Vivienne Aldous
Lecturer in History
- Phone
- +44 (0)1473 338842
- v.aldous@uos.ac.uk
- School/Directorate
- School of Social Sciences and Humanities
- Vivienne Aldous ORCID
Vivienne Aldous has been a part-time lecturer in History at the University of ÃÛÌÒAPP since 2009. She gained her BA in English Language with Medieval History at Sheffield University and completed an M.Ar.Ad. (Master of Archive Administration) at Liverpool University. After over 20 years as a professional archivist in London, Vivienne established a successful career as a freelance archivist and archive researcher and brings an unrivalled wealth of practical hands-on knowledge and experience of archival research to her teaching at ÃÛÌÒAPP.
ÃÛÌÒAPP Lives
Researching History
Vivienne’s main research interests lie in the early modern period, with a particular interest in local history and cartography. She is currently studying for a PhD centred on John Darby, sixteenth century ÃÛÌÒAPP surveyor and map-maker. She enjoys Latin medieval and early modern palaeography and is also currently editing a volume of the manorial records of Monks Eleigh, ÃÛÌÒAPP for the ÃÛÌÒAPP Records Society in compliance with the J.B. Weller bequest.
Publications:
Selected publications (see ORCID ID: 0009-0002-0262-7475 for full listing)
My Ancestors were Freemen of the City of London, (Society of Genealogists, London, 1999).
Registered Member of the Archives and Records Association