Lecturer in English Local History

Contact Details

Biography

My doctoral research at the University of York during the late 1990s examined the extent of support for Parliament in Yorkshire during the first civil war, under the supervision of Professor James A. Sharpe. In 2000 I was appointed project researcher for the Virtual Norfolk Project at the University of East Anglia. In 2003 I moved to the University of Birmingham to take up an AHRC postdoctoral fellowship working with Professor Richard Cust on conceptions of gentry honour in the High Court of Chivalry during the 1630s. In 2006 I was appointed a ‘new blood’ lecturer in English Local History at the University of Leicester.

Research

• Research Interests
• Publications

PhD Supervision

Religion, politics and society in seventeenth-century England, in particular the civil wars and interregnum; areas of regional expertise include Yorkshire, East Anglia and the West Midlands.

Teaching

Undergraduate

• HS2347 Deviance and Disorder in the Early Modern City: Norwich 1500-1800
• HS1000 Making History, module co-ordinator

Postgraduate

• HS7107/7127 The Local Identities and Palaeography of Early Modern England, 1500-1700 (MA in English Local History)

Administrative Responsibilities

School Undergraduate Admissions Officer
Member of the School Management Committee
Web Maintainer for Centre for English Local History
Staff representative for the Friends of English Local History  

Most Recent Publications

1. Turncoats and Renegadoes: Changing Sides in the English Civil Wars (Oxford: O.U.P., forthcoming 2012)
2. ‘The Self-fashioning of Gentry Turncoats in the English Civil Wars’, Journal of British Studies, 49, 2, (April, 2010), pp. 236-57
3. ‘Black Tom’: Sir Thomas Fairfax and the English Revolution (Manchester: M.U.P., 2007)
4. With R.P. Cust (eds.), Cases in the High Court of Chivalry, 1634-1640 (Publications of the Harleian Society, new series, vol. 18, 2006).