Dr Elizabeth New
BA (Exeter) MA (York) PhD (London)
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Reader in History
Department of History & Welsh History
Contact Details
- Email: ean@aber.ac.uk
- ORCID: 0000-0003-4755-3027
- Office: 3.10, International Politics Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 622671
- Research Portal Profile
Profile
Dr Elizabeth New BA (Exeter), MA (York), PhD (London) is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Her research interests focus on high and later medieval England and Wales, especially its social, cultural and religious history; the visual and material culture of medieval Britain and northern Europe; medieval seals and sealing practices; and heritage studies. Dr New is currently working on her Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (2020-23), ‘Identity, interaction and exchange in medieval England’, and was Co-Investigator for the recent AHRC Imprint: a forensic and historical investigation of fingerprints on medieval seals project www.imprintseals.org She is also an advisor to the British Academy English Episcopal Acta project, Chair of Sigillvm (the international association for the study of seals), and a member of the Harlaxton Medieval Symposium steering committee.
Additional Information
I currently am working on a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship project, so I am unable to respond to teaching or administrative queries. I am however happy to receive enquiries from potential PhD students.
Teaching
Module Coordinator
- HY24420 - Seals in Their Context in Medieval England and Wales
- HYM0020 - Medieval London c. 1200 - 1500
Coordinator
- HY24420 - Seals in Their Context in Medieval England and Wales
- HYM0020 - Medieval London c. 1200 - 1500
Tutor
- HY23120 - Reading a Building
- HY10420 - 'Hands on' History: Sources and their Historians
- HYM0120 - Research Methods and Professional Skills in History
- HYM1160 - Dissertation
- HY12420 - Europe and the World, 1000-2000
- HY30340 - Dissertation
- HA24520 - Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu
- HA31820 - Concro'r Byd: Tŵf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc
- HQ39620 - The Invisible Empires: The First Ku Klux Klan and American Society, 1865-1915
- HY29320 - Culture, Society and the Victorians
- HY29420 - The Nazi Dictatorship: Regime and Society in Germany 1933-1945
- HY35620 - Medieval England and Germany, c. 1050-1250
- HY38520 - Between Revolution and Reform: China since 1800
- HA21820 - Concro'r Byd: Twf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc
- HAM0160 - Traethawd Hir
- HP37520 - Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, 1914-1948 (Rhan 2)
- HY11820 - The Modern World, 1789 to the present
- HY22020 - The British Isles in the Long Eighteenth Century
- HY26520 - The European Reformation
- HY28920 - Roads to Modernity: Germany and Japan in the Age of Empires, 1860s-1930s
- HYM1220 - Sources for Postgraduate Research in the Modern Humanities and Social Sciences
- HYM2820 - Gerald of Wales
- WH30120 - Wales and the Kings of Britain: Conflict, Power and Identities in the British Isles 1039-1417
- CY20720 - Beirdd a Noddwyr: Llên a Hanes c.1300-1500
- HA10420 - Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswyr
- HA39320 - Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
- HC11820 - Cymdeithas, Pobl a Gwleidyddiaeth: Cymru, 1800-1999
- HC33520 - Cymru a'r Tuduriaid
- HQ37620 - Britain at War 1939-45 (Part 2)
- HY23420 - History as myth-Making: the 'Myth of the Blitz'
- HY25520 - Famine in Medieval England
- HY38920 - Roads to Modernity: Germany and Japan in the Age of Empires, 1860s-1930s
- WHM1060 - Dissertation: Welsh History
- WHM1120 - Landownership and Society in Wales
- WHM1220 - Class and Community in Wales 1850 - 1939
- HA12120 - Cyflwyno Hanes
- HCM0160 - Traethawd Hir: Hanes Cymru
- HQ33120 - Ritual, kingship and power in Norman and Angevin England: methods, sources & actors (Part 1)
- HQ33220 - Ritual, kingship and power in Norman and Angevin England: methods, sources & actors (Part 2)
- HQ37520 - Britain at War 1939-45 (Part 1)
- HY25620 - Medieval England and Germany, c. 1050-1250
- HY29120 - Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene
- HY30120 - The British Isles in the Long Eighteenth Century
- HY39220 - From Poor Law to Welfare State: Poverty and Welfare in Modern Britain, 1815-1948
- HYM2220 - Texts that made the Middle Ages: advanced Latin reading for postgraduate students
- HYM9920 - Working with History
- WH11720 - People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999
- WH33520 - Wales under the Tudors
- CY30720 - Beirdd a Noddwyr: Llên a Hanes c.1300 - 1500
- HA29320 - Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
- HA34520 - Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu
- HC11120 - Concwest, Uno a Hunaniaeth yng Nghymru 1200-1800
- HQ35020 - The English Reformation, 1520-58: Revolution and Counter Revolution
- HY24620 - Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions
- HY25020 - Recounting Racism: Oral History and Modern American Race Relations.
