Dr. Sara Morrison

Division of Social Science, History
Office: PB 5
Email: smorri5@uwo.ca
Telephone: (519) 432-8353 ext. 28271

Academic Background

BA (Hons), Geography, St Hilda’s College, Oxford
BEd University of Western Ontario
MA, History, University of Western Ontario
PhD History, University of Western Ontario
Postdoctoral Fellowships at University of Western Ontario and McMaster University

Early modern British history, the Stuart royal forests, Sherwood Forest, Robin Hood
Environmental history and early modern resource management
Most recent work includes revisions to The Stuart Royal Forests: An Environmental History for the Royal Historical Society’s Studies in History Series plus revisions to "A Conservation Revival and Wartime Reconstruction in southern Ontario" for Canadian Historical Review

History 1401E	Modern Europe, 1715 to the Present
History 2403E	Early Modern Europe and England
History 3411E	Britain since 1688
History 3496F/G	The Virgin Queen
History 3496F/G	The Victorians

“Forests of Masts and Seas of Trees: The Restoration Navy and the English Royal Forests,” in Nancy L. Rhoden (ed.) English Atlantics Revisited. Essays Honouring Professor Ian K. Steele, 136-173. Montreal and Kingston (McGill-Queens University Press, 2007)
"The creation of Clumber Park, 1709-14: The Last Royal Park of Sherwood Forest," Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 106, 2002, 103-118.
“Policy and Resource Management in Sherwood Forest, 1600-1750," Current Studies in Nottinghamshire History: History in the Making, Pamphlet no. 2, 1986.
"Bestwood: A Sherwood Forest Park in the Seventeenth Century", Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 89, 1985, 57-74.

“Property Rights and the English Royal Forests, 1649-1660.” First World Congress on Environmental History. Copenhagen, Denmark, 2009.

“New attitudes to the Royal Forests: Common Property Rights, Land Use and the Natural World under the English Commonwealth.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference celebrating the anniversary of John Calvin, 1509-2009, Geneva, Switzerland, 2009

“Early Modern Deer Farming, Climate Change and the English Royal Forests.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St Louis MO, 2008

“The Royal Forests of Stuart England.” Huron History Society, Huron University College, 2008.
“The Anatomy of Sherwood Forest, 1608-1658.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Minneapolis, MN, 2007.
“The Stuart Royal Forests.” History Department Colloquium, McMaster University, Hamilton, 2007.
“English Royal Forests, c.1600: myth and reality.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2006.
“Winners and Losers: Contenders and the English Royal Forests during the Interregnum” Part of a panel entitled “Economic Interests in Early Modern England.” Middle Atlantic Conference on British Studies, Rutgers University, NJ, 2006.
“Fell, Sell, or Save? The English Royal Forests without the King, 1649-1660” Part of a panel entitled “Accounting for Social Capital in Early Modern Europe.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Atlanta, 2005.
“The Contested Forests: English Royal Forests and the Interregnum” Faculty Seminar Series, History Department, University of Western Ontario, 2005.
"A Conservation Revival and Wartime Reconstruction in southern Ontario." Paper presented at the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, University of Western Ontario, 2005.
"Oliver Cromwell, a mid-seventeenth century Robin Hood? Cromwell, the royal forests and Sherwood." Third International Robin Hood Conference, University of Western Ontario, 2001.