David Lemmings

EPrf David Lemmings

School of Humanities

College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities

David Lemmings was born in London and educated at the Universities of Sussex, London and Oxford before coming to Australia as a Research Fellow of the University of Adelaide in 1987. He then moved to the University of Newcastle in 1990 where he became Head of the Department of History in 1998 and Associate Professor in History in 2000. In 2008, Professor Lemmings moved to the University of Adelaide where he is Professor of History and Leader of the 'Change' research program in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.Professor Lemmings’ research has been focussed on the history of the legal profession in late seventeenth and eighteenth-century England, and more broadly on law and society in England and its former colonies. He is currently researching the history of emotions and the public sphere in England, 1680 - 1820. David Lemmings is joint editor (with William M. Reddy) of Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions.Current Research Projects include:Governing Emotion: the Affective Family, the Press and the Law in Early Modern Britain (ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions project).Variorum edition of Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, vol. I (under contract with Oxford University Press).ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, (with others, ARC Centres of Excellence Program, 2010-2017, $24.24M).The Oxford History of the Laws of England, Vol. 9: 1690-1760, with Dr. Mike Macnair and Prof. Wilifrid Prest (under contract with Oxford University Press).Research Projects and Research Funding since 1998:‘Lawyer Biographies’ (Australian Research Council (ARC) Small Grant, 1998, $5000‘History of Bushranging in NSW’ (with H Carey, ARC Small Grant, 1999-2002, $16-17000pa)‘Dualism, Religion and Popular Culture in Early Modern England’ (with C Walker, University of Newcastle, University of Newcastle Research Management Committee Project Grant, 2001-3, $17-18000p.a.)An Imperial State at Law, (ARC Large Grant, 2000-3, $105,000)Treaties and Constitutions (conference), (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Newcastle, 2000, $3,118)An Imperial State at Law (Visiting Fellowship), (Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, 2001, $4,000 + travel and accommodation)An Imperial State at Law (Visiting Fellowship), (Humanities Research Centre, ANU, 2001)The British Imperial State at Law (conference), (Humanities Research Centre, ANU, 2001, $5,000)‘Visions’ (12th Biennial Conference, Australian Historical Association, 2004)Moral Panics and the Law in Eighteenth-Century England, (with C Walker, U. of Newcastle Research Project Grant. 2004, $15,000)Moral Panics and the Law in Early Modern England, (with C McCreery and C Walker, ARC Discovery Grant, 2005-7, $141,000)Microform scanner for historical research, (University of Newcastle Research Infrastructure Grant, 2005, $14,126)Network for Early European Research, (with 49 others, ARC Discovery Grant, 2005, $1.5M)The Courtroom, Lawyers and the Press: Negotiating Justice in the Public Sphere, (with M Davis, ARC Discovery Grant, 2007-9, $162,000)‘"Making History"’: Twenty-first century Humanities curricular in eighteenth-century London"(University of Adelaide Faculty Small Grant, 2009, $3,817)'"Getting a MUVE On": Developing Web 2.0 Curricula in the Humanities" (Australian Learning and Teaching Council, 2009, $204,000)'A New History of Law in Eighteenth-Century England' (with W. Prest, ARC Discovery Grant, 2011, $153,000)'A New History of Law in Post-revolutionary England (c. 1689-1760)' (with W. Prest, M. Macnair, ARC Discovery Grant, 2016, $606,120)

Date Position Institution name
2007 - ongoing Professor of History University of Adelaide

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2009 Fellowship Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities Australian Academy of the Humanities Australia -
1993 Fellowship Fellow, Royal Historical Society, UK Royal Historical Society United Kingdom -

Date Institution name Country Title
University of Oxford UK D.Phil.
University of Sussex UK MA
University of Sussex UK BA hons.

Year Citation
2017 Lemmings, D. (2017). Henry Fielding and English Crime and Justice Reportage, 1748-52: Narratives of Panic, Authority, and Emotion. Huntington Library Quarterly, 80(1), 71-97.
DOI WoS3
2017 Lemmings, D. (2017). Corruption, Party, and Government in Britain, 1702-1713. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, 122(1), 246-247.
2017 Milka, A., & Lemmings, D. (2017). Narratives of feeling and majesty: mediated emotions in the eighteenth-century criminal courtroom. Journal of Legal History, 38(2), 155-178.
DOI Scopus12 WoS13
2017 Lemmings, D. (2017). Emotions, power and popular opinion about the administration justice: the english experience, from Coke’s ‘Artificial Reason’ to the sensibility of ‘True Crime Stories’. Emotions: History, Culture and Society, 1(1), 59-90.
DOI WoS2
2016 Lemmings, D. (2016). The Glorious Revolution and the Continuity of Law. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, 121(1), 318-319.
DOI
2015 Lemmings, D. (2015). The Changing Legal Regulation of Cohabitation: From Fornicators to Family 1600-2010. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LAW IN CONTEXT, 11(2), 216-218.
DOI
2005 Lemmings, D. (2005). Criminal trial procedure in eighteenth century England: The impact of lawyers.. The Journal of Legal History, 26(1), 73-82.
DOI
2001 Lemmings, D., & Lindsay, K. (2001). Treaties and Constitutions. The Newcastle Law Review, 5, 1-2.
1998 Lemmings, D. (1998). Blackstone and Law Reform by Education: Preparation for the Bar and Lawyerly Culture in Eighteenth-Century England. Law and History Review, 16(2), 211.
DOI
1996 Lemmings, D. F. (1996). Marriage and the Law in Eighteenth-century England. The Historical Journal, 39, 339-60.
1990 LEMMINGS, D. (1990). Lord Chancellor Cowper and the Whigs, 1714–16. Parliamentary History, 9(1), 163-174.
DOI
1985 Lemmings, D. (1985). The Student Body of the Inns of Court under the Later Stuarts. Historical Research, 58(138), 149-166.
DOI

