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HISTORY BEDE ROLL1
On fames eternall bead-roll worthie to be fyled
(Spenser, Faerie Queene (1596))
Permanent Staff
(in office are in bold)
Subject area(s)
University Office
Pre- & post-Keele
John Blake
(1950-64)
Modern Britain; Colonial History
1st Head of Department.
VC of Univ. of Basutoland,
Bechuanaland and Swaziland
(1964-71) Deceased.
Paul Rolo
(Jan. 1951-82)
Modern Europe; Diplomatic
History
Deputy V.C. (1974-77)
Retired 1982
Deceased Oct. 1992
Hugh Leach
(c.1951-67)
Medieval England
Careers Officer
Died Summer 1967
Donald Nicholl
(1953-74)
Medieval England; Modern
Russian Church & Cultural
History; Theologian
Santa Cruz, California (1974-80)
Died 1997 [Entry in Oxford D.N.B]
David Adams
(1957-62)
Modern America
Founding head of Department of
American Studies
Retired 1997
Paul Coles
(left 1960)
Early Modern Europe
Chair at Bradford
Peter Hennock
(1960-63)
Modern Britain
Lectureship at Sussex then chair at
Liverpool
Peter Spufford
(1960-79)
Medieval Europe
Fellow of Queen's College,
Cambridge; Prof. of European
History; retired 2001. FBA 1994
Angus McInnes
(1960-2000)
Early Modern Britain; Towns in
Early Modern England; Wales
First non-professorial Head of
Department (1981-88) Retired 2000
Frank Field
(1962-96)
Modern Europe; Intellectual &
Cultural History
Retired 1996
Colin Bonwick
(c.1965-2001)
C18 England & America
Joint appointment with American
Studies. Retired 2001
Cedric Parry
Early Modern Britain; Utopias
Also worked in Alumni Office.
Retired 1998
Modern Europe; African History
Retired 1994
(1963-98)
Trevor Jones
(1964-94)
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Died July 2006
A list of persons specially to be prayed for. First ref. c.1500; obs. & arch. Bead, meaning a
prayer, first used c.885.
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Permanent Staff
(in office are in bold)
Subject area(s)
University Office
Pre- & post-Keele
John Briggs
(1964-97)
Modern Britain; Dissenting
history
Chairman of Board (1980-83)
Head of Westfield College,
Birmingham; now retired
Colin Richmond
(1964-97)
Medieval England; the Pastons;
Shoah
Retired 1997
Walter Simon
(1965-71)
C18 Europe; Intellectual History
First external chair-holder.
Died May 1971
David Palliser
(1967-73)
Jack Leighton Research Fellow
(1967-73);
Professor of English History at Hull
University and then Leeds
University
Tony Thompson
(1969-88)
Early Modern Spain
Resigned in 1988 to work as a
gentleman-scholar.
Robin Studd
(1967-2007)
Medieval France & England;
Local & Landscape History
Chairman of Board (1983-86)
Retired 2007
Malcolm Crook
(1972)
Early Modern France
Dean of Humanities (2001-5)
Charles Townshend
(1973)
Modern Ireland; the Middle East;
History of Warfare
Elected FBA in 2008. Retired 2011
David Law
(1974-xx)
Modern Russia
Transferred from Russian Dept.
Went into Hull's academic
administration
David Vincent
(1974-2004)
English social history
Deputy V.C. (1997-2004)
Left to become Pro Vice Chancellor
at the Open University
Christopher Harrison
(1975-2009)
Tudor England; local history;
history of crime
Retired 2009
Peter Jackson
(1979)
Mongols; Mogul India; Crusades
Retired 2011
Mark Roseman
(1989-2000)
Modern Germany
Chair at Southampton; Chair at
University of Indiana from 2004
Patricia Clavin
(1990-2003)
Modern Europe & America
First permanent female lecturer
(after 40 years!). Elected Fellow of
Jesus College, Oxford in 2003
David Laven
(1990-95)
Early Modern Europe
Lectureship at Reading; now Senior
Lecturer in Manchester
Mark Galeotti
(1991-2008)
Modern Russia; International
crime
Left to become Director of Global
Affairs at New York University
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Permanent Staff
(in office are in bold)
Subject area(s)
University Office
Pre- & post-Keele
Philip Morgan
(1992)
Local History; Medieval
England; Water
History Lecturer in Adult. Ed.
(1984-92) when he joined the
History Department
Graeme Small
(1992-95)
Medieval Europe; Burgundy
Lectureship at Glasgow; now
Senior Lecturer
David Maxwell
(1994)
African History; Imperial &
Colonial History
Took up the Dixie Chair of
Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge
from June 2011
Jackie Sheehan
(1994-99)
Modern China
Lectureship at Nottingham
Ann Hughes
(1995)
Early Modern Britain; English
Civil Wars
The first external appointment to a
chair since 1965
Nigel Tringham
(1995)
Medievalist; Editor VCH
Joined us from VCH (Staffs) as
joint appointment.
Alannah Tomkins
(1995)
Early Modern Britain; Medical
History; Deputy editor VCH
Joint appointment with VCH
(Staffs)
Ian Atherton
(1995)
Early Modern Britain; Cathedrals;
Deputy editor VCH; ; Charles I
project
Joint appointment with VCH
(Staffs)
Hannah Barker
(1995-2000)
Early Modern England
Senior Lectureship at Manchester
David Cox
(1995-2002)
Medieval England; Editor VCH
(Salop)
Joined us from VCH (Salop.) as
joint appointment. Retired 2002.
