Curriculum Vitae
MATTHEW HAMMOND
Curriculum Vitae
matthew.hammond@kcl.ac.uk
Education
2005
2000
1997
PhD, University of Glasgow (Dauvit Broun)
‘A prosopographical analysis of society in east central Scotland with special
reference to ethnicity, c.1100 – c.1260’
MA, University of Texas at Austin (Martha Newman)
BA, University of Texas at Austin (History and French)
Employment
2017-2021
Research Associate, King’s College London, ‘'The Community of the Realm in
Scotland, 1249-1424: history, law and charters in a recreated kingdom' (AHRC
project).
My duties include extending the People of Medieval Scotland (www.poms.ac.uk) database
to include charters of Robert I (1314-29) and David II (1329-71), developing dynamic
social network graphs of royal charter witnesses, and researching continuity and change in
charter diplomatic
2013-2017
Research Associate, Univ. Glasgow ‘The Transformation of Gaelic Scotland in the
Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries’ (Leverhulme Trust research project)
This project involved adding mapping and social network analysis capabilities to the PoMS
database. I learned how to create and analyse social networks in SNA software package
UCINet, as well as how to produce graphics (sociograms) in Netdraw and Gephi, how to
create complex queries of database and bespoke datasets for social network analysis in MS
Access; did extensive work with places in database for mapping functionality
2012-2013
Research Associate, University of Glasgow, ‘The Breaking of Britain: cross-border
society and Scottish independence 1216-1314’ (AHRC research project)
This project involved working with team to extend the PoMS database to 1314, doing
website work in Wordpress
2012-2013
Research Consultant, University of the West of England (Bristol), ‘The Family
Names of the United Kingdom’ (AHRC research project)
Worked with team of linguists on surname dictionary project
2008-2011
Lecturer in Medieval Scottish History, 1000-1300, University of Edinburgh
Extensive teaching and administrative experience: see below
2008-2011
Co-Investigator, ‘Paradox of Medieval Scotland’ and ‘Breaking of Britain’ projects
2007-2008
Lead Researcher, ‘The Paradox of Medieval Scotland, 1093 – 1286: Social
Relationships and Identities before the Wars of Independence’ (AHRC project)
Calendaring and dating, editing of preparatory work for 6000 Scottish charters; checking
of data entry by research assistants; identification of persons and families in PoMS
database (prosopography); creation of interactive family trees
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Teaching
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (2008-11):
‘Medieval Scottish History’ pre-honours survey course: Course organiser, lecturer, and tutor
‘Introduction to Medieval Europe’ pre-honours survey course: lecturer, tutor
‘Europe and the Creation of Scotland, 1100-1300’: honours module
‘The Nobility of Scotland from Macbeth to Bannockburn, 1040-1328’: special subject
Contributions to ‘History in Practice’ and ‘History in Theory’ core courses
Supervision of undergraduate and masters dissertations, PhD theses
Masters core course: ‘The Sources of Medieval History’
Master module options: ‘Ethnic and National Identities in Medieval Scotland’, ‘Sources and
Methods for the Study of Medieval Scotland’, palaeography
I also acted as a Director of Studies for three years and sat on the School Computing and
Equipment and Undergraduate Studies Committees.
UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW (2001-07): Graduate tutor and occasional lecturer
Publications
WORK IN PROGRESS:
The Transformation of Scotland: Status, Family, and Lordship between Forth and Spey in the Twelfth and
Thirteenth Centuries (contracted with Boydell & Brewer) [120,000 words; 1/3 complete]
‘The People of the Declaration: Insights from Social Network Analysis’, Scottish Historical Review
special issue on the Declaration of Arbroath, publication date Dec. 2022.
Chapters on royal authority and political consent for Community of the Realm in Medieval Scotland
project book, ed. Alice Taylor [40,000 words]
PUBLISHED:
E-book/ Database:
Social Network Analysis and the People of Medieval Scotland (1093-1286) Database (principal author)
(with contributions by Cornell Jackson, Preface by John Bradley), University of Glasgow
Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies, 2017. Published online at
http://www.poms.ac.uk/e-books/social-network-analysis-and-the-people-of-medievalscotland-1093-1286-poms-database/ . 504 pages; ISBN: 978-0-85261-955-1.
