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Born,
Wrexham, 21 April, 1944.
Exhibitioner,
Clare College Cambridge, 1961.
B.A.
Cambridge, 1964; M.A., Ph.D. Cambridge, 1970.
Lecturer
in Economic History at Durham, 1966-85; Lecturer in History, 1985-6; Senior
Lecturer in History, 1986-94; Reader in History, 1994-7; Professor of History,
1997-2003; Emeritus Professor, October 2003- present.
Married
Jennifer Beard, 1973 (deceased, 2011). Two sons, John (b. 1976) and David (b.
1978).
Fellow
of the Royal Historical Society, 1988.
Fellow
of the British Academy, 2005.
Treasurer,
Durham Medieval Theatre Company (previously Durham Medieval Drama Group),
1976-present.
Treasurer,
Durham Shakespeare Group, 1991-present.
Joint-Editor
of the Surtees Society (with Dr
Margaret Harvey), 1999-present.
TEACHING
Final Honours Courses devised and taught by lectures, seminars and
tutorials:
Problems
in Invention and Business Activity (1966-75)
Capital
Formation and Technological Change (1975-81)
Western
European Economy, 1050-1450 (1975-86)
Scottish
Economy and Society in the Eighteenth Century (1975-91)
Industrialisation
in Europe (1981-85)
Italian
Towns and Trade, 1260-1453 (1986-97)
Cardinal
Wolsey (1992-2002)
Italy
in the Age of Dante (1997-9)
English
Medieval Towns (1997-2002)
Italy
in the Age of Marco Polo (2001-2)
Final Honours Courses shared:
The
Economic History of Early Modern Europe, tutorials (c.1975-80)
The
Economic History of the United States, 5 lectures (c.1980-5)
English
History, 1066-1377, tutorials and 12 lectures (1985-97)
British
History, 1066-1377, tutorials and 4 lectures (1997-2002)
English
History, 1377-1547, tutorials and 16 lectures (1987-97)
English
History, 1377-1547, seminars and 8 lectures (1997-2002)
Preliminary Honours Courses shared:
Industrial
Britain, Origins and Development, tutorials and 8 lectures (1966-87)
Approaches
to Modern History, one unit of 12 lectures (1991-5)
M.A. taught course taught by seminars:
English
History, 1470-1529 (1991-2002)
English
Society after the Black Death (1998-2002)
ADMINISTRATION
Secretary
of the Board of Studies in Economic History, 1974-85
Economic
History Department Adviser to General Students, 1975-9, 1983-5
Departmental
Representative on Social Sciences Faculty, 1975-7, 1981-4
Representative
of Social Sciences Faculty on Faculty of Education, 1982-4, 1987-8
Member
of Social Sciences Higher Degrees Committee, 1973-85
Member
of Steering Committee for Part-Time Certificate in Social Sciences 1983-4
Academic
Electoral Assembly representative on Senate, 1979-82
Vice
Chairman of S.L.A.C., 1979-83
Vice
Chairman of S.O.S.L.A.C., 1983-5
S.L.A.C./S.O.S.L.A.C.
Representative on Curators/Library Committee, 1979-85
Tutor
in Van Mildert College, 1967-70
Tutor
in St Cuthbert’s Society, 1973-83
Treasurer
of Durham University Southern African Students’ Education Fund, 1967-83
Treasurer
of Durham Medieval Drama Group, 1976-present
Secretary
and Treasurer of Durham Medieval Group, 1979-88
Chairman
of Examiners in History, 1989-92
Member
of Faculty of Social Sciences Validation Committee, 1990-2
Member
of Faculty of Social Sciences Higher Degrees Committee, 1989-92
Member
of Faculty of Social Sciences Regulations Committee, 1989-92
Director
of M.A. in Historical Research, 1992-3
Chairman
of History Department Research Committee, 1992-6
Member
of History Department Research Committee, 1996-9
Director
of Social Sciences Faculty Postgraduate Training Programme, 1997-9
Member
of Graduate School Committee, 1997-9
Member
of Social Sciences Higher Degrees Advisory Group, 1997-9
Chairman
of Examiners for the M.A. in Medieval History, 2000-1
Chairman,
University of Durham Centre
for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001-3
POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH DISSERTATIONS
SUPERVISED
Ph.D.
