Staff profiles
Dr John Stuart - Director of the Centre for Local History Studies
Dr John Stuart joined Kingston University as Senior Lecturer in History in 2005. He became Director of the Centre for Local History Studies on 1 November 2007. As well as local history, he is interested in the history of the British Empire and Commonwealth. He researches and publishes on the history of British Protestant missions in late colonial Africa. He teaches on a range of History undergraduate modules.
Annie Sullivan - Project Development Consultant
Annie Sullivan began her career with the J. Walter Thompson advertising group. She then concentrated on exhibition and events marketing for American Airlines, particularly in Australia and the Pacific Rim countries. In the pioneering days of email, Annie was a sales and marketing manager for BT's Telecom Gold division. She then decided to resume her studies and gained a BA Hons at Kingston University in History and Literature.
She has been with the Centre since its inception in 1997 and is now project development consultant and editor of the Centre's newsletter.
Juliet Warren - Researcher
Juliet Warren took a BA in History and MA Historical Research at Roehampton University after working in the commercial sector for a number of years. She has worked in the Centre for 10 years, and has managed the databases of the Kingston Local History Project, the Great Ormond Street Hospital Project, and the current Historic Hospital Patient Registers Project. Her research and teaching interests include local and community history, and history and computing.
Sue Hawkins - Project Manager
Dr Sue Hawkins gained her doctorate, on nursing in Victorian London, at Kingston University in 2007. She was project manager on the Centre's Great Ormond Street Hospital Victorian patient admissions database project, and is currently managing a follow up on two further London children's hospitals. Her research interests include nursing in Victorian England, women's role in Victorian society and the history of healthcare. In addition, Sue has worked on several oral history projects, including nursing at St George's Hospital and working at Fortnum and Mason.
Dr Andrea Tanner - Research Fellow
Dr Andrea Tanner spent sixteen years working as a professional genealogist at the College of Arms before moving into academic historical research. She worked on the 'Mortality in the Metropolis' project at the Centre for Metropolitan History before coming to Kingston to develop the Great Ormond Street Historical Database project.
Dr Stephen Inwood - Researcher
Dr Stephen Inwood is attached to the Centre of Local History Studies as one of its Research Fellows. He was educated at Balliol College and St Antony's College Oxford, and following a successful academic career he is now a full time writer/researcher having written much acclaimed books on the history of London and on Robert Hooke.
Dr Chris French - Emeritus Reader
Dr Christopher French has been associated with Kingston since 1972 when he joined the then polytechnic as a lecturer in economic and social history. His early research interest covered London's maritime history in the 18th century, but in recent years his main research has been into the social and economic history of Kingston since 1850. Along with Peter Tilley he established the Kingston Local History Research Project in 1996. Chris French was the Director of the Centre from its foundation in 1997 until his retirement ten years later.
Peter Tilley - Honorary Research Fellow
Peter Tilley is currently an Honorary Research Fellow attached to the Centre for Local History Studies and also its technical advisor. Having spent much of his working life in the computer industry, he successfully completed a history degree at Kingston University and an MA in Historical Computing at the Institute of Historical Research. He is currently carrying out research into migration into and out of Kingston in the second half of the 19th century.
Professor Keith Grieves - Reader
Professor Keith Grieves specialises in: English rural communities in the nineteenth and twentieth century, local and regional history in the twentieth century, the cultural history of war in the twentieth century - the British experience, libraries and the working class reading experience.
Dr Gregory Durston - Professor of Education
Dr Gregory Durston graduated from St Andrew's University with a degree in history before studied for, and being called to, the Bar by Middle Temple. After a period in practice undertaking common law and criminal work he became a lecturer at the Inns of Court School of Law. He was also awarded an LLM and PhD by the London School of Economics. In 1989 Gregory joined Kingston University Law School as a senior lecturer and was made Reader in 2008.
He has also spent several years teaching English law in a Japanese University while on leave of absence form Kingston. He is particularly interested in criminal justice history (along with more modern legal topics) and has written several books and articles in this field as well as giving numerous conference papers on this theme. Many of these focus on the Metropolitan area and its immediate hinterland. Gregory is currently working on eighteenth-century juries in London and Middlesex.
Dr Nicola Phillips - Research Fellow
Dr Nicola Phillips joined Kingston University in September 2007 after four years as a Lecturer in Modern British Women's History and co-director of the Bedford Centre for the History of Women at Royal Holloway, University of London. She lectures on Eighteenth-Century Social and Cultural history as well as Early Modern and Modern Gender history. Her early research was on women in business 1700-1850, but she is currently working on family conflict and its resolution through legal institutions in the long Eighteenth Century.
