Professor Miles Taylor

Contact details

Name:

Professor Miles Taylor

Qualifications:

BA, PhD (Cantab), FRHS

Position:

Director of IHR, and Professor of History

Institute:

Institute of Historical Research

Location:

Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU

Phone:

020 7862 8759

Email address:

miles.taylor@sas.ac.uk

Website:

http://www.history.ac.uk/about/miles-taylor

Research Summary and Profile

Research interests:

Early Modern, Local Government

Regions:

Europe

Summary of research interests and expertise:

The history of Victorian Britain, parliamentary representation since the late 18th century, and Victorian monarchy and India.

Publication Details

Related publications/articles:

Date	Details
01-Jan-2010	British history, 1600-2000: expansion in perspective Edited Book 279 pp.; ISBN 978-1-905165-60-5
01-Jan-2010	Proceedings of the British-Chinese history conference Edited Book 349 pp., ISBN 978-1-905165-64-3
17-Dec-2009	'Town Planner' London Review of Books, pp.26-7
01-Jan-2007	(co-ed.), Palmerston Studies 2 vols, Hartley Institute
01-Jan-2007	(ed.), Southampton: Gateway to the British Empire Edited Book IB Tauris, ISBN-10: 1845110323/ISBN-13: 978-1845110321
01-Jan-2004	(co-ed.), The Victorians since 1901: Histories, Representations and Revisions Manchester UP
2003	Ernest Jones, Chartism and the Romance of Politics, 1819-69 Oxford UP
1995	The Decline of British Radicalism, 1847-1860 Oxford UP

Research Projects & Supervisions

Current PhD topics supervised:

Dates	Details
From: 01-Aug-2010 Until:	An investigation into the public life of two British Princesses: HRH Mary the Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood and HRH The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon Co -supervisor with Professor Sir David Cannadine
From: 01-Aug-2009 Until: 01-Aug-2012	Space and political practice in london - 1760-1830 Principal supervisor
From: 01-Oct-2009 Until: 01-Aug-2012	The National Portrait Gallery Co-supervisor with Dr Elisabeth Kehoe
From: Until:	'Through the Letter Box: Working Lives at the General Post Office, 1834-1918' Supervised by Prof Miles Taylor
From: Until:	Welfare and Patronage in the Victorian Post Office Supervised by Professor Miles Taylor
From: Until:	The Geography of Power: The Role of the Boundary Commissioners in Shaping the Electoral Representation of Britain Supervised by Prof Miles Taylor
From: Until:	Space and Power in the Nineteenth-Century House of Commons Supervised by Prof Miles Taylor
From: Until:	Economic and Social change in the 19th Century in South-West Middlesex and North-West Surrey: A comparative Study of 7 Parishes Bordering the River Thames Co-supervised by MS Elizabeth Williamson.
From: Until:	Ambulant Amateurs: The Rise and Fade of the Anglo German Fellowship So-supervised by Dr Karina Urbach

Professional Affiliations

Professional affiliations:

Name	Activity
History of Parliament	Member of Editorial Board
Journal of British Studies	Member of Editorial Advisory Board
Economic and Social Research Council	Member of the Grants Assessment Panel
Fellow	Royal Historical Society
North American Conference on British Studies	History network
External Examiner, BA History, University of Sheffield	Assessment
History Subject Associations (Historical Association, History UK, Royal Historical Society, Higher Education Academy)	History Network
Historical Research, Editor	Publishing
History Editiorial Advisory Board, BBC Worldwide	Member of Editorial Board
International Committee, Russian Academy of Sciences	Committee Member

Collaborations:

Name	Type	Activity	Start date	End date
International Commission of Historical Sciences		Chair of UK National Committee

Relevant Events

Related events:

Date	Details
01-Jan-2012	'History in hard Times' Paper at Conference: 'What is the Public Value of the Arts and Humanities?', University of York, 09/03/2012
01-Jan-2012	'The Prince of Wales in India, 1875-6' Paper at Conference: 'Making of Modern Monarchy', Kensington Palace, 06 June 2012
01-Jan-2011	Anglo-Russian relations and India, c. 1858-1901 Paper at conference on ‘Russia and Britain in the great wars of the 19th-20th centuries’, Institute of World History/Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 11-12 May 2011
01-Jan-2011	'Queen Victoria and Bombay' North American Conference on British Studies, Denver, 05 November 2011
01-Jan-2011	‘The afterlife of Queen Victoria’, keynote lecture to conference on ‘The Victorian legacy in contemporary political thought’, Université Cergy-Pontoise, 9-10 June 2011
01-Jan-2011	‘Chartism rethought and revisited’, paper to conference on ‘Utopia and Dystopia: The Politics of Commitment A workshop in Honour of Gareth Stedman Jones’, Robinson College, Cambridge, 20-21 May 2011
01-Jan-2011	‘1832-1868’ colloquium History of Parliament, Westminster, 6 May 2011
01-Jan-2011	British history in the new age of austerity: retrospect and prospect Lecture to inaugurate the new Centre for Modern History, University of Winchester, 10 February 2011
01-Jan-2010	‘Queen Victoria and India’ University of Osaka, Japan, Global history seminar, 15 November 2010
01-Jan-2010	The nemesis of empire: Britain as a global power, 1850-1914 4th Korean-Japanese conference on British History, Kumamoto, Japan, 14 November 2010
01-Jan-2010	1848 revolutions University of Lille, France, 4 October 2010
01-Jan-2010	Europe in Asia during the Age of Revolutions, c. 1757-1858: overview, perspectives, challenges Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, 23-24 September 2010