Kate Cushing
(2000)
Medieval Europe; Medieval
Canon Law
Sarah Poynting
Research Fellow on Charles I
project
(2000)
Jens-Wilhelm Wessels
(2001-03)
Research Fellow with Patricia
Clavin whom he followed to
Oxford.
Died in cycling accident March
2005
Matt Cook
(2001-04)
Modern British; Gay History
Lectureship at Birkbeck College,
London
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Permanent Staff
(in office are in bold)
Subject area(s)
University Office
Pre- & post-Keele
Christoph Dieckmann
(Sept. 2005)
Modern Europe
Came from Frieburg
Anthony Kauders
(Sept. 2005)
Modern Europe
Came from Munich
Shalini Sharma
(Sept. 2005)
Imperial & Post-Imperial history
Came from LSE
Karen Hunt
(Jan. 2006)
Modern British History
Professor. Came from Manchester
Metropolitan University
OFFICE STAFF
Without whom the History Department could not have functioned.
The senior secretary/administrator is in bold.
Brenda Shufflebottom (now Johns)
(to c.1962)
Carolyn Busfield
(c.1962-87)
Jean Graves
(1985-88)
Ann Seaton
(1987-99)
Vi Lawton
(April 1988-1994)
Amanda Roberts
(April 1988 ff.)
Christine Wilcox
(1989-92)
Beryl Shore
(1990-2006)
Julie Worthington
(1992-2001)
Alma Wood
(1995-6)
Kath McKeown
(1999 ff.)
Julie Street
(Dec. 2001-6 ff.)
Christine Edge
(2006 ff)
Left c.1962 to become Senior Secretary of new
Department of American Studies
Left to become Registrar’s Secretary (1987-97)
and then became Office Manager in Computer
Science in c.1997. Retired 2004. Died August
2005
Left 1998
Came to History from Adult Education. Took
early retirement in 1999.
Left 1994
In 2005 took over as senior History
administrator
Left 1992
Previously (1989) secretary to Chairman of the
Board. Moved to Music. Retired 2008
Came as secretary to new International History
course. Left 2001 to join Counselling
Left to work in Earth Sciences Department
Previously administrator of European Studies
programme. September 2005 became first
Senior School Manager of the new School of
Humanities
Transferred in 2006 to Spire.
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TEMPORARY APPOINTMENTS
& OTHERS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEPARTMENT
Margaret Spufford
(1960-79)
Lived at Keele until 1979 where she wrote Contrasting Communities (1974)
FBA 1995; OBE 1996 for services to Social History and to disabled
students; Hon. D.Litt. (Keele) 2005
Mary Bonwick
C18 Europe
Tony Philips
Historical Geographer Reader in Geography
Underdrainage of farmland in England in the nineteenth century (1989);
A new historical atlas of Cheshire (2002)
Hugh Torrens
Professor of Geology (now retired)
Historian of Science; Subject editor for Geology in Oxford D.N.B.
Peter Biller
York University; now Professor
Medieval Heresy; The Waldenses, 1170-1530 ... (2001)
Michael Greenslade
Editor of VCH (Staffs.). For many years honorary lecturer in the
department. Historian of Staffordshire and of the Catholic West Midlands.
Deceased June 2005.
Jeremy Goldberg
(1985/6)
Medieval England; York University; now Senior Lecturer
Women, work and life cycle in a medieval economy (1992)
Andrew Miles
(1987)
Rooke
Modern Europe
Went into Civil Service
Robert Poole
(1987)
Early Modern History; Lancashire charivari
Hugh Ridgeway
(1990/1)
Medievalist came on secondment from Sherborne School.
Panikos Panayi
(1990/1)
Lecturer at de Montfort University, Leicester; now Professor of Modern
European History there
Klaus Larres
(1991/2)
Modern Europe; Queen’s University, Belfast; Professor of International
Relations at Royal Holloway from 2003
Malcolm Gaskill
(1993/4)
Early Modern England
Went to UEA then to a fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge
Jon Lunn
Modern Africa
(? 1993/4)
Philip Murphy
(1995-97)
Imperial & Colonial History; History of the Conservative Party
Lectureship at Reading
John Foot
(1995/6)
Now Reader in Modern Italian History at UCL
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TEMPORARY APPOINTMENTS
& OTHERS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEPARTMENT
Philip Knowles
(1998)
Jennifer Ridden
(2002-03)
Imperial & colonial history; Lectureship at the Australian National
University
David Appleby
(2003-06)
First Learning & Teaching Assistant which he did in conjunction with
research for a Ph.D., awarded 2005. Moved to a lectureship at Nottingham.
Virginia Crossman
(2003-05)
Modern Ireland
Lectureship at Oxford Brookes
Anton Weiss-Wendt
(2005-06)
Modern Europe. Came from Brandies. Temporary replacement for Mark
Galeotti. Left to become Director of a Holocaust Studies centre in Oslo.
Miles Larmer
(2006-07)
Modern Africa. Went to a lectureship at Sheffield Hallam University
Margeret Small
Came from a research post at the Maritime Museum, Greenwich to be a
lecturer in Early Modern Europe. Went to a lectureship at Birmigham
University
(2006-07)
Kelly Hignet
(2006-08)
Modern Europe Went to a lectureship at Hull University
Geoff Baker
(2007-08)
Gabrielle Lynch
(2007-8)
Came to us from a teaching post at Nottingham University. Early Modern
Britain. Left to go into school teaching
Claire Eldridge
(2009)
Modern Europe. Came to us from a teaching post at St Andrew’s. Left to
go to a lectureship at Southampton University
Modern Africa. Came from Oxford University. Left to go to a lectureship
at Sheffield University