CENTRE FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS
Digital Resources for Historical Research
Rylands Room, King’s College, Cambridge
Friday 8 June 2007
Participants
Leigh Denault - ltd22@hermes.cam.ac.uk
PhD Student, University of Cambridge
Topic: Household and Family in Colonial North India
Archives/Resources: Lucknow, UP State Archives; National Archive of India, Delhi;
Nagari Pracharini Sabha in Banaras; National Archives; Washington, DC, Library of
Congress, British Library.
Stefanie Gaenger - sg471@cam.ac.uk
MPhil in Historical Studies, University of Cambridge (PhD student from October 2007)
Topics: (Mphil and PhD): Indigenous Identities in nineteenth-century Latin America, esp.
Andean Countries; History of Archaeology and Anthropology in Latin America;
Nineteenth-century dialogue between Latin American elites and Europe;
Archives:
Archives/Resources: Ibero-American Institute Berlin; Institute Riva Agüero
(Lima),National Library (Lima); Library of the University San Marcos (Lima)
Anthony Grafton - grafton@princeton.edu
http://his.princeton.edu/people/e29/grafton/profile.html
Julie Laite - jl374@cam.ac.uk
PhD Student, University of Cambridge
Topic: Prostitution in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain; feminism and
prostitution law, 1885-1960
Archives/Resources: The National Archives (UK); London Metropolitan Archives; The
Women’s Library, London; 1891 and 1901 Census Online; Times Online; Charles Booth
Online Archive; UK Parliamentary Papers Online; Lexis Nexis.
Philipp Lehmann - pnl20@cam.ac.uk
MPhil in Modern European History, University of Cambridge
Topic: Information networks and measures of control in German Southwest Africa
(1889-1904).
Archives/Resources: Bundesarchiv Berlin; the National Archives of Namibia in
Windhoek; rare books collection in Cambridge and in the Staatsbibliothek Berlin for
contemporary printed material; 'normal' online databases, like Proquest and JSTOR for
articles.
David Motadel - dm408@cam.ac.uk
PhD Student, University of Cambridge
Topics: Islam in Germany, 1918-1945 (PhD); Intercultural Royal Visits: State Visits of
Persian Shahs, 1873-1905.
Archives/Resources: 1) German Federal Archives (Federal Archive of the Foreign Office
Berlin, Federal Archive of Berlin-Lichterfelde, Federal Military Archive Freiburg; 2)
German Municipal Archives (for example, Baden-Baden (Stadtarchiv), Munich
(Stadtarchiv), Berlin (Landesarchiv), Wiesbaden (Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv),
Karlsruhe (Landesarchiv), Stuttgart (Stadtarchiv), Düsseldorf (Landesarchiv), Detmold
(Stadt- and
Staatsarchiv)) 3) German Private Archives (for example, Islam Archive Soest) 4) German
Picture Archives (for example, Federal Picture Library in Koblenz, Municipal Picture
Archive Essen, Ullstein Picture Service, Süddeutscher Publisher's Picture Service) 5)
Iranian National Archives (Archive of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Iranian National
Archive) 6) The National Archives (Kew)
William Nelson - wmn20@cam.ac.uk
Research Fellow, Centre for History and Economics/Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge
Topic: How an active orientation toward the future emerged in the French Enlightenment.
Archives/Resources: Archives Nationales, Paris, France; Bibliothèque de l'Arsénal, Paris,
France; Bibliothèque centrale du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris, France;
Archives départmentales des Yvelines, Yvelines, France; Le Centre des Archives
d'Outre-Mer, Aix-en-Provence, France; Hagley Library, Wilmington, Delaware; Rare
Book and Special Collections, The Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.;
Staatsbibliothek, Berlin, Germany; Gallica, online from Bibliothèque Nationale de France;
Eighteenth-Century Online (ECCO).
