Professor Paul D A Harvey FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 2003
- Year of death
- 2024
- Subjects
- Medieval studies
- Sections
- Medieval Studies
Summary
My career has been spent partly as a curator of historical material, partly as a university teacher of medieval history: Warwickshire County Record Office 1954-6; Department of Manuscripts, British Museum, 1957-66; Department of History, University of Southampton, 1966-78; Department of History, University of Durham, 1978-85. My professional interests are (1) the social and economic history of medieval England, which has recently included an interest in documents' seals; (2) the history of cartography in general, though recently concentrated on medieval maps; (3) archives and record keeping. I have published articles in all three fields, books in 1 and 2. I have a personal interest in collecting locally produced guidebooks from Great Britain and Ireland before 1914, and tourist picture books from the copper engravings of the early 19th century to the coloured half-tones of the mid-20th, when the genre died out.
Last post
Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Durham
Past appointments
University of Durham Professor of Medieval History
1978 - 1985
University of Durham Professor of Medieval History, University of Durham
1978 -
University of Durham Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Durham
1978 -
University of Southampton Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Medieval, Social and Economic History
1966 - 1978
Other Institutions Assistant Keeper, Department of Manuscripts, British Museum
1957 - 1966
Other Institutions Warwick County Record Office
1954 - 1956
Publications
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Medieval legal history; medieval historical writing; nineteenth-century scholarship on legal history, especially the work of F W Maitland
