Upgrade Storage
Tim Hitchcock : Curriculum Vitae
CURRICULUM VITAE
Tim Hitchcock, AB, DPhil (Oxon), FRHistS
Date of Birth: 18 October 1957. Citizenship: UK/USA
Current Position: Professor of Eighteenth-Century History.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
1980-85: St. Antony's College, Oxford. DPhil (1985): ‘The English Workhouse: A Study in Institutional Poor Relief, 1696-1750’.
1976-80: University of California at Berkeley. AB with Honours (1980).
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
University of Hertfordshire, 2004-2008
Head of the Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities Research Institute
University of Hertfordshire, 2002-present
Professor of Eighteenth-Century History.
University of Hertfordshire, 2001-2006:
Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Education.
University of Hertfordshire, 1998-2002:
Reader in Eighteenth-Century History.
University of North London, 1989-98:
Lecturer, principal lecturer, senior lecturer in early-modern British history.
1991-97: Subject leader for history, responsible for 250 fte’s, the University’s 1992 RAE submission and teaching assessment in 1994.
ACADEMIC ROLES ASSOCIATED WITH RESEARCH, PUBLICATION AND POST-GRADUATE STUDIES OUTSIDE MY OWN UNIVERSITY:
Current Activities:
Member, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Advisory Board, 2009-present.
Member, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Knowledge Transfer Panel, 2008-present.
Member, Arts and Humanities Research Council, History, Philosophy and Law Grants Panel.
Member of Council, Royal Historical Society, 2006-present.
Member, AHRC Peer Review College, 2004-present.
Member Editorial Board, Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2006-present.
Co-Convenor, Seminar on British History in the Long-Eighteenth Century, The Institute of Historical Research, 1991-present.
Fellow, Royal Historical Society. Elected January 1997.
Member of Council, London Record Society, 2007-present.
Associate Editor, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2000-present.
I have acted as external examiner for doctoral theses at Cambridge, Birkbeck College (London), Bath, Imperial College (London) and Lampeter.
I act as a reader/assessor for the following organisations, journals and presses: Arts and Humanities Research Council; Gender & History, Economic and Social Sciences Research Council; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Cambridge University Press; Journal of Utopian Studies; Journal of the History of Sexuality; London Journal; Macmillan Press/Pearsons; Blackwells; Manchester University Press; Oxford University Press; Boydell and Brewer; London Books/Hambledon/Continuum; British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies; The Wellcome Institute; ESRC; Leverhulme Trust.
Previous Activities:
Member of the Editorial Committee of The London Journal, 1999-2009.
Member, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Post-Graduate Peer Review Panel 4. Medieval and Modern History, 2004-2008.
Member of the Management Board, British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2005-2009.
External Examiner, University of York, MA in Modern History, 2004-2007.
Co-opted Member, Board of Management and Advisory Council, Institute of Historical Research, 1995-2001.
Member, Fellowships Committee, Institute of Historical Research, 1994-2000.
External Examiner: MA in Modern History, University College, Northampton, 1995-1998.
Council Member, London Record Society, 1993-1996.
International Conferences Organised:
Co-Organiser, ‘The Metropolis on Trial’, held at the Open University, July 2008.
Co-Organiser, 'Tales from the Old Bailey: Writing a New History from Below', held at the University of Hertfordshire, July 2004.
Co-Organiser, 'The Streets of London, 1660-1870' conference, held in London, December 1999.
Co-Organiser, ‘English Masculinities, 1660-1800’ conference, held in London, June 1997.
Co-Organiser, ‘The Words of the Poor, Lives of the Poor’ conference, held in London, January 1995.
RECENT GRANTS AWARDED BY EXTERNAL FUNDING BODIES:
2009-10: £39,472 awarded by JISC to me and Professor Robert Shoemaker (Sheffield) for a six month project entitled ‘Scrutiny: A Firefox Extension for Entity Recognition within Research Data’.
2005-10: £803,938 awarded by the ESRC to me and Professor Robert Shoemaker (Sheffield) for a five year research project entitled ‘Plebeian Lives and the Making of Modern London’.
