UH Press authors biographies

Ian Hancock is Director of the Romani Archives and Documentation Center at The University of Texas at Austin, where he has been a professor of English, linguistics and Asian studies since 1972.

He was born in Britain and descends on his father's side from Hungarian Romungre Romanies and on his mother's side from English Romanichal Gypsies.

He has represented the Romani people at the United Nations and served as a member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council under President Bill Clinton.

John Hare taught history at Peter Symonds College, Winchester, and has published extensively on various aspects of medieval economic, social and architectural history.

Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies (HALS) holds the archives for the county of Hertfordshire. The archives are held at County Hall, Pegs Lane, Hertford, and run by Hertfordshire County Council. For more information visit the website.

Herbert Heuss is a political scientist and Senior Research Associate of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma.

Margot Hillel, OAM, is Head of the School of Arts and Sciences, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne.

She has been President of the Children's Book Council of Australia and President of the Australasian Children's Literature Association for Research.

Judge of many literary awards, joint editor of three collections of short stories and joint compiler of a retrospective anthology celebrating fifty years of the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards, she has co-written several books about using literature with children, regularly publishes scholarly articles and reviews children's books in journals and on radio.

After careers in the Royal Navy and in industry, Fabian Hiscock added local history to his long-standing interest in the history of the waterways, completing his MA by Research in History at the University of Hertfordshire in 2016. He is also involved with the heritage education charity Rickmansworth Waterways Trust.

Barbara Hofmann-Johnson is director of the Museum für Photographie in Braunschweig.

Sarah Holland teaches History at the University of Nottingham and focuses on eighteenth to twentieth century British history, specialising in the study of rural communities and rural health histories.

Jonathan Holmes is a UK theatre director and writer. He taught drama at Royal Holloway, University of London for six years, leaving in 2007.

Other titles by this author

Fallujah, Holmes J, Constable, 2007

Refiguring Mimesis: Representation in early modern literature, Holmes J and Streete A, University of Hertfordshire Press, 2005

Merely Players?: Actors' accounts of performing Shakespeare, Holmes J, Routledge, 2004

Andrew Hopper is Senior Lecturer in English Local History at the University of Leicester.

Other titles by this author

Andrew Hopper and Philip Major (eds), England’s Fortress: New Perspectives on Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax (Ashgate, 2014)

Jacqueline Eales and Andrew Hopper (eds), The County Community in Seventeenth-century England and Wales (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2012)

Christopher Dyer, Andrew Hopper, Evelyn Lord and Nigel Tringham (eds), New Directions in Local History Since Hoskins (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2011)

Dr Peter Hounsell is the author of London’s Rubbish: Two centuries of dust, dirt and disease in the metropolis as well as several books about Ealing. He worked in public library services for nearly forty years and is a Fellow of the Historical Association.

A Chartered Town Planner, Hugh Howes' career  has extended from local government to the Environment Agency and he has specialised in strategic planning for water.

Other titles by this author

Hugh Howes, The Windmills and Watermills of Bedfordshire, (The Book Castle, 2008)

Hugh Howes, Wind, Water and Steam: The story of Hertfordshire's mills, (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2016)

Richard Hoyle is Visiting Professor of Economic History at Reading, having previously been Professor of History at the University of Central Lancashire (1998–2000), Professor of Rural History at the University of Reading (2000–2014), and Professor of Local and Regional History at the University of London (2014–16). He served as editor of the Agricultural History Review for twenty-one years, to 2019.

Rowland Hughes is a Principal Lecturer in English Literature and American Studies at the University of Hertfordshire. He has previously published work on American Literature, and on British and American film.

Other books by this author

Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton, Magdalen King-Hall with notes and an introduction by Rowland Hughes, (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2016)

Nineteenth Century American Literature: Texts, contexts, connections, Rowland Hughes (Longman, 2011)

Garry Hunter is an artist, photographer and writer.