Teaching Fellow

Contact Details

• Tel: +44 (0)116 252 2810
• Email: ss715@le.ac.uk
• Office: Marc Fitch House Room 23

Biography

I joined the Centre for English Local History as a Teaching Fellow in October 2011. Prior to this, I completed my BA in English Studies and MA in Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia. In 2009 I completed my PhD as part of an AHRC-funded on popular memory at the University of East Anglia. My research interests are in the areas of custom, popular politics, popular protest and local legal cultures in early modern England. My doctoral work examined the nature of collective memory and its relation to the organisation of popular protest in the Forest of Dean between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. My current work pursues the role of popular litigation in containing violence, reassessing the relation between the central state and local communities during this period. I am also planning work on the relation between poverty and consumption in the particular cultural climate of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dean.

Research

• Pre-industrial popular politics
• Locally driven aspects of state formation
• Custom and popular memory
• Protest and rebellion in early modern England
• Popular perceptions of the landscape and material environment