2005-7: £134,000 awarded by the AHRC under their ICT programme to myself, Professor Mark Greengrass (Sheffield) and Professor Fabio Ciravegna (Sheffield) to create a new search facility for historical sources on the internet, ‘ARMADILLO: Information Mining in Distributive Research Datasets in the Arts and Humanities’.
2005-8: £317,114 awarded by the AHRC under their Resource Enhancement Programme to me as principal investigator, Professor Robert Shoemaker (Sheffield) and Professor Clive Emsley (Open) to digitise and post the published records of the Central Criminal Court, 1834-1913.
2001-04: £372,000 awarded to me and Dr Robert Shoemaker (University of Sheffield) for the completion of an on-line edition of the Old Bailey Proceedings up to 1834. This grant came from the New Opportunities Fund (a national body funded by the Lottery). In 2003 the NOF awarded a further £50,000 to incorporate a mapping function on to the site. See http://www.oldbaileyonline.org
2001-04: £281,820 awarded to myself as the principle investigator with Dr Robert Shoemaker (Sheffield) by the AHRB under their Resource Enhancement Programme for the creation of a digital and web based edition of the Old Bailey Proceedings, 1674-1788.
1997: £8,000 awarded to me, Prof. John Tosh (Roehampton) and Dr Robert Shoemaker (Sheffield) for the analysis of the philosophical and methodological underpinnings of the undergraduate history curriculum in English universities. Awarded by History 2000, a HEFCE funded research consortium.
1994: £25,000 awarded to me and Dr Robert Shoemaker (University of Sheffield) for the authorship and design of a computer based tutorial Economic Growth and Social Change in Eighteenth-Century English Towns. Awarded by the Technology in Learning and Teaching Programme, History Courseware Consortium (University of Glasgow).
External Grants Currently under review:
‘Using Zotero and TAPoR on the Old Bailey Proceedings: Data Mining with Criminal Intent’, c.£250,000, to JISC/NEH/SSHRCC, Digging into Data.
‘Connected Histories: Sources for Building British History, 1500-1900’, £190,000, to JISC, Enhance Digital Resources.
TEACHING:
Undergraduate modules
Towns, Cities and People: Britain, 1660-1800.
The Politics of Culture and the Culture of Politics, Britain 1688-1800.
Gender and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
Masters
Britain and the Origins of Modernity, 1680-1840.
PhD supervision and examination
Six successful completions; three current students; 12 examinations.
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS
With Robert Shoemaker, Tales from the Hanging Court (Hodder Arnold, October 2006; 2nd edn, paperback, 2007). Hdk 288pp. Ppr, 401.
Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London (Hambledon and London, November 2004; 2nd edn, paperback, 2007). 343pp.
With Heather Shore, eds, The Streets of London from the Great Fire to the Great Stink (Rivers Oram/Pandora, August 2003). 256pp.
With Michèle Cohen, eds, English Masculinities, 1660-1800 (Addison Wesley Longman, 1999). 268pp.
With John Black, eds, Chelsea Settlement and Bastardy Examinations, 1733-1766 (London Record Society, vol.33, 1999). 177pp.
English Sexualities, 1700-1800 (Macmillan, 1997). 172pp.
With P. King and P. Sharpe, eds, Chronicling Poverty: The Voices and Strategies of the English Poor, 1640-1840 (Macmillan, 1997). 248pp.
With Lee Davison, Tim Keirn and R.B. Shoemaker, eds, Stilling the Grumbling Hive: The Regulation of Social and Economic Problems in England, 1689-1750 (Allen Sutton Press, 1992). 170pp.
Richard Hutton's Complaints Book: The Notebook of the Steward of the Quaker Workhouse at Clerkenwell, 1711-1737 (London Record Society, vol.24, 1987). 110pp.
EXTENDED NEW MEDIA:
With Robert Shoemaker and Clive Emsley, The Old Bailey Online, (www.oldbaileyonline.org, March 2003, 5th edn March 2008). Overall Winner of the 2003 Cybrarian Project Award for the best website in recognition of 'outstanding effort and contribution towards the accessibility and usability of online information via their design'. 120 million words.