- HY26720 - War, Politics and People: England in Context in the Fourteenth Century
- HY36520 - The European Reformation
- HYM2120 - Latin for Postgraduate Study
- HYM3820 - The British Atlantic World in the 18th Century
- PGM0410 - Ways of Reading
- PGM4420 - Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis (1120)
- HA30340 - Traethawd Estynedig
- HC23520 - Cymru a'r Tuduriaid
- HP37420 - Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, 1842-1914 (Rhan 1)
- HQ35420 - The Irish in Britain, c.1815-70 (Part 1): Migration and Settlement
- HQ35520 - The Irish in Britain, c. 1850-1922 (Part 2): Community and Conflict
- HY11420 - Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Europe, 1000-1800
- HY39320 - Culture, Society and the Victorians
- HYM0520 - Key Themes in Modern History
- HYM6220 - Science, Place and Victorian Culture
- WH23520 - Wales under the Tudors
- HA11420 - Ewrop a'r Byd, 1000-2000
- HQ39720 - The Invisible Empires: The Second Ku Klux Klan and American Society, 1915-1944
- HY12120 - Introduction to History
- HY20120 - Making History
- HY24320 - Interdisciplinary and decolonial history
- HY28520 - Between Revolution and Reform: China since 1800
- HY35520 - Famine in Medieval England
- HY39120 - Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene
- HY39420 - The Nazi Dictatorship: Regime and Society in Germany 1933-1945
- HYM0020 - Medieval London c. 1200 - 1500
- HYM4820 - Research Concepts and Skills
- HYM6320 - Representations of the Holocaust 1945-2020
- PGM3610 - Texts that made the Middle Ages: Latin for postgraduates
- HA20120 - Llunio Hanes
- HQ35620 - The English Reformation, 1558-1648: Consolidation and Conflict
- HY24420 - Seals in Their Context in Medieval England and Wales
- HY29220 - From Poor Law to Welfare State: Poverty and Welfare in Modern Britain, 1815-1948
- HY36720 - War, Politics and People: England in Context in the Fourteenth Century
- HYM2020 - England in Context in the Long Thirteenth Century
- HYM5120 - Concepts and Sources in Heritage Studies
- PGM3510 - Sources for Postgraduate Research in the Modern Humanities and Social Sciences
- WH20120 - Wales and the Kings of Britain: Conflict, Power and Identities in the British Isles 1039-1417
- WHM1920 - The Making of Wales
PhD Supervision
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Seals and sealing practices in medieval Britain. Approaches include cultural and social history; administrative and legal practices; local studies; imagery and semiotics; cross-cultural and trans-national exchange; archival, museum and historiographical studies.
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Religious and devotional practices in later medieval England and Wales, especially the material and visual culture of devotion, guilds and fraternities, Christocentric devotion.
Research
Dr Elizabeth New works on the social, cultural and religious history and material and visual culture of medieval Britain, and on aspects of heritage studies.
She currently holds a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (2020-23). Her project, ‘Identity, interaction and exchange in medieval England’, draws on a range of historical and scientific research methods to explore the ways in which people, especially of the under-investigated middling and lower levels of society, used seals as a means of identification and representation, and in relation to social, cultural and legal interactions and exchange, and will lead to a major monograph, Impressing People. Identity, interaction and exchange in medieval England and Wales. In addition to this book Dr New is working on a series of publications that highlight how a holistic approach to seals and sealing practices, and in particular their full integration into medieval studies, can provide new insights into society and reveal important nuances of cultural meaning. Dr New was Co-Investigator for the AHRC project Imprint: a forensic and historical investigation of fingerprints on medieval seals www.imprintseals.org and previously was Senior Researcher for the AHRC Seals in Medieval Wales project.
Dr New’s critical edition of the records of the Jesus Guild in St Paul's Cathedral (Oxford, Bodleian Tanner MS 221), which provide valuable insights into socio-economic networks and the 'economy of salvation' on the eve of the Reformation, is published in February 2022 https://boydellandbrewer.com/9780900952623/records-of-the-jesus-guild-in-st-pauls-cathedral-c-1450-1550/ This is one element in Dr New’s ongoing work on aspects of the Holy Name (the subject of her PhD) in relation to expressions of Christocentric devotion, a monograph about which is forthcoming.
Dr New has a range of interests relating to heritage, material culture, and historiography, and currently is investigating a group of medievalists active during the period of the ‘professionalization’ of history.