Notes on Contributors
David Brown
graduated with a BA in History from Trinity College Dublin in 1987. After a career in the Irish tech sector he returned to TCD to work on The Down Survey of Ireland project (2011–2013), and completed a PhD exploring networks of early modern English and Irish Atlantic merchants (2016). His monograph Empire and Enterprise: Money, Power and the Adventurers for Irish land during the British Civil Wars was published in 2020, and he is co-editor, with Professor Micheál Ó’Siochrú, of a five-volume critical edition of The Books of Survey and Distribution (Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2016–18). He is Archival Discovery Lead for Beyond 2022, a project digitally recreating the Public Record Office of Ireland, which was destroyed during the outbreak of the Irish Civil War in 1922.
Peter Buckles
finished his PhD at the University of Liverpool in 2021 with the support of an ESRC studentship and published his first article on historical social network analysis with Enterprise & Society the following year. His debut monograph, Crisis and Resilience in the Bristol-West India Sugar Trade, 1783–1802, published with Liverpool University Press, offers a close analysis of the British trade in sugar during wartime. Peter’s key research interests include business and economic history and the use of digital tools to answer historical questions. He is especially interested in how businesses navigate periods of crisis and overcome uncertainty.
Eilish Gregory
is the Little Company of Mary Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University. She was awarded her PhD at University College London in 2017. Gregory previously held associate lecturer posts at University of Reading, Anglia Ruskin University, The Open University, and Oxford University’s Department for Continuing Education. She was also Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Royal Historical Society, a researcher for the History of Parliament, and has held library fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Durham University, Marsh’s Library (Dublin), and the University of Aberdeen. Gregory specialises in the impact of Catholic penal laws and inter-confessional networks between Catholics and Protestants. Her first monograph, Catholics during the English Revolution, 1642–1660: Politics, Sequestration and Loyalty, was published in 2021.
Sarah Hall
is a historian of puritanism in the seventeenth-century transatlantic. Her research focuses on puritan communities and the social networks that underpin them. More widely, this informs a fuller picture of the social ties and also the methods taken by puritans to resist fragmentation and preserve cohesion. She is currently Associate Lecturer in Public History at the University of York.
Sophie H. Jones
is a Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Liverpool. After receiving her PhD from the University of Liverpool in 2018, she has previously held PDRA positions at the University of Liverpool and at Keele University. An historian of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic, Jones has published on a range of topics including early-modern merchant families, eighteenth-century subscription libraries, and early-modern literacy. Her research focuses on the socio-cultural development of the North American colonies, and her first monograph project – Patterns of Loyalism in Revolutionary New York (in preparation for submission to Manchester University Press) – considers how local socio-cultural contexts shaped political identities during the American Revolution.
Jeremy Land
received his PhD from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia in 2019. He is a postdoctoral researcher in Economic History at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, following postdoctoral positions at the Universities of Helsinki and Jyväskylä in Finland. His research focuses on the economic and business history of the Atlantic World, broadly construed, in the 18th and 19th centuries. He is Meetings Coordinator of the Economic History Association.
Lena Liapi
is an Honorary Research Fellow in History at Keele University and a CREMS Research Associate at the University of York. Her research focuses on the history of the book, of crime, and of cultures of communication. She has published a monograph, titled Roguery in Print: Crime and Culture in Early Modern London (Boydell & Brewer, 2019), as well as other works on print culture and the public sphere. She is particularly interested in the interactions of news media in England and France in the seventeenth century and the ways in which new notions of the ‘public’ were constructed oppositionally in the two countries.
Kenneth Morgan
is Professor of History in the School of Social and Political Sciences at Brunel University London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and has been a British Academy Research Reader. He has published widely in several fields of History, with the business history of eighteenth-century British merchants (especially those in Bristol and Liverpool) being a longstanding and continuing focal point of his research.
Edmond Smith
(PhD Cambridge, 2016) is a Senior Lecturer in Economic Cultures at the University of Manchester. Their work, which has been supported by grants from the British Academy, the AHRC, and the ESRC, focuses on commercial communities and the institutions of early modern global trade. Smith’s notable publications include Merchants: The Community That Shaped England’s Trade and Empire (Yale, 2021, winner of the Ralph Gomory Prize), and articles in the Economic History Review, Journal of British Studies, Historical Journal and Journal of World History.
Siobhan Talbott
is Reader in Early Modern History at Keele University. She held postdoctoral research fellowships at the University of Manchester and the Institute of Historical Research (University of London) after receiving her PhD from the University of St Andrews in 2010. Talbott has published extensively in the fields of commercial and business history, including her monograph Conflict, Commerce and Franco-Scottish Relations, 1560–1713 (2014, awarded the Senior Hume Brown Prize), her critical edition of The Letter-Book of Thomas Baret (2021), and articles in the Economic History Review, the Scottish Historical Review, and Enterprise & Society. Talbott has held an AHRC Leadership Fellowship (2018–22) and a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (2022–23). She is co-editor of the Royal Historical Society’s Camden Series.
Hannah Knox Tucker
is Assistant Professor of History at the Copenhagen Business School. She is a member of the CBS Centre for Business History and leads a package in the Carlsbergfondet funded project, The Entrepreneurial Age: Rethinking Entrepreneurship in Society. The Business History Review has published her work as part of their Business and Slavery special issue. Her first monograph, which is in progress, examines the business of ship captaincy in the British Atlantic.