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Phillipp Richard Schofield FRHistS FAcSS FLSW is a medieval historian and a professor in Aberystwyth University's Department of History and Welsh History.

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Career

Schofield graduated from University College London in 1986, with a BA in ancient and medieval history. He then undertook a doctorate at Wadham College, Oxford, under the supervision of Barbara Harvey: his DPhil was awarded in 1992 for his thesis "Land, family and inheritance in a later medieval community: Birdbrook, 1292–1412". After spending a year working for a commercial law firm, Schofield returned to the University of Oxford to take up a research position at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine in 1993. Three years later, he took up a post in the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure at the University of Cambridge, before joining Aberystwyth University in 1998. As of 2018, he is a Professor in the Department of History and Welsh History; he is currently head of that department. He understands and speaks Welsh. Since 2011, he has been co-editor of the Economic History Review , a scholarly journal. Schofield's research focuses on the English medieval rural economy and society. [1] [2]

Honours

In 2016, Schofield was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. [3] He is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society as of 2018. [4] In 2019, Schofield was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. [5]

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References

  1. Prof Phillipp Schofield", Aberystwyth University. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  2. "Land, family and inheritance in a later medieval community: Birdbrook, 1292–1412", EthOS (British Library). Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  3. "Forty-two leading social scientists conferred as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences", Academy of Social Sciences, 3 March 2016. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  4. "Fellows - S", Royal Historical Society. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  5. Wales, The Learned Society of. "Phillipp Schofield". The Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 2023-08-31.