James Daybell

Academic profile

Professor James Daybell

Associate Dean (Research)
Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business

The Global Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. James's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

Goal 04: SDG 4 - Quality EducationGoal 05: SDG 5 - Gender Equality

About James

Associate Head of School of Humanities and Performing Arts, Research

Supervised Research Degrees

PhD Supervision

Ian Cooper, ‘Networks, News and Communication: Political Elites and Community Relations in Elizabethan Devon’ (AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award in collaboration with Devon Record Office)

Bruna Gushurst-Moore, 'A Garden in Her Cup: Anglo-American Household Medicine, 1550-1800' (¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Studentship)

I welcome applications from all doctoral students working on early modern social, cultural and political history; gender and material culture; letters and manuscripts; heritage and museums; and public history.

Teaching

Early Modern British and European Political, Religious, Social and Cultural History

Gender and Women’s History

English Renaissance Literature

Undergraduate Modules Taught 

  • HIST144: What is History?
  • HIST 146: English History, 1640 to the Present
  • HIST 246: Tudor England
  • HIST 248: Education and Literacy in Early Modern Europe
  • HIST 301: Dissertation Supervision
  • HIST 302: Dissertation Supervision
  • HIST 350: Women and Politics in Early Modern England
  • HIST 352: The Family, Sex and Marriage in Early Modern England

Postgraduate Modules Taught

  • MASH 500: Historical Methods and Approaches
  • MASH 501: The Family, Sex and Society in Early Modern England
  • MRes and MA in Social History Dissertation Supervision

Highlights

James Daybell
Empowering communities with history and heritage

James was one of the first researchers to establish the field of early modern women’s letter writing, uncovering the hidden histories of women and their roles within society.

New technologies and changing lives: Histories of the Unexpected
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If you look in the right places, in the quiet archives, record offices and libraries of the land, you might find something that changes how we view history itself

James discusses his pioneering research into women letter writers.
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Is the role of the public historian more important than ever?

'My own lived experience of being a ‘public historian’ has been shaped over the past three decades by the rise of global challenges that demand the expertise and skills of the historian to take a long view on matters.'
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Cornerstone Heritage

The ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ's research centre in cultural heritage – how we live with, use and understand the past through things, spaces, traditions and memory.

Gendering the Museum is a toolkit aimed at museum and heritage professionals, as well as community groups. It provides guidance for curatorial, interpretation, programming and front-of-house staff to change the representation of gender in museums.