Faculty Postholders
Dr Ian Archer
M.A., D.Phil., F.R.Hist.S.
Lecturer (CUF) in Modern History
Email: ian.archer@keble.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests
Dr Ian Archer has published on the social and political history of early modern London. His broader interests in the social history of this period are reflected in recent work on guilds, taxation, and charity.
Selected Publications:
- The Pursuit of Stability: Social Relations in Elizabethan London. (Cambridge, 1991)
- The History of the Haberdashers' Company. (Chichester, 1991)
- 'The Nostalgia of John Stow' in The Theatrical City: Culture, Theatre and Politics in London, 1576-1649. (Cambridge, 1995)
- 'The Burden of Taxation on Sixteenth-Century London', Historical Journal. Vol 44(3) (2001) pp. 599-627
- 'The Arts and Acts of Memorialization in Early Modern London 1598-1720' in Imagining Early Modern London: Perceptions and Portrayals of the City from Stow to Strype. (Cambridge, 2001) pp. 89-113
- 'Royal Historical Society Bibliography on British and Irish History ' in . (2002)
- 'Religion, Politics, and Society in Sixteenth-Century England' in Camden Society. Vol Fifth Series, 22 (Cambridge, 2003) pp. xi +282
- 'John Stow, Citizen and Historian' in John Stow (1525-1605) and the Making of the English Past: Studies in Early Modern Culture and the History of the Book. (London, 2004) pp. 13-26
- The Haberdashers' Company in the Later Twentieth Century. (Chichester, 2004) xiii + 178pp.
- 'Discourses of History in Elizabethan and Early Stuart London', Huntington Library Quarterly. Vol 68 Numbers 1 & 2 (2005) pp. 205-26
Future Publications:
- 'Paul Bayning, Thomas Cure, Robert Dowe, Walter Fish, John Isham, David Smith', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol 2006 update (2006)
- '"Civic Culture" in Later Medieval and Early Modern London', Journal of Urban History. (2006)
- 'Conspicuous Consumption Revisited City and Court in the reign of Elizabeth I ' in London and The Kingdom. Essays in Honour of Caroline Barron. Proceedings of the Harlaxton Symposium 2004. (2007)
- (ed.) English Historical Documents, 1558-1603 . (London, 2007)
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