Dr Philip Morgan

Title: Senior Lecturer
Phone: (+44) 01782 733204
Email:
Location: CBB0.048
Role: Director MRes Humanities; Liaison for Keele students studying abroad, and international students studying at Keele; Reviews editor, Staffordshire Studies; Co-director Gascon Rolls Project.
Contacting me: By email or phone usually works. I have two office hours on Wednesdays 11-1, but will see students at any time.
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I did my undergraduate and postgraduate studies at University College London, and  submitted a doctoral thesis on warfare in medieval Cheshire, supervised by the late Professor Sir Rees Davies. Whilst at UCL I also worked as an assistant editor, first with the late Dr John Morris and then with the late Professor John McN Dodgson on the Phillimore Domesday project. I held a temporary lectureship at Queen Mary College, University of London and taught in a secondary school in Chippenham (Wiltshire) for six years before being appointed as a lecturer in local history in the department of adult education at Keele University in 1984. I was assimilated by the department of history in  the early 1990s. Whilst at Keele I have taught as a visiting lecturer at Liverpool University on the M.A. in archive administration, and now hold an honorary research fellowship there, and have held two Fulbright visiting professorships, at the University of Colorado in Boulder in 1990-91 and at Wesminster College Missouri in 2000-01.

  • The gentry. The character and formation of the medieval English gentry, especially their cultural identities and attitudes to family and lineage.
  • Medieval warfare. The battle of Shrewsbury, 1403 is a current book project which reflects interests in the social context of war.
  • Chronicles. An edition of the chronicle of the Cistercian abbey at Croxden, Staffordshire.
  • Water. The cultural history of water across a long chronology from prehistory to the modern world, including ritual landscapes and practices.

Selected Publications

  • Morgan P and Atherton I. 2011. The Battlefield War Memorial: Commemoration and the battlefield site from the Middle Ages to the modern era. Journal of War and Culture Studies, vol. 4(3), 289-304. doi> link>
  • Morgan P. 2011. The medieval battlefield war memorial. In Ritual and space in the middle ages : proceedings of the 2009 Harlaxton Symposium. (vol. 21). Donington: Shaun Tyas. link>
  • MORGAN P. 2007. 'Cheshire and Wales'. In Power and Identity in the Middle Ages: Essays in Memory of Rees Davies. Pryce H and Watts J (Eds.). Oxford University Press.
  • MORGAN P. 2005. 'A Prose Narrative of the Lords Rushall in John Harpur's Psalter'. In Much Heaving and Shoving: Late-medieval Gentry and Their Concerns. Aston M and Horrox R (Eds.). Aston & Horrox.
  • MORGAN P. 2003. 'Ranks of Society'. In The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries (Short Oxford History of the British Isles). Griffiths RA (Ed.). Oxford University Press.

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Journal Articles

  • Morgan P and Atherton I. 2011. The Battlefield War Memorial: Commemoration and the battlefield site from the Middle Ages to the modern era. Journal of War and Culture Studies, vol. 4(3), 289-304. doi> link>
  • Morgan P. 2006. Gentry culture in late-medieval England. ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, vol. 59(4), 841-843. link> doi>
  • Morgan P. 1998. Richard II. JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, vol. 49(4), 725-726. link>
  • Morgan P. 1997. Gentry households in fifteenth-century Cheshire (Resident working organization in the late Middle-Ages). BULLETIN OF THE JOHN RYLANDS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF MANCHESTER, vol. 79(2), 21-26. link>
  • Morgan P. 1997. Political life in medieval England, 1300-1450 - Ormrod,WM. HISTORY, vol. 82(265), 133. link>
  • MORGAN P. 1995. THE DEATH OF EDWARD-V AND THE REBELLION OF 1483. HISTORICAL RESEARCH, vol. 68(166), 229-232. link> doi>

Chapters

  • Morgan P. 2011. The medieval battlefield war memorial. In Ritual and space in the middle ages : proceedings of the 2009 Harlaxton Symposium. (vol. 21). Donington: Shaun Tyas. link>
  • Rogers CJ. 2010. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology. In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology. Morgan P (Ed.). (4 vols.).
  • MORGAN P. 2007. 'Cheshire and Wales'. In Power and Identity in the Middle Ages: Essays in Memory of Rees Davies. Pryce H and Watts J (Eds.). Oxford University Press.
  • MORGAN P. 2005. 'A Prose Narrative of the Lords Rushall in John Harpur's Psalter'. In Much Heaving and Shoving: Late-medieval Gentry and Their Concerns. Aston M and Horrox R (Eds.). Aston & Horrox.
  • MORGAN P. 2003. 'Ranks of Society'. In The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries (Short Oxford History of the British Isles). Griffiths RA (Ed.). Oxford University Press.
  • MORGAN P and Youngs, D.. 2001. 'The documentary evidence'. In Stafford Castle: Survey, Excavation and Research 1978-1998: Surveys. Darlington J (Ed.). Stafford Borough Council.

Undergraduate

I teach courses in English and European history in the period 500-1500. These include first-year courses on early-medieval Europe 950-1250, and second-year courses on Castle and Cloister (shared with Dr Kate Cushing) and English Radicals and Writers, 1350-1425 (also shared with Dr Kate Cushing). I offer topics on the Princes in the Tower for the first-year core module, and History by Numbers and the Armenian genocide for the second-year core module, Sources and Debates. I teach one of two special subjects, one on  the reign of Edward II and the other on the cultural history of water.

Postgraduate 

I am currently supervising an AHRC doctoral studentship on 'The Lords of the North-Sea World,' a study of early-medieval lordship, and have recently supervised an AHRC collaborative doctoral studentship with Lichfield cathedral on ‘The Lands of St Chad.'  I have masters' students working on the Isle of Man in the early middle ages, noblewomen in the early fourteenth century, toll-road collectors in the nineteenth century, and the introduction of computing into the NHS.

I teach palaeography and diplomatic  for masters' students.