg Low Countries propaganda and debate in the run-up to
the Twelve-Year Truce of 1609
Helen Yallop (KCL)
Prolonging life in 18th-century England: issues of mind and matter
Daniel Stedman-Jones (Pennsylvania)
‘Distilling the frenzy’: the transatlantic origins and development of economic strategy
in the US and the UK, 1945–81
Paul Moore (Birkbeck)
‘Hypocrisy, thy name is England’: Britain’s Boer War concentration camps in Nazi
propaganda, 1938–45
Denise Guthrie (Essex)
Sex, civilisation and the punishment of women in England, 1750–1868
Jodi Burkett (York)
Maintaining British Greatness: the early anti-nuclear movement and ideas of
Britishness
Psychoanalysis and History
Luisa Passerini (Turin)
Emotions between history and psychoanalysis
Gail Lewis (Open)
Birthing racial difference: conversations with my mother and others
Marybeth Hamilton (Birkbeck)
Alan Lomax, Jelly Roll Morton and the dream-time of jazz
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Daniel Grey (Roehampton)
Fantasy and testimony by child murder defendants in England, 1880–1922
Janet Sayers (Kent)
Art and psychoanalysis: Adrian Stokes and history
Howard Caygill (Goldsmiths)
Heidegger and psychoanalysis
Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World
1600–1900
Catherine Hall (UCL)
England writing Ireland: Macaulay and Martineau
Kirsty Reid (Bristol)
“It cuts me even to the hart”: letters from convict Australia
Jo McDonagh (KCL)
Literature in a time of migration: fiction, mobility and two John Galts
Michael Collins (UCL)
Acts of atonement: Thompson, Andrews and Tagore
Clare Anderson (Warwick)
The Maulvi and the captive: intertwined histories of the 1857 Revolt
Susan Thorne (Duke)
Blood kin: writing a colonial history of the modern orphan
Anita Rupprecht (Brighton)
Adam Smith: sympathy, suffering and progress
Georgios Varouxakis (QMUL)
‘The West’ versus the empire: the international political thought of the British
Comtists
Leigh Boucher (Monash)
Histories of/at the peripheries: managing differentiated sovereignty in the 19thcentury
imperial world
Simone Borgstede and Anna Gust (UCL)
Race, gender and nation in the writing of history: James Mackintosh and Benjamin
Disraeli
Kevin Gaines (Michigan, Ann Arbor)
‘No green pastures’: blacks in Britain and Ghana, c.1935–66
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Elizabeth Vibert (Victoria, Canada)
Consuming difference: food and ‘racial’ identities in the British North American
colonies 1790–1830
The Religious History of Britain 1500–1800
Richard Serjeantson and Thomas Woolford (Trinity College, Cambridge)
Print, manuscript and early Jacobean censorship: Francis Bacon’s Certaine
Considerations Touching the Church of England
Sears McGee (California, Santa Barbara)
Sir Simonds D’Ewes and the clergy
Kristen Walton (Maryland)
City on a hill: reformation and political community in 1560s Scotland
Rob Lutton (Nottingham)
Cultural diversity, orthodoxy and heterodoxy in pre-Reformation Kent
Emma Watson (York)
The sacrament and resistance in Marian Yorkshire
Erica Longfellow (Kingston)
Self-examination and private prayer in 16th-century England
James Kelly (KCL)
Who let the Jesuits loose? discovering the hidden lay players in the Jesuit Mission to
England in 1580
Hilary Larkin (Cambridge)
The war of ‘words’: thoughts on Englishness in the interchange between Hastings,
Persons and Sutcliffe
Heather Thornton (Louisiana State)
High church defender and inquisitor of dissent: an examination of Archbishop Gilbert
Sheldon’s life and times
William Wizeman (New York)
The works of Miles Hogarde, Lay-Catholic polemicist, poet and spiritual writer of mid-
Tudor England
Carolyn Colbert (Newfoundland)
