Susan Flavin

She completed her PhD at the University of Bristol, where she was also engaged on the ESRC project Ireland-Bristol Trade in the Sixteenth Century (2006-9). Following a curatorial role at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter, she held posts at Trinity College Dublin (2012-5) and Anglia Ruskin University (2016-8) Susan's research concentrates on the history of trade, consumption and material culture in Early Modern Britain and Ireland. She is the author of Consumption and Culture in Sixteenth-Century Ireland: Saffron, Stockings and Silk. Her work is grounded in interdisciplinary approaches to history and she teaches on topics such as the social and cultural history of food and drink, and gender and domesticity in Early Modern Britain and Ireland.