Senior Lecturer in British History.
I served as Acting Head of History from February to August 2014. I am also School of Humanities Research Students' Tutor, and Director of the Centre for Regional and Local History.
www.herts.ac.uk/regional-history/
I am one of the two 2015 winners of the British Library Labs competition, and have spent summer 2015 embedded in the Digital Scholarship department developing a digital resource, 'Political Meetings Mapper' using the library's digitised collections. I am developing my knowledge of python, xml and GIS as part of the project.
I research the history of popular protest in 18th and 19th century England. My most recent book is Loyalism and Radi...