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Professor Stephen Daniels
Professor of Cultural Geography
 
Tel: 0115 95 15434
Fax: 0115 95 15249
Email: Stephen.Daniels@nottingham.ac.uk
Room: B26c
   
Research Theme: Cultural and Historical Geography

Stephen Daniels has taken up a prestigious post as the Director of the AHRC's Landscape and Environment programme. Details of the programme are at www.ahrc.ac.uk/landscape This is a half-time position and he will devote the rest of his time to his research and research management at Nottingham.
'Landscape mode, It's time to start looking around you', Linda Nordling, Tuesday January 31 2006, The Guardian

 
Research Interests

Current projects include: Geographical education and citizenship in 18th century England (AHRC); Cultural geography of nineteenth century arborteums (AHRC) [More info]; Rivers, history and representation; Cultural geography of gardens; The art of Paul Sandby (1731-1809).

 
Selected Recent Publications:

'The school of true, useful and universal science?' Freemasonry, natural philosophy and scientific culture in eighteenth-century England (With Elliot, P.). British Journal for the History of Science, (2006), 39 (2), pp. 207-229.

Art of the Garden (London: Tate, 2004). Exhibition catalogue and essays. Pp. 256. Co-edited with Nicholas Alfrey and Martin Postle.

A prospect for the nation, p. 23-49 of Scott Wilcox and Theresa Fairbanks Harris (eds) Papermaking and the art of Watercolour in Eighteenth Century Britain: Paul Sandby and the Whatman Paper Mill (Yale University Press, 2006).

Suburban pastoral: Strawberry Fields forever and Sixties memory, Cultural Geogaphies 13 (2006), pp. 28-54.

Reforming landscape: Turner and Nottingham, in Peter de Bolla, Nigel Leask and David Simpson (eds), Land, Nation and Culture 1740-1840: Rethinking the Republic of Taste (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), pp. 12-36.