Profiles
Professor Daniel Maudlin
Professor
School of Society and Culture (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)
Biography
Biography
My research focusses on the role of space, place and material culture in the creation, maintenance and expansion of the British Atlantic World, 1650- 1850. Publications include: Inns and Empire (OUP, forthcoming); Georgian Architecture (OUP, forthcoming); Inner Empire: Architecture and Empire in the British Isles with G. A. Bremner (MUP, 2022); 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 architectural theory, especially everyday spaces and the use and experience of buildings, see: 'Concepts and Approaches' in the Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World (Bloomsbury, 2022); Consuming Architecture with Marcel Vellinga (Routledge, 2014); 'Concepts of the Vernacular' with Robert Brown in the SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory (SAGE, 2012).
Following undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of St Andrews, I worked for Historic Environment Scotland before moving into academia with a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dalhousie University, Canada. I joined the University of Plymouth in 2005.
At the University of Plymouth I am co-lead of the History and Heritage Research Group. I teach public history, heritage and material-spatial history across BA History. I am also programme leader for MA Heritage Theory and Practice and director of the student-led, spin-out heritage consultancy, Plymouth Heritage Praxis. Plymouth Heritage Praxis maintains a portfolio of projects increasingly focused on the health and wellbeing benefits of the historic environment for different groups and communities including young adults, older adults, LGBT and asylum seekers. 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 and Powderham Castle.
Qualifications
PhD, 'The Planned Villages of the British Fisheries Society, 1780 - 1820', University of St Andrews (British Academy Studentship), 1998 – 2002
MA Hons (First Class), History of Art with Landscape Archaeology , University of St Andrews, 1992 – 6
Academic Positions
Visiting Professor, Centre for Scottish Studies, University of Guelph, 2022 – 25
Director, Plymouth Heritage Praxis, 2017 -
John D. Rockefeller Fellow, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Colonial Williamsburg, 2016
Visiting Professor, Department of American Studies, University of North Carolina, 2014 – 16
Professor of Architectural History and Theory, Department of History and Art History, University of Plymouth, 2014 –
Associate Head of School (Research), Associate Professor/Professor, School of Architecture and Design, University of Plymouth, 2008 – 14
Lecturer, Department of Art History, University of Plymouth, 2005 – 8
Associate Professor, Department of History, Dalhousie University, Canada, 2002 – 5
Leverhulme Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Art History, University of Glasgow, 2002 - 5
Inspector, Historic Environment Scotland, Edinburgh, 2000 – 2002
Tom Ingram Memorial Fellow, Victorian and Albert Museum - Royal Malay Museums, 1997
Curatorial Program Intern, Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 1996
Intern, Survey of London, English Heritage, London, 1995
Professional membership
- International Society for Landscape, Place and Material Culture
- International Association for Study of Traditional Environments
- British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
- British Society for Early American History
- European Architectural History Network
- The Georgian Group
- Society of Antiquaries (Fellow)
Roles on external bodies
- Executive Council, European Architectural History Network, 2020 -
- Editorial Board, Journal of Built Heritage, 2019 -
- AHRC Peer Review College: Design, Heritage, History, 2016 - 20
- Trustee, Paul Oliver Vernacular Architecture Trust, 2015 -
- Judging Panel, Colonial History Prize, Society of Architectural Historians, 2013 – 16
- Editorial Board (founding board member), Architectural Histories, European Architectural History Network, 2012 - 14
- Editorial Board, Vernacular Architecture, Vernacular Architecture Group, 2010 -
- International Advisory Committee, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, 2009 –
- Advisory Group, World Monuments Fund, 2007 -
Teaching
Teaching
Teaching interests
Programme Leader
- MA Heritage Theory and Practice, 2020 –
- MA History, 2012 – 14
- MA Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2006 – 12
Module Leader
- BA History: ‘History and Heritage’ (Year 1 core module), 2017 -
- ‘History and Heritage: Legacies of Empire’ (Year 2 option), 2017 -
- ‘The British Atlantic World’ (Year 3 option), 2017 -
BA Architecture: Cultural Contexts Stream Leader (Years 1 – 3), 2008 – 14
PhD supervision:
I have successfully supervised a range of PhD students within the fields of architectural history and theory, material culture and heritage ranging from prison graffiti in Malaysia, to female agency in the British country house, Marie Antoinette’s hameaux at Petit Trianon and the heritage space of rivers.
