Queen Mary, University of London

Faculty Member, History

Chair in Early Modern History

About

I am an experienced supervisor of MPhil and PhD dissertations and am looking to recruit new postgraduate students. I would especially welcome those interested in the history of consumerism and dress, homes and space, women and gender since the late Middle Ages, and those fascinated by archival research on unusual sources.

I have supervised Ph.Ds on, amongst other things, the history of masculinity, love letters, readership, erotica, illness and the family, furniture, needlework, aristocratic culture, politics at women's colleges, abortion, insanity, gender and photography, the Victorian home, Victorian fashion and dress codes between the wars.

My MA and PhD. students have gone on to fellowships and lectureships at the universities of Exeter, Manchester, Oxford, Royal Holloway, Sheffield and  York, and to jobs in publishing, public relations, media and museums.