Mark
E. Arvanigian, The
Nevilles and the political establishment in north-eastern England, 1377-1413 (Durham,
1999)
Miranda
Threlfall-Holmes, Monks
and markets: Durham Cathedral Priory, 1460-1520 (Durham, 2000)
Ben
Dodds, Tithe and agrarian
output between the Tyne and the Tees, 1350-1450 (Durham, 2002)
(with Professor A.J. Pollard,
University of Teesside) Brian Barker, The
Claxtons: a north-eastern gentry family in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
(Teesside, 2003)
(with
Professor A.J. Pollard, University of Teesside) Claire Etty, Tudor revolution? royal control of the Anglo-Scottish border, 1483-1530
(Durham, 2005)
M.A.
Alistair G. Woolley, The
estate of the bishop of Durham in Durham city in the fifteenth century (1991)
Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, Provisioning
a medieval monastery : Durham Cathedral Priory’s purchases of imported goods,
1464-1520 (1997)
Peter L. Larson, Lordship
and township in Durham, 1388-1406 (2000)
EXAMINING FOR HIGHER DEGREES
D. Phil degrees examined;
Margaret Yates (Oxford), 1997
Ph.D degrees examined:
Mark
Bailey (Cambridge), 1986
Sarah
Rees-Jones (York), 1987
Simon
Penn (Birmingham), 1989
Jennifer
Kermode (Sheffield), 1990
Ruth
Ingamells (Durham), 1992
Anne
Sutton (London), 1995
David
Stone (Cambridge), 1999
David
Dymond (Cambridge), 2000
Ruth
Blakely (Durham), 2000
John
Lee (Cambridge), 2001
James
Davis (Cambridge), 2001
Andy
King (Durham), 2002
Louise
Wheatley (York), 2008
Elizabeth
Allan (Leicester), 2011
M.Phil degrees examined:
Frederick
Taylor (Birmingham), 1997
Brian
Taylor (London, Queen Mary College), 1999
M.A. degrees examined:
External
Examiner for M.A. in Medieval Studies, York, 1992-4
External
Examiner for Part-Time M.A. in History, Leicester, 1996-9
ADVISORY WORK
Typescripts
and synopses read for Boydell and Brewer, Cambridge University Press,
Manchester University Press, Oxford University Press.
Typescript
articles read for Agricultural History Review, Economic
History Review, Essex Archaeology and History, European Review of Economic
History, Journal of Early Modern History, Journal of Economic History, Journal
of Historical Geography, Journal of Medieval History, Midland History, Speculum, Urban History.
Research
project submissions evaluated for the E.S.R.C., Leverhulme Trust and the
Wellcome Institute.
Advisor
to Feeding the City I (directed
D. Keene and B.M.S. Campbell, funded by the Leverhulme Trust), 1988-91.
Advisor
to Feeding the City II (directed
D. Keene, B.M.S. Campbell, J.A. Galloway, M. Murphy, funded by the E.S.R.C.),
based at the Institute of Historical Research, 1991-4.
Adsvisor
to Market Networks and the Metropolis (directed
D. Keene, J. Galloway and M. Murphy, funded by the Leverhulme Trust), based at
the Institute of Historical Research, 1994- 7
Member
of Winchester Pipe Rolls Project Steering Group,
1995- present
Advisor
to Markets and Fairs in Thirteenth-Century England
(directed D. Keene, S. Letters, funded by the E.S.R.C.), based at the Institute
of Historical Research, 2000-present
RESEARCH FUNDING
E.S.R.C.
funding October 1991-4 for £55,630 (jointly with Prof. A.J. Pollard) for
research into the Social and Economic History of Northallerton, 1470-1540
(R000233084).
E.S.R.C.
funding, 30 September 1996-29 September 1999 for £98,806 (jointly with Prof.
P.D.A. Harvey) for research into the Peasant Land Market in Southern
England, 1250-1350 (R000236499).
