Matthew P. DaviesFRHistSFSA is a British academic administrator and urban historian, specialising in late medieval and early modern cities. Since 2016, he has been Executive Dean of the School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy at
Birkbeck, University of London where he is also a professor of urban history; between 2002 and 2016, he was Director of the
Institute of Historical Research's
Centre for Metropolitan History.
(Edited with
Vanessa Harding, Catherine Ferguson, Elizabeth Parkinson, John Price, Andrew Wareham and Cliff Webb) The London and Middlesex Hearth Tax of 1666, British Records Society Hearth Tax Series, no. 9 (2014).
(Edited with James A. Galloway) London and Beyond: Essays in Honour of
Derek Keene (Institute of Historical Research, 2012).
"'Monuments of Honour': Clerks, Histories and Heroes in the London livery companies", in Hannes Kleineke (ed.), Fifteenth Century X:Parliament, Personalities and Power. Papers Presented to
Linda S. Clark (Boydell Press, 2011), pp. 145–165.
(Edited with
Andrew Prescott) London and the Kingdom: Essays in Honour of
Caroline M. Barron, Harlaxton Medieval Studies, no. 16 (Shaun Tyas, 2008).
(Authored with
Vanessa Harding, Philip Baker, Mark Merry, Olwen Myhill, Gill Newton and
Richard Smith) People in Place: Families, Households and Housing in Early Modern London (Centre for Metropolitan History, 2008)
(Edited with
Caroline M. Barron) The Religious Houses of London and Middlesex (Institute of Historical Research , 2007).
(Authored with Ann Saunders) The History of the Merchant Taylors' Company (Maney, 2004).
"Lobbying Parliament: the London livery companies in the fifteenth century", Parliamentary History, vol. 23 (2004), pp. 136–148.
"Governors and Governed: the Practice of Power in the Merchant Taylors' Company", in I. A. Gadd and P. Wallis (eds.), Guilds, Society and Economy in London, 1450–1800 (Centre for Metropolitan History, 2002), pp. 67–83.
The Merchant Taylors' Company of London: Court Minutes 1486–1493 (Paul Watkins, 2000).
"Artisans, Guilds and Government in London" in
R. H. Britnell (ed.), Daily Life in the Late Middle Ages (Sutton, 1998), pp. 125–150.
"The Tailors of London: Corporate Charity in the Late-Medieval Town" in
Rowena E. Archer (ed.), Crown, Government and People in the Fifteenth Century (Sutton, 1995), pp. 161–190.
"Dame
Thomasine Percyvale, 'the Maid of Week' (d. 1512)", in
Caroline M. Barron and Anne F. Sutton (eds.), Medieval London Widows 1300–1500 (Hambledon Press, 1994), pp. 185–208.
Since 2016, Davies has been director of a
Heritage-Lottery-funded project, "The Layers of London: mapping the city's heritage", based at the Institute of Historical Research. From 2010 to 2016, he was director of the "Records of London's Livery Companies Online" project, and with
Vanessa Harding and
Richard Smith, he received a Major Grant from
Economic and Social Research Council for a project entitled "Life in the Suburbs: Health, Domesticity and Status in Early Modern London", which ran from 2008 to 2011.[4]
References
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ab"Staff", Centre for Metropolitan History. Retrieved 1 June 2018.