Ian W. Archer FRHistS is a historian of early modern London and the Robert Stonehouse Tutorial Fellow in History at Keble College, University of Oxford.^[1][2]

After graduating from Altrincham Grammar School for Boys and Trinity College, Oxford,^[3] Archer started his academic career in 1986 as a research fellow at Girton College, University of Cambridge. In 1989 he moved to Downing College, Cambridge where he was director of studies in history until 1991. After leaving Cambridge he transferred to Keble College, Oxford, where he is sub-warden.^[1]

In 1991 Archer published his first monograph, The Pursuit of Stability: Social Relations in Elizabethan London, based on his DPhil thesis which was supervised by Penry Williams.^[4]

From 1999 to 2010 Archer was academic editor of the Bibliography of British and Irish History. He is an honorary vice-president of the Royal Historical Society.^[5] Alongside Dr Lucy Wooding of Lincoln College, Archer served as joint director of undergraduate studies for Oxford's faculty of history for the 2022–23 academic year.^[6]

He is the chair of the education committee at the London Academy of Excellence Stratford, an Ofsted outstanding Free School.^[7]

• Hugh Alley's Caveat: The Markets of London in 1598 (London: London Topographical Society, 1988) (co-edited with Caroline Barron and Vanessa Harding)
• The Pursuit of Stability: Social Relations in Elizabethan London (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991)
• The History of the Haberdashers' Company (Chichester: Phillimore, 1991)
• Religion, Politics, and Society in Sixteenth-Century England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2003)
• English Historical Documents Volume V: c.1558-1603 (London: Routledge, 2011) (co-edited with F. Douglas Price)
• The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013) (co-edited with Felicity Heal and Paulina Kewes)

• 'The Government of London, 1500-1650', The London Journal 26:1 (2001), pp. 19-28
• 'The Burden of Taxation on Sixteenth-Century London', The Historical Journal 44:3 (2001), pp. 599–627
• 'The Charity of Early Modern Londoners', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 12 (2002), pp. 223-244
• 'A 'Journall' of Matters of State', Camden Society Fifth Series 22 (2003), pp. 35-136 (co-edited with Simon Adams and G. W. Bernard)
• 'Discourses of History in Elizabethan and Early Stuart London', Huntington Library Quarterly 68:1-2 (2005), pp. 205–26
• 'City and Court Connected: The Material Dimensions of Royal Ceremonial, ca. 1480-1625', Huntingdon Library Quarterly 71:1 (2008), pp. 157-179
• '150 Years of Royal Historical Society Publishing', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 28 (2018), pp. 265-288

• 'Patronage and Clientage in Elizabethan London', in Charles Giry-Deloison and Roger Mettam, eds., Patronages et clientélismes 1550-1750 (France, Angleterre, Espagne, Italie) (Lille: Publications de l'Institute de recherches historiques du Septentrion, 1995), pp. 137-148
• 'The Nostalgia of John Stow', in David Bevington, David L. Smith and Richard Strier, eds., The Theatrical City: Culture, Theatre and Politics in London, 1576-1649 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)
• 'Material Londoners?', in Lena Cowen Orlin, ed., Material London, ca. 1600 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000), pp. 174-192
• 'The Arts and Acts of Memorialization in Early Modern London 1598-1720', in J. F. Merritt, ed., Imagining Early Modern London: Perceptions and Portrayals of the City from Stow to Strype (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001) pp. 89–113
• 'John Stow, Citizen and Historian', in John Stow (1525-1605) and the Making of the English Past: Studies in Early Modern Culture and the History of the Book (London, 2004), pp. 13–26
• 'London and Westminster', in Thomas Warren Hopper and Arthur F. Kinney, eds., A New Companion to Renaissance Drama (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2004), pp. 75-87
• 'The City of London and the Theatre', in Richard Dutton, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theatre (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 396-412
• 'Economy', in Arthur F. Kinney, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 165-181
• 'The City of London and the Ulster Plantation', in Éamonn Ó Ciardha and Micheál Ó Siochrú, eds., The Plantation of Ulster: Ideology and Practice (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012), pp. 78-97
• 'Shakespeare's London', in David Scott Kastan, ed., A Companion to Shakespeare (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2012), pp. 43-56
• 'Commerce and Consumption', in Susan Doran and Norman Jones, eds., The Elizabethan World (London: Routledge, 2014), pp. 411-426
• 'Elizabethan Chroniclers and Parliament', in Paul Cavill and Alexandra Gajda, eds., Writing the History of Parliament in Tudor and Early Stuart England (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 133-152
• 'Royal Entries, the City of London, and the Politics of Stuart Successions', in Paulina Kewes and Andrew McRae, eds., Stuart Succession Literature: Moments and Transformations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 257-281
• 'The Social and Political Dynamics of the Lord Mayor's Show, c.1550-1700', in J. Caitlin Finlayson and Amrita Sen, eds., Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 93-115

• Personal Website Archived 12 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine
• History Faculty Profile

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