Leverhulme
Trust funding, August 1996-9 for £64,920 (jointly with Prof. A.J. Pollard and
Dr. C.M. Newman) for research into Employees of Durham Priory,
1494-1519.
E.S.R.C.
funding, from December 1997 to November 1999 for £75,160 (jointly with Dr. D.J.
Keene, Dr. J.A. Galloway and Dr. J.M. Cooper) for research into Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to A.D. 1450
(R000237395).
Christopherson
Fellowship, University of Durham, for 1999-2000.
E.S.R.C.
funding, from 1 January, 2000 to 31 December, 2002 for £202,371 (jointly with
Professor Brian Roberts) for research into Settlement and Waste in the
Palatinate of Durham, 1150-1550
(R000238362)
Leverhulme
Trust funding, October 2000-3 for £87,818 (jointly with Professor P.D.A.
Harvey) for research into The Transfer of Customary Land on
the Estate of the Bishopric of Winchester, 1350-1415
(F/100 128/E)
E.S.R.C.
funding, from 1 June 2003 to 31 May 2006 for £137,475 (jointly with Professor
R.M. Smith, University of Cambridge, and Dr B. Dodds, University of Durham) for
research into tithe income and management in southern England, 1280-1480
(R000230005)
A.H.R.B.
funding for additional research-leave, Epiphany term, 2003
CONFERENCES ORGANISED
Round-table
discussion on ‘Manuscript Resources from the Age of Marco Polo’, for the
Seventeenth International Congress of Historical Sciences, Madrid, 27 August,
1990
(with
Prof. A.J. Pollard) The Fifteenth-Century Colloquium, Durham, 20-22 September,
1993
(with
Prof. R.F. Frame and Prof. M.C. Prestwich) Thirteenth Century England, St
Aidan’s College, Durham, biennially since 1995
(with
Dr J.J. Britnell) Vernacular Literature and Current Affairs: France, England
and Scotland, c.1500-1530, Trevelyan College, Durham, Tuesday 8th - Thursday
10th September, 1998
(with
Dr M. Page) The Winchester Pipe Rolls, Winchester, 25-27 June, 1999.
(with
the AHRB Centre for North East England History) North-East England in the Late
Middle Ages, Trevelyan College, Durham, 28 June - 1 July, 2002.
(with
Dr B. Dodds and Dr D.J. Stone), Agricultural Output, 1350-1450, College of St Hild
and St Bede, Durham, 2-4 September, 2002.
Member
of the standing committee for organising papers for the annual Economic History
Society Conference, 1997-9.
Local
organizer, Economic History Society Annual Conference, Durham, 4-6 April, 2003
(with
Prof. Derek Keene), two sessions on Markets before the Modern Era, Leeds
International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 14-17 July, 2003
Northern England and Lowland
Scotland: Some Common Foundations, Collingwood College, Durham, 9-11 January,
2012
CONFERENCE OR SEMINAR PAPERS AND SPECIAL
LECTURES
‘Colchester
in the Later Fourteenth Century: the Court Roll Data’, Historical Geography
Research Group Seminar on Aspects of the Medieval Economy and Society, Exeter,
July, 1983
‘The
Food Supply of English Towns in the Thirteenth Century’, Joint Conference of
the Agricultural History Society and Historical Geography Research Group,
London, September, 1984
‘Public
Spirit and the Oligarchic Tradition in Medieval Colchester’, Durham University
Medieval Group, October 1984
‘Forestalling
the Market, 1250-1320’, Department of English Local History Seminars,
Leicester, November 1984.
‘Manorial
Court Rolls’, Yorkshire Archaeological Society (Medieval Section) with Leeds
University Department of Adult Education, Leeds,
‘The
Concept of Forestalling in English Law’, Conference on Thirteenth-Century
England, Newcastle upon Tyne, September 1985
‘Contrasting
Economies: England and Northern Italy, 1260-1349’, Durham History Department
Staff Seminars, March 1987 (?)
