Centre for History and Culture: the Urban Experience
The Centre for History and Culture: the Urban Experience, is a new Research Centre that has grown out of the research and teaching expertise of staff and postgraduate students in the Department of History at Bath Spa University. It aims:
- to encourage networking among British and European historians, literary scholars, historical sociologists and postgraduate students with shared interests in gender and towns, c.1400–1900;
- to offer seminars, day schools, master classes, colloquia and conferences with the dual aim of encouraging graduate student involvement and developing collaborative European research projects that could (and hopefully would) lead on to individual and multi-authored publications;
Director
- Dr Elaine Chalus, Senior Lecturer in History. Supervisory Interests: 18th century British social, cultural and political history; gender; spas and spa culture.
Staff Members
- Dr Roberta Anderson, Senior Lecturer in History. Supervisory Interests: Late 16th & 17th century British social, cultural and religious history.
- Dr Kristin Doern, Senior Lecturer in History. Supervisory Interests: 18th & 19th century leisure, pleasure and consumption; temperance; history and heritage.
- Dr Alan Marshall, Senior Lecturer in History. Supervisory Interests: 17th century British social and cultural history; the industrial heritage of North-Eastern England.
Postgraduate Students' Research Interests
- Jacqueline Collier: Lady Isabella King and the Ladies' Association; philanthropy and charity in the early 19C Bath; women's literary and evangelical networks; gender;
- David Hughes: Parks; Commons and freemen; the construction of civic identity; 19C Bath and Preston.
- Kevin Grieves: Print and political culture in late 18C Bath; French Revolution.
- Deborah Smith: Gender and education in 18C Bath; evangelicalism; charity schools; Sunday Schools.
- Di Russell: Women and work in the spa town; businesswomen; shop-keeping; retail history; Bath and Cheltenham in the late 18C/early 19C.
- Elena Woodacre: Women and power in late Medieval Europe.
Affiliates
- Dr. Andrew G. Newby, Senior Lecturer, History Department, University of Aberdeen.
- Prof. Åsa Karlsson Sjögren, Associate Professor, Lecturer in History, Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious studies, Umeå University, Sweden.
- Prof. Deborah Leigh Simonton, Associate Professor, IHKS, English, University of Southern Denmark, Kolding, Denmark.
- Prof. Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen, Professor of Finnish History, University of Turku, Finland.
- Turku Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (TUCEMEMS)
- Dr Amy Frost, Administrator, Beckford's Tower, Bath Preservation Trust.
- Prof. Rosemary Sweet, Head of School, Professor of Urban History, University of Leicester.
- Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester.
- Dr Jan Chivers, Research interests, social history of Georgian Bath; coroners' records; the old poor law; prostitution.
Upcoming Events
Recent Events
- 2009 Conference - Gender and Loss (27-28 August 2009)