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Dr Schulenburg is a Senior Research Officer at the City of London Corporation, carrying out research into its historical and legal documentation with an emphasis on the City's topographical history.  He was made a Freeman of the City of London in 2008.

He has been a Lecturer at the School of African and Asian Studies, University of Sussex (1996-98) and a Research Assistant at the University of Gloucestershire, where he was involved with the St Helena Research Project (1998-99).

He was educated at the University of St Andrews (M.A. 1989, Ph.D. 1999), where he was a student of Prof. Ladislav Holy, at the University of Cambridge (M.Phil. 1991), where he was a student of Prof. Anthony Giddens, and at the United World College of the Atlantic, Wales (1983-85).  Since 2003 he has been studying for a Bachelor of Laws degree (LL.B.) at the Open University.

He has carried out fieldwork on St Helena and Tristan da Cunha (July 1993 to August 1994), as well as on Ascension Island and St Helena (September 1998 to January 1999 & August 2005).

Dr Schulenburg is the editor of Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena and of 'EmpireHist', the British Empire mailing list, and he maintains the The St Helena Institute web site [st-helena.org], including the St Helena family history mailing list.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Anthropological Institute and a Member of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth, the Institute of Historical Research, the Friends of St Helena, the St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Philatelic Society, and of Anti-Slavery International.

He is married to Darlene (née Timm), with whom he has two sons.  They live in England.
 
 

 
Research Interests:

St Helena and dependencies; the East India Company; the British Empire; colonization; slavery; the literature of empire (George Orwell, John Buchan, Somerset Maugham); the foundation and constitution of colonial and post-colonial societies and identities; small (island) communities; the City of London.

Heritage and museums; local, family and community history.

Seventeenth century land law and royal charters.

The history and anthropology of information and communication technologies; the role of writing and reading in human experiences; cognitive anthropology.

Theories of history; social and cultural theory; power, social control, resistance and collective action.
 

Publications etc:
 

Radio

'St Helena' on Making History, BBC Radio 4, 13 October 2009 (further details and available to listen here)
 

Books

Schulenburg, H. and Schulenburg, A.H. (1997) St Helena, South Atlantic Ocean (Allersberg: Jacob-Gilardi-Verlag)

Schulenburg, A.H. (forthcoming) Transient Observations: St Helena Through Five Hundred Years of Colonial Discourse (New York: Edwin Mellen Press)
 

Book Chapters

Schulenburg, A.H. (2002) ''They are as if a Family': Community and Informal Social Controls on St Helena', in Tony Charlton et al (eds), Broadcast Television Effects in a Remote Community (Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates), pp.21-42

Schulenburg, A.H. (2006) 'St Helena Historiography, Philately, and the "Castella" Controversy', in M.D. Mueller and P. McCann (eds), Thirty Years of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cuha Philately (Morgantown, MD: St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Philatelic Society), pp.137-143

Schulenburg, A.H. (forthcoming) 'Shakespeare (part 1)' in Geoff Golson and Steven L. Danver (eds) Popular Controversies in World History (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO)
 

Journal Articles

Schulenburg, A.H. (1998) 'St Helena: British Local History in the Context of Empire', The Local Historian, Vol.28, No.2, pp.108-122

Schulenburg, A.H. (1998) 'Note. Philip Gosse and the Discovery of St Helena', Notes and Queries, Vol.45, Issue 4, pp.476-78

Schulenburg, A.H. (2000) 'The Book vs. the Box: The Impact of Broadcast Television on Library Borrowing Levels on St Helena, South Atlantic', Rural Libraries, Vol.XX, No.1, pp.38-51

Schulenburg, A.H. (2003) '"Island of the Blessed": Eden, Arcadia and the Picturesque in the Textualizing of St Helena', Journal of Historical Geography, Vol.29, No.4, pp.535-53
 

Works of Reference

Schulenburg, A.H. (2003) 'Max Weber' and 'Judaism', in Karen Christensen and David Levinson (eds), Encyclopedia of Community: Shared Places, Shared Meanings, from the Village to the Virtual World  (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage)

Schulenburg, A.H. (2003) 'London: Mid-16th Century to c.1800' and 'London: c.1800 to Present', in David Loades (ed), Reader's Guide to British History  (London:  Routledge)