‘Colchester
in 1412: The Anatomy of a Medieval Town’, University of Essex, The Local
History Lecture, Wivenhoe,
‘Contrasting
Economies: England and Northern Italy, 1260-1349’, Cambridge Medieval Economic
History Seminars, 8 May 1987
‘England
and Northern Italy in the Early Fourteenth Century: The Economic Contrasts’,
Royal Historical Society,
‘Bailiffs
and Burgesses in Colchester, 1300-1535’, Colchester, Octocentenary Lectures
organised by the Department of History,
‘Morals,
Laws, and the Alehouse in Medieval England’, Amiens, Centre d’Etudes
Mediévales,
‘Urban
Hierarchy and Economic Specialization: England and Italy in the Early
Fourteenth Century’, University of Birmingham, Conference on New Approaches to
Towns,
‘Feudal
Reaction after the Black Death in the Palatinate of Durham’, Oxford, Medieval
Economic History Seminar, All Souls College,
‘Sedentary
Trade in England, 1260-1350’, 27th International Congress of Medieval Studies,
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo,
‘Commercialisation
and Economic Development in England, 1000-1300’, Fourth Anglo- American Seminar
on the Medieval Economy and Society, Leicester,
‘Les
marchés hebdomadaires aux Iles Britanniques avant 1200’, Quatorzièmes Journées
Internationales d’Histoire, Abbaye de Flaran, 11 Sept. 1992
‘The
Early Markets of North-Eastern England’, Day School on Towns of North East
England: Their Origins and Development, Newcastle University Extra-Mural Department,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
‘The
Black Death in English Towns’, Weekend School on The Black Death, Madingley
Hall, Cambridge, 20 March, 1993
‘Commerce
and Capitalism in Late Medieval England: Problems in Description and Theory’,
Symposium on Transitions to Rural Capitalism, Oxford Peasant Studies Group, St.
Peter’s College, Oxford,
‘Sedentary
Trade and the English Merchant Class’, Fifth Conference on Thirteenth-Century
England, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
‘Towns,
Industry and the Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism, 1300-1530’, Queen’s
College History Society, Cambridge,
‘The
Commercialisation of English Society’, Cambridge Medieval Economic History
Seminar,
‘The
Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism cannot be Dated’: the motion proposed
for a workshop for graduates (‘Controversies in European Economic History’),
University of London, Institute of Historical Research,
‘Price-Setting
and Rules against Monopoly in Medieval English Markets’, Centre for Medieval
Studies, University of York,
‘Price-Setting
and Rules against Monopoly in Medieval English Markets’, for the round- table
discussion on Market Rules and Social Norms (convenors C. Poni and R. Scazzieri),
International Congress of Economic History, Milan, 15 September, 1994
‘Merchants
and Travel, 1250-1350’, Yorkshire Archaeological Society Medieval Section,
Friends’ Meeting House, York,
‘Medieval
Urban Markets: Utility and Culture’, Pre-Modern Towns Group, Institute of
Historical Research, London,
‘Medieval
Urban Markets: Utility and Culture’, Centre for Urban History, University of
Leicester,
‘Occupational
Specialisation in the Medieval English Economy’, for a panel on New
Developments in Medieval Economic and Social History, Economic History Society
Annual Conference, Edinburgh, 1995, 1 April, 1995
‘Medieval
Urban Markets: Utility and Culture’, for the session in memory of David L.
Farmer (convenor Prof. J. Langdon), Canadian Historical Association Conference,
Montreal,
‘Everyday
Urban Life in York under the Yorkists’, Richard III Society, Eliot College,
Canterbury,
‘Regular
Markets in the British Isles before 1200’, The Catholic University of America,
Washington D.C.,
‘Sales
from Private Houses in Medieval English Towns’, session on Urban Economy and
Society, 31st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan,
8-12 May, 1996
‘Regular
Markets in the British Isles before 1200’, Oxford Seminars in the Social and
Economic History of Britain, 1100-1500, All Souls College, Oxford, 6 June, 1996
‘Economic
Change and Government in England and Wales, 1450-1550’, Fifteenth-Century
Colloquium, Aberystwyth, 11-13 July, 1996
‘Problems
in North-East England Rural History’, North-East England History Institute
conference on The Pre-Industrial Landscape of North-East England, Durham
Johnston School, Durham,
‘Towns,
Trade and Anglo-Norman Colonialism’, Department of Continuing Education,
conference on Anglo-Norman England: Culture, Economy and Settlement, Oxford,
‘The
Exercise of Power in English Towns, 1200-1550’, Istituto Internazional di
Storia Economica ‘F. Datini’, conference on Poteri economici e poteri politici,
secc. xiii-xviii, session on Poteri feudali-signorile e poteri urbani nelle
campagne e nelle città, Prato, 28 April, 1998.
