The University of Western Australia

W/Prof Susan Broomhall

Winthrop Professor
History

Contact details

Address

History
The University of Western Australia (M208)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 2139

Fax

6488 1069

Email

susan.broomhall@uwa.edu.au

Location

Room 1.04, Arts Building, Crawley campus

Qualifications

BA PhD W.Aust.

Key research

Susan Broomhall is a historian of early modern Europe who specialises in the history of women and gender, as well as the role of scholarly histories in heritage tourism and arts industries.

Publications

BOOKS

Susan Broomhall and Jacqueline Van Gent (eds), Governing Masculinities in the Early Modern Period: Regulating Selves and Others, Ashgate, 2011.
http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409432388

David G. Barrie and Susan Broomhall (eds), A History of Policing and Masculinities, 1700-2010, Routledge, 2011 (hardback/paperback)
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415696616/

Susan Broomhall and Jennifer Spinks, Early Modern Women in the Low Countries: Feminising sources and interpretations of the past, Ashgate, 2011.
http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754667421

Susan Broomhall, Tim Pitman, Joanne McEwan, A Classroom like No Other: Learning and Teaching in Australian Educational Tourism, Uniprint, 2011.



Stephanie Tarbin and Susan Broomhall (eds), Women, Identities and Communities in Early Modern Europe, Ashgate, 2008.
http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754661849

Les femmes et l'histoire familiale (XVI-XVIIe siecles): Descrittione della vita et morte del Sig Michele Burlamachi (1623). Genealogie de Messieurs du Laurens (1631). (eds) Susan Broomhall and Colette H. Winn, Honore Champion, 2008.

Susan Broomhall (ed.) Emotions in the Household, 1200-1900, Palgrave, 2007.
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=279958

Susan Broomhall, Women and Religion in Sixteenth-Century France, Palgrave, 2005. 

http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=269411

Susan Broomhall, Women's Medical Work in Early Modern France, Manchester University Press, 2004 (paperback, 2011)
http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/catalogue/book.asp?id=1204205

Mesdames du Verger, Le Verger Fertile des Vertus (1595) (eds) Susan Broomhall and Colette H. Winn, Honore Champion, 2004.

Susan Broomhall, Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France, Ashgate, 2002. 


http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754606710

BOOK CHAPTERS

Broomhall, Susan, “The Politics of Charitable Men: Governing poverty in sixteenth-century Paris.” In Poverty and the Poor: medieval and early modern experiences, Ed. Anne Scott. (Ashgate, 2012).

Broomhall, Susan, "Care and Community: Psychology, Dentistry, Medicine, Social Work, and Health Sciences." In Centenary History of The University of Western Australia, UWA Press, 2012.

Broomhall, Susan, "Charitable Medicine: The provision of health care in the sixteenth century Hôtel-Dieu de Paris," Culture, savoirs, religion au début de l'époque moderne, Ed. Magdalena Kozluk, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2012.

Broomhall, Susan and David G. Barrie, “Making Men: Media, magistrates and the representation of masculinity in Scottish police courts, 1800-1833.” In A History of Policing and Masculinities, 1700-2010. Eds, David G. Barrie and Susan Broomhall. Routledge, 2012.

Broomhall, Susan “Worlds Apart, Worlds Away: Integrating the Early Modern in the Antipodes,” Teaching the Early Modern Period, Eds. Derval Conroy and Danielle Clarke, Palgrave, 2011.

Barrie, David G. and Susan Broomhall, “Policing Bodies in Urban Scotland, 1780-1850.” In Susan Broomhall and Jacqueline Van Gent, eds. Governing Masculinities in the Early Modern Period: Regulating Selves and Others. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011.

Broomhall, Susan. “Production and Reproduction: Contextualising Women’s Writing as Labor.” In Colette H. Winn, ed. Teaching Early Modern Women Writers, MLA publications: 2011.

Broomhall, Susan “Health and Science.” In Sandra Cavallo and Silvia Evangelisti, eds. A Cultural History of Childhood and Family. Oxford: Berg, 2010.

Broomhall, Susan “The Body in/as Text: Medical Knowledge and Technologies in the Renaissance.” In Linda Kalof and William Bynum, eds. A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Renaissance. Oxford: Berg, 2010.