Beam, Amanda, Broun, Dauvit, Bradley, John, Carpenter, David, Davies, John Reuben, Dutton,
Kathryn, Evans, Nicholas, Hammond, Matthew, Ó Maolalaigh, Roibeard, Pasin, Michele,
Smith, Andrew. 2019. The People of Medieval Scotland 1093–1371 (1st edn 1093–1286, 2010;
2nd edn 1093–1314 with Ambler, Sophie, Giacometti, Alejandro, Hartland, Beth, and
Stringer, Keith J., 2012; 3rd edn including mapping and SNA functionality, with
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Jakeman, Neil and Jackson, Cornell, 2016; 4 th edn 1093–1371, with Ferraro, Ginestra,
Hall, Elliott, and Taylor, Alice, 2019). King’s College London. http://www.poms.ac.uk/.
Edited volumes (see also below for individual chapters):
Personal Names and Naming Practices in Medieval Scotland, Studies in Celtic History, 39 (Woodbridge:
Boydell and Brewer, 2019).
New Perspectives on Medieval Scotland, 1093-1286. Studies in Celtic History, 32 (Woodbridge: Boydell
and Brewer, 2013).
Long articles/ chapters:
‘Status markers and the assertion of elite or “noble” status in Scottish charters, ca 1160 to ca
1260’, Scottish Historical Review, 99 (2020), 171-222 [28,000 words].
‘The adoption of mac- surnames in Scotland and Ireland’, in Matthew Hammond (ed.), Personal
Names and Naming Practices in Medieval Scotland (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2019),
100-143 [20,000 words].
‘Introduction: The Paradox of Medieval Scotland, 1093-1286’, in Matthew Hammond (ed.), New
Perspectives on Medieval Scotland, 1093-1286 (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2013), 1-51
[25,000 words].
‘Women and the adoption of charters in Scotland north of Forth, ca 1100-1286’, The Innes Review,
62 (2011), 5-46 [18,700 words].
Journal articles:
‘From Digital Prosopography to Social Network Analysis: Medieval People in the Twenty-First
Century’, Medieval People: Social Bonds, Kinship and Networks (formerly Medieval
Prosopography), 36 (2022 for 2021), forthcoming.
(with John Bradley, Dauvit Broun, and Alice Rio), ‘Exploring a model for the semantics of
medieval legal charters’, International Journal of Arts and Humanities Computing, 13 (2019),
136-154.
‘The bishop, the prior, and the founding of the burgh of St Andrews’, The Innes Review 66 (2015),
72-101.
‘The adoption and routinization of Scottish royal charter production for lay beneficiaries, 1124 –
1195’, Anglo-Norman Studies, 36 (2014), 91-115.
‘The use of the name “Scot” in the central middle ages, part two: “Scot” as a Surname, north of
the Firth of Forth’, Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 6 (2012), 11-50.
‘Queen Ermengarde and the Abbey of St Edward, Balmerino’, Citeaux –Commentarii Cistercienses 59
(2008), 11-36. Also published as Life on the Edge: The Cistercian Abbey of Balmerino, Fife (2009)
‘Ethnicity, personal names, and the nature of Scottish Europeanization’, Thirteenth-Century England,
XI (2007), 82-93.
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‘The use of the name “Scot” in the central middle ages, part one: “Scot” as a by-name’, Journal of
Scottish Name Studies, 1 (2007), 37-60.
‘Ethnicity and the writing of medieval Scottish history’, Scottish Historical Review, 85 (2006), 1 - 29.
[winner of the Maclehose-Dickinson Award]
Book chapters:
(with Thomas Owen Clancy) ‘The Romance of Names: literary personal names in twelfth- and
thirteenth-century Scotland’, in Matthew Hammond (ed.), Personal Names and Naming
Practices in Medieval Scotland (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2019), 166-186
‘Introduction: the study of personal names in medieval Scotland’, in Matthew Hammond (ed.),
Personal Names and Naming Practices in Medieval Scotland (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer,
2019), 1-17.
‘The burgh of St Andrews and its inhabitants before the Wars of Independence’, in Michael Brown
and Katie Stevenson (eds.), Medieval St Andrews: Church, Cult, City (Woodbridge: Boydell
and Brewer, 2017), 141-172.
‘Le Paradoxe de l’Écosse Médiévale, 1093 à 1286 : les sources et les prénoms’ in David Bates and
Pierre Bauduin (eds.), 911-2011. Penser les mondes normands médiévaux, 911-2011. Actes du
colloque international de Caen et Cerisy (29 septembre – 2 octobre 2011) (Caen : Presses
universitaires de Caen, 2016), 263-289.
(with Cornell Jackson) ‘Use of Social Network Analysis to Explore the People of Medieval
Scotland’, Proceedings of the 2014 Digital Humanities Congress, (Sheffield: Studies in the Digital
Humanities, 2016): https://www.dhi.ac.uk/openbook/chapter/dhc2014-hammond
‘Education in Scotland from 1000 to 1300’, in Mark Freeman, Robert Anderson and Lindsay
Paterson (eds.), The Edinburgh History of Education in Scotland (Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press, 2015), 8-24.
