Elizabeth Matthew

Email:
e.a.e.matthew@reading.ac.uk
Phone:
+44 (0) 118 378 8410
Job title:
Lecturer

Responsibilities:

Director of teaching and Learning, History

Postgraduate supervision

I have supervised/co-supervised two theses to completion, one on late medieval English diplomats, another on late medieval English archers. I am currently co-supervising a thesis on the experience of pregnancy and childbirth in late medieval England.

Teaching

Undergraduate Teaching

Part 1

Contributions to Journeys through History 1
Option: Chivalry: the Emergence and Impact of a Medieval Ethos

Part 2

Option: Kingship and Crisis in England, c. 1154-1330

Part 3

Options: Ireland and the English in the Middle Ages; History Education

Postgraduate Teaching

Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies

Researching the Middle Ages: Late Medieval Private Letter Collections
Advanced Study and Source Analysis supervision
Options: Ireland and her Neighbours in the Later Middle Ages; Hundred Years War; From Agincourt to Bosworth – War and Politics in Fifteenth-Century England
Dissertation supervision

Research centres and groups

Council of Berkshire Record Society (2016- )
Council of the Historical Association (2008-15); HA Branches Committee (2006-09); HA Public History Committee (2009-15); HA Reading Branch Committee (President 2000-05; Treasurer 2010-13).
Council of the British Records Association (2006-14)
Editorial Board of the Irish Chancery Project, Trinity College, Dublin (2008-12)