About

I am a historian of early modern mental worlds, with interests in understanding senses of time and place, and the repercussions of trauma and disruption. My doctoral research at the University of Cambridge examined the execution of King Charles I as a moment of ideational change and adaptation. Taking a diachronic approach to periodicals like almanacs and newsbooks, I traced how ideas of time and the future evolved in response to unexpected political change.

I am currently working on a digital humanities project to recover Indigenous cultural geography from colonial-era maps of the American Northeast, as part of the AHRC-funded project ‘Brightening the Covenant Chain‘. I collaborate on a range of Knowledge Exchange projects on decolonising UK history in schools. I am also co-lead on a project to incorporate societal impacts on the evaluation of UK outer space activities.