- 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
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–presentAssociate Lecturer and PhD Researcher, Bath Spa University
Education
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2017Bath Spa University, MA
Publications
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2021'A Mother Educating her Daughter Remotely through Familial Correspondence: The Letter as a Form of Female Distance Education in the Eighteenth Century', History
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2021Review 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
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2018SWWDTP 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
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