Broomhall, Susan. “Le prix de l’amour: négociations après des relations sexuelles et des grossesses illégitimes à Paris au début du XVIe siècle.” In Cathy McClive and Nicole Pellegrin, eds. Femmes en fleurs, femmes en corps: Sang, santé, sexualités du Moyen Âge aux Lumières. 223-47. Saint-Etienne: Presses universitaires de Saint-Étienne, 2010.

Broomhall, Susan. “Letters make the family: Nassau family correspondence at the turn of the seventeenth century.” In Julie Campbell, Anne Larsen and Gabriella Eschrich, eds. Crossing Borders: Early-Modern Women and. Communities of Letters. Ashgate, 2009.

Broomhall, Susan. “Women, work and power in the female guilds of fifteenth and sixteenth-century Rouen.” In Megan Cassidy-Welch and Peter Sherlock, eds. Practices of Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. 199-213. Turnhout: Brepols, 2009.

Broomhall, Susan. “Gendering the Culture of Honour at the Fifteenth-Century Burgundian Court.” In Susan Broomhall and Stephanie Tarbin, eds Women, Identities and Communities in Europe, 1400-1800. 181-93. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008.

Broomhall, Susan. “Emotions in the Household,” In Broomhall, ed. Emotions in the Household, 1200-1900, 1-37. Houndmills, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Broomhall, Susan. “Teaching a Publishing History for the Heptaméron.” In Colette H. Winn, ed. Teaching Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron, 44-51. MLA publications: 2007.

Broomhall, Susan. “Au-delà de la Cour: patronnes et mécènes du manuscrit à l’imprimé.” In Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier, ed. Patronnes et mécènes en France à la Renaissance, 45-58. Saint-Etienne: Presse de l’Université de Saint-Etienne, 2007.

Broomhall, Susan. “The Convent as Missionary in Seventeenth-Century France.” In N. Jaffary, ed. Gender, Race and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas, 57-66. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.

Broomhall, Susan. “Lettres de Louise-Julienne de Nassau, d’Elisabeth de Nassau, et d’Amelie II de Nassau à Charlotte-Brabantine de Nassau (1595-1601).” In Elizabeth Goldsmith and Colette H. Winn, eds. Lettres de Femmes (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle), 135-77. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2005.

Broomhall, Susan. “Women’s Narratives of Poverty in Sixteenth-Century Tours.” In Ann Crabb and Jane Couchman, eds. Women’s Letters Across Europe, 1400-1700: Form and Persuasion, 223-37. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

David G. Barrie and Susan Broomhall, "Public Men, Private Interests: The Origins, Structure and Practice of Police Courts in Scotland, 1805 to 1833", Continuity and Change 27:1, 2012.

Forsey, Martin, Susan Broomhall and Jane Davis, "Broadening the Mind? Australian Student Reflections on the Experience of Overseas Study," Journal of Studies in International Education July, 2012.

Broomhall, Susan and David G. Barrie, “Changing of the Guard: Policing, masculinity and class in the Porteous Affair and Walter Scott's Heart of Midlothian,” Parergon, 28:1, 2011.

Pitman, Tim, Susan Broomhall, and Elzbieta Majocha, "Teaching ethics beyond the Academy: Educational tourism, lifelong learning and phronesis," Studies in the Education of Adults, Spring 2011, forthcoming.

Pitman, Tim, Susan Broomhall, Joanne McEwan, and Elzbieta Majocha, "Adult Learning in Educational Tourism," Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 50, 2, 2010: 219-38.

Beidatsch, Cedric and Susan Broomhall, " Is this the past? The place of role play exercises in undergraduate history teaching," Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 7, 1 (2010): 1-22.

Broomhall, Susan and Jennifer Spinks. “Interpreting Place and Past in Dutch Touristic History” Rethinking History 14, 2, (2010): 267-85.

Spinks, Jennifer and Susan Broomhall. “Representing women’s labour at the dawn of the Golden Age: Isaac Claesz. van Swanenburg’s Old and New Trades (c.1594–c.1612)” Cultural and Social History 7, 1, (2010): 9-33.

Pitman, Tim and Susan Broomhall. “Australian Universities, Generic Skills and Lifelong Learning”. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 28, 4, July-August (2009): 439-458.

