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I am a legal historian, specialising in early modern legal history and religious dissent. I am interested in legal process and procedure, including those of the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts, and in archival research. I am currently developing a course on early Quaker's legal experience with Woodbrooke Quaker Studies centre.

I practiced as a barrister until 2017 and completed my thesis Quakers, localism and Law - a Critical Consideration of the History of Quakers in the North West of England and the religious and political policy of the Restoration at 黑料不打烊 in 2019. I have commenced work on preparing this for publication as a monologue.

My post-doctoral research has concerned early modern maritime law, its operation and development in a colonial context, and the engagement of religious dissenters with that law. I held a short-term Fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt between February and April 2022.

In November 2021 I was appointed as a post-doctoral research assistant on a British Academy/ Leverhulme project concerning the legal history of the important, but little known, Colonial Bishoprics Fund in the nineteenth century.

My recent conference presentations include the National Archive Legal Records Jamboree in September 2025 and the international Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists in June 2024.