With R. Shoemaker, Economic Growth and Social Change in the Eighteenth-Century English Town, The History Courseware Consortium (ver. 0.9, 1996; ver. 1.0, 1998). Approximately 400pp.
With R. Shoemaker, London Lives, 1690-1899 (www.LondonLives.org, March 2010, forthcoming). Encompasses 40 million words of transcribed manuscript materials.
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS OVER 5,000 WORDS:
‘Digital Searching and the Reformulation of Historical Knowledge’ in Mark Greengrass, ed., The Virtual Representation of the Past (Ashgate, 2008), pp.81-90.
With Fabio Ciravegna, Mark Greengrass, Sam Chapman, Jamie McLaughlin, and Ravish Bagdev, ‘Finding Needles in Haystacks. Data-Mining in Distributed Historical Datasets’ in Mark Greengrass, ed., The Virtual Representation of the Past (Ashgate, 2008), pp.65-80.
‘Stories Told But Seldom Heard’, History Workshop Journal, 65 (Spring 2008), 240-246.
‘”All besides the rail, rang’d beggars lie”: Trivia and the Reality of Poverty in Early Eighteenth-Century London’, in Clare Brant and Susan Whyman, eds, Walking the Streets of London: John Gay’s ‘Trivia’, (OUP, 2007, 2nd edn 2009), pp.74-89.
‘Chars and Errand Boys: Unregulated Labour and the Making of Eighteenth-Century London’, in José Ignacio Fortea and Juan. E. Gelbert (Dirs.), La Ciudad Portuaria Atlántica en La Historia (Biblioteca Navallia 10, 2006), pp.301-24; published in Japanese in Kondon Kazuhiko and Ito Takeshi (eds), Edo and London Bessatsu Toshishi Kenkyu (Tokyo, 2007).
With Robert Shoemaker, ‘Digitising History From Below: The Old Bailey Proceedings Online, 1674-1834’, History Compass, 4 (2006) 10.111/j. 478-0542.2006.00309.x
With Robert Shoemaker, eds, The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present vol.30, No.1 2005, ‘Special Issue: Tales from the Old Bailey’.
‘Begging on the Streets of Eighteenth-Century London’, Journal of British Studies, 44, 3 (July 2005), 478-498.
‘Tricksters, Lords and Servants: Begging, Friendship and Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century England’ in Laura Gowing, Michael Hunter and Miri Rubin, eds, Love Friendship and Faith (Palgrave, 2005), pp.177-196.
'Escrocs, seigneurs et "pieux chanteurs". Mendicité et masculinité au cours du long dix-huitième siècle', Revue HES: Histoire, Economie et Société, tome 24, n°1 (March 2005), 69-82.
'Literary Beggars and the Reality of Street Life in Eighteenth-Century London' in Cynthia Wall, eds., A Concise Companion to Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature (Blackwell's, 2004).
‘A New History From Below’, History Workshop Journal, 57 (Spring 2004), 294-99.
"Historical Agency in a World of Consumers: Simon Schama and the Hamburger of History", in History and Society since 1970/Istorie Si Societate Dupa 1970, eds Alex Drace-Francis and Andi Mihalache; a special issue of Xenopoliana, Bulletinul Fundatiei Academice "A.D. Xenopol" din Iasi, 11, no. 1-2 (Iasi, 2003), pp. 82-95.
‘The Old Bailey Online’, “Parrallel Lives”: Digital and Analog Options for Access and Preservation (National Preservation Office, 2003).
'”You bitches… die and be damned”: Gender, Authority and the Mob in St Martin's Round-house Disaster of 1742’ in T. Hitchcock and H. Shore, eds, The Streets of London from the Great Fire to the Great Stink (Rivers Oram/Pandora, 2003).
'The Publicity of Poverty in Early Eighteenth-Century London' in Julia Merritt, ed., Imagining Early Modern London: Perceptions and Portrayals of the City from Stow to Strype, 1598-1720 (CUP, 2001).