Broomhall, Susan and Jacqueline Van Gent, “In the name of the father: Conceptualising pater familias in the letters of William the Silent’s children” Renaissance Quarterly, 62 (2009): 1130-1166.

Broomhall, Susan and Jennifer Spinks, “Finding Rembrandt? Place, history, experience, and the individual” Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, 33, 1 (2009), 7-24.

Broomhall, Susan and Jacqueline Van Gent, “Corresponding Affections: Emotional Exchange among Siblings in the Nassau Family” Journal of Family History, 34, 2, (2009): 143-65.

Broomhall, Susan. “Imagined Domesticities in Early Modern Dutch Dolls’ Houses.” Parergon 24.2 (2007): 49-68.

Broomhall, Susan and Colette H. Winn. “Femme, écriture, foi: les Mémoires de Madame Duplessis-Mornay.” Albineana 18 (2007): 587-604.

Broomhall, Susan. “Family and household limitation strategies among the sixteenth-century urban poor.” French History 20.2 (2006): 121-37.

Broomhall, Susan. “Convent voices on social and familial networks in later sixteenth-century France.” Special number: Early Modern Convent Voices: The World and the Cloister (ed.) Thomas M. Carr. Studies on Early Modern France 11 (2007): 59-74.

Broomhall, Susan and Colette H. Winn. “La représentation de soi dans les mémoires féminins du début de l’époque moderne”, Tangence 78 (2005): 11-35.

Broomhall, Susan, “Poverty, Gender and Incarceration in Sixteenth-Century Paris.” French History 18.1 (2004): 1-24.

Broomhall, Susan. “Identity and life narratives among the poor in later sixteenth-century Tours.” Renaissance Quarterly 57 (2004): 439-65.

Broomhall, Susan. “Models of apostolic speech by nuns in the later sixteenth-century Catholic world.” Magistra: A Journal of Female Spirituality 9.1 (2003): 1-51.

Broomhall, Susan. “French Women Writers, Sexuality and Publication.” Explorations in Renaissance Culture 29.1 (2003): 119-143.

Broomhall, Susan. "‘Women's little Secrets’: Defining the boundaries of reproductive knowledge in the sixteenth century", The Journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine, 2002, pp. 1-15. (The Society's 1999 Prize Winning Essay)

Broomhall, Susan. “Re-assessing Women's Work in the French Print Trades”, Parergon: The Journal for the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 18, 2, July 2001, pp. 55-73.

Broomhall, Susan. "‘In my opinion’: Charlotte de Minut and Female Political Discussion in Print in Sixteenth-Century France", The Sixteenth Century Journal, 31, 1, Spring 2000, pp. 25-45.

Broomhall, Susan. "Tracing the Fortune of Lady Reason in the Sixteenth Century: Representations in Women's Prose Literature", Nottingham French Studies, Women and Fortune in Medieval Literature, (ed.) C. Attwood, Autumn, 1999, pp.159-169.

Broomhall, Susan. "Savoir féminin puériculteur: Le Verger Fertile des Vertus des Mesdames du Verger", Mots Pluriels, vol. 11, September 1999 on-line.

Broomhall, Susan. “Rabelais, the Pursuit of Knowledge, and Early Modern Gynaecology", LIMINA: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, 4, 1998, pp. 24-34.

Broomhall, Susan. "French Women in Print, 1488 to 1599" Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 4, 1998, pp. 195-231.

REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Pitman, Tim, Susan Broomhall, Joanne McEwan, Elzbieta Majocha, "Transformative learning in educational tourism," Teaching and Learning Forum, (2010) (25% contribution) http://otl.curtin.edu.au/tlf/tlf2010/abstracts.html

Beidatsch, Cedric and Susan Broomhall, " Teaching Smarter? The place of workshops in the curricula for undergraduate history teaching," Teaching and Learning Forum, (2010) (50% contribution) http://otl.curtin.edu.au/tlf/tlf2010/abstracts.html

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Broomhall, Susan, “Mécénat littéraire des femmes au XVIe siècle français.” In Antoinette Fouque, Mireille Calle-Gruber, Béatrice Didier, eds. Dictionnaire des femmes créatrices. Editions Des femmes, forthcoming, 2012.

Broomhall, Susan. “Women and Medicine.” In Anne Larsen, Carole Levin and Diane Robin, eds. Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance. ABC-Clio, 2007.

