Thomas Stammers

Biography

Thomas Stammers Assistant Professor (Modern European History) in the Department of History. Tom Stammers is a cultural historian of France in the long nineteenth century. His forthcoming book Collection, Recollection, Revolution: Scavenging the Past in Nineteenth-Century Paris explores the politics of collecting, the art market and cultural heritage in post-revolutionary France. His next major project concerns the experience of French dynasties in exile and the dispersion and recuperation of the royal patrimony. Tom is also editing a volume of essays on the art historian Francis Haskell's inquiries into nineteenth-century taste, arising from a conference he organized at St John's College, Oxford and the Ashmolean in 2015. Parallel research projects include connoisseurship in the nineteenth-century Louvre and the historiography of 1789 in interwar France. He is a regular contributor and feature writer for the arts magazine Apollo, and in January 2017 co-curated an exhibition at the Bowes Museum on 'The Allure of Napoleon'.

Research Interest

Research Interests are Aesthetics and Politics, Counter-Revolutionary Thought and Culture c.1789-1900 France, c.1750-1900, Heritage and Historical Consciousness, Museums and Collecting, The Enlightenment and European Romanticism, The French Revolutionary Tradition, Urban History.