With Robert Shoemaker and John Tosh, ‘Skills and the Structure of the History Curriculum’ in Alan Booth and Paul Hyland, eds, The Practise of University History Teaching (MUP, 2000).
‘Sociability and Misogyny in the Life of John Cannon’ in T. Hitchcock and M. Cohen, eds, English Masculinities, 1660-1800 (Longman, 1999).
'Roy Porter: A Reluctant Post-Modernist', Journal of Urban History vol.24, no.4 (May, 1998) 497-506.
‘Urban History on CD-ROM: Economic Growth and Social Change in the Eighteenth-Century English Town’ in Du CD-ROM a Internet (Centre d’Histoire des Idees dans les Iles Britaniques, 1998).
‘Breeches and Barricades: Gender and Class in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France’, Radical History Review 70:175-180 (1998).
'Demography and the Culture of Sex in the Long Eighteenth Century' in Jeremy Black, ed., Culture and Politics in Britain, 1660-1800 (MUP, 1997).
'"Unlawfully begotten on her body": Illegitimacy and the Parish Poor in St Luke's Chelsea' in T. Hitchcock, P. King and P. Sharpe, eds, Chronicling Poverty: The Voices and Strategies of the English Poor, 1640-1840 (Macmillan, 1997).
'Redefining Sex in Eighteenth-Century England', History Workshop Journal, 41 (1996), 72-90. Republished in Kim M. Phillips and Barry Reay, Sexualities in History: A Reader (New York, 2002).
'"She's Gotta Have I.T.": Teaching Information Technology to Undergraduate History Students', History and Computing, vol.5 No.3 1993, pp.193-8.
'Paupers and Preachers: The SPCK and the English Workhouse Movement' in L. Davison, et al, eds, Stilling the Grumbling Hive: The Regulation of Social and Economic Problems in England, 1689-1750 (Allen Sutton Press, 1992).
'"In True Imitation of Christ": The Tradition of Mystical Communitarianism in Early Eighteenth-century England' in Mick Gidley and Kate Bowles, eds, Locating the Shakers: Cultural Origins and Legacies of an American Religious Movement (Exeter University Press, 1990).
‘Sex and the Historians: Some Recent Literature on the Construction and Policing of Sexuality’, Social History of Medicine, vol.2, no.3, 1989, pp.349-55.
Works completed and in Press:
Todd article
Gordon Riots article
Pam Sharpe article
Body book
RECENT MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS AND BROADCASTS:
‘Britain in the 1690s’, expert contributor to ‘Broadcasting House’, Radio 4, broadcast, 7 December 2008.
‘Digitising British History since 1980’, in Making History (British History Online, November 2008).
‘Response’ to ‘Privilege, Power and Sexual Abuse in Georgian Oxford’ by George Rousseau, in George Rousseau (ed.), Children and Sexuality from the Greeks to the Great War (Palgrave, 2007), pp.166-169.
‘London Prostitutes’, expert contributor to ‘The Harlots’ Handbook’, BBC4, broadcast 28 June 2006.
‘London Street Life’, expert contributor to Timewatch, ‘The Floating Brothel’, BBC2, broadcast 3 February 2006.
‘Crossing Sweepers’, expert contributor to Spire Film’s production for Channel Four’s ‘Worst Jobs in History’, broadcast April 23 2006.
‘The Gin Craze’ a discussion for ‘Random Edition’, Radio 4, broadcast 28 January 2005.
'Fleet Street' a discussion for 'Out of Print', Radio 4, broadcast 4 February 2004.
'The Old Bailey Sessions Papers – the role of digitisation from microfilm' published as part of the proceedings of Parallel Lives: digital and analog options for access and preservation (a joint conference held by the National Preservation Office and King's College London, 10 November 2003); available online at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/kdcs/content/conf2003.htm
'Start the Week', Radio 4, broadcast 5 January 2004.
'Chimney Sweeps' a discussion for 'Random Edition', Radio 4, broadcast 21 April 2003.