Broomhall, Susan. “Recent Australian Research on Gender, Science and Technology.” Renaissance Studies Bulletin April (2005): 19-25.

Broomhall, Susan. “Women’s Historical Writings on Religion.” In Mary Spongberg, Barbara Caine, Ann Curthoys, eds. Companion to Women’s Historical Writing, 455-65. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Broomhall, Susan. “Reformation.” In Mary Spongberg, Barbara Caine, Ann Curthoys, eds. Companion to Women’s Historical Writing, 451-55. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Broomhall, Susan. “France.” In Mary Spongberg, Barbara Caine, Ann Curthoys, eds. Companion to Women’s Historical Writing, 205-14. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Broomhall, Susan. “Charlotte de Minut”, On-line encyclopedia and database of Société Internationale d’Etudes de Femmes d’Ancien Régime (SIEFAR), 2003.

Broomhall, Susan. “Il Frutteto delle Vertu” (trans V. Porro) Leggere Donna, XII, n 110, Maggio-Giugno 2001. Translation of article “Savoir féminin puériculteur” (above) at request of editors.

Broomhall, Susan. "Joan Kelly", Routledge Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories, (ed.) Lorraine Code, London, Routledge, 1999 - by invitation.

Broomhall, Susan. "Continuing the Historical Conversation: An Interview with Judith M. Bennett," in LIMINA: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, 5, 1999, pp. 1-12.

Teaching

Doctoral students currently supervised

Ildy Button, The double paradox: nature and gender. Epistemology and allegory as response to these problems in the work of three 12th century writers 


Lisa Elliott, Poor Relief and the Hotel-Dieu in sixteenth-century Paris 

This thesis analyses the role the Hotel-Dieu of Paris played in administering poor relief in the sixteenth century. As well as looking at how the Hotel-Dieu operated in relation to the Grand Bureau, I wish to examine the rhetoric used in reference to the poor and examine how changing views of the poor influenced their treatment by the administrators of the Hotel-Dieu. The research will situate Paris in the context of a wider study of urban poor relief measures (Broomhall, ARC, 2006-8).

Anita R. Fairney, Jacobite Scotswomen: their roles, identities and agency in Scottish politics, 1688-1788.
This thesis will examine the roles and contributions of Jacobite Scotswomen to Scottish politics, from the revolution in which King James II & VII was deposed and went into exile (1688-89), until the death of his grandson, Prince Charles Edward Stuart (1788). It will explore Scotswomen’s agency and motivations for contributing to the Stuart restoration—a treasonous affair—with a close analysis of their multi-layered identities and the manifestation of them as Scotswomen and Jacobites, within Scotland’s national politics and identity.

Ben Fuller, The Nature and Influence of the Idea of the Holy Roman Emperor as Head of Christendom and Wielder of International Authority, 1254 - 1648. 

This thesis examines the role that the Holy Roman Emporers played, not as territorial rulers but as figures of international authority, in western European society as a whole in the late medieval and early modern periods. It will argue that the idea of imperial authority remained powerful for much longer than is commonly thought; show how this enduring institution and ideal affected ideas of how a society should be constituted and governed; discuss the change to the imperial idea over this period and why those changes occurred. 



Erin Jackson Vis, Painting Women: Exploring Identity in the Visual Egodocuments of Artistic Women in the Dutch Golden Age (1650-1750)
This thesis will explore the self-fashioning of identity in the visual egodocuments produced by women in the late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Dutch Republic. It will investigate how women participated within contemporary social and artistic networks; and the influence of this participation on their depictions of the self and identity. It will also use egodocument methodology to examine how women self-fashioned identity in their visual egodocuments, drawing on a wide range of visual source material including self-portraits, art albums, collections, album amicorum, prints, medals, embroidery, botanical illustrations, gardens, and dollhouses. Finally, the thesis will consider the lasting significance of these works, exploring how women preserved visual egodocuments through inheritance and archives, as well as the importance of historical identity in modern exhibitions of extant visual egodocuments by painting women. 





