Dr Matthew Phillpott

Contact details

Name:

Dr Matthew Phillpott

Qualifications:

PhD

Position:

IHR Digital Projects Officer

Institute:

Institute of Historical Research

Location:

The Institute of Historical Research(IHR), Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Email address:

matt.phillpott@sas.ac.uk

Website:

http://www.history.ac.uk/about/matt-phillpott

Research Summary and Profile

Research interests:

Academic Support, Cultural memory, Digital resources, Digitisation, Early Modern, English Literature, History of the book, Manuscript studies, Medieval History

Regions:

England, Europe

Summary of research interests and expertise:

Matt Phillpott is Project Officer for the IHR Digital Seminar and Research Training Project: History SPOT (http://www.history.ac.uk/projects/seminar-and-research-training), which will place research course materials alongside podcasts of IHR research seminars in an online virtual environment. Before joining the IHR, Matt completed his PhD at the University of Sheffield in 2009, and worked as a researcher for the digital John Foxe Project and as an assistant for the HumBox repository at the Humanities Research Institute. Matt has also taught on several undergraduate courses at Sheffield’s Department of History on medieval and early modern topics.

Matt’s research interests include the English reformation, the history of the book, and early modern scholarly networks. Matt is particularly interested in the appropriation of pre-reformation texts by reformist scholars in the late sixteenth-century. At present he is exploring the catalogues of historical writers written by John Bale as a precursor to John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments (Book of Martyrs).

Publication Details

Related publications/articles:

Date	Details
01-Jan-2012	Review: Presenting History: Past and Present Review Reviews in History, Book Review of Peter Beck, Presenting History: Past and Present, Reviews in History (2012, review no. 1251)
01-Jan-2011	Review: John Arden, Books of Bale [reveiw of the novels historical sources] Review Reviews in History, Book Review comparing a historical fiction novel with its historical source material (Forthcoming, November, 2011). In this case: John Arden, Books of Bale (Methuen: London, 1988) Peter Happé, John Bale (Twayne: New York, 1996) Peter Happé, The Complete Plays of John Bale (D.S. Brewer: Cambridge, 1985)
01-Jan-2011	Podcasts for Historians - Introduction to the benefits and limitations of podcasting Research aids Matthew J. Phillpott, 'Podcasts for Historians - Introduction to the benefits and limitations of podcasting', Historical Research Handbook [HRH] History SPOT [Online] (September, 2011) Part of the Historical Research Handbooks series designed by IHR staff and associates for the History SPOT platform. Abstract: For some time now podcasts have been increasingly made for educational and academic study. This Handbook looks into the pedagogical issues surrounding podcasting. It asks what the benefits of podcasting might be in a Higher Education setting or as an aid for scholarly research, but it also looks at the limitations of this technology.
01-Jan-2011	'Anglo-Norman and Plantagenet kingship in John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs', prefatory essays, John Foxe, Acts and Monuments [...], The Variorum Edition [online] Articles Matthew J. Phillpott, 'Anglo-Norman and Plantagenet kingship in John Foxe's Book of Martyrs', Prefatory Essays, John Foxe Acts and Monuments [...], The Variorum Edition v.2 [online] (Sheffield, July 2011)
01-Jan-2011	‘The compilation of a sixteenth-century ecclesiastical history: the use of Matthew Paris in John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments’, The Medieval Chronicle VII Journal articles Matthew J. Phillpott, 'The compilation of a sixteenth-century ecclesiastical history: The use of Matthew Paris in John Foxe's Acts and Monuments', The Medieval Chronicle VII (2011)
01-Jan-2010	John Bale, John Foxe and the Reformation of the English Past Journal articles Mark Greengrass and Matthew J Phillpott, 'John Bale, John Foxe and the Reformation of the English Past', Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, 101 (2010), pp. 275-288.
01-Jan-2010	Review: Society in Early Modern England: The Vernacular Origins of Some Powerful Ideas by Phil Withington Review Society in Early Modern England: The Vernacular Origins of Some Powerful Ideas Phil Withington (Cambridge, Polity Press, 2010), ISBN: 9780745641300; 298pp.; Price: £16.99; Reviewer: Matt PhillpottInstitute of Historical Research Review no. 1011) Date published: December 2010
01-Jan-2005	'A landscape study of the deserted medieval settlement of Arras, East Yorkshire' Matthew Phillpott, 'A landscape study of the deserted medieval settlement of Arras, East Yorkshire', Medieval Settlement Research Group, Annual Report No. 20 (2005), pp. 31-33.

Research Projects & Supervisions

Research projects:

Details
History SPOT History SPOT [History Seminars Podcasts and Online Training] is the new platform from the IHR to publish online its core activities: particularly its research seminars and conferences as podcasts and live streamed events; and its research training materials as handbooks, training courses, and additional exercises for face to face training courses run by the IHR. History SPOT also offers a collaborative and interactive social space for historians to discuss resources and research.
History SPOT Blog The History SPOT blog began life as a Project Officer's view of the project but developed into an oppotunity to promote resources that we publish online especially reviews, summaries and my opinion pieces on various podcasts that we produce. These have since been integrated onto the History SPOT platform as well to further make use of the promotional possibilities and to make more of the resources that are available there.
IHR Relocation Blog The IHR has been moved to temporary rooms in Senate House for 2 years whilst the IHR part of North Block is revamped. The IHR Relocation blog provides an online presence during the course of these two years for IHR activities. It includes news, updates, information, opinion pieces and trivia about the IHR and is proving highly popular.
Novel Approaches: from academic history to historical fiction The IHR are hosting for the first time a virtual or online conference as an extension of our traditional November conference entitled Novel Approaches: from academic history to historical fiction. The site will go live at the begining of October but content will only be added the week following the conference. This includes conference podcasts, opinion pieces, book reviews, bibliographies, biographies, articles.
Sixteenth Century Scholars A website and blog detailing my history research on sixteenth century scholars and historians. This research will work towards a monograph and articles.

Relevant Events

Knowledge transfer activities:

Details

Developing online research training and course delivery Workshop: Developing online research training and course delivery Date: 21 June 2011 Location: Wolfson Room, IHR Time: 1pm-4pm Organiser, host, and speaker at the workshop. Blurb: In a world where research projects are increasingly based around digital resources and technologies, historians can no longer ignore the potential that Online Research Training can provide for Higher Education teaching and for training of scholars, professionals and students. This workshop examines good practice for online training and reflects on both pedagogical issues and on technological benefits and limitations. In particular it focuses on the development by the IHR of the History SPOT platform (Seminar Podcasts and Online Training) which will soon be released as the Institute’s primary online platform for its Research Seminars and Training courses. The workshop also looks at the Open University’s recent development of an Online MA in History.

Consultancy & Media

Available for consultancy:

Yes