Matthew P. Davies FRHistS FSA is a British academic administrator and urban historian, specialising in late medieval and early modern cities.
Davies completed his undergraduate studies (BA) and doctorate at the University of Oxford;[1] his DPhil was awarded in 1994 for his thesis "The tailors of London and their guild, c.
[3][4] Since 2016 he has been the director of Layers of London, a digital mapping and public engagement project, based at the Institute of Historical Research, which was funded until September 2020 by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, and the Anita McConnell bequest through the Friends of the IHR.
[4][5] Since 2016, Davies has been director of a Heritage-Lottery-funded project, "The Layers of London: mapping the city's heritage", based at the Institute of Historical Research.
From 2010 to 2016, he was director of the "Records of London's Livery Companies Online" project, and with Vanessa Harding and Richard Smith, he received a Major Grant from Economic and Social Research Council for a project entitled "Life in the Suburbs: Health, Domesticity and Status in Early Modern London", which ran from 2008 to 2011.