Picking up the History Essay prize
from the Lord Mayor at the Guildhall

BIOGRAPHY

I am a historian who specialises in medieval history and the history of London. I teach courses in history for Dartmouth College and IES Abroad London.

My first book, Crafted in Stone: A history of the Worshipful Company of Masons of the City of London, was published in 2023 and I am now working on others. One will be published by the Oxford Medieval Texts series, and it will contain a new edition of the medieval manuscript commonly called the Liber de Antiquis Legibus. This manuscript was compiled by the thirteenth-century London alderman Arnold fitz Thedmar. My edition will contain, for the first time, the Latin and French text of the manuscript alongside an English translation, together with a detailed introduction to the work and to the man who produced it.

I am a Resident Scholar at Dartmouth College, NH, and an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Previously, I held a Visiting Research Fellowship at King’s College London and a Junior Research Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research in London. I have published several papers in peer-reviewed academic journals; written entries for The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and The Encyclopaedia of the Medieval Chronicle; and contributed many other articles to non-academic titles.