Career Summary
Educated at the University of Liverpool and the University of Lancaster, Michael was a lecturer at the University of Sydney prior to moving to Tasmania in 1977, and was appointed Professor of History in 1993. He is Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities.
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Research Interests
Politics, religion, society and culture in late medieval and early modern Britain; the royal succession in Britain; the global diffusion of vaccination in the early nineteenth century.
Recent Publications:
Quaker Life in Tasmania. The First Hundred Years (Hobart: University of Tasmania Library, 2006).
‘Smallpox and Cowpox under the Southern Cross: The Smallpox Epidemic of 1789 and the Advent of Vaccination in Colonial Australia’, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 83 (2009), 37-62 [A1].
‘John Audelay: Life Records and Heaven’s Ladder’ in My Wyl and My Writing. Essays on John the Blind Audelay, ed. S. Fein (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 2009), pp. 30-53. [C1].
‘Jenner’s Ladies: Women and Vaccination against Smallpox in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain’, History. Journal of the Historical Association, 93 (2008), 497-513. [A1].
‘Henry IV, the Royal Succession and the Crisis of 1406’ in The Reign of Henry IV. Rebellion and Survival, 1403-1413, ed. G. Dodd and D. Biggs (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, with York Medieval Press, 2008), pp. 9-27. [C1].
‘Passage through India: Global Vaccination and British India, 1800-05’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 35 (2007), 201-20. [A1].
‘Sir John Mandeville and the Anglo-French moment’, Medium Aevum, 75 (2006), 273-92. [A1].
‘Spiritual Kinship and the Baptismal Name in Traditional European Society’ in Studies on the Personal Name in Later Medieval England and Wales, ed. D. Postles and J. T. Rosenthal (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 2006), pp. 115-46. [C1].
‘The heritage of “Old England”’in M. Lake (ed.), Memory, Monuments and Museums (Melbourne UP, 2006), pp. 79-90. [C1].
'France in England: Anglo-French Culture in the Reign of Edward III' in Language and Culture in Medieval Britain. The French of England c.1100-c.1500, ed. J. Wogan-Browne (Woodbridge: York Medieval Press, 2009), 320-33
Teaching
Michael teaches a range of courses on British and European history from the middle ages to the early nineteenth century.
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