Ian W Stone
Visiting Scholar
Appointments
Visiting Scholar
Associate Fellow, Royal Historical Society
Area of Expertise
History of London,
Medieval history
Biography
I am a historian who specialises in medieval history and the history of London. I teach 'London in History' on the Dartmouith College History Foreign Study Programme. Previously, I held Research Fellowships at King's College London and at the Institute of Historical Research in London.
My first book, Crafted in Stone: A history of the Worshipful Company of Masons of the City of London, was published in 2023 and I am now working on others. One will be published by the Oxford Medieval Texts series, and it will contain a new edition of the medieval manuscript commonly called the Liber de Antiquis Legibus. This manuscript was compiled by the thirteenth-century London alderman Arnold fitz Thedmar. My edition will contain, for the first time, the Latin and French text of the manuscript alongside an English translation, together with a detailed introduction to the work and to the man who produced it.
I have published several papers in peer-reviewed academic journals; written entries for The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and The Encyclopaedia of the Medieval Chronicle; and contributed many other articles to non-academic titles.
Education
Ph.D. Kings College London
M.A. Medieval History, King's College London
B.A. (Hons.), King's College London
Taught Courses
Publications
Monographs:
Crafted in Stone: A History of the Worshipful Company of Masons of the City of London (London, 2023)
The Book of Arnold fitz Thedmar. Under contract with Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
A History of the British Leather Industry, forthcoming.
Peer reviewed articles:
'Huguenots, Whigs and the Remodelling of the Masons' Company, 1680-1740', Huguenot Society Journal, 35 (2022), 34-51.
'Connections and Collaborations Between Centres of Historical Writing in Thirteenth-Century London and Southwark', Mediaeval Studies, 79 (2017), 205-47.
'Arnold fitz Thedmar: Identity, Politics and the City of London in the Thirteenth Century', The London Journal, vol. 40, No. 2 (Jul., 2015), 106-122.
'The Rebel Barons of 1264 and the Commune of London: An Oath of Mutual Aid', English Historical Review, vol. 129, No. 536 (Feb., 2014), 1-18.
Peer-reviewed chapters:
'Writing Civic History in London, Cologne and Genoa', in Thirteenth-Century England XVII: Proceedings of the Cambridge Conference 2017, eds. A.M. Spencer & C.S. Watkins (Woodbridge, 2021), 181-210.
Resources:
'Arnold fitz Thedmar', Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle.
'Southwark Annals', Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle.
'Thomas and Edward Strong, master masons', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
'Walter Hervey, mayor of London', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
'Andrew Bukerel, merchant and mayor of London', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Book reviews:
Huffman, J.P., The Imperial City of Cologne: From Roman Colony to Medieval Metropolis (19 B.C.-1125 A.D.), (Amsterdam, 2018), Urban History, vol. 47, No. 1 (Feb., 2020), 173-74.
Liddy, C.D., Contesting the City: The Politics of Citizenship in English Towns, 1250–1530 (Oxford, 2017), Speculum, vol. 94, No. 3 (Jul., 2019), 856-57.
Biebrach, R., Church Monuments in South Wales, c.1200-1547 (Woodbridge, 2017), Transactions of the Monumental Brass Society, vol. XX, (2019), 93-95.
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