Year Citation
2019 Broomhall, S., Davidson, J., Lynch, A., Lemmings, D., Walker, C., & Barclay, K. (Eds.) (2019). A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Baroque and Enlightenment Age (1600-1780) (Vol. 4). London: Bloomsbury Academic.
DOI Scopus2
2016 Kerr, H., Lemmings, D., & Phiddian, R. (Eds.) (2016). Passions, Sympathy and Print Culture: Public Opinion and Emotional Authenticity in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
2016 Lemmings, D. F., & Brooks, A. (Eds.) (2016). Emotions and Social Change: Historical and Sociological Perspectives (paperback edition ed.). New York: Routledge (New York).
2016 Blackstone, W. (2016). The Oxford Edition of Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book I, II, III, and IV (Vol. Books 1-4, General Editor - Wilfrid Prest). W. Prest, D. Lemmings, S. Stern, T. P. Gallanis, & R. Paley (Eds.), Oxford University Press: Oxford University Press.
2014 Lemmings, D., & Brooks, A. (Eds.) (2014). Emotions and social change: historical and sociological perspectives. New York: Routledge.
2012 Lemmings, D. (Ed.) (2012). Crime, courtrooms and the public sphere in Britain, 1700-1850. United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing Limited.
2011 Lemmings, D. (2011). Law and government in England during the long eighteenth century: from consent to command. United Kingdom: Palgrave MacMillan.
2009 Lemmings, D., & Walker, C. (Eds.) (2009). Moral panics, the media and the law in early modern England. Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.
DOI Scopus42
2009 Lemmings, D., & Walker, C. (Eds.) (2009). Moral panics, the media and the law in early modern England. Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.
DOI Scopus42
2005 Lemmings, D. (Ed.) (2005). The British and their laws in the eighteenth century. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, the.
2000 Lemmings, D. (2000). Professors of the Law Barristers and English Legal Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Oxford University Press.
1990 Lemmings, D. (1990). Gentlemen and Barristers The Inns of Court and the English Bar, 1680-1730. Oxford University Press on Demand.