William O’Reilly - wto21@cam.ac.uk
Associate Director, Centre for History and Economics; Lecturer in History, University
of Cambridge
Topic: Early Modern History; Atlantic History
Archives/Resources: Austrian National Archives (H-,H-,u.Staatsarchiv; Kriegsarchiv);
Hungarian National Archives; various German archives (Speyer, Saarbrucken, Koblenz,
Karlsruhe, etc.); Gemeintearchief Amsterdam; Bern and Basel archives; Historical Society
of Philadelphia; etc.; National Archives (PRO) on-line; a variety of Atlantic history on-line
resources.
Pedro Ramos Pinto - pr211@cam.ac.uk
PhD, University of Cambridge
Topic: Urban social movements in Portugal, 1974-1976; Social movements in Southern
Europe.
Archives/Resources: Portuguese National Archives; Lisbon Municipal Archives; 25 April
Archive at Coimbra University; Parliamentary Debates On-Line, Portgual; Portuguese
National Electoral Commission; Portuguese National Institute of Statistics; Times On-line.
Emma Rothschild – er10005@cam.ac.uk
http://www-histecon.kings.cam.ac.uk/emma_rothschild.htm
Julia Stephens - jas223@cam.ac.uk
Urdu and Persian Language Fellow, American Institute for Indian Studies, Lucknow
PhD student, Harvard University (from fall 2007)
Topic: intellectual history of 19th-century Muslim North India, transnational religious
movements
Archives/Resources: university and madrasah libraries in North India; Oriental and India
Office Library; E-Resources: Digital South Asia Library (University of Chicago);
Gerritsen's Online Women's History; British, Irish, and North American Women's Letters
and Diaries Online; 19th Century Masterfile
David Todd - fdt20@cam.ac.uk
Research Fellow, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge
Topic: Debates about free trade in France, 1814-1851; Exchanges of economic ideas
between Britain, France, Germany, and the US in 19th century.
Archives/Resources: French National Archives; French National Library Special
Collections; French Foreign Office and Military Archives; French Overseas Archives;
French Local Archives, especially in Gironde and Alsace; PRO; BL, Bodleian Library,
Brynmore Jones Library and Hartley Library Special Collections; Duke and Houghton
Library Special Collections; Stadtarchiv Reutlingen; FRANTEXT; Gallica; Times
On-line.
Robert Watson - robert.watson@cl.cam.ac.uk
PhD Student, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Topic: Security and Usability
Archives/Resources: little personal experience as a consumer of archives and resources;
however, strong background in scalable storage systems, and reasonable contacts in a
number of the organizations doing large-scale digital archiving and scanning.
Other members of the Digitisation Group
Caitlin Anderson - cea30@cam.ac.uk
Director of Studies, Centre for History and Economics; Research Fellow, Trinity College,
University of Cambridge
Topic: nationality law and practice in Britain and the empire, 1770-1870
Resources/archives: British National Archives (formerly Public Record Office), Kew,
Surrey; London Metropolitan Archives; Corporation of London Record Office, Guildhall,
London; Lancashire Record Office, Manchester, UK.
Online catalogues: Access 2 Archives, PROCat. Full-text resources used
regularly: Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, Times Digital Archive, Gale databases
"Making of the Modern Economy" and "Making of the Modern Law."
D’Maris Coffman - farrago@history.upenn.edu
Visiting research student at the Centre, 2005-06
PhD, University of Pennsylvania/IHR
Topic: Early Modern Britain, with an emphasis on late Stuart state formation, Treasury
reform and policy, the relationship between taxation and political culture, and the politics
of cultural trauma in the early modern period.
Archives:.
Bernhard Fulda - bdf20@cam.ac.uk
Research Fellow, Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge
Topic: History of Germany in the 20th century
Archives/Resources:
Gabe Paquette - gbp22@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Research Fellow, Trinity College, University of Cambridge
Topic: Intellectual History of Spain and Spanish America in the late 18th century
Archives/Resources: National Archives of Cuba, Chile, Argentina, Spain, Portugal, and
Brazil.
Paul Warde - psw1000@hermes.cam.ac.uk
College lecturer, University of Cambridge; reader-elect in History, UEA
Topic: Environmental, economic and social history of early modern Europe
Archives/Resources: