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ABOUT US
The North East of England History Institute was formed in 1995 to bring together the five history departments of the north-eastern universities, the Open University, Beamish Open Air Museum and more than thirty regional institutions, many being local history societies. NEEHI also has more than a hundred members who have joined as individuals.
In 2000, the five regional universities received a grant amounting to over £860,000 from the Arts & Humanities Research Board (now the Arts & Humanities Research Council) to form a research Centre (for five years) devoted to investigating the history of north-eastern England. That research agenda is producing a torrent of publications on all periods and aspects of our region's history published by the Boydell Press in NEEHI's Regions and Regionalism series. To date there are seven books already published with another on its way through the press and more at various stages of preparation. This is in addition to the multi-authored volume which brings together all the research arising out of the AHRC Centre to be launched at an event later this year and to which all NEEHI members will be invited. As NEEHI moves into its next phase it is forging links with other regional centres throughout Britain and in other countries to develop an innovative programme of comparative regional studies.
The broader NEEHI membership has benefited from this increased activity, which has provided a useful interface between advanced historical research and the wider regional public. Numerous conferences and events - ranging from lecture series to regional local history congresses and from highly popular conferences to book launch events - have attracted large numbers of participants. In 2007 we have launched a regular public lecture series which will be inaugurated by a professorial trio beginning with David Rollason (University of Durham) on 'Shaping the North-East's Past: Medieval Durham Historians' at the Lit & Phil in Newcastle on 3 October followed by Tony Pollard (University of Teesside) on 'Region, Locality and Identity: the place of the Tees valley in history' at the Dorman Museum in Middlesbrough on 7 November and then Tony Hepburn (University of Sunderland) on 'Belfast Nationalists and the Partition of Ireland' at the Lit and Phil on 5 December. We have also instigated a Visiting Fellowship which is currently held by Professor Keith Wrightson (Yale) who will contribute to the lecture series next summer, talking about the plague in Newcastle in the 1630s.
In 2005 the NEEHI office relocated to Bolbec Hall in the Lit and Phil / Mining Institute complex on Westgate Road in Newcastle. NEEHI is working in partnership with the Literary & Philosophical Society and the North-East Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers in Newcastle in order to establish a new regional cultural and research institution. This introduces a significant opportunity for future development as we will be sharing premises with two of the region's finest archival treasure-houses.
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AIMS
From its foundation NEEHI's aims have been:
to conduct research of the very highest quality into north-east England history so that as much as possible of the region's history can be reliably established
to maximise existing potential through collaboration and partnership, by bringing together researchers in the universities, libraries, archives, societies and elsewhere
to build close relationships with public bodies and the general public so that the region's history can be widely understood and everyone with an interest in the past can have access to scholarship of the highest order
to focus international attention on the history of the north-east so that the fascination and interest of the region can be widely appreciated.
to maximise the potential of the region's historic treasures, so that their nature and significance can be fully understood and appreciated regionally, nationally and internationally.
to build upon current and past research in order to develop new approaches and methodologies for regional history which will be of national and international significance.
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Dr Diana Newton
Director, NEEHI
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Dr Diana Newton , History Research Team Leader at Teesside University, became Director of NEEHI on Dr Bill Lancaster's resignation, through ill health, in 2006.
She lectures on the Reformation, the early modern North East of England, and the English Civil War; and supervises research on the reigns of Elizabeth and James VI and I, and the early modern North East of England.