Staff serving as external examiners
- Courtauld Institute, University of London
- Department of History, University of Newcastle
- Department of History, University College Dublin
- School of Architecture, University of Cardiff
- School of Architecture, University of Sheffield
- School of Architecture, KU Leuven
Research
Research
Research interests
Research groups
Grants & contracts
2022 - English Heritage, Listng Pilot Projet, £10,000
2021 - EPSRC colaborative bid with Health and Digital Design (£1.2 million outcome pending)
2021 -: A la Ronde, National Trust, National Lottery Heritage Fund (£500,000 collaborative partnership)
2021- 22: iMayflower Digital Partnerships with Dartmoor National Park, The Box and Powderham Castle, Cultural Development Fund, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (£40,000)
2020 – 22: National Lottery Heritage Fund: LGBT Narratives: Heritage in Safe Spaces (£38,000)
2019-20: Plymouth Heritage Praxis, Higher Education Industrial Fund (£50,000)
2018 – 20: Tavistock Heritage Trust, Cornish Mining World Heritage Gateway Centre, National Lottery Heritage Fund (£1.65 million partnership funding)
2018 - 19: Plymouth City Heritage Trails, National Mayflower Partnership, Plymouth City Council and Untitled Practice Architects (£1.5 million partnership funding)
2018 - 19: Rame Peninsula Heritage Gateway, National Lottery Heritage Fund (£248,000)
2014 – 17: Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship: The Inn and the Traveller in the Atlantic World (£138,526)
2011-12: AHRC Mid-Career Fellowship: The Invention of the English House (£36,124)
2009-11: AHRC Research Network Grant: Transatlantic Exchanges (£30,000)
2009: US Embassy Cultural Awards, Transatlantic Exchanges (£3500)
2009: Scotland Inheritance Fund: The Highland House Transformed (£2000)
2007 – 9: Mount Edgcumbe Country Park, Cornwall County Council, University of Pennsylvania, Kress Foundation (£20,000)
2005 – 7: Strawberry Hill Trust, University of Pennsylvania, Kress Foundation (£20,000)
2002 – 5: Leverhulme Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (£76,000)
Publications
Publications
D. Maudlin, ‘Inns and Elite Mobility in Late Georgian Britain’, Past and Present, Vol. 247, May 2020, 34-76.
D. Maudlin, 'The Urban Inn: gathering space, hierarchy and material culture in the eighteenth-century British town’, Urban History, Vol. 46 (2019), 1 - 32.
D. Maudlin, 'History, Heritage and the Inn in the British Atlantic World', 'The Hotel in History: Evolving Perspectives', Journal of Heritage Tourism, Vol. 8 (2017), 1-20.
D. Maudlin, 'A Narrow View of Nature: the world as experienced through early modern travel maps', Picturing Places, British Library (BL Online, 2017).
D. Maudlin, ‘Crossing Boundaries: Revisiting Some Thresholds of the Vernacular’, Vernacular Architecture, 41 (2010), 10-14.
D. Maudlin, ‘Habitations of the Labourer: Improvement, Reform and the Neoclassical Cottage in Eighteenth-Century Britain’, Design History, 23 (2010), 7-23.
D. Maudlin, ‘Constructing Tradition and Identity: Englishness, Politics and the Neo-Traditional House’, Journal of Architectural Education, 61:3 (2009), 51-63
D. Maudlin, ‘The Legend of Brigadoon: Architecture, Identity and Choice in the Scottish Highlands’, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, 20:2 (2009), 45-57.
D. Maudlin, ‘Modern Homes for Modern People: Identifying and Interpreting the Highland Building Boom’, Vernacular Architecture, 39 (2008), 1-18.
D. Maudlin, 'Architecture and Identity on the Edge of Empire: Domestic Architecture of Scottish Settlers in Nova Scotia’, Architectural History, 50 (2007), 95-123.
D. Maudlin, 'Thomas Telford, Robert Mylne and the Architecture of Improvement: The Planned Villages of the British Fisheries Society, 1786 - 1820', Urban History, 34:3 (2007), 453-480.
D. Maudlin, ‘Regulating the Vernacular: The Impact of Building Regulations in the Eighteenth-Century Highland Planned Village’, Vernacular Architecture, 34 (2003), 40-9.
D. Maudlin, ‘Tradition and Change in the Age of Improvement: A Study of the Dukes of Argyll Tacksmens’ Houses’, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 133 (2003), 359-74.
D. Maudlin, ‘Robert Mylne at Pitlour House’, Architectural Heritage, XII (2001), 27-37.
D. Maudlin, ‘Highland Planned Villages and the British Fisheries Society’, The New Town Phenomenon, Studies in History of Scottish Architecture and Design, IV (2000), 41-50.
D. Maudlin, ‘How to Make a Borders Box Bed’, Regional Furniture, XIV (2000), 1-3.
D. Maudlin, 'Anglo-Malay Furniture ', Regional Furniture, XIII (1999), 112-6.
D. Maudlin (ed.), The Routledge Companion to History, Space and Place (forthcoming).
D. Maudlin, Inns and Empire (Oxford University Press, contracted for 2022).
D. Maudlin, The Eighteenth-Century Built Environment (Oxford University Press,contracted for 2024).
G. A. Bremner and D. Maudlin (eds.), Inner Empire: Imperialism and Built Environment in the British Isles (Studies in Imperialism) (Manchester University Press, in press 2022).
D. Maudlin and B. L. Herman (eds.), Building the British Atlantic World: Spaces, Places, and Material Culture 1600 -1850 (University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, 2016).
D. Maudlin, The Idea of the Cottage 1760 – 1860 (Routledge, 2015; paperback ed. 2018).
D. Maudlin and M. Vellinga (eds.), Consuming Architecture: On the Occupation, Appropriation and Interpretation of Buildings (Routledge, 2014).
