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Max Satchell BA MA D Phil

Research Associate

Historical geographer with research interests in occupational structure 1379-1881, transport networks c.1360-1881, the extent of arable in East Anglia 1066-1931 and leprosy and institutional relief in England 900-1250

Career

  • 1979-1983 Faculty of History, Otago
  • 1992-1994 Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, Sheffield
  • 1994-1998 Queens College, Oxford
  • 1999 Researcher for the New DNB, Oxford and the Hayward Gallery, London
  • 2000-2002 Project Officer, Historic Field Systems of East Anglia Project, English Heritage
  • 2002-2004 Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
  • 2004- Research Associate, The Occupations Project

Qualifications

  • 1983 BA Hons (History), Otago
  • 1994 MA (Archaeology), Sheffield
  • 1998 D Phil (History), Oxford

Research

  • Occupational structure 1379-1881,
  • Transport networks c.1360-1881
  • The extent of arable in East Anglia 1066-1931
  • Leprosy and institutional relief in England 900-1250

Publications

  • Satchell, M., 'Towards a landscape history of the rural hospital in England', 1100-1300' in J. Henderson et al., ed. The Impact of Hospitals 300-2000 (Peter Lang, Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Brussells, Frankfurt, New York, Vienna, 2007), 237-56.
  • Satchell, M. and E. Martin, 'Wheare most inclosures be: East Anglian Fields, History, Morphology and Management', East Anglian Archaeology Report, 124 (2008)
  • Satchell, M. and E.A. Wrigley, 'Areal data' in E.A. Wrigley, The early English censuses, British Academy Records of Economic and Social History (in press)

GIS datasets created (2002-2010)

  • Navigable waterways, England and Wales c. 1820-1881
  • County boundaries of Scotland, 1851
  • Registration districts of England and Wales, 1851
  • Hundreds and wapentakes of England and Wales, 1831
  • Ecclesiastical parishes and chapelries of England and Wales, c.1820
  • Small and large towns England 1300-1600
  • Hospitals and leper-houses of England c.1100-1300
  • Norfolk and Suffolk vills 1086