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MY RESEARCH

My early research focused on historical writing in the Middle Ages. For my doctoral thesis, which was completed at King’s College London, I prepared a new edition of the manuscript compiled and composed by the London alderman Arnold fitz Thedmar (1201-74). Arnold’s book is most famous for its ‘Chronicle of the Mayors and Sheriffs of London’, the first secular, civic chronicle written in the British Isles. Thanks to a doctoral funding grant from King’s College and the award of a Junior Research Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research in London, I was able to prepare the first scholarly edition of Arnold’s book, shed new light on this unique manuscript, and explore how writers in European cities constructed civic identities and wrote municipal history in the years 1100-1300, the period of the greatest urbanization in Europe since the time of Rome. I am now preparing an edition of my thesis for publication with the Oxford Medieval Texts series.

I have published extensively on the history of London. My first book, Crafted in Stone: A History of the Worshipful Company of Masons of the City of London, came out in 2023. You can find details of all my research, which can be found in peer-reviewed academic titles, magazines and online, below. You can also check out my YouTube Channel.