Dr Ian W. Archer
Dr Ian Archer has published on the social and political history of early modern London. He has recently completed in collaboration with Dr Paulina Kewes and Dr Felicity Heal The Oxford Handbook to Holinshed, but will be returning to metropolitan themes with a new book on London 1550-1700 for Oxford University Press. For ten years he was the Academic Editor of what is now the Bibliography of British and Irish History, a key bibliographic resource, and he also serves as Literary Director of the Royal Historical Society. He is willing to supervise postgraduates on early modern social and cultural history, and on later sixteenth century political history.
Reseach Interests
- Early Modern London
- Uses of History in Early Modern Britain
- English Social and Cultural History, 1500-1700
- English Political History, 1550-1640
I have researched mainly on various aspects of early modern London, exploring issues such as social welfare, crime, popular politics, taxation, relations with the state. More recently I have turned to cultural aspects, working on Londoners’ sense of their past, and this led me into a major collaborative project on Holinshed’s Chronicles, which resulted in a parallel text electronic edition (http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/) and, and interdisciplinary volume of essays, The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed’s Chronicles (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), co-edited with Felicity Heal and Paulina Kewes. I have articles in preparation on royal entries and lord mayor’s shows. I have edited various texts relating to early modern London, including most recently a perambulation of the city by a French speaker, The Singularities of London, 1578 (London: London Topographical Society, 2014). My current ‘big project’ is a book on London, 1550-1700, covering all aspects of the city’s remarkable transformation from being a satellite city on the fringes of Europe to a global city.
Current DPhil Students
Teaching
I would like to hear from potential DPhil students regarding any of my research interests.
I currently teach:
Prelims |
FHS |
BH4, GH3, Approaches, Conquest and Colonisation |
BH4, GH8, GH9, Representing the city, 1558-1640,Literature and Politics in Early Modern England; |
Government, Politics and Society in England, 1547-1558; | |
Disciplines of History |
Publications
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Latins and Greeks in the Venetian Colonies of the Eastern Mediterranean
January 2019|Chapter|Venetian Rule in the Eastern Mediterranean 1400–1700: Empires, Connectivities and Environments -
'Royal Entries, the City of London, and the Politics of Stuart Successions'
January 2019|Chapter|P. Kewes and A. McRae (eds), Stuart Succession Literature (Oxford UP, 2019) -
150 Years of Royal Historical Society Publishing
November 2018|Journal article|Transactions of the Royal Historical Society -
The Lord Mayors’ Shows, Processions, and Civic Culture, 1550-1700
July 2018|Chapter|Civic Performance; Pageantry and entertainments in early modern London -
Elizabethan chroniclers and parliament
July 2018|Chapter|Writing the history of parliament in Tudor and early Stuart England