A selection of our expertise Dr Mark Allen
Professor Michael Hicks
Mark is a Senior Lecturer in Modern History. His research concentrates on nineteenthcentury British social and economic history, particularly the development and use of censuses. He is a historian of the City of Winchester and co-director of The Winchester Project, which aims to trace the property history of Winchester tenements from 1550 to the present day.
Michael is Head of Department and a renowned historian of late medieval England, especially the nobility, Richard III and the War of the Roses. He has written biographies of all of the Yorkist Kings, and also has academic interests in the late medieval English church, especially the chantries, and English regional and local history.
Dr Neil Murphy Neil is a Lecturer in Early Modern European History. His research is principally focused on the history of France during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and the history of England and the Low Countries during this period. Neil’s main areas of study explore the role of ritual and ceremony in urban life and on relations between the crown and elite urban groups.
Dr Chris Aldous Chris is a Principal Lecturer in Modern Japanese History. His research focuses on postwar US-Japanese relations, particularly the occupations of Japan (19451952) and Okinawa (1945-1972) with regard to social movements, public health and environmental issues. Chris’ teaching reflects these interests, exploring state and society during Japan’s modernisation and the origins and aftermath of the AsiaPacific War.
Focus on History research Professor Michael Hicks, Head of the Department of History, has been awarded £0.5 million for the research project ‘Mapping the Medieval Countryside: The Fifteenth-Century Inquisitions Post Mortem’. Inquisitions post mortems (IPMs) were records created at the death of landholders between 1236 and 1642. IPMs recorded, often in great detail, what landholders held at their death, their family circumstances, wealth and personnel of county government. They are a principal source for landholding and the rural economy everywhere in England. “The project involves digitising 29 enormous calendars published between 1898 and 2011 by the Public Record Office/Cambridge University, latterly with AHRC funding,” explains Professor Hicks. “These will be placed as open-access on British History Online. Additionally the more fully calendared volumes from 1399 to 1447 will be enhanced and converted into a fully interactive open-access web-mounted GISlinked database. This will make these resources much more usable by historians, archaeologists, geographers and demographers, as well as by family and local historians.”
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