Selected Publications:
'Borders and Bishopric: Regional Identities in the Pre-Modern North East', in A. Green and A.J. Pollard (eds) Regional Identity in North-East England (Woodbridge, 2006)
'Dolefull Dumpes: Northumberland and the Borders, 1580-1625', in R. Colls and B. Lancaster (eds) A New History of Northumbria (Chichester, 2006)
North-East England: Governance, Culture and Society, 1569-1625 (Woodbridge, 2006)
The Making of the Jacobean Regime: James VI and I and the Government of England, 1603-5 (Royal Historical Society, 2005)
'The Impact of James VI and I's Accession on the North East of England', Renaissance Forum (autumn 2004)
Papists, Protestants and Puritans, 1559-1714 (Cambridge, 1998)
'Sir Francis Hastings and the Religious Education of James VI and I', Historical Journal 41 (1998)
e-mail: diana.newton@tees.ac.uk
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Dr Adrian Green
Assistant Director
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Adrian Green was appointed 'Lecturer in British Regional History' at the
University of Durham in 2000. He is a specialist in the social history
and archaeology of the period 1450 to 1800, with a particular interest
in geographical variations as an aspect of cultural behaviour. Following
a BA in History at Oxford University (1992-5) and an MA in Archaeology
from Durham University (1995-6), his PhD at Durham (1996-2000) took an
inter-disciplinary approach to the study of housing in North-Eastern
England ('Houses and Households in County Durham and
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, c.1570-1730)'. The approach formulated in that
study is currently being applied to other areas, towards a book called
Dwelling in England - Houses and Society 1550-1750. His reseach centres
on the social history and archaeology of the period 1450-1750, and
especially housing in Britain and its colonies between the sixteenth and
eighteenth centuries. This uses an interdisciplinary approach, combining
archaeological and historical sources and methods. Other subjects of
research include regional and national identity.
Selected Publications:
Adrian Green and A. J. Pollard (eds.), Regional Identities in
North-East England, 1300-2000 (Boydell, 2007)
Adrian Green and Roger Leech (eds.) Cities in the World 1500-2000
(Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology, 2006)
Adrian Green, Elizabeth Parkinson and Margaret Spufford, County Durham
Hearth Tax Returns Lady Day 1666 (British Records Society, 2006)
'Houses in North-Eastern England: Regionality and the British Beyond,
c.1600-1750' in Susan Lawrence (ed.), Archaeologies of the British
(Routledge, 2003), pp. 55-75
'"A clumsey Country Girl": The material and print culture of Betty
Bowes' in Helen Berry & Jeremy Gregory (eds.). Creating and Consuming
Culture in North-East England (Ashgate, 2004), pp. 72-92
'Tudhoe Hall and Byers Green Hall: houses and social change in lowland
County Durham in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries',
Vernacular Architecture 29 (1998), pp. 33-42
e-mail: a.g.green@durham.ac.uk
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Dr F.J.M. Campbell
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Dr Fergus Campbell is lecturer in modern British and Irish history at Newcastle University. He was educated at the universities of Oxford and Bristol, and has lectured in both British and Irish history at the Queen's University, Belfast, and the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. His research focuses on Irish social and political history between the Great Famine (1845-9) and the Celtic Tiger (1994-2004), and he has written a book and a number of articles on various aspects of modern Irish history. In particular, he is interested in writing the history of ordinary men and women, and in trying to understand how people in the past thought about the world that they lived in. He was one of the co-organisers of the conference 'Why Pamper Life's Complexities? A Symposium on The Smiths', held at Manchester Metropolitan University in April 2005.
Selected publications:
Elites, Power and Society in Ireland, 1879-1914 (Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2008)
with Tony Varley, co-eds Land, Politics and the State: New and Comparative Perspectives on the Irish Land Question, 1850-2000 (Manchester University Press, forthcoming, 2008) available online
'The social composition of senior officers of the Royal Irish Constabulary' in Irish Historical Studies, forthcoming, 2008.
'When we're in the scholarly room, who will swallow whom? Media representations on 'A Symposium on The Smiths'' in Sean Campbell and Colin Coulter (eds), Why Pamper Life's Complexities? A Symposium on The Smiths (Manchester University Press, forthcoming, 2008)
'Who Ruled Ireland? The Irish Administration, 1879-1914' in The Historical Journal, forthcoming, 2008.
