Professor Annie Tindley
Professor of British and Irish Rural History & Head of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology
Newcastle University, UK
Profile
Annie is Professor of British and Irish Rural History and since 2020 the Head of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Newcastle University. From December 2017-December 2020 was the Consortium Director for the AHRC Northern Bridge Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership (http://www.northernbridge.ac.uk). Annie completed her MA (2001), MSc by Research (2002) and PhD (2006) in History at the University of Edinburgh. She has held posts at the University of Aberdeen, Glasgow Caledonian University and the University of Dundee. Annie’s particular research interests lie in the history and contemporary legacies land issues, including landownership, land reform, land use and management. She has worked on the aristocratic and landed classes, landed estates and their management from the mid-eighteenth to mid-twentieth centuries in the Scottish, Irish, British and imperial contexts. She has also worked extensively in partnership with community landowners, heritage groups, education providers and enterprises across rural Scotland and Ireland, helping to put their histories in the centre of decision-making for the future (https://www.land-decisions.org/). Annie has also worked on a number of collaborative, interdisciplinary projects with scientists, ecologists, water engineers, practising medics and designers, looking at areas as diverse as the impact of river morphology on social history and the history of healthcare provision in the Highlands. She has also written on the nature of design and technology in the nineteenth century, in the British and imperial contexts and is currently working on a UK-wide project on the history of trees and woodlands (https://www.uktreescapes.org/projects/connected-treescapes/). She has established an interdisciplinary book series, Scotland’s Land, for Edinburgh University Press (https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/books/subjects/scottish-studies) and is co-editor of the journal Rural History (Cambridge University Press). She is a trustee and vice-chair of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Convenor of the Scottish History Society, trustee of the British Agricultural History Society, Scottish Historical Review Trust and the Northumberland Archives Trust and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
