James P. Bowen is the Contributing Editor for The Herefordshire Victoria County History Trust. He was formerly a Postdoctoral Research Associate (now Honorary Research Fellow) based at the Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool and a Research Associate (Victoria County History - Cumbria Project) in the Department of History, Lancaster University. He completed a Ph.D. at Lancaster University supervised by Professor A.J.L. Winchester and held the Economic History Society’s Tawney Junior Research Fellowship in 2012-13.