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Research Interests

Please note that for the academic year 2026-27 I will be a Senior Fellow at the , Wadham College, Oxford.

My work explores the cultural, political, and legal dimensions of economic change in Britain since the 1700s. I have published on subjects ranging from the early history of corporate governance and the regulation of commercial fraud, to the history of the financial press and the growth of advertising.

My current research examines the financialisation of everyday life in Britain from the early nineteenth century. Concentrating on ordinary people and everyday experiences rather than financial elites and ideologies, this research seeks to provide a history of finance 'from below'. It is particularly interested in the spatial, material, and emotional dimensions of people's engagement with finance.

Previous projects have explored diverse aspects of financial markets in modern Britain. One focused on the neglected history of women stockbrokers in the century before they were admitted to the London Stock Exchange in 1973. was published in 2025 by Oxford University Press. Before this, I collaborated on an exploring the history of financial advice since the eighteenth century. Tracking the genre from domestic advice manuals of the eighteenth century to modern-day blogs, it considers how financial advice has actively made and remade the very markets about which it advises. Our book, , was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2022.

My earlier research explored different facets of corporate culture in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. My first monograph, , won the ; my second, (co-authored with Mark Freeman and Robin Pearson), won the . My third, , was published by Oxford University Press in 2013.

Besides books, I have also published articles in many leading historical journals, including English Historical Review, Historical Journal, Historical Research, Journal of British Studies, and Past & Present.