Land and Revolution: Nationalist Politics in the West of Ireland, 1891-1921 (Oxford, 2005) available online
'The Social Dynamics of Nationalist Politics in the West of Ireland, 1898-1918', Past and Present, Feb. 2004 available online
'Irish Popular Politics and the Making of the Wyndham Land Act, 1901-3', The Historical Journal, 45, no. 4 (2002) available online
'The Last Land War? Kevin O'Shiel's Memoir of the Irish Revolution (1916-1921)', Archivium Hibernicum, 57, 2003 available online
'The Hidden History of the Irish Land War: A Guide to Local Sources', in Carla King (ed.), Famine, Land and Culture in Ireland (Dublin, 2000)
e-mail: f.j.m.campbell@newcastle.ac.uk
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Maureen Meikle MA, PhD (Edinburgh) FRHistS, FSA, FSAScot, joined Sunderland University in 1995 after holding the Fulbright Visiting Professorship in British History at Westminster College, Fulton Missouri, and is now Senior Lecturer in History and Programme Leader for the MA History. A specialist in the early modern period, she teaches British social history, Scottish history, and British women's history. She has published several articles on Scottish and Anglo-Scottish Border history and co-edited with Elizabeth Ewan, Women in Scotland c.1100-c.1750 (Tuckwell Press, 1999). Other books include A British Frontier? Landed society in the Eastern Anglo-Scottish Borders, 1540-1603 (Tuckwell Press, 2004), The Scottish People, 1490-1625 (Lulu.com, 2007) and for the Victoria County History of Durham (with Dr Christine Newman) The Origins of Sunderland (Phillimore, 2007). She is currently completing a book on the consort of James VI & I, Anna, Queen of Scots (Tempus, 2008).
Selected publications:
'Flodden to the Marian Civil War, 1513-1573', in B. Harris & A. Macdonald, eds. Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation c.
1100-1707 vol. 2 (Dundee University Press, 2007), 1-17.
'The Homes and the East March', in R. Oram & G. Stell, eds. Lordship and Architecture in Medieval and Renaissance Scotland (Birlinn/John
Donald, 2005), 231-49
15 entries in The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women eds. E. Ewan, S. Innes, R. Pipes & S. Reynolds (Edinburgh University Press,
2006)
11 entries in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004), eds. H.C.G. Matthews & B. Harrison.
'John Knox and womankind: a reappraisal', The Historian, 79 (Autumn 2003), 9-14
'The Later Stewarts and the British Stewarts' in The Kings and Queens of Scotland, ed. R. Oram (Tempus Publishing, 2001), 178-227.
'A meddlesome Princess: Anna of Denmark and Scottish Court politics, 1589-1603', in The Reign of James VI, eds., J. Goodare & M. Lynch (Tuckwell Press, 2000), 126-140.
'"Holde her at the economic rule of the house", Anna of Denmark and
Scottish Court Finances 1589-1603', in Elizabeth Ewan and Maureen M.
Meikle, eds., Women in Scotland, c. 1100- c.1750 (Tuckwell Press, 1999),
105-111.
'Victims, viragos and vamps: Women of the 16th-Century Anglo-Scottish frontier' in Government, Religion and Society in Northern England, c. 1000 to c. 1700, eds., J. C. Appleby & P. Dalton (Alan Sutton 1997), 172-184. ISBN 0-7509-1057-7.
'A Godly rogue: the career of Sir John Forster, an Elizabethan Border Warden', an extended article for Northern History, vol 28 (1992), 126-163.
'The Invisible Divide: the greater lairds and the nobility of Jacobean Scotland', Scottish Historical Review, vol 28 (April/October 1992), 70-87.
'Northumberland Divided: Anatomy of a sixteenth-century bloodfeud', Archaeologia Aeliana, fifth series, vol 20 (1992), 79-89.
e-mail: maureen.meikle@sunderland.ac.uk
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Dr Peter Rushton
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Dr Peter Rushton ....
Selected publications:
'Running Away and Returning Home: the Fate of English Convicts in the American Colonies' Gwenda Morgan and Peter Rushton, Crime, Histoire & Socié:tés / Crime, History & Societies
with Gwenda Morgan Eighteenth-Century Criminal Transportation: the Formation of the Criminal Atlantic (Basingstoke: Palgrave, December 2003)
'The Magistrate, the Community and the Maintenance of an Orderly Society in Eighteenth-Century England', Gwenda Morgan and Peter Rushton, Historical Research 76 (191) 2003, 54-77
The Justicing Notebook (1750-64) of Edmund Tew, Rector of Boldon, edited and introduced by Gwenda Morgan and Peter Rushton, Surtees Society 2000, vol. 205.
