Staff profile

staff list  BackDr Stephen Hipkin

  • Job title: Acting Head of Department
  • Dept: History and American Studies
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  • Campus: Canterbury
 

Teaching responsibilities:

  • English History in the 16th and 17th Centuries

Research interests:

  • Early Modern English agrarian history, especially land holding and land tenure
  • The evolution of the metropolitan grain trade of Kent in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
  • Popular protest in late-sixteenth and early seventeenth-century England
    Crime and criminality in early modern England

Recent Publications include

  • 'The structure of landownership and land occupation in the Romney Marsh Region, 1646-1834', Agricultural History Review Vol. 51, pt 1 (2003), pp. 69-94.
  • 'Property, economic interest and the configuration of rural conflict in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England', Socialist History 23 (2003), pp. 67-88.
  • '"Why should one lack money when another hath plenty": The tales of two criminals in late-Elizabethan Kent', Southern History 24 (2002), pp. 45-58.
  • ''The Worlds of Daniel Langdon: Public Office and Private Enterprise in the Romney Marsh Region in the Early-Eighteenth Century', in A. Long, S. Hipkin and H. Clarke, (eds), Romney Marsh: Coastal and Landscape Change Through the Ages (Oxford University School of Archaeology Monograph 56, 2002), pp. 173-89.
  • 'Tenant farming and short-term leasing on Romney Marsh, 1585-1705', Economic History Review, LIII (2000), pp. 646-76.
  • '"Sitting on his penny rent": conflict and right of common in Faversham Blean, 1595-1610', Rural History, 11 (2000), pp. 1-35.
  • 'The maritime economy of Rye, 1560-1640', Southern History 20/21 (1998/9). pp.108-42.
  • The Structure of Land Occupation in the Level of Romney Marsh During the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries', in J. Eddison, M. Gardiner and A. Long (eds), Romney Marsh: Environmental Change and Human Occupation in a Coastal Lowland (Oxford University School of Archaeology Monograph 46, 1998), pp. 147-63.
  • 'Closing ranks: oligarchy and government at Rye, 1570-1640', Urban History 22 (1995), pp. 319-40.
  • 'The Impact of Marshland Drainage on Rye Harbour, 1550-1650', in J. Eddison (ed.), Romney Marsh: The Debatable Ground (Oxford University School of Archaeology Monograph 41, 1995), pp. 138-47.
  • 'Buying time: fiscal policy at Rye 1600-1640', Sussex Archaeological Collections 133 (1995), pp. 241-54.

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