Research Topic
'Witnessing Law in the English Courthouses, 1700-1850'
Supervisor: Bob Harris
My main academic interests centre on the social and cultural histories of justice and law in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain, particularly on courtroom procedures, architecture, and people. My DPhil research explores the experience of ‘the public(s)’ in the courtrooms of metropolitan London and provincial assizes as lay witnesses and spectators. My DPhil research is generously funded by the Clarendon Fund and The Queen's College, Oxford.