‘Enter Queene Mary with a Prayer Booke in her hand, like a Nun’: Mary Tudor in the
Jacobean history play
Gary Gibbs (Roanoke College)
Accounting for reform in the parish of St Botolph Aldgate, 1547–59
Genelle Gertz (Washington and Lee University)
The literary culture of heresy trial in early modern England
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Peter Lake (Princeton)
Commentary on Altars Restored: The Changing Face of English Religious Worship
1547 – c.1700 (2007) and responses by the authors: Kenneth Fincham (Kent) and
Nicholas Tyacke (UCL)
Socialist History
George Paizis
Marcel Martinet: revolutionary World War One poet
Marcus Reddiker
Slave Ships
Launch of 1956 and All That, with various speakers
Martin Evans
Algeria
Dave Harker
A new history of the Shrewsbury pickets
Malcolm Chase (Leeds)
A new history of Chartism
Paul Burnham
The ex-serviceman’s movement and the ‘Peace Day’ riots of 1919
One day event celebrating the 70th anniversary of CLR James’ Black Jacobins
Ron Heisler
A Trotskyist Al-Qaeda: Trotskyists v. Stalinists in the Church of England from the
1920s to the 1950s
Martin Spence
Socialist history and local history: the case of Penge
Peter Alexander
Culture and identity: South African miners and some comparators, 1900–50
David Renton
Danger: employment tribunals at work 1971–2007
Red Saunders and others
Still ‘militant entertainment’? Rock Against Racism thirty years on
Stan Newens
No bombs and no bosses: CND and the Left fifty years on
Mike Marqusee, David Renton and Andrew Smith
The view from beyond the boundary: the Left and cricket
Gerd Rainer-Horn
1968 forty years on: a European perspective
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Jill Pellew (IHR)
The ‘new philanthropists’ of Tudor England: major donors to Oxford and Cambridge
Paul Stevens (Toronto)
Milton for historians: the Polish Pamphlet and the Duke of Monmouth – longing for a
hero
Alexander Courtenay (Cambridge)
‘Thy Kingdom is departed from thee’: Thomas Scott’s critique of Jacobean kingship
Steve Hindle (Warwick)
Imagining insurrection in early Stuart England
Anthony Milton (Sheffield)
The Church of England and the Palatinate, 1566–1642
Alexandra Gajda (Birmingham)
Peace, print and Protestantism: debating foreign policy in late Elizabethan England
Peter Lake (Princeton)
Somebody expects the Spanish Inquisition: Robert Parsons S J and the reformation
of England
Women’s History
Amanda Vickery (RHUL)
An Englishman’s home is His castle? thresholds, boundaries and privacies in the
18th-century London house
Margherita Rendel (London)
Women’s suffrage in Devon from 1866
Kate Bradley (Kent)
‘An unfailing source of information, reminiscence and wit’: women and the university
settlements in London, 1918–65
Emma Robertson (Sheffield Hallam)
‘I think I was the only Chinese girl working there’: race and gender at the Rowntree
Chocolate Factory, York, c.1930–88
Cathy McClive (Durham)
Hermaphrodites and sexual difference in early modern France
Kathryn Gleadle (Mansfield, Oxford)
‘Friends of the people’: the parochial realms of female publicity in early 19th-century
England
Laura Doan (Manchester)
On the limits and possibilities of lesbian history
Helen King (Reading)
Beards, blood and gender: the bearded lady in the history of medicine
97

Rochelle Rowe (Essex)
Cleaning up carnival: the Trinidadian elite, ‘Creole’ nationalism and the ‘Carnival
Queen’ beauty contest, 1946–71
Hilary Young (Manchester)
‘The grown-up thing to do’: Girls reading Woman’s Own, c.1940–60
Judith Allen (Indiana)
The abortion of abortion: erasure and recovery in histories of British abortions 1920–
60
Helen Jones (Goldsmiths)
British women’s responses to refugees from the Nazis
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