Rachel Delman

Rachel is a historian and research partnerships professional working at the intersection of academia and heritage. She has published and taught widely on the late medieval and Tudor periods, specialising in the areas of women’s and gender history, and material, place-based and spatial approaches. More specifically, her research examines women’s contributions to the built environment — from castles and great residences to townhouses, almshouses and schools — as expressions of authority, power and agency. Rachel’s recent publications have explored the afterlives of pre-modern buildings with female narratives in modern-day settings and contexts. Alongside her academic research, Rachel is a public and community historian and heritage consultant. Her first monograph on elite women’s residences in late medieval and early Tudor England is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. Rachel is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and Wolfson College, Oxford.