‘Domination and Conquest? The Scottish Experience, 1100-1286’, in Séan Duffy and Susan Foran
(eds.), The English Isles: cultural transmission and political conflict in Britain and Ireland, 1100-1500.
(Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013), 68-83.
‘Assemblies and the writing of administrative documents in the central medieval kingdom of the
Scots’, in Marco Mostert and Paul S. Barnwell (eds.), Medieval Legal Process: Physical,
Spoken and Written Performance in the Middle Ages. Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, 22.
(Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2011), 123-146.
‘Royal and aristocratic attitudes to saints and the Virgin Mary in twelfth- and thirteenth-century
Scotland’, in Steve Boardman and Eila Williamson (eds.), The Cult of Saints and the Virgin
Mary in Medieval Scotland. (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2010), 61-85.
‘Hostiarii Regis Scotie: the Durward Family and the Exercise of Power in the Thirteeth Century,’ in
Steve Boardman and Alasdair Ross (eds.), The Exercise of Power in Medieval Scotland c.12001500. (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003), 118-138.
PLANNED PUBLICATIONS:
The Networks of Power in Medieval Scotland, 1124-1296 (not yet contracted)
Virgin King: Máel Coluim IV, 1153-65 (contracted with Birlinn, Ltd.)
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Editor and Contributor, Companion to Social Network Analysis for Medievalists (agreement in principle
with Arc Humanities Press)
‘Aristocratic Domination: Conquests, Colonisation, Resistance (1100-1200)’, New Cambridge
History of Britain, Vol. 2: 1100-1500, ed. Peter Crooks (Cambridge University Press)
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
‘Sealers of the Declaration of Arbroath’; ‘Malcolm [Máel Coluim], illegitimate son of Alexander I,
king of Scots (1107-24)’; substantial edits to ‘MacHeth family’ and ‘MacWilliam family’,
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2021 (forthcoming)
‘Additional persons with mac- names in Scottish charters, 1124-1371’, Journal of Scotttish Name
Studies, 15 (2021) (forthcoming)
‘John Graham, lord of Dalkeith’; ‘David Lindsay of Crawford’; ‘Patrick Graham’ (with Magnus
Linklater); ‘William Abernethy of Saltoun’, ‘William Muschet’, in Neil McLennan (ed.),
Conquered by No One: A People’s History of the Scots who made the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320
(Edinburgh: Old Baberton Clubhouse, 2020), 155-159, 162-164, 169-171, 176-177, 204206
Review of Norman Shead, Scottish Episcopal Acta, Vol. II, Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 41.1
(2021), 99-100.
‘The weirdness in David II’s regnal years’, Community of the Realm in Scotland, 1249-1424 web
article, 23 April 2020, https://cotr.ac.uk/blog/weirdness-david-iis-regnal-years/
‘Scotland’s forgotten king’, Community of the Realm in Scotland, 1249-1424 web article, 12 Sept.
2019, https://cotr.ac.uk/blog/scotlands-forgotten-king/
‘RRS, V and RMS – what’s the difference?’, ‘Robert I’s “missing” charters’, ‘The charter rolls of
Robert I: lost rolls, full texts, and 17th-century fragmentary manuscripts’, ‘Calendar of the
Robert I rolls charters not mentioned in Duncan, RRS, v’, ‘The Acts of Edward Balliol,
king of Scots (1332-56)’, ‘What times of the year did Scottish kings produce the most
documents?’, ‘David II’s charters and letters’, Community of the Realm in Scotland, 1249-1424
web articles (2018-19), https://cotr.ac.uk/robert-charters/
Review of Daniel Brown, Hugh de Lacy, First Earl of Ulster: Rising and Falling in Angevin Ireland, in
Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, 76 (2018)
Review of Alice Taylor, The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124-1290, in History: The Journal
of the Historical Association 103 (2018), 133-5
Contributor (Scottish surnames), The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, ed.
Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, and Peter McClure. Oxford University Press, 2016.
Review of Richard Oram, Domination and Lordship: Scotland 1070-1230 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press, 2011), in Scottish Historical Review 94:2 (October 2015)
‘Women in the Ragman Roll: part two’, The Breaking of Britain Feature of the Month, No. 12,
March 2012, http://www.breakingofbritain.ac.uk/blogs/feature-of-the-month/march2012/
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‘Women in the Ragman Roll: part one’, The Breaking of Britain Feature of the Month, No. 11,
February 2012, http://www.breakingofbritain.ac.uk/blogs/feature-of-themonth/february-2012/
‘How many people are in the Ragman Roll?’, The Breaking of Britain Feature of the Month, No.
