Kathryn A. Morrison

Kathryn A. Morrison (born 1959) is a British architectural historian.

Education Kathryn A. Morrison attended the University of Edinburgh and the Courtauld Institute of Arts.

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 of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain in 2009–2012. She was Honorary Reviews Editor for the same society in 2007-2015

Awards and honours Morrison was elected fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1995.

She was awarded the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain in 2004 for English Shops and Shopping, followed by the RIBA Book Prize for the same book in the following year. 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 several prizes for the Carscapes book: Peter Neaverson Award for Outstanding Scholarship awarded by the Association for Industrial Archaeology, 2014 The Railway & Canal Historical Society's Transport Book of the Year Awards 2014. The Michael Sedgwick Award, presented by the Society of Automotive Historians in Britain, 2013. It was also shortlisted for the 2014 Art Book Prize given by the Authors' Club and shortlisted by the Alice Davis Hitchcock 2014 Award sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. 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". Curzon Street Station, New Canal Street, Birmingham / John Minnis, incorporating research by Emily Cole, Luke Jacob and Kathryn Morrison. 2015, Historic England. Historic England:Historic Places Investigation: Cole, E and Morrison, K 2013 Red House (formerly Framlingham Workhouse), Framlingham Castle, Suffolk. Historic England Research Report 23/2016: