Penelope Corfield - Curriculum Vitae#

• 1962-65 St. Hilda's College, University of Oxford: 1st Class BA degree awarded (1965); MA (1970)
  
• 1965-68 London School of Economics, London University: PhD awarded (1976)
  

EMPLOYMENT

• 1968-1969 Lecturer, School of History, University of Birmingham
  
• 1969-1985 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, Bedford College, London University; and subsequently 1985-9 at Royal Holloway, University of London
  
• 1990-2010 Reader & then Professor in History, Royal Holloway, London University
  
• 1992- Visiting Professorships in Hungary (1992, 1996), Japan (1994; 2002; 2007), Australia (1995; 2000)

ACADEMIC AWARDS

Numerous Fellowships including London University Research Fellowship (1967-8); Herodotus Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1987); Nuffield Foundation Social Science Research Fellowship (1989-90); British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship (1990-91); Japan Society for Promotion of Science Visiting Fellowship (1994); Norman Chester Senior Research Fellowship, Nuffield College, Oxford (1999); Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Visiting Fellowship (2002); University of Waseda, Japan, Visiting Fellowship (2007); All Souls College, Oxford University, Visiting Fellowship (2008-9)

BOOKS

The Impact of English Towns 1700-1800 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1982), pp. vi + 206; hardback + paperback; reprinted 1989
Japanese edition with new introduction, translated by S. Matsusuka & K. Sakamaki (Sanrei Shobo, Tokyo, 1989)

Work in Towns 850-1850, edited with Derek Keene (Leicester University Press/Pinter Publishers, Leicester & London, 1990), pp. xiv + 250

F.J. Fisher: London and the English Economy 1500-1700, edited with N.B. Harte (Hambledon Press, London, 1990), pp. x + 208

Language, History and Class, edited essays (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1991), pp. viii + 320; hardback + paperback

Power and the Professions in Britain 1700-1850 (Routledge, London, 1995), pp. x + 269; hardback 1995; paperback 1999

Youth and Revolution in the 1790s: Letters of William Pattisson, Thomas Amyot and Henry Crabb Robinson, edited with Chris Evans (Sutton, Stroud, 1996), pp. vii + 200

The Westminster Historical Database: Voters, Social Structure and Electoral Behaviour, with CD-ROM, by C. Harvey, E.M. Green and P.J. Corfield (Bristol Academic Press, Bristol, 1998), pp. xiii + 193: paperback

Time and the Shape of History (Yale University Press, 2007), pp. xx + 310; 29 illus.