'Don's Diary', Times Higher Education Supplement, 25 April 2003; also 28 January 1994.
'The Man Who Saved Children', an RDF production for Channel 4, broadcast on 16 April 2003.
Articles on John Bellers, John Cannon, M. Marsin, Matthew Marryott, Simon Eedy and Israel R. Potter for the New DNB (OUP).
'Imagining the Poor in Nineteenth-Century London', History Workshop Journal 50, Autumn (2000), pp.272-75.
'Eighteenth-century sexuality and the censorship of pornography', a discussion for 'Taking the Long View', Radio 4, broadcast 9 August 1999.
‘Sexuality’ in K. Boyd, ed., Encyclopaedia of Historians and Historical Writing (Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998).
‘Eighteenth-century London homosexuality’, a discussion for ‘Random Edition’, Radio 4, broadcast 25 November 1997.
REVIEWS:
I review between five and ten books per year for the following journals (in alphabetical order):
Albion, American Historical Review, Continuity and Change, Economic History Review, Historical Journal, History, History Workshop Journal, Journal of British Studies, Journal of the Social History of Medicine, The Journal of the History of Sexuality, Journal of Urban History, Journal of Utopian Studies, Local Population Studies, The London Journal, Radical History Review, Reviews in History (http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/ihr/epub/), Revue d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, Social History, Textile History, Urban History.
PUBLIC LECTURES/SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS SINCE 1999:
I speak frequently to academic and broader audiences. Since 1999 I have given lectures at the following conferences and institutions (in reverse chronological order):
Anglo-American conference, July 2009; The Bishopsgate Institute, London, Nov. 2008; North American Conference for British Studies, Cincinnati, Oct. 2008; ‘Comparative History of European Cities’, Universitè Lumiere Lyon 2; ‘Metropolis on Trial’, The Open University, July 2008; ‘The Gordon Riots’, Roehampton University, July 2008; ‘Gerald Alymer Seminar’, Royal Historical Society and the British Library, October 2007; ‘Narratives of Poverty: English Pauper Letters 1780-1840 in Comparative Perspective’, University of Hagen, October 2007; ‘Urban living: society, culture and politics in the English town, 1700-1800’, University of Northampton, July 2007; University of Southampton, April 2007; Long 18th Century Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, March 2007; ‘Virtual History and Archaeology’, AHRC ICT Network Expert Seminar, HRI Sheffield, April 2006; Society of Genealogists, March 2006; ‘Apothecaries, Art & Architecture: Interpreting Georgian Medicine’ Nov. 2005; ‘Digital Futures: Beyond the Humanities’ Institute of Historical Research, Sept. 2005; ‘La Ciudad Portuaria Atlantica En La Historia: Siglos XVI-XIX’, University of Cantrabria, Santander, July 2005; ‘Gay and Lesbian Archives, History and Culture Conference’, London Metropolitan Archives, Dec. 2004; North American Conference on British Studies, Philadelphia, Oct. 2004; 'Encountering London', University of York, Jan. 2004; 'Bastardy the British Experience', Cambridge, Jan. 2004; Cambridge Society of Antiquarianism, 2003; 'The Friend', Birkbeck College, London, 2003; 'History and Society since 1970', New Europe College, Bucharest, 2003; 'Parallel Lives: digital and analogue options for access and preservation' British Library/NPO' Nov. 2003; International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, UCLA, 2003; ‘Society of Archivists’, London, 2003; Institute of Historical Research, University of London, various seminars, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003; Sorbonne, Paris, 2003, 2005, 2006); North American Conference on British Studies, Pasadena, 1999, Baltimore, 2002 and Philadelphia, 2004; Churchill College, Cambridge, 2002; Magdalen College, Cambridge, 2001; University of York, 2001; University of Sheffield, 2000; ‘Women and the Enlightenment’, Goldsmith’s College, University of London, 2000; University of Bath, 2000; University of Durham, 1999; University of Manchester, 1999; University of Wales, Lampeter, 1999.
Referees:
Pene
Andrew