10, January 2012, http://www.breakingofbritain.ac.uk/blogs/feature-of-themonth/january-2012/
‘Perth – the First Hundred Years’, Journal of Perthshire Society of Natural Science, 19 (2012), 63-6
‘All the king’s men’, Paradox of Medieval Scotland Feature of the Month, No. 8, January 2010,
http://www.poms.ac.uk/feature/january10.html
Review of Power and Identity in the Middle Ages: Essays in Memory of Rees Davies, ed. Huw Pryce and
John Watts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), Early Medieval Europe 17 (2009).
Review of Marie-Thérèse Flanagan, Irish Royal Charters: Texts and Contexts (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2005), in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 57 (2006), 755-6.
‘Orabila, countess of Mar’ and ‘Isabella, countess of Menteith’, in Elizabeth Ewan and Rose
Pipes (eds.), Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women (Edinburgh University Press, 2005).
Digital Humanities and Social Network Analysis
Founder and administrator, 2017-present. Social Network Analysis Researchers of the Middle Ages
(SNARMA)
Introductions to Historical Social Network Analysis workshops:
University of Leeds, Institute of Medieval Studies, March 2019
University of Durham, Department of History, May 2019
Network Analysis for Medievalists sessions at International Medieval Congress Leeds, 2018 -2021
SNARMA Webpage creator, https://medievalsna.com
SNARMA Facebook Group coordinator (411 members)
People of Medieval Scotland, 1093-1314 Facebook page administrator (6,300 followers)
‘Social Network Analysis: Political communities and social networks’: online SNA output of
COTR project: https://cotr.ac.uk/social-network-analysis-political-communities-andsocial-networks/
Social Network Analysis pages and graphs, PoMS website: https://www.poms.ac.uk/help/socialnetwork-analysis/; https://www.poms.ac.uk/sna/
Conference and seminar papers (last ten years)
SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS
‘Modelling longitudinal data: dynamic networks and research question-led variable datasets – the
case of medieval royal households’, Historical Network Research / Réseaux-et-Histoire
conference, University of Luxembourg (online), 1-2 July 2021
paper summary: http://hnr2021.historicalnetworkresearch.org/?page_id=465
‘The People of the Declaration: insights from social network analysis’, Declaration of Arbroath
1320-2020 International Conference, online conference hosted by Newbattle Abbey
College, 24 April 2021
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‘The People of the Declaration: insights from social network analysis’, Scottish Medievalists
Conference, Cumbernauld, 10 Jan. 2020
‘Social Networks and Medieval Scottish Society’ (with Cornell Jackson), Social Network Analysis
in Scotland research group, University of Edinburgh, 16 Oct. 2019
‘Dynamics Networks of Scottish Charter Witnesses, continued’, International Medieval Congress,
University of Leeds, 1 July 2019
‘The Dynamic Networks of a Royal Household: Scotland, 1222-1371’, International Medieval
Congress, University of Leeds, 2 July 2018
‘Analysis of Ego-Networks of Witnesses to Medieval Charters: Opportunities and Challenges’
(with Cornell Jackson), Connected Past conference, University of Bournemouth, 24 Aug.
2017
‘The Waning of William’s Court: Social Networks and Generational Change, 1195-1214’, King
John 800 Conference 1216-2016, University College Dublin, 8-10 September, 2016.
‘The Transformation of Gaelic Scotland in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Social Network
Analysis and the People of Medieval Scotland database’, International Congress of Celtic
Studies, University of Glasgow, 13-17 July 2015
‘Identifying Leaders in the Scottish Elite: an innovation in Scottish charters in the late twelfth
century’ (poster, with Cornell Jackson), Historical Social Networks conference, Ghent
University, Belgium, 15-19 Sept. 2014
‘The Use of Social Network Analysis to Explore the People of Medieval Scotland’, Digital
Humanities Congress, University of Sheffield (with Cornell Jackson), 5 Sept. 2014
‘Applying Social Network Analysis to the witnesses of Scottish royal charters’ (with Cornell
Jackson), International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 9 July 2014
‘People of Medieval Scotland - Using Social Network Analysis to Reveal the Past’, Centre for
Business Network Analysis, University of Greenwich, 27 Sept. 2013 (with J. Bradley, D.
