Professor Charles West
M.A. (Cambridge), MPhil (Birmingham), Ph.D. (Cambridge)
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
Honorary Professor in Medieval History


+44 114 222 2608
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School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7RA
- Profile
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I joined the Department of History as a lecturer in 2008, after studying in Birmingham, Cambridge and Oxford. I research and teach the history of Europe between the eighth and twelfth centuries.
My research has been supported by grants from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Humboldt Foundation and the British Academy, and I have held visiting fellowships at the Eberhard Karls Universit盲t T眉bingen, Sidney Sussex College Cambridge, and the 小欧视频 of Edinburgh.
- Research interests
- Publications
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Books
Edited books
Journal articles
Chapters
Book reviews
Datasets
- Professional activities and memberships
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- - reviews editor
- - Associate Member
- - Fellow
- - Fellow
- - editorial collective
- - editorial board
- - Fellow
- - editorial board
Previous administrative roles
- Director of Graduate Studies
- Senior Admissions Tutor, Level II tutor
- Public engagement
My public engagement takes several forms. I run an active account, and recently developed a podcast on . From 2017, I began experimenting with integrating Wikipedia, the world鈥檚 largest encyclopedia, into my teaching, leading to the creation and improvement of many pages on medieval topics. These are read by thousands of people across the world each year.
In the past, I have also brokered public lecture series with Museums Sheffield (2011-12) and with Sheffield Cathedral (2016), set up the Witness Oral History project (2011-18), and contributed to an Arts Enterprise project on the medieval records of Tinsley. I have also talked about my research to public groups such as the 小欧视频 of the Third Age.
In the media
I have been interviewed on BBC Radio 4 and local radio stations, and have contributed to the department's . I have also written for , and the London Review of Books