The Global Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Daniel's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
About Daniel
Daniel Maudlin specialises in the history of the British Empire and its global contexts, 1600 - 1900, primarily focussing on the North Atlantic - British Isles, North America, the Caribbean, West Africa - and the Indian Subcontinent. He studied at the University of St Andrews both as an undergraduate (MA (Hons), 1996) and postgraduate (PhD, 2002). He is currently Professor of History at the University of Plymouth where he teaches History and Heritage across BA History and is programme lead for MA Heritage. He previously taught at the University of St Andrews and the University of Glasgow and led the University of Pennsylvania's European Conservation Summer School running live projects at British historic sites and collections. He has been a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow at Dalhousie University, Canada, Research Fellow at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Research Fellow at the Winterthur Museum, Visiting Fellow at UPenn, Visiting Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Scottish Studies, University of Guelph, Canada. Research grants include a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellowship, AHRC Network Grant, AHRC Mid Career Fellowship, AHRC Impact Fellowship and Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship. He has been awarded the Allen G. Noble Prize by the International Society for Landscape, Place and Material Culture; the Jeffrey Cook Prize by the Interntational Assocation for the Study of Traditional Environments and History Book of the Year by the Scotsman for his first book, The Highland House Transformed. Before moving into academia he worked in the museums and heritage sector including: the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; V&A - Royal Malay Museums; National Galleries of Scotland and the furniture department of Bonhams Auctioneers, Bond St, London.
Current research projects include Project Lead on Objects, Spaces, Sounds, a transdisciplinary, multi-institution study of imperialism and intercultural placemaking in Hudson Bay, co-created with the Indigenous Cree communities of Hudson Bay, Canada (£750,000 AHRC bid in preparation to submit 2025). This year he is also engaged with an AHRC Impact Accelerator Fellowship with the National Trust, Re-Thinking Eighteenth-Century Sites, re-thinking curatorial approaches to eighteenth century house and collections across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. He is also part of the interdisciplinary team leading the £1.2 million EPSRC-funded ICONIC Project exploring the health benefits of heritage sites for excluded groups through remote digital access (extended reality).
He has two major monographs currently in-press with Oxford University Press: A Night at the Inn: material culture and the elite experience of empire, 1650 -150; and, Georgian Architecture (Oxford History of Art (OUP, 2026). Previous publications include Inner Empire: Architecture and Empire in the British Isles with G. A. Bremner (MUP, 2024); Building the British Atlantic World with Bernard L. Herman (UNC Press, 2016), winner of the Allen G Noble Book Prize; and, The Highland House Transformed: Architecture and Identity on the edge of Britain (EUP, 2009), Scotsman History Book of the Year. I also write on theoretical approaches to everyday spaces, including On the Occupation, Appropriation and Interpretation of Buildings with Marcel Vellinga (Routledge, 2014); 'Concepts of the Vernacular' with Robert Brown in the SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory (SAGE, 2012).
He teaches across BA History and MA History and is programme leader for MA Heritage Theory and Practice. He also run the spin-out heritage consultancy, Plymouth Heritage Praxis. Plymouth Heritage Praxis works with students and MA gradutes across a portfolio of partnership heritage projects. PHP works through grant-funded partnerships and contract research with the heritage sector. Current partners include the National Trust, Historic England, Dartmoor National Park, The Box, National Marine Park and Powderham Castle.
Teaching
Programme Lead- MA Heritage Theory and Practice, 2018 –
- MRes Architecture, 2008 - 14
- ‘History and Heritage’, BA History & Art Historyu (Year 1 core module), 2018 -
- ‘History and Heritage: Legacies of Empire’, BA History, Art History and English (Year 2 option), 2018 -
- ‘The British Atlantic World’ (Year 3 option), 2018 -
I have successfully supervised a range of PhD students within the fields of cultural heritage, architectural history and theory and material culture from prison graffiti in Malaysia to female agency in the British country house and the heritage space of rivers.
