Medieval and Early-modern Historian
Kent-Related Research Interests
I am a medieval and early-modern historian, mainly working on Kent. I carry out documentary research for archaeological units, most recently for Wessex Archaeology on the remains of a wooden vessel discovered on Dungeness which featured on BBC2’s Digging for Britain with Professor Alice Roberts on 1 January 2023.
I also supervise individual research projects of medical students at the Kent and Medway Medical School, which for example explore the differences of care and treatment for the sick and elderly between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. I am a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Society of Antiquaries.
Recent or Forthcoming Publications
- 'A Tudor Shipwreck on Dungeness: Shipping and Wrecks around Lydd in the medieval and early- modern period', forthcoming 2024 in Archaeologia Cantiana.
- ‘Sir John Fogge's Tomb: The Culmination of his Commemorative Scheme in Ashford Church, Kent’, Transactions of the Monumental Brass Society XXIV (2023)
- 'Urban Privilege: the advantages and enjoyment of Cinque Ports' status in the late Middle Ages' in Maritime Kent through the Ages: Gateway to the Sea, eds S. Bligh, E. Edwards and S. Sweetinburgh (Boydell, 2021)
- 'Wrytynge out of the playe book: Literacy and Identity in the Cinque Ports and Ancient Towns in the Sixteenth Century' in Kentish Book Culture: Writers, Archives, Libraries and Sociability 1400-1600, ed. Claire Bartram (Peter Lang, 2020)
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