Department of History & Welsh History

Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship: The Great Famine.

19 December 2011

Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship: The Great Famine. Dearth and society in medieval England c.1300/co-editor, Economic History Review

Professor Phillipp Schofield has been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to work on famine in the middle ages. The Fellowship, which will last for three years from September 2012, will support research for and a subsequent volume on The Great Famine. Dearth and society in medieval England c.1300. The Leverhulme-funded project will produce a substantial investigation of the Great Famine for England in the early fourteenth century. The Great Famine was northern Europe's most extensive famine event of the last millenium, and yet relatively little has been written on it. Employing a range of primary material, a good deal of which is hitherto unexamined for the Great Famine in England, the project will present an exploration of the famine itself as well as its context, socially, economically and politically.

In addition, Professor Schofield, who was from 1999-2011, co-editor of the journal Continuity and Change (http://www.esaim-m2an.org/action/displayJournal?jid=CON ) also, in July 2011, became co-editor of one of the discipline’s key journals, Economic History Review: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1468-0289/issues. Economic History Review is the journal of the Economic History Society: http://www.ehs.org.uk/