Leverhulme Professor of Comparative Metropolitan History

Derek Keene was the founding director of the Centre for Metropolitan History. His research and publications have focused on towns and their regional setting in Europe, from the seventh to the nineteenth century. He is particularly concerned to incorporate the evidence of artefacts, material environment and spatial forms in thinking about the economic, social, cultural and political history of towns and their wider setting.

His books include Survey of Medieval Winchester (Oxford, 1985); A Medieval Capital and its Grain Supply: Agrarian Production and Distribution in the London Region c.1300 [with B.M.S. Campbell, J. Galloway, and M. Murphy] (London, 1993); and, as general editor and author, St Paul's: the Cathedral Church of London, 604-2004 (New Haven and London, 2004). He contributed chapters to the recent Cambridge Urban History of Britain. Immediately forthcoming essays include 'Towns and trade: the eleventh and twelfth centuries' (in the New Cambridge Medieval History) and 'Cities and Empires' (in Journal of Urban History).

He is willing to supervise research on the history (in its widest sense) of London and its territory, especially if it is possible to include a comparative element in the study (for which support is available under funding from the Leverhulme Trust).

Contact

• Tel: 020 7862 8799
• Email: derek.keene@sas.ac.uk