Tom Stammers

Tom Stammers is Associate Professor of Modern European Cultural History at the University of Durham, UK. A specialist in the history of collecting, his first book The Purchase of the Past: The Culture of Collecting in Post-Revolutionary Paris, c.1790-1890 won the Royal Historical Society Gladstone Prize in 2021 for the best first book in non-British history. A founding member of the Society of the History of Collecting, he is the co-investigator on the major AHRC-funded project Jewish Country...See more

Tom Stammers is Associate Professor of Modern European Cultural History at the University of Durham, UK. A specialist in the history of collecting, his first book The Purchase of the Past: The Culture of Collecting in Post-Revolutionary Paris, c.1790-1890 won the Royal Historical Society Gladstone Prize in 2021 for the best first book in non-British history. A founding member of the Society of the History of Collecting, he is the co-investigator on the major AHRC-funded project Jewish Country Houses: Objects, Networks, People (2019-2024), where he co-ordinates the strand of research related to collections, working closely with Davoli, with whom he has collaborated on many occasions. See less