About

Research Lead, Humanities

Deputy Chair, College Research Committee

College of Arts, Humanities and Education

Research interests

Interdisciplinary and collaborative in nature, utilising approaches from history, the social sciences, cultural and historical geography and cultural history. 

• Cultural and historical geography, urban studies, landscape history, history of geographical ideas.
• Intellectual and scientific history, history of medicine.
• British local and regional history and identity; urban government and society.
• The history of education.

Postgraduate Students

Professor Elliott welcomes postgraduate students with research interests in any of the following areas:

• Intellectual and scientific history, history of medicine.
• Cultural and historical geography, landscape and environmental history, history of geographical ideas.
• History of Botany and arboriculture
• British and Irish urban, local and regional history.
• History of education.

Recent publications

Some Recent Publications

• The Derby Philosophers: Science and Culture in British Urban Society, 1750-1850 (Manchester University Press)
• Enlightenment, Modernity and Science: Geographies of Scientific and Improvement Culture in Georgian England (I. B. Tauris, 2010)
• (with Charles Watkins and Stephen Daniels) The British Arboretum: Trees, Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century (Pickering and Chatto, 2011)
• British Urban Trees: A Social and Cultural History, c1800-1914 (White Horse Press, 2016)

In the media

 Professor Elliott welcomes enquiries on subjects that relate to his research interests.