Ian Wallace Archer

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(born 1960) is a historian of early modern

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and the Robert Stonehouse Tutorial Fellow in History at

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Career

After graduating from

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and

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, Archer started his academic career in 1986 as a research fellow at

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. In 1989 he moved to

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where he was director of studies in history until 1991. After leaving Cambridge he transferred to Keble College, Oxford. In 1991 Archer published his first monograph, ''The Pursuit of Stability: Social Relations in Elizabethan London'', based on his DPhil thesis which was supervised by

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. From 1999 to 2010 Archer was academic editor of the ''

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''. He is an honorary vice-president of the

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. Archer served as Sub-Warden of Keble College from 2008 to 2013; in 2009 he was the college's Acting Warden while

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was on research leave and presided over the election of her successor, Jonathan Phillips.

Philanthropy

He is the chair of the education committee at the London Academy of Excellence Stratford, an Ofsted outstanding Free School.

Publications

Books

*''Hugh Alley's Caveat: The Markets of London in 1598'' (London:

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, 1988) (co-edited with

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and

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) *''The Pursuit of Stability: Social Relations in Elizabethan London'' (Cambridge:

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, 1991) *''The History of the Haberdashers' Company'' (Chichester: Phillimore, 1991) *''Religion, Politics, and Society in Sixteenth-Century England'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the

, 2003) *''

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Volume V: c.1558-1603'' (London:

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, 2011) (co-edited with F. Douglas Price) *''The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013) (co-edited with

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and

Paulina Kewes Paulina Kewes (born 1964) is a Polish historian of early modern literature, history and culture. She is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and Helen Morag Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Jesus College. Academ ...

)

Articles

*'The Government of London, 1500-1650', ''The London Journal'' 26:1 (2001), pp. 19-28 *'The Burden of Taxation on Sixteenth-Century London', ''

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'' 44:3 (2001), pp. 599–627 *'The Charity of Early Modern Londoners', ''

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'' 12 (2002), pp. 223-244 *'A 'Journall' of Matters of State', ''

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'' Fifth Series 22 (2003), pp. 35-136 (co-edited with Simon Adams and G. W. Bernard) *'Discourses of History in Elizabethan and Early Stuart London', ''

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'' 68:1-2 (2005), pp. 205–26 *'City and Court Connected: The Material Dimensions of Royal Ceremonial, ca. 1480-1625', ''Huntington Library Quarterly'' 71:1 (2008), pp. 157-179 *'150 Years of Royal Historical Society Publishing', ''Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'' 28 (2018), pp. 265-288

Chapters

*'Patronage and Clientage in Elizabethan London', in Charles Giry-Deloison and Roger Mettam, eds., ''Patronages et clientélismes 1550-1750 (France, Angleterre, Espagne, Italie)'' (Lille: Publications de l'Institute de recherches historiques du Septentrion, 1995), pp. 137-148 *'The Nostalgia of John Stow', in

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, David L. Smith and Richard Strier, eds., ''The Theatrical City: Culture, Theatre and Politics in London, 1576-1649'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) *'Material Londoners?', in Lena Cowen Orlin, ed., ''Material London, ca. 1600'' (Philadelphia:

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, 2000), pp. 174-192 *'The Arts and Acts of Memorialization in Early Modern London 1598-1720', in J. F. Merritt, ed., ''Imagining Early Modern London: Perceptions and Portrayals of the City from Stow to Strype'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001) pp. 89–113 *'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 *'London and Westminster', in Thomas Warren Hopper and Arthur F. Kinney, eds., ''A New Companion to Renaissance Drama'' (Oxford:

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, 2004), pp. 75-87 *'The City of London and the Theatre', in Richard Dutton, ed., ''The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theatre'' (Oxford:

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, 2011), pp. 396-412 *'Economy', in Arthur F. Kinney, ed., ''The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 165-181 *'The City of London and the Ulster Plantation', in

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and Micheál Ó Siochrú, eds., ''The Plantation of Ulster: Ideology and Practice'' (Manchester:

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, 2012), pp. 78-97 *'Shakespeare's London', in David Scott Kastan, ed., ''A Companion to Shakespeare'' (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2012), pp. 43-56 *'Commerce and Consumption', in

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and Norman Jones, eds., ''The Elizabethan World'' (London:

, 2014), pp. 411-426 *'Elizabethan Chroniclers and Parliament', in Paul Cavill and

Alexandra Gajda Alexandra Mary Gajda (born 4 November 1979) is an English historian of political, religious and intellectual life in early modern Britain. She is associate professor of Early Modern History at the University of Oxford and John Walsh Fellow and ...

, eds., ''Writing the History of Parliament in Tudor and Early Stuart England'' (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 133-152 *'Royal Entries, the City of London, and the Politics of Stuart Successions', in Paulina Kewes and Andrew McRae, eds., ''Stuart Succession Literature: Moments and Transformations'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 257-281 *'The Social and Political Dynamics of the Lord Mayor's Show, c.1550-1700', in J. Caitlin Finlayson and Amrita Sen, eds., ''Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London'' (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 93-115

References

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