Rebecca Martin, Deviant Sexualities in Restoration England

Ann Minister, Family Strategies and Relationships: the labouring poor of Derby and south Derbyshire c.1750-1834 

This thesis will focus on the ways in which families of the labouring poor in Derby and three south Derbyshire parishes of Ticknall, Melbourne and Repton managed their survival during the period 1750 - 1834. It will use contemporary sources including trade directories to establish a clear sense of place in the tradition of English local history. However, despite being clearly located in the area, the focus of the study will be those members of the labouring poor who used an 'economy of makeshifts' to enable them to survive the difficulties of the period. Links between the county town and the southern parishes will be researched using marriage registers and Poor Law documents related to the laws of settlement and removal. It will be asked to what extent crime played a part in the family economy and it will also question the use of apprenticeship by the overseers of the poor. Family relationships will be explored using settlement examinations and one of the main findings of the study will be to determine, in the lives of the labouring poor in Derby and south Derbyshire, what 'family' meant to them and if the 'quality' of their relationships could be defined in wider terms than simply affection or emotion.

Sandy Riley, Charlotte de la Tremoille, Countess of Derby, a Cavalier heroine of the English Civil War

Charlotte de La Tremoille, Countess of Derby, was perceived to be a significant elite woman during the English Civil War. She was the central subject of a book published by a middle-ranked Cavalier officer, in 1644 - highly unusual for a woman in the seventeenth century. How did contemporaries understand her impact on the English Civil War? Writers of history in the nineteenth century also saw her as important, producing fiction, non-fiction and a travel guide that reinforced memories of her activities in folklore. Why was Charlotte de La Tremoille perceived to be of such interest to these authors at this period? This thesis aims to investigate presentations of Charlotte's identity in differing social, political and military contexts, as they are presented by her, by her contemporaries and by historians, using contemporary documents such as letters, eye-witness accounts, and pamphlets as well as nineteenth-century representations. 


Lesley Silvester, A longitudinal study of poor families in early modern Norwich c. 1560-1700 

The intent of this thesis is to demonstrate the possibilities that genealogical sources and methods offer in addressing major historical research questions. By collecting and analysing records in a genealogical manner and combining the findings into a database to carry out a longitudinal study I will explore social changes over time to expand understanding and contribute to current historical debate. Firstly, to what extent can these techniques help to capture and shed new light on the experiences of the poor, and secondly, can poverty be seen to be inherited intergenerationally? Where the data allows I will look at demographic questions of fertility rates, age at marriage and mortality rates to determine whether there were changes over time. Family strategies of remarriage, co-residence and unequal marriage have been revealed by the census. Did these practices continue over time or develop differently? Can kinship and community links be demonstrated? Was there a symbiotic relationship between the poor and the Norwich authorities? Finally, what was the extent of mobility within and between parishes?

Scilla Stack, The Education of Vision? Reading Mary Ward's mission in Catholicism in her own lifetime and in the twenty-first century

In the year of the celebrations for the four-hundredth anniversary of Mary Ward's founding vision (1609-2009) in Rome, the aim of this thesis is to merge feminist historical inquiry with twenty-first-century Catholic feminist theology and debate to examine boundaries given to shared faith community and religious authenticity in Catholicism. The study looks at continuity and change in the place of belief in Catholic social order. The overarching question of my thesis is why were Mary Ward's plans for a new open religious order found to be incommensurable by the papacy in the seventeenth century, yet lauded in the Holy See today?

New and noteworthy

Doctoral completions

2007: Kate O'Shaughnessy, Divorce, gender and state and social power: an investigation of the impact of the 1974 Indonesian marriage law.
Now published as Gender, state and social power in contemporary Indonesia: divorce and marriage law (Taylor & Francis, 2009)

2010: R.L. Weston, Medical Consulting by Letter in France, circa 1650-1789.

2011: Karl Birkelbach, Plague Debate: Methodology and meaning in the retrospective diagnosis of the Black Death.

