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.