‘The
Black Death in Durham’, Cleveland and Teesside Local History Society and The
University of Teesside Centre for Local Historical Research, conference on
Health and Local History, Middlesbrough, 24 April, 1999
‘Specialization
of Work in English Medieval Towns’, 34th International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 6-9 May, 1999
‘Occupational
Specialisation in Thirteenth-Century England’, University of Cambridge, Faculty
of History, Medieval Economic and Social History Seminar, Corpus Christi
College,
‘Urban
Demand in the Late Medieval Economy, 1300-1600’, Institute of Historical
Research, Centre for Metropolitan History, Workshop on Trade, Urban Hinterlands
and Market Integration c.1300-1600, London, 7 July, 1999
‘Institutional
Innovation and Economic Development in Europe, 1100-1300’, University of Cambridge,
Faculty of History, Medieval Economic and Social History Seminar, Corpus
Christi College, 1 March, 2000.
‘Fields
and Moorlands in County Durham before the Black Death’, Agricultural History
Society, Spring Conference, Bretton Hall, Leeds, 12 April, 2000.
‘Local
Trade, Remote Trade: Institutions, Information and Market Integration,
1270-1330’, Istituto Internazional di Storia Economica ‘F. Datini’, conference
on Fiere e mercati nella integrazione delle economie europee, secoli
XIII-XVIII, session on Fiere e mercati come fattori d’integrazione economica,
Prato, 19 May, 2000.
‘Between
Durham and the Sea, 1100-1500’, an inaugural lecture, Durham University,
‘Urban
and Rural Elites in England’, Workshop on Urban and Rural Elites, University of
Ghent, 24 November, 2000.
‘The
Implications of Urban Economic Regulation for Morality and Welfare in Medieval
England’, Economic History Society Annual Conference, Glasgow, 30 March - 1
April, 2001.
‘Towns
and Castles in England and Ireland: A Changing Relationship’, Dublin Medieval
Society, Trinity College Dublin, 23 May, 2001.
‘Ireland
and the British Economy in the Middle Ages’, Seventh Anglo-American Seminar on
the Medieval Economy and Society, Trinity College Dublin, 13-16 July, 2001.
‘Towns,
Trade and Lordship, 1000-1300’, University of Cambridge International Summer
Schools, Cambridge, 14 August, 2001.
‘Towns,
Trade and Lordship, 1000-1300’, University of Leeds Medieval History Seminar,
Leeds, 31 October, 2001.
‘Towns
in Britain, 1200-1400: Sources and Problems’,
Colloquium on Les
viles catalanes entre els segles XII i XIV: senyoria, comunitat i estructures
fiscals, Institució Vicens Vives de l’Institut de Llengua i Cultura Catalanes,
Universitat de Girona, Girona, 15-17 November 2001.
‘The
Uses of Money, 1200-1500’, Day School on Medieval Money Matters, Oxford
University Department for Continuing Education, Rewley House, Oxford, 1
December, 2001.
‘La
communicacion écrite et son rôle dans las société politique médiévale de
l’Europe du Nord’, Conference on Rome et l’État modern européen: une
comparaison typologique’, École Française de Rome, Rome, Piazza Navona, Rome,
31 January - 2 February, 2002.
‘Ireland
and the British Economy in the Middle Ages’, Durham History Department Research
Seminar, 6 Durham, February, 2002.
‘Medieval
Urbanisation Around the Irish Sea’, session on Geographical Perspectives on Medieval
Urbanisation, Ninth International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 8-11 July, 2002.
‘English
Agriculture, 1350-1450: Current Problems’, Conference on Agricultural Output in
England, 1350-1450, Durham, 2-3 September, 2002.
