Catherine A. M. Clarke is a British academic. She serves as the

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in the History of People, Place and Community at the Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study,

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, where she is Director of the Centre for History of People, Place and Community and Director of the

Victoria County History The Victoria History of the Counties of England, commonly known as the Victoria County History or the VCH, is an English history project which began in 1899 with the aim of creating an encyclopaedic history of each of the historic counties of En ...

. She is a specialist in the

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and has published on power, place and identity in medieval Britain.

Education

Clarke received her PhD in 2003 from the Department of English at

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. Her doctoral thesis was titled ''The Locus Amoenus in Old English: Guthlac A and its Cultural Context''.

Career

Clarke taught at Swansea University and the

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, and was appointed to a personal chair at the English Department of the

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in 2012, where she remains a

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. She was appointed Chair at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, in 2019; within this role she is Director of the

, a national project founded in 1899 to write the history of English counties. Clarke has led major

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-funded projects on medieval places and their interpretation, such as "City Witness: Place and Perspective in Medieval Swansea". Her project "The St Thomas Way" developed a new heritage route from

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, inspired by medieval pilgrimage. In 2016 Clarke delivered the Denys Hay Lecture at the

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: 'Place machines: memory, imagination and the medieval city'. She is the Director of CARMEN: The Worldwide Medieval Network, and programme coordinator for Anglo-Saxon Studies at the annual

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. She previously held a Visiting Fellowship at the

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. Clarke has written for '' The Conversation'' and appeared on

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historical documentaries.

Bibliography

* ''The St Thomas Way and the Medieval March of Wales: Exploring Place, Heritage, Pilgrimage,'' edited by Catherine Clarke (ARC Humanities Press, 2020) *''Medieval Cityscapes Today'', edited by Catherine Clarke (ARC Humanities Press, 2019) * ''Writing Power in Anglo-Saxon England: Texts, Hierarchies, Economies'' (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2012) * ''Mapping the Medieval City: Space, Place and Identity in Chester c.1200–1600'' (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2011) * ''Literary Landscapes and the Idea of England, 700–1400'' (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006)

References

External links

Profile at the Institute of Historical Research

Profile page for the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement
{{DEFAULTSORT:Clarke, Catherine British historians Academics of the University of London Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of King's College London Contributors to the Victoria County History