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Lecturer in Design (Historical and Critical Studies) and PhD Researcher, Cardiff University

Current SWWDTP funded PhD student based at Bath Spa University and Cardiff University and Lecturer at Bath Spa University.

My research interests are in the fields of the History of Emotions, Letter writing, politics, wellbeing and consumerism/consumption practices, from the 18th century to the end of World War II. I have a broad interest in social, cultural, gender and political history and of material culture as an historical approach.

My PhD examines the distant relationships of the Canning family, headed by Prime Minister and politician George Canning, and considers how anxiety is a central emotion within distance relationships. I have published on letters and distance education and future publications will consider distant communications: Beyond death, reassessing the marriage market in eighteenth century Bath and emotional and physical discomfort in eighteenth century letters and letter writing. My next project will examine George Canning's emotions upon entering the late eighteenth century parliament.

Experience

  • –present
    Associate Lecturer and PhD Researcher, Bath Spa University

Education

  • 2017 
    Bath Spa University, MA

Publications

  • 2021
    'A Mother Educating her Daughter Remotely through Familial Correspondence: The Letter as a Form of Female Distance Education in the Eighteenth Century', History
  • 2021
    Review of Emotions in Europe 1517–1914, Vol. 4, Transformations 1789–1914 , edited by Barclay, Katie, and François Soyer, Emotions: History, Culture, Society

Grants and Contracts

  • 2018
    SWWDTP Doctoral Funding
    Role:
    PHD Funding
    Funding Source:
    SWWDTP via AHRC

Professional Memberships

  • Postgraduate Member of the Royal Historical Society
  • Postgraduate and Early Career Representative for British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Committee