Schulenburg, A.H. (2003) 'Richard Fardon', 'Milan Stuchlik' and 'Nicholas Thomas', in Vered Amit (ed), Biographical Dictionary of Anthropology (London: Routledge)

Schulenburg, A.H. (2003) 'London', in Jennifer Speake (ed), The Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopaedia  (London: Routledge)

Schulenburg, A.H. (2005) 'St Helena', in Thomas Leonard (ed), Encyclopedia of the Developing World  (London: Routledge)

Schulenburg, A.H. (2008) 'London', in Peter N. Stearns (ed), Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

Schulenburg, A.H. (forthcoming) 'Modern Slavery' in Alfred J. Andrea (ed) World History Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO)
 

Non-Refereed / User Publications

Schulenburg, A.H. (1997) 'João da Nova and the Lost Carrack', Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, No.16, pp.19-23

Schulenburg, A.H. (1998) 'The Commission of Enquiry, 1981-3', St Helena News, Vol.13, No.16, p.5

Schulenburg, A.H. (1998) 'St. Helena and the World Wide Web', St Helena News, Vol.13, No.21, p.9

Schulenburg, A.H. (1999) 'St Helena Historiography, Philately, and the "Castella" Controversy', South Atlantic Chronicle: The Journal of the St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Philatelic Society, Vol.XXIII, No.3, pp.3-6

Schulenburg, A.H. (1999) 'Myths of Settlement: St Helena and the Great Fire of London', Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, No.19, pp.5-8

Schulenburg, A.H. (2001) 'Early Anti-Slavery Sentiments on St Helena', Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, No.23, pp.17-21

Schulenburg, A.H. (2002) 'The Discovery of St Helena: The Search Continues', Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, No.24, pp.13-19

Schulenburg, A.H. (2003) 'Aspects of the Lives of the "Liberated Africans" on St Helena', Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, No.26, pp.18-27

Schulenburg, A.H. (2003) 'The Parliamentarian and the Civil Servant: Two Views of St Helena in the 1950s', Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, No.27, pp.24-27

Schulenburg, A.H. (2004) 'Community, Dependency, Migration: Historical Observations on Contemporary St Helena Problems', Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, No.28, pp.16-20

Schulenburg, A.H. (2006) ''For Sale Under the Trees - Slaves':  Reclaiming an Icon of St Helena's Shameful Past', Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, No.32, pp.13-16

Schulenburg, A.H. (2006) 'A Brief History of Cinema on St Helena', Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, No.33, pp.6-10

Schulenburg, A.H. (2006) 'The St Helena Tea-Gardens, London', Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, No.33 pp.27-29

misc. book reviews, editorials and notices in Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena
 

Booklets

Schulenburg, A.H. (1994) A Documentary History of the Transfer of the Island of St. Helena from the Honourable East India Company to His Majesty's Government A.D. 1834 (St Helena: printed privately)

Schulenburg, A.H. (1997) Election Statistics: St Helena Advisory and Legislative Councils 1963-1993 (Stratford-upon-Avon: The St Helena Institute)
 

Reports

Schulenburg, A.H. (1999) The St Helena Heritage Society Museum Project: A Proposal for the Organisation of the Collection and its Co-ordination (report commissioned by the St Helena Heritage Society)
 

Letters

Schulenburg, A.H. (1997) 'Letter [Big trouble on small island]', The Guardian, 16.4.97

Schulenburg, A.H. (1997) 'Letter [Economic future of St Helena]', The Times, 18.4.97

Schulenburg, A.H. (1998) 'Letter [More on João da Nova Castella]', South Atlantic Chronicle: The Journal of the St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Philatelic Society, Vol.XXII, No.3, p.16
 

Doctoral Thesis:

Transient Observations: The Textualizing of St Helena Through Five Hundred Years of Colonial Discourse
 

Selected Lectures (School of African and Asian Studies, University of Sussex):

Power, Discourse and Anthropology

Nations and Nationalism

 


 

No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe;
every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; ...
any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde;
And therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls;
It tolls for thee.

JOHN DONNE
"Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions XVII."
Meditations, 1624
 
 

revised on 14 October 2009

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