2011: Alicia Marchant, “Mech harm upon þe borderes of Ynglond”: Imagining the Revolt of Owain Glyndŵr in English Chronicle Narratives 1400 to c.1580

Current projects

"Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland" Team leaders: David G. Barrie and Susan Broomhall (UWA) Associated researchers: Joanne McEwan (UWA) and Iain Hutchison (Stirling). This project represents the first comprehensive investigation into the workings of police courts and summary prosecution in Scottish towns in the nineteenth century. It examines how magistrates administered justice, people’s experiences of it, and the impact that police courts had on towns, cities and the built environment. Drawing on extensive new research derived from a wide array of sources, the study blends social, institutional, urban and cultural history to uncover the workings and delivery of magisterial justice, the ways in which police courts attempted to extend control over citizens and the physical structure of towns, and how communities were affected by, and engaged with, this layer of judicial authority. Monograph in progress, Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Crime, Control and Community (Ashgate, 2012)

"Gender, Power, and Identity in the Early Modern Nassau Family" Australia Research Council Discovery Grant, 2010-2014. 
Cl1 Susan Broomhall (UWA), Cl2 Jacqueline Van Gent (UWA), APD Susie Protschky (Monash), Ol Michaela Hohkamp
How do gender and power relationships affect expressions of family identities? Our project uses a case study of the Nassau-Orange family, whose extensive and diverse sources include letters, art, architectural precincts, naming patterns, and even colonial endeavours. We aim to re-conceptualise these as egodocuments that are critical sources of familial expression, to analyse early modern concepts of family, identities, and power. The word and colour orange today symbolise Protestantism and the Dutch worldwide as a result of this pivotal family's self-presentation in the early modern period. Monograph in progress: Susan Broomhall and Jacqueline Van Gent, Gender, Power and Identity in the Early Modern Nassau Family, 1580-1814 (Ashgate, 2013)

"Voicing the Welfare State: Experiences of the Sixteenth-Century French Poor" (Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, 2006-8, CI1 Broomhall)
This project reassesses the history of poverty by providing the first systematic analysis of the experiences of the urban poor in sixteenth-century France. It will use a distinctive methodology that combines qualitative readings from gender, cultural and historical anthropological theories, with quantitative demographic analyses of social history. The cross-fertilisation of these theoretical frameworks will permit study of a previously hidden sector at the birth of state-controlled welfare mechanisms and structures: the poor. Moreover, the research will provide a new interpretive model for charting contemporary discourses of poverty, agency and strategies of the poor, as well as their lived experiences. Specifically, the project explores the voices and experiences of the poor in sixteenth-century France, a period in which welfare arrangements were mostly transferred from religious organizations to municipal bureaux in urban areas. The study will explore not only how the urban poor responded, but also contributed to changing notions and politics of poverty and formalised support structures for the needy. It aims to understand particularly the impact of gender on the lives, strategies and contributions of the poor, and also how the poor also used informal networks of proximity and kin for support instead of, or in conjunction with, more formal bureau relief. Manuscript in preparation: Susan Broomhall, The experiences of the poor in sixteenth-century France.

"Beyond the Family: Fragmented Families and Household Strategies in England, 1400-1830" (Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, 2003-7; Linkage International, 2005-6, CI1 Philippa Maddern, CI2 Pam Sharpe, CI3 Broomhall)
Contracted monograph in preparation: Philippa Maddern, Stephanie Tarbin and Susan Broomhall, A Diversity of Families: Households and Kinship in England, c. 1350-1650 (Brepols); Manuscript in preparation: Susan Broomhall, Strangers and Aliens: Foreign communities in early modern England.

Contracted monograph in preparation: Susan Broomhall and Colette H. Winn, Voix et expériences: Etre françaises à l'aube des temps modernes. (Paris: Honoré Champion)

"Early Modern Colonialisms, Objects and Emotions" Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Research Project, 2011-2017. Cl Susan Broomhall, Research Professor Jacqueline Van Gent
This project analyses modern curatorial strategies of interpreting and conveying emotions of the medieval and early modern period. It focusses specifically on medieval and early modern colonialisms, objects and emotions, within modern museological, heritage and tourism environments. A key aspect to be examined is the modern curation of emotions generated by early modern networks and exchange of peoples and objects within the Indian Ocean and with the West Australian coast.

ZEST Festival, 2012-2016
http://zestfest.experiencekalbarri.com/
Rebecca Millar (Kalbarri Development Association), Susan Broomhall (Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions), Shire of Northampton, WA Museum
A five-year cycle of annual festivals on the Coral Coast celebrating cultural contact around the Indian Ocean from seventeenth-century Dutch contact to the present. Includes physical, travelling and online exhibitions, dramatic and musical performances, public lectures, school programmes.

Research profile

Research profile and publications