Philippa Maddern
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Professor Philippa Maddern, Discipline of History, School of Humanities, UWA
Philippa Maddern was brought up in country Victoria, and fell in love with medieval history when her parents took her on a trip to England when she was eight years old. She took her D. Phil. in fifteenth-century English history at Oxford, and has been teaching and researching medieval history at UWA since 1989. She is particularly interested in the social and cultural history of the middle ages. Two of her current research projects concern the environmental history of England 1300-1500, and the history of blended and fragmented families in late medieval England.