D. Maudlin and R. Peel (eds.), Traffic and (Mis)Translations: Transatlantic Exchanges between Britain and New England (University of New England Press, 2013).
D. Maudlin and R. Peel (eds.), The Materials of Exchange Between Britain and North East America, 1750-1900 (Routledge, 2013).
D. Maudlin, The Highland House Transformed: Architecture and Identity on the Edge of Britain, 1700 – 1850 (Dundee University Press, 2009; OUP North America, 2014).
D. Maudlin and B. L. Herman, 'Building the British Atlantic World', in D. Newall (ed.), Art and its Global Histories: A Reader (Manchester University Press, 2017), pp. 161-71.
D. Maudlin, ‘Early Colonial Architectures', in G. A. Bremner (ed.), Architecture and Urbanism of the British Empire (Oxford History of British Empire), (Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 19-51.
D. Maudlin, 'Politics and Place-making on the Edge of Empire: Loyalists, Highlanders and the Early Homes of British Canada', in D. Maudlin and B. L. Herman (eds.), Building the British Atlantic World: Spaces, Places, and Material Culture 1600 -1850 (University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, 2016), pp. 290-313.
D. Maudlin, ‘Cyma Recta: Palladianism and the Everyday’, in Palladian Design: The Good, The Bad and the Unexpected (Royal Institute of British Architects) (RIBA Books, 2015), pp. 30 – 43.
R. Brown and D. Maudlin, ‘Concepts of Vernacular Architecture’, in S. Cairns, C. Crysler and H. Heynen (eds.), The Sage Handbook of Architectural Theory (Sage, 2012), pp. 340-356.
D. Maudlin, ‘Telling Stories: Myths and Memories of the ‘blackhouse’ in the Scottish National Narrative’, in O. H. Turner (ed.), The Mirror of Great Britain: The Geography of British Architecture in the Seventeenth Century (Spire Books, 2012), pp. 261-281.
Personal
Personal
Reports & invited lectures
'The Inn in the Atlantic World', Dept of History, Centre for Scottish Studies, University of Guelph, 2021
'Impact Roundtable', University of Plymouth, 2020
'Space, Mobility and Material Culture in the Atlantic World', Penn Design, UPenn, 2017.
'The Inn at the Intersection of Space, Mobility and Material Culture', Mobility and Space in Early Modern Europe, Oxford University, 2017.
'The Inn in Early Modern Urban History', Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester, 2017.
'Understanding the Architecture and Urbanism of Mining', Mining Cultures and Environments Workshop, Brunel University, 2017.
'Travel Space and Travel Writing in the Eighteenth Century', Dept. of English, University of Glasgow, 2017.
'Roads, Maps and Inns in Eighteenth-Century Britain', Maps and Society Lecture Series, Warburg Institute, 2017.
'Rural Retreat and the Love of Landscape', Devonshire Association, 2017.
'Building the British Atlantic World', Open University: Global History podcast, 2016.
'The Idea of the Cottage in English Architecture', Devon Rural Archives, 2016.
'The Tavern: Cultural Power and Built Space in the British Atlantic World, Space, Mobility, and Power in Early America and the Atlantic World, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University Paris-Sorbonne, Paris 2016.
'Social Space and the 'Principal Inn' Network in the British Atlantic World', Spaces and Places of Leisure in the Early Modern World, German Institute of Historical Research, London, 2016.
'Among the Trees: building inns and being British on the Early American frontier', European Architectural History Network, Dublin, 2016.
'A Narrow View of Nature: early modern travel itineraries, maps and inns', Transforming Topographies, British Library and Paul Mellon Centre for British Art, 2016.
‘Palladio and the Everyday’, Palladio and Palladianism, RIBA, 2015.
‘The Inn, the Traveller and the Atlantic World’, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Research Forum, Colonial Williamsburg, 2015.
‘Different Buildings, Different People, Same Place? Bringing Order to the Scottish Countryside’, Vernacular Revivals, Vernacular Architecture Group, Oxford University, 2015.
‘Impermanence, Time and the Vernacular’, New Light on the Vernacular, Isle of Man, University of Liverpool, 2011.
‘Landscape and the Containment of Modern Britain’, Traditions of Myth-Making, International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Beirut, 2010.
‘Townscape, Tradition and the Suburbs’, European Architectural History Network, Guimaraes, Portugal, 2010.
Conferences organised
'New Audiences', Museums Federation, Annual Conference, 2019
Other academic activities
Media consulting and interviews
BBC News, interview, ‘Frogmore Cottage: the Queen’s gift for Harry and Meghan’, 2019
Histories of the Unexpected podcast, ‘Powderham Castle Special’, 2019
CNN, interview: ‘Contemporary housing design in the Scottish Highlands’, 2018
Country Life, interview: 'Castle with the Exe Factor', 2017
BBC Spotlight: ‘Plymouth team at Powderham Castle’, 2017
Open University podcast, ‘Building the British Atlantic World’, 2016
SKY Atlantic, consultant: Great Britain: Our Story, 2012
BBC2, consultant: The Age of Reason, 2009
BBC1, consultant: How We Built Britain, 2007