Dr Elizabeth Baigent

Dr Baigent is the University Reader in the History of Geography. She was educated at the universities of Oxford and Münster. She has held research fellowships at the universities of Oxford and Stockholm and a visiting professorship at Johns Hopkins University, with funding from bodies such as the British Academy and the Fulbright Commission.

From 1993 to 2003 she was Research Director of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and Research Lecturer in the history faculty. She is a member of the International Geographical Union’s Commission on the History of Geographical Thought. With the Bodleian Library's Map Curator she convenes The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA), a seminar series which has been running for more than 30 years. She is fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Higher Education Academy.

A complete listing of Dr Baigent's publications is available online (PDF: 301 KB).

1. (ed with B. Cowell) ‘Nobler imaginings and mightier struggles’: Octavia Hill and the remaking of British society, London, Institute for Historical Research, 2016
2. Octavia Hill:  ‘the most misunderstood…Victorian reformer’, in ‘Nobler imaginings and mightier struggles’: Octavia Hill and the remaking of British society, eds. E. Baigent and B. Cowell, London, Institute for Historical Research, 2016.
3. Octavia Hill, nature, and open space:  crowning success or campaigning ‘utterly without result?, in ‘Nobler imaginings and mightier struggles’: Octavia Hill and the remaking of British society, eds. E. Baigent and B. Cowell, London, Institute for Historical Research, 2016
4. (ed. with N. Millea) Cartographic Journal 57,4 (special issue on Enlightening Maps: 25 years of The Oxford Seminars in Cartography) (2020)
5. (with N. Millea) ‘Intelligent strangers as well as members’: Enlightening maps and social and political spaces for cartographic conversations, 294–311 in E. Baigent and N. Millea eds.) Cartographic Journal 57,4 (special issue on Enlightening Maps: 25 years of The Oxford Seminars in Cartography) (2020)
6. (ed. with A. Reyes Novaes) Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies 36 (2018), 37 (2019), 38 (2020), 39 (2021), 39 (2022), 40 (2023)