| Post: | Senior Lecturer in History |
| Location: | Arts A A170 |
| Email: | N.Tadmor@sussex.ac.uk |
| Telephone numbers | |
| Internal: | 8370 |
| UK: | (01273) 678370 |
| International: | +44 1273 678370 |
Biography
I was brought up in Jerusalem and educated at the Hebrew University, where I took my BA and MA. In 1988 came to England and started my doctorate at the University of Cambridge, funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and a Cambridge studentship. I was awarded a post-doctoral Fellowship at Gonville and Caius College in 1992, and was subsequently employed as a Lecturer and Director of Studies in History at New Hall, Cambridge. I came to Sussex in 2003/4. I spent part of 2008/9 as a Visiting Professor and Lady Davis Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Role
Departmental Roles in 2009/10 include:
- First Year Convener
- Convener of the first year core course, The Early Modern World
- Library Officer
- Memeber of the Teaching Committee
- Leader of the early modern postgraduate workshop
Research
I am interested in social, cultural, and intellectual history from the early modern period to the present. My main work has centred on concepts of the family in the eighteenth century. I also studied the history of reading in eighteenth-century England. In recent years, I became particularly interested in the ways in which the Hebrew Bible was understood and translated into English. My book entitled The Social Universe of the English Bible: Scripture, Society and Culture in Early Modern England will be published by CUP in the spring of 2010. It examines the ways in which biblical terms of social description were rendered into English - and indeed 'Anglicized' - in biblical translations from Tyndale to the King James Bible, and the ideological, religious, and cultural and political resonance of the 'Anglicised' text. I also continue to work on the history of the family. I am currently engaged in a number of projects investigating kinship and family patterns comparatively, and in the long-run up to the 21st century. A special issue of Continuity and Change dedicated to kinship, 500-2000, which I co-edit, will be published this coming spring.
Teaching
I convene the first year of our History BA and contributes extensively to second and third year teaching, covering a broad range of topics including in particular 'Time and Place: The English Civil War', 'Time and Place: The Glorious Revolution', and 'The Family in History: Past and Present'. I teach core courses at the MA level including my specialised course entitled Reading, Writing, Texts. I also direct Graduate research and have several doctoral students working on an array of topics in from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.
Selected publications
2010
English Kinship in the Long-Run in Continuity and Change, Awaiting Publication
Kinship in Britain and Beyond: Special Issue, Continuity and Change in Continuity and Change, Awaiting Publication
The Social Universe of the English Bible: Scripture, Society and Culture in Early Modern England, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Awaiting Publication
2007
‘Revisiting the Public Sphere and the History of the Family’, Kenneth Johansson and Marie Lindstedt Cronberg, ed., in Varnskap over Gransver (Friendship Across Borders), Lund, Sweden: Forfattarna, Lund pp. 217-234 ISBN 978-91-633-1353-0
2006
Women and Wives : The Language of Marriage in Early Modern English Biblical Translations, in History Workshop Journal Volume 62 pp. 1-27
2005
Convener’s Overview: Informal Relations in Early Modern and Modern Society: Kinship, Friendship, Patronage, Social Newtorks, in 20th International Congress of Historical Sciences, Sydney, 2005 Sydney, Australia: International Committee of Historical Sciences
Friends and Neighbours in Early Modern England: Biblical Translations and Social Norms, M. Rubin, L Gowling and M. Hunter, ed., in Love, Friendship and Faith in Europe,1300-1800, Palgrave pp. 150-176 ISBN 1403991472
2001
Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century England: Household, Kinship and Patronage, Cambridge University Press,, 312 pp. ISBN 0-521-77147-1
1996
‘The Concept of the Household-Family in Eighteenth-century England’ in Past and Present pp. 111-140
The Practice and Representation of Reading in England, (edited with James Raven and Helen Small) Cambridge University Press