Kate Shore

Research Topic

Reformations across borders: printed German perceptions of the English Reformation 1547-1603

I am a final year doctoral student in Early Modern History at Lincoln College, with a focus on European religion and print. My research examines the flow of ideas and information between England and the Holy Roman Empire in the second half of the sixteenth century. A large body of German-language broadsheets, news pamphlets and books reported on the developments of the English Reformation and the reigns of Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. My research demonstrates the internationalism of both English and German Protestantism and Catholicism in the period and also sheds light on approaches to multiconfessionality in the Holy Roman Empire in the wake of the Peace of Augsburg of 1555. 

In 2023-4 I worked as a Stipendiary Lecturer at Christ Christ, Oxford, teaching early modern British and European history. I have previously worked as a Graduate Outreach Tutor with the History Faculty. Please feel free to contact me with questions relating to applications for undergraduate and postgraduate study in History at Oxford.

I graduated from the University of Oxford in 2016 with a BA in History and Modern Languages (German) and subsequently completed an MSt in Early Modern History, also at Oxford. Before starting my DPhil, I worked in a number of museums and archives in the West Midlands and am keen to integrate public engagement and museum collaboration into my doctoral work. My doctoral research has been funded by the Sloan-Robinson and Kingsgate Scholarships via Lincoln College, and the History Faculty's Designated Scholarship from the Arnold Bryce Reed Fund.

Supervisor: Professor Lyndal Roper and Dr Lucy Wooding