Kathryn A. Morrison
Kathryn A. Morrison (born 1959) is a British architectural historian, specialising in contemporary and Victorian urban architecture. She is joint head of the Historic Places Investigation with Historic England. Education. Kathryn A. Morrison attended the University of Edinburgh and the Courtauld Institute of Arts. Career. Morrison is joint Head of Historic Places Investigation with Historic England. Photographs contributed by Morrison to the Conway Library at the Courtauld Institute of Art are currently being digitised as part of the Courtauld Connects project. Morrison served as Chairman-Director of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain from 2009 -2012. Morrison was Honorary Reviews Editor for the Journal for the Society of Architectural Historians in Great Britain in 2013-2014. Awards and honours. Morrison was elected fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1995. Morrison was awarded the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain in 2004 for "English Shops and Shopping". Jessica Sewell notes that “The volume serves as a model for what can be learned from careful, in-depth observation of material culture in the form of the built environment [...] it provides readers with the tools to recognize the  period and use of English shops from almost any era". Claire Walsh commented that the book is “...an impressive body of material, particularly the collection of illustrations which includes photographs of current retail outlets, of surviving shops and shop fronts from the medieval period onwards”. With John Minnis, co-author, Morrison has been awarded many prizes for the "Carscapes" book: Writing in "Architectural Heritage" journal, Neil Gregory noted that "Carscapes" is "a lavishly presented account that aims to document building types more often than not overlooked in general architecture histories".