‘Commercialisation
and its Problems, 1250-1348’, Colloque Postan-Duby, Université du Québec à
Montréal, 10-12 October, 2002.
Movable
Goods before the Consumer Revolution: England c. 1300’, One-Day Workshop, In but not of the market: movable
goods in the late medieval and early modern urban economy, Royal
Academy, Brussels,
‘Formal
Markets and Informal Trade in England before 1300’, Weekend School on Shops,
Fairs and Markets in Medieval England, Oxford University Department for
Continuing Education, Rewley House, Oxford, 26-27 April, 2003
‘Tax-collecting
in Colchester, 1490-1502’, 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies,
Kalamazoo, Michigan, 8-11 May, 2003
‘Markets
as an International Phenomenon’, Leeds International Medieval Congress, Leeds,
14-17 July, 2003
‘Markets
and Fairs in Medieval and Early Modern England’, Conference on Buyers, Sellers
and Salesmanship in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Italy, The Low Countries
and England), Antwerp, 14-15 November, 2003
‘Levels
of Economic Development: Britain and Ireland, 1050-1530’, Joint Denys Hay/ESH
Seminar, School of History and Classics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh,
‘Power,
Authority and Economic Development in Medieval Britain’, Annual Conference of
Scottish Medievalists, Pitlochry, 10 Janary, 2004
'Record-Keeping and Social Change: Britain and
Ireland, 1050-1530', Oxford, Medieval Economic History Seminar, All Souls
College,
‘Legal
Procedure and Legal Recording in a Late Medieval Northern English Borough:
Crossgate in Durham’, Ranulph Higden Society, Manchester,
‘Agriculture, Marketing and Rural
Change, 1100-1500’, British Agricultural History Society, 2nd Anglo-French Conference on Rural History.
Darwin College, University of Kent at Canterbury,
‘Medieval Global Economies: New Directions’
(presentation as panel member, open floor discussion), Conference on Medieval
Global Economies, The University of
Western Ontario,
‘Uses
of the French Language in Medieval English Towns’, 27th Annual Conference of
the Center for Medieval Studies at Fordham University, March 31-April 1, 2007
‘Population, Trade and the
Fifteenth-Century Economy’, plenary
lecture for the Medieval Studies Summer School,
Cambridge,
‘Local Trade in West Yorkshire in the Middle
Ages’, Thoresby Society, Leeds, 2 October, 2007
‘The
Bishop of Durham and the Coal Interest in the Palatinate, 1350-1500’, 43rd
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 8-11 May, 2008
‘The
Proliferation of Markets Revisited’, Centre for Metropolitan History
20th Anniversary Conference on
Metropolitan History: Past, Present, Future, Goodenough College, London,
30 October, 2008
‘Pragmatic Literacy and its Uses,
c. 820 – c. 1200’, Conference on Practical Literacy and Christian Identity in
Northern Europe (to c. 1200), Centre for Medieval Studies, University of
Bergen, Bergen, 23-5 April, 2009
‘The Proliferation of Markets as
a Global Phenomenon’, 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies,
Kalamazoo, 7-10 May, 2009
‘The Bishop of
Durham's Revenues from Coal Mining, 1400-1500’, Conference on England in the
Age of the Black Death, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 8-10 August, 2009
‘Hatfield’s
Legacy’, Lectures to Commemorate the 700th Anniversary of the Birth of Bishop
Thomas Hatfield, Hatfield College, Durham, 19th January, 2010
‘Commercialization
in Global Perspective’, Economic History Society Annual Conference Plenary
Lecture, Collingwood College, Durham, 26 March 2010
‘Employment
on a Northern English Farm, 1370-1409’, 45th International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Kalamazoo, 13-16 May, 2010
‘The Process
of Urbanization on the British Coast in the Twelfth Century‘, Congreso internacional 'Los
fueros de Avilés y su época', Avilés, 6-9 October, 2011
'Lords and Tenants', Conference
on Northern England and Lowland Scotland: Some Common Foundations, Collingwood
College, Durham, 9-11 January, 2012