Broun, and C. Jackson)
DIGITAL PROSOPOGRAPHY
‘An introduction to prosopographical databases’, University of Catania at Ragusa, Sicily, Strutture
didattica speciale di lingue et letterature straniere, seminar series, 25 Oct. 2018
‘Tracing the Use of Status Titles in Scottish Charters’, International Medieval Congress, University
of Leeds, 5 July 2017
‘The People of Medieval Scotland database: structure, prosopography and network visualisation’
Digital History seminar series, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 14
May 2013
‘Le paradoxe de l’Ecosse médiévale, 1093-1286’, Penser les mondes normands médiévaux (911-2011),
Cerisy, Normandie, 29 Sept. 2011
KINSHIP, FAMILIES AND SURNAMES
‘Beyond the mutation familiale: a synthesis’, University of York, Department of History research
seminars, 20 Feb. 2019.
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‘McFamilies: surnames and identity in medieval Scotland’, Conference of Scottish Medievalists, A.
A. M. Duncan Memorial Lecture, Cumbernauld, 6 Jan. 2019.
‘Black’s Surnames of Scotland and the Family Names of the UK database’, Society for Name Studies
of Britain and Ireland conference, Glasgow, 6 April, 2013
KINGSHIP, QUEENSHIP AND GOVERNMENT
‘Robert I and the royal demesne’, International Medieval Congress, Leeds (online), 7 July 2021
‘The Kings of Scots’ Experience of Royal Itinerary in the Twelfth Century’, Royal Studies Network
Kings and Queens 10, online conference hosted by UHI Perth, 30 June 2021
‘The Scottish Queens of Norway, evidence and contexts’, Royal Women in Scandinavia, 12501350 conference, University of Catania at Ragusa, Sicily, 25 Oct. 2018
‘Perth/ Scone and assembly government in the twelfth century’, Royal Scone: A Scottish Medieval
Royal Centre in Europe conference, University of Stirling, 27 Nov, 2014
TWELFTH- AND THIRTEENTH-CENTURY SCOTTISH HISTORY
‘Five thirteenth-century papal bulls for Paisley abbey’, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland,
Belfast, 12 June 2019
‘Flemish settlement in Scotland: Prosopography and Networks’, Scotland and the Flemish People
Conference, University of St Andrews, 16-17 June 2016
‘Scotland and the Scots in the French Literature of the 12th and 13th Centuries’, University of
Leeds, Institute for Medieval Studies, 5 Feb. 2014
‘Who would deny that the Scots are barbarians?: examining perceptions of the Scots in the
twelfth and thirteenth centuries’, Scottish History Seminar Series, University of St
Andrews, 23 Nov., 2011
Other information
Visiting Fellow, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, 2014-2018
Council member, Scottish History Society, 2011-13
Trustee, Society of Scottish Medievalists, 2012-14
Languages: Latin, French, some German and Scots Gaelic
Fellow, Royal Historical Society, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; Member, Haskins Society,
Scottish History Society, Scottish Medievalists; Society for Names Studies of Britain and Ireland;
Pipe Roll Society; Stair Society
Conferences: Battle Conference; Thirteenth-Century England; Colloque de Cerisy; International
Society of Celtic Studies, SNSBI, Historical Network Research, The Connected Past, Réseaux et
Histoire
Peer Review: Boydell and Brewer, Arc Humanities Press, Journal of Historical Network Research, The
Innes Review, Scottish Historical Review, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Journal of
Scottish Historical Studies
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Recent Public Outreach
History Scotland online webinars: ‘Exploring women’s lives in medieval Scotland’ (with Amy
Hayes), 6 Oct. 2021; ‘The Medieval Origins of Scottish Surnames and Personal Names’, 15 Sept.
2021; ‘Heroes and scoundrels: the sealants of the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath’, 6 April 2021
(part of panel)
Historic Environment Scotland blog: ‘The People of the Declaration of Arbroath’, 3 April 2020.
https://blog.historicenvironment.scot/2020/04/people-declaration-arbroath/
TV news interview on Paisley abbey papal bulls, BBC Newsline, Belfast, 12 June 2019
COTR Podcasts: ‘Episode 6: The charters of Robert I’, The COTR Podcast, 10 Nov. 2019,
https://thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e/e6-the-charters-of-robert-i/
COTR Podcasts: ‘Episode 9: Arbroath and its abbey’, The COTR Podcast, 21 June 2020,
https://thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e/e9-arbroath-and-its-abbey/
COTR Podcasts: ‘Episode 10: The charters of King Edward Balliol’, The COTR Podcast, 30 June
2020, https://thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e/e10-the-charters-of-king-edward-balliol/
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