My Role

I began work for the Victoria County History of Cumbria project as the Volunteer Co-ordinator, supporting the work of volunteer researchers by providing guidance and skills training so that their work met VCH standards. I then took on a more research-based role as Assistant Editor and am now County Editor for the project.

Additional Information

Publications & Reasearch Output

The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Westmorland I (Lonsdale Ward), E. Garnett and S. Rose, with contributions from F. Edmonds, C. Donaldson and A.L.J. Winchester (Boydell and Brewer, 2025)

Sarah Rose, 'Richard III and the Honour of Pontefract, 1471-1485' in, Kingship, Sanctity and Lordship in Medieval Britain: Essays in Honour of Alexander Grant, Steven Boardman and David Ditchburn eds (Boydell, 2022)

Richard Brockington with Sarah Rose, The Victoria History of Cumberland: Kirkoswald and Renwick (IHR, 2019)

S.A. Rose, "'Our dear and well-beloved esquire': Robert Waterton and Henry V", Medieval Yorkshire: Journal of the Medieval Section of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society (2016)

S.A. Rose, 'The Barony of Kendal', Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archeological Society Transactions, third series, vol. xv (2015)

S.A. Rose, 'Natland', Victoria County History of Cumbria (2015)

S.A. Rose, 'Gamblesby', Victoria County History of Cumbria (2014)

S.A. Rose, 'Helsington', Victoria County History of Cumbria (2014)

Winchester, A.J.L., E. Straughton & S.A. Rose, Manorial Records in Cumbria and Lancashire: A User's Guide (Lancaster University, 2013)

Winchester, A.J.L. and S.A. Rose, VCH Cumbria Volunteer Handbook (1st edn 2012; 4th edn 2019)

S.A. Rose, 'A twelfth-century honour in a fifteenth-century world: the honour of Pontefract', in L. Clark (ed.), The Fifteenth Century: English and Continental Perspectives, vol. IX (Woodbridge, 2010), pp.38-58

Ongoing Project Outputs

Content of the project website (http://www.cumbriacountyhistory.org.uk/) is co-authored by S.A. Rose.

External Roles

Membership Secretary for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society (2023 - present)

Reviews Editor for the British Association of Local History (2015-2018) http://www.balh.org.uk/