'Texts of Authority: Witchcraft Accusations and the Demonstration of Truth in Early Modern England', in Stuart Clark, ed., Languages of Witchcraft: Narrative, Ideology and Meaning in Early Modern Culture (Macmillan, 2000).
Morgan, Gwenda; Rushton, Peter. Rogues, thieves and the rule of law : the problem of law enforcement in north-east England, 1718-1820. London: UCL Press, 1997.
'Idiocy, the family and the community in early modern north-east England'. in Wright, David; Digby, Anne, (eds.), From idiocy to mental deficiency : historical perspectives on people with learning disabilities (London and New York: Routledge, 1996), 44-64.
'The matter in variance : adolescents and domestic conflict in the pre-industrial economy of northeast England, 1600-1800'. Journal of Social History, 25 (1991), 89-107.
'Lunatics and idiots : mental disability, the community, and the poor law in North-East England, 1600-1800'. Medical History, 32:1 (1988), 34-50.
'Property, power and family networks : the problem of disputed marriage in early modern England'. Journal of Family History, 11:3 (1986), 205-19.
'The broken marriage in early modern England : matrimonial cases from the Durham church courts, 1560-1630'. Archaeologia Aeliana, 5th ser., 13 (1985), 187-96.
'Women, witchcraft and slander in early modern England : cases from the church courts of Durham, 1560-1675'. Northern History, 18 (1982), 116-32.
'A note on the survival of popular Christian magic'. Folk-Lore, 91 (1980), 115-18.
e-mail: peter.rushton@sunderland.ac.uk
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Dr Avram Taylor
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Avram Taylor is Lecturer in History at Northumbria University and programme leader for joint degrees in History. Much of his teaching reflects an interest in theoretical issues and the philosophy of history. He also teaches modern European history and has a specialist option on class, gender and ethnicity.
Avram is a member of CHORD (the Committee for the History of Retailing and Distribution). His research interests are in historical sociology, and the relationship between history and theory in general; working-class communities, working-class credit, poverty, and credit unions (his PhD 'Working Class Credit On Tyneside Since 1918' was undertaken at Durham University); gender, ethnicity, and the history of the Jews in Britain
Selected publications:
'Funny Money, hidden charges and repossession: working class experiences of consumption and credit in the inter-war years' in The Cultures of Selling: Perspectives on Retailing and Society John Benson & Laura Ugolini (eds.) (Ashgate, 2006)
MacRaild, D., & Taylor, A., Social Theory and Social History (Palgrave, 2004)
'Remembering Spring through Gorbals Voices': Autobiography and the memory of a community.' Paper presented at Symposium on Jewish Settlement, Development and Identities in Scotland 1879-2004 , organised by the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre and the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies. Scottish Jewish Archives Centre, Garnethill Synagogue, Glasgow, UK. 2004
''Breaking Free from a Scottish Shetl': The Life, Times and Jewishness of C.P. Taylor' Immigrants & Minorities Vol. 21 March/July 2002 1&2 - Also published in: Sue Vice (ed.) Representing the Holocaust (Vallentine Mitchell, 2003)
Working Class Credit and Community Since 1918 (Palgrave, 2002)
'Funny Money, hidden charges and repossession: working class experiences of consumption and credit in the inter-war years' Paper delivered at: “Their shops are dens, the buyer is their prey' Retailers and consumers in historical perspective, 1500-2000' CHORD (the Committee for the History of Retailing and Distribution), University of Wolverhampton, UK. 2002
e-mail: avram.taylor@northumbria.ac.uk
 A note from Dr Bill Lancaster, Director 2005-6
A note on the origins of NEEHI from Professor David Rollason, Director 1995-2005
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