Alexander is a Senior Historical 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 is a Freeman of the City of London.

He was previously a Tutorial Fellow at the School of African and Asian Studies, University of Sussex, where he taught political anthropology and courses on social movements and on social and cultural theory (1996-98).  As a Research Assistant at the University of Gloucestershire he was involved with the St Helena Research Project (1998-99).

Alexander is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and a Member of the Shakespearean Authorship Trust, the Friends of St Helena and Anti-Slavery International.

He has carried out fieldwork on St Helena and Tristan da Cunha (1993 to 1994), as well as on St Helena and Ascension Island (1998 to 1999, 2005 & 2015).

Alexander studied at the University of St Andrews (M.A. [Hons] 1989, Ph.D. 1999), where he was a student of Prof. Ladislav Holy, and at the University of Cambridge (St Edmund's College & Sidney Sussex College) (M.Phil. 1991), where he was a student of Prof. Anthony Giddens. He was educated at the Melanchthon Gymnasium, Nürnberg, and at the United World College of the Atlantic, Wales (1983-85).  He also studied law at the Open University (LL.B. 2011).

Alexander was editor of Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena from 2001 until 2010 and moderates the St Helena Family History mailing list, which he founded.  He administers the 'Sammlung Familie Geiershoefer/Schulenburg' and is on the board of the 'Stiftung Firma Gilardi, Familie Geiershoefer/Schulenburg - Markt Allersberg'. 
 
 

 
Publications etc:
 

Radio

'St Helena' on Making History, BBC Radio 4, 13 October 2009 (further details and available to listen here - starts at 22:00  minutes)
 

Books

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

Books (as editor)

Hearl, Trevor W. (2013) St Helena Britannica: Studies in South Atlantic Island History (London: Society of Friends of St Helena)

"Editors of collected works do not always receive the credit that is their due, so I think it is worth putting on record the rigorous, yet sensitive way in which Alexander Schulenburg has edited this volume. Faced with a mass of very disparate material, he has made a careful selection of what to include, has verified the references, and has made some occasionally necessary updates and corrections, without ever appearing to intrude on Trevor’s very distinctive style. That this book reads so seamlessly is very largely due to him." (John Pinfold, former librarian of The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford)
 

Book Chapters

Schulenburg, A.H. (2011) 'Shakespeare (part 1)' in Geoff Golson and Steven L. Danver (eds) Popular Controversies in World History (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO)

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. (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
 

Journal Articles/Reviews

Schulenburg, A.H. (2016) 'Book Review: Peter Whitfield, Mapping Shakespeare's World (2015)', The Globe: The Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Map Society, No.80, p.91-2.

Schulenburg, A.H. (2015) 'Book Review: Graeme Lay, James Cook's New World (2014)', The Globe: The Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Map Society, No.78, p.56-7

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

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

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

Works of Reference

Schulenburg, A.H. (forthcoming 2020) 'Prostitutes (Revolutionary Europe - Economics and Work)' in Colleen Boyett, H. Micheal Tarver, and Mildred Diane Gleason (eds), Daily Life of Women: An Encyclopedia from Ancient Times to the Present. 4 Volumes. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO – Greenwood Imprint)

Schulenburg, A.H. (2018) 'Abolition of Slavery' in David Head (ed), Encyclopedia of The Atlantic World, 1400-1900 (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO)  

Schulenburg, A.H. (2012) 'British East India Company Governance' in Orlando Patterson and Geoffrey J. Golson (eds), Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa: An Encyclopedia (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage)

Schulenburg, A.H. (2010) 'Modern Slavery' in Alfred J. Andrea (ed) World History Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO)

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

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

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)
 

Non-Refereed Publications

Schulenburg, A.H. (2009) 'Writing About St Helena: Purposes, Motives and Preparations', Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, No.38, pp.22 -26

Schulenburg, A.H. (2008) 'Capt. Matthew Bazett (d.1719)', Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, No.37, pp.42-44

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

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) ''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. (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. (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. (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. (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. (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. (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. (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. (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.9Schulenburg, A.H. (1997) 'João da Nova and the Lost Carrack', Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, No.16, pp.19-23

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

Booklets

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

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)
 

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. (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 

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

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

Doctoral Thesis:

Transient Observations: The Textualizing of St Helena Through Five Hundred Years of Colonial Discourse  [abstract]  [the entire thesis is now available for download via the British Library]
 

 


 

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 bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.

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

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