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Research interests

Beth is a Research Fellow on the AHRC-funded research project Between Magna Carta to the Parliamentary State: the Fine Rolls of King Henry III, 1216-1272. Her main responsibility is to translate and calendar the rolls from the original Latin and create indexes of persons, places and subjects in preparation for simultaneous print and electronic publication with Boydell and Brewer and on the project’s free-to-access website (www.finerollshenry3.org.uk).

Biography 

Beth began and completed her higher education at the University of Durham. She was awarded the best first class honours degree in Modern History in 1996, gained a distinction in the Masters in Medieval History the following year, and was awarded her Ph.D. on ‘English Rule in Ireland, c.1272-c.1315: Aspects of Royal and Aristocratic Lordship’ in 2001. Before joining the Henry III Fine Rolls Project in 2006, she was Senior Research Associate on the AHRC funded ‘English Landholding in Ireland, c.1200-c.1360’ at the University of Durham from 2002 to 2005. Beth has taught medieval history at the University of Durham and King’s College London, and early modern history at the University of Sunderland, and is a Fellow of both the Higher Education Academy and the Royal Historical Society.

Publications

Fine Rolls

• Calendar of the Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III, eds. Paul Dryburgh & Beth Hartland, technical eds. Arianna Ciula & Jose Miguel Vieira • I: 1216-1224 (Woodbridge, 2007) • II: 1224-1234 (Woodbridge, 2008)
• Paul Dryburgh & Beth Hartland, ‘The Development of the Fine Rolls’ in Janet Burton, Philipp Schofield and Bjorn Weiler (eds.), Thirteenth Century England: Proceedings of the Gregynog Conference (Woodbridge, 2008).
• Paul Dryburgh & Beth Hartland) ‘Once on Parchment, Now Online’, Ancestors 58 (TNA, June 2007), 42-5.

Articles

• ‘Policies, Principles and Practicalities: the king, English justiciars and the Anglo-Irish lords in the fourteenth century’, in Brendan Smith ed. Reshaping the Nations: Britain and Ireland 1300-1500 (Palgrave, 2008).
• ‘The liberties of Ireland in the Reign of Edward I’, in Michael Prestwich ed. Liberties and Identities in the Medieval British Isles (Woodbridge, 2008), pp.200-216.
• 'English Lords in late Thirteenth- and early Fourteenth-Century Ireland: Roger Bigod and Thomas de Clare', English Historical Review, 121 (2007), pp. 318-48.
• 'Absenteeism: The Chronology of a Concept' in Janet Burton, Philipp Schofield and Bjorn Weiler (eds.), Thirteenth Century England: Proceedings of the Gregynog Conference (Woodbridge, 2007), pp. 215-29