Dr Philip Morgan

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Biography

Philip Morgan did undergraduate and postgraduate studies at University College London specializing in medieval warfare in medieval Cheshire. Whilst at UCL he also worked as an assistant editor on the Phillimore Domesday project. He held a temporary lectureship at Queen Mary College, University of London and taught in a secondary school in Chippenham (Wiltshire) for six years before being appointed as a lecturer at Keele University in 1984. He has also taught as a visiting lecturer at Liverpool University, and has held honorary research fellowships there, and has also been Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder (1990-91) and Westminster College Missouri (2000-01). He directed the Keele Latin & Palaeography summer school for many years, and has taught palaeography on the archive training course at Liverpool University.

Qualifications:

Senior Lecturer in Hisory, University of Keele

Honorary Research Fellow, University of Liverpool School of History

Fulbright Visiting Professor in British Studies, University of Colorado

Fulbright- Robertson Visiting Professor in British Studies, Westminster College Fulton Missouri

Research

*The gentry*. The character and formation of the medieval English gentry, especially their cultural identities and attitudes to family and lineage.

*Medieval warfare*. The battle of Shrewsbury, 1403 is a current book project which reflects interests in the social context of war.

*Chronicles*. An edition of the chronicle of the Cistercian abbey at Croxden, Staffordshire.

*Water*. The cultural history of water across a long chronology from prehistory to the modern world, including ritual landscapes and practices.

Selected Publications

BOOKS

Publications include six county volumes of the Phillimore edition of Domesday Book and a short guide to its use, Domesday Book and the Local Historian (Historical Association, 1994). , 1994
War and Society in Medieval Cheshire, 1277-1403 (Manchester University Press for the Chetham Society 1987). , 1987

BOOK CHAPTERS

‘The Medieval battlefield War Memorial’, in Ritual and Space in the Middle Ages, ed. Frances Andrews (2011). , 2011
‘Cheshire and Wales’, in Power and Identity. Essays presented to Rees Davies, ed. J.L. Watts and Huw Pryce (Oxford, 2006). , 2006
‘A prose narrative of the lords of Rushall in John Harpur’s psalter’, in Much Heaving and Shoving. Essays for Colin Richmond, edited by Margaret Aston and Rosemary Horrox (Lavenham, 2005), 24-34. , 2005
Contributed entries to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) and to the Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology (2010). , 2004
'Social ranks and relationships', in Short Oxford History of the British Isles. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, ed. Ralph Griffiths (Oxford University Press, 2003). , 2003
'Stafford: the documentary evidence, 1066-1543’ with Deborah Youngs (University of Swansea) in Stafford Castle, ed. John Darlington (Stafford, 2001). , 2001
'The Naming of. Medieval Battlefields', in War and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Britain, ed. Diana Dunn (Liverpool University Press, 2000), 34-52. , 2000
'Of worms and war: 1380-1558', in Death in England. An Illustrated History, ed. Peter C. Jupp and Clare Gittings (Manchester, 1999), 119-46. , 1999
Essays in Honour of Michael Greenslade. edited by Philip Morgan and A.D.M. Phillips, Staffordshire Record Society, 4th ser., xix (1999), 83-96. , 1999
'The Death of Edward V and the Rebellion of 1483' Historical Research (1995), 229-32. , 1995
'Making the English Gentry', in Thirteenth Century England, V, ed. P.R. Coss and S.D. Lloyd (Woodbridge, 1995) 21-8. , 1995
'Henry IV and the Shadow of Richard II', in Politics, Society and Religion: Essays in Later Medieval History, ed. Rowena Archer (Gloucester, 1995), 1-31. , 1995
'Adbaston Churchwardens' Accounts, 1478-1488', in Staffordshire Histories. (UNKNOWN)

Memberships

Philip Morgan is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (2005), has been a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (1994-2005), a council member of the Chetham Society, a former general editor of the Record Society of Lancashire & Cheshire (1996-2002) and former editor of the *Local Historian*(1989-1991). He has been an external examiner at the Universities of Wales, Kent, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Oxford, London, Bangor, Leicester, and Chester.

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Madingley Hall
Madingley
Cambridge
CB23 8AQ

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