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Rachel Carter


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Dr John Davies

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John Davies recently retired as county archivist for Carmarthenshire, south Wales. He gained a Ph.D from Swansea University, The Cawdor estate in south-west Wales. in 2009, a revised version of which is to be published in 2016. Last year John had published a volume of eighteenth century political correspondence - those of John Campbell MP for Pembrokeshire - as part of the Parliamentary texts and studies series.







Sara Fox


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Colin Greenstreet


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Colin Greenstreet is co-founder and co-director of the MarineLives project. He studied human sciences, and philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Oxford, and was the recipient of a Kennedy scholarship for study at Harvard Business School. His career has been spent in finance, consulting, pharmaceutical research and development, and as an entrepreneur.

Likes: Mountains, languages, travel, and dogs (plus wife, Yerevag; elder daughter and musician, Rebecca; and younger daughter and aspiring neuroscientist, Francesca)

Dislikes: Broccoli

Languages: English, German, indifferent French, staggers through Dutch with a dictionary and a glass of wine

Academic interests: Editing the private papers of Sir George Oxenden (1620-1669); writing an academic dual biography of Sir George Oxenden and his elder sister and commercial agent, Elizabeth Dallison. For papers, seminar and conference presentations see his academia.edu page

Tweets at at @marinelivesorg.


Dr Patricia Keller


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Sara J Kerr


Sara J Kerr
Sara J Kerr is a PhD student in Digital Humanities and English and a John and Pat Hume Scholar at Maynooth University in Ireland. She has a BA in Ancient History and English from Queen's University, Belfast and an MA in Education from Edge Hill University.

Prior to returning to full time study, Sara taught English, Media Studies and Film Studies at several schools in the UK.

Academic Interests: Early Nineteenth Century literature, in particular Jane Austen, Maria Edgeworth and Sydney, Lady Morgan; R programming.

Tweets at at @data_fiend.


Grace Mallon


Grace Mallon is an undergraduate reading History at University College, Oxford. Her studies are currently focused on 20th-century Germany, but a recent foray into colonial American history has awakened an interest in the workings of the early British empire. Alongside English, she reads German, French and some Latin. In her spare time she plays the piano and sings in her college choir.

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Shavana Musa


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Nga Phan-Bellis


Nga Phan-Bellis

Nga Phan-Bellis is a PhD candidate and Graduate teaching assistant in Legal History at University Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas (Paris, France). Her PhD thesis deals with French Securities Law, from the 16th century to the French Civil Code of 1804. Before digging in to Legal History, she studied Private Law at the same university.

Languages: Fluent English, French, Vietnamese. Intermediate Spanish and Persian. Notions of Latin.

Academic interests: early modern economic history in Western Europe, ancient history with a particular interest in Mesopotamia, digital humanities.

You can find more details on linkedin or read her tweets at @NgaPhB.



Brodie Waddell


Brodie Waddell
Brodie Waddell is a lecturer in early modern history at Birkbeck, University of London. I'm primarily interested in the economy and society in seventeenth-century England. You can find more about my research and publications on my staff profile and my academia.edu page (which includes pdfs of some of my articles). I'm co-founder of the many-headed monster, a history blog, and I tweet at @Brodie_Waddell. I live in Cambridge with my wife and three-year-old son, so spend most of my spare time building strange lego structures or playing at the park.