Dr Vivienne Aldous
Lecturer in History
- Phone
- +44 (0)1473 338842
- v.aldous@uos.ac.uk
- School/Directorate
- School of Social Sciences and Humanities
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Vivienne Aldous has been a part-time lecturer in History at the University of Suffolk since 2009. She gained her BA in English Language with Medieval History at Sheffield University and completed an M.Ar.Ad. (Master of Archive Administration) at Liverpool University. After over 20 years as a professional archivist in London, Vivienne established a successful career as a freelance archivist and archive researcher and brings an unrivalled wealth of practical hands-on knowledge and experience of archival research to her teaching at Suffolk. In 2025, she completed her PhD jointly with UEA and the University of Suffolk on John Darby, the sixteenth century Suffolk map-maker.
Current Undergraduate Teaching:
Researching History
Current MA Teaching:
Lives in Motion
Vivienne’s main research interests lie in the early modern period, with a particular interest in local history and cartography. She enjoys Latin medieval and early modern palaeography.
Publications:
My Ancestors were Freemen of the City of London, (Society of Genealogists, London, 1999).
Monks Eleigh Manorial Records, 1210–1683, Suffolk Records Society, vol. 65. (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press for the Suffolk Records Society, 2022).
Suffolk Records Society.
Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History.