Year Citation
2016 Lemmings, D., Kerr, H., & Phiddian, R. (2016). Emotional light on Eighteenth-century print culture. In H. Kerr, D. Lemmings, & R. Phiddian (Eds.), Passions, Sympathy and Print Culture: Public Opinion and Emotional Authenticity in Eighteenth-Century Britain (pp. 3-19). Houndmills, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
DOI
2016 Lemmings, D. (2016). Introduction to Book 1. In D. Lemmings (Ed.), Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England Book I: on the Rights of Persons (Vol. 1, Oxford Edition ed., pp. xvii-xl). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2014 Lemmings, D., & Brooks, A. (2014). The emotional turn in the humanities and social sciences. In D. Lemmings, & A. Brooks (Eds.), Emotions and Social Change: Historical and Sociological Perspectives (1 ed., pp. 3-18). New York, USA: Routledge.
DOI
2012 Lemmings, D. (2012). Introduction: criminal courts, lawyers and the public sphere. In D. Lemmings (Ed.), Crime, Courtrooms and the Public Sphere in Britain, 1700-1850 (1 ed., pp. 1-21). United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing Limited.
2012 Lemmings, D. (2012). Negotiating justice in the new public sphere: crime, the courts and the press in early eighteenth-century Britain. In D. Lemmings (Ed.), Crime, Courtrooms and the Public Sphere in Britain, 1700-1850 (1 ed., pp. 119-145). United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing Limited.
2009 Lemmings, D. (2009). Conclusion: Moral panics, law and the transformation of the public sphere in early modern England. In D. Lemmings, & C. Walker (Eds.), Moral panics, the media and the law in early modern England (pp. 246-266). Hampshire, England: Palgrave MacMillan.
DOI
2009 Lemmings, D. (2009). The dark side of enlightenment: The London journal, moral panics and the law in the Eighteenth Century. In D. Lemmings, & C. Walker (Eds.), Moral panics, the media and the law in early modern England (pp. 139-156). Hampshire, England: Palgrave MacMillan.
DOI
2009 Lemmings, D. (2009). Introduction: Law and order, moral panics and early modern England. In D. Lemmings, & C. Walker (Eds.), Moral panics, the media and the law in early modern England (pp. 1-21). Hampshire, UK: Palgrave MacMillan.
DOI
2004 Lemmings, D. (2004). Wilson, Sir John (1741–1793), judge. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (pp. 1). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DOI
2004 Lemmings, D. (2004). Raymond, Robert, first Baron Raymond (1673–1733), judge. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (pp. 1). Oxford University Press.
DOI
2004 Lemmings, D. (2004). Aland, John Fortescue, first Baron Fortescue of Credan (1670–1746), judge. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (pp. 1). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DOI
2004 Lemmings, D. (2004). Arden, Richard Pepper, first Baron Alvanley (1744–1804), judge. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (pp. 1). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DOI
2004 Lemmings, D. (2004). Willes, Sir John. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DOI
2004 Lemmings, D. (2004). Skynner, Sir John (bap. 1723, d. 1805), judge. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DOI
2004 Lemmings, D. (2004). Rooke, Sir Giles (1743–1808), judge. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DOI
2004 Lemmings, D. (2004). Perryn, Sir Richard (bap. 1723, d. 1803), judge. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DOI
2004 Lemmings, D. (2004). Pengelly, Sir Thomas (1675–1730), judge. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DOI
2004 Lemmings, D. (2004). Macdonald, Sir Archibald, first baronet (1747–1826), judge and politician. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DOI
2004 Lemmings, D. (2004). Lee, Sir William (1688–1754), judge. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DOI
2004 Lemmings, D. (2004). King, Peter, first Baron King (1669–1734), lord chancellor. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DOI
2004 Lemmings, D. (2004). Cowper, Spencer (1670–1728), judge. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DOI
2004 Lemmings, D. (2004). Chesshyre [Cheshire], Sir John (1662–1738), lawyer. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DOI
2004 Lemmings, D. (2004). Burnet, Sir Thomas (1694–1753), judge. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DOI
2004 Lemmings, D. (2004). Thomson, Sir William (1678–1739), judge. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (pp. 1). Oxford: Arnold Hodder Headline PLC/Oxford University Press.
DOI
2004 Lemmings, D. (2004). Ryder, Sir Dudley (1691–1756), judge. In H. Matthew, & B. Harrison (Eds.), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (pp. 446-449). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DOI
2004 Lemmings, D. (2004). Erskine, Thomas, first Baron Erskine (1750–1823), lord chancellor. In H. Matthew, & B. Harrison (Eds.), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (pp. 567-577). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DOI
2004 Lemmings, D. (2004). Women's property, popular cultures and the consistory court of London in the eighteenth century. In N. Wright, M. Ferguson, & A. Buck (Eds.), Women, Property and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England (pp. 66-94). Toronto: University of Toronto Press Inc..
2003 Lemmings, D. (2003). Ritual, majesty and mystery: collective life and culture among English barristers, serjeants and judges, c.1500-c.1830. In W. Pue, & D. Sugarman (Eds.), Lawyers and Vampires: Cultural histories of legal professions (pp. 25-63). Oxford: Hart Publishing.
1999 Lemmings, D. F. (1999). Law. In I. McCalman (Ed.), An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture, 1776-1832. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1993 Lemmings, D. F. (1993). The Independence of the Judiciary in Eighteenth-Century England. In P. Birks (Ed.), The Life of the Law (pp. 125-149).
1991 Lemmings, D. F. (1991). Ritual and the Law in Early Modern England. In S. Corcoran (Ed.), Law and History in Australia (pp. 3-19). Adelaide: Adelaide Law Review.

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2017 - 2020 Co-Supervisor Married Women’s Litigation in the English Court of Chancery, 1698-1758 Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Emily Ireland
2014 - 2016 Principal Supervisor The Correspondence of Elizabeth I and James VI in the Context of Anglo-Scottish Relations, 1572-1603 Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Dr Elizabeth Anne Tunstall
2014 - 2016 Principal Supervisor Beings of Nature and Reason: Mythological Masculinities in Early 18th-Century French Art and Visual Culture Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Dr Melanie Ann Cooper
2013 - 2019 Principal Supervisor Chivalry and Courtly Love: Cultural Shifts, Gender Relations, and Politics in Early Tudor Court Culture Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Hilary Jane Locke
2012 - 2017 Co-Supervisor A 'Plea of Humanity'? Emotions and the Makings of Lunacy Reform in Britain, c.1770-1820 Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Dr Mark Adam Neuendorf
2011 - 2014 Principal Supervisor Treason, Passion and Power in England, 1660 - 1685 Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Elsa Reuter
2011 - 2018 Principal Supervisor Following in Scottish Footsteps: The Amalgamation Movement in English and Welsh Banking, 1870-1920 Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Philip Ritson

Connect With Me

Other Links