Elizabeth Matthew

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Lecturer
Director of teaching and Learning, History
Postgraduate supervision
I have supervised/co-supervised two theses to completion, one on late medieval English diplomats, another on late medieval English archers. I am currently co-supervising a thesis on the experience of pregnancy and childbirth in late medieval England.
Teaching
Undergraduate Teaching
Part 1
- Contributions to Journeys through History 1
- Option: Chivalry: the Emergence and Impact of a Medieval Ethos
Part 2
- Option: Kingship and Crisis in England, c. 1154-1330
Part 3
- Options: Ireland and the English in the Middle Ages; History Education
Postgraduate Teaching
Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies
- Researching the Middle Ages: Late Medieval Private Letter Collections
- Advanced Study and Source Analysis supervision
- Options: Ireland and her Neighbours in the Later Middle Ages; Hundred Years War; From Agincourt to Bosworth – War and Politics in Fifteenth-Century England
- Dissertation supervision
Research centres and groups
- Council of Berkshire Record Society (2016- )
- Council of the Historical Association (2008-15); HA Branches Committee (2006-09); HA Public History Committee (2009-15); HA Reading Branch Committee (President 2000-05; Treasurer 2010-13).
- Council of the British Records Association (2006-14)
- Editorial Board of the Irish Chancery Project, Trinity College, Dublin (2008-12)
Publications
- Matthew, E. (2009) Henry V and the proposal for an Irish crusade. In: Smith, B. , (eds.) Ireland and the English world in the Late Middle Ages: essays in honour of Robin Frame. Palgrave Macmillan , Basingstoke & New York. pp. 161-175. ISBN: 9780230542891
- Matthew, E. (2004) Talbot, Richard (d. 1449), archbishop of Dublin. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. , 53. Oxford University Press , UK. pp. 716-717. | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/26939
- Matthew, E. (2004) Nugent, Richard, first Baron Delvin and baron of Delvin (d. 1475). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. , 41. Oxford University Press , UK. pp. 262-263. | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/20394
- Matthew, E. (2004) Butler, James, fourth earl of Ormond (1390–1452). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. , 9. Oxford University Press , UK. pp. 147-149. | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/4187