Ballot Archive

16 Mar 2023

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Callan Davies

Academic degrees, honours etc.

BA (Hons), Exeter; M.Phil., Cambridge; PhD, Exeter FRHistS

Profession or occupation

Research Fellow and Research and Engagement Assistant Manager

Grounds for election

Callan is a Research Fellow at Roehampton and Research and Engagement Assistant Manager in the UK Parliament’s Heritage Collections. He has been fellow on three UKRI-funded projects—Before Shakespeare, Middling Culture, and Box Office Bears—helping drive both their archival research and public outreach and websites. He has published widely on 16th- and 17th-century cultural history (of London and the regions), including an award-winning essay on bowling alleys; articles in English Historical Review and Historical Journal; an edited collection on pre-modern ephemera; and two books, the latest of which, What is a Playhouse? England at Play, 1520-1620, was deemed a “theatre history gamechanger” by Prof. Emma Smith. Callan’s work is rooted in collaboration, including a forthcoming reconstructed virtual-reality parlour room and archaeological partnerships. He is academic consultant for Shoreditch’s Museum of Shakespeare project and editor of the Curtain playhouse records for REED Online.

Signatories

The following Fellows have signed this Blue Paper