Graduate Student, Faculty of History Cambridge
Jesus College
Thesis Title: English Catholics in the Southern Netherlands, 1660-1720
About
I am an early modern historian with an avid interest in the intersection between religious, cultural and social history in a cross-border perspective. This has resulted in undergraduate and graduate papers on toleration, the social distribution of Jansenism, the Spanish and Netherlandish inquisitions, and the religious outlook of English Protestant travellers. Since arriving in Cambridge, my work has focused on English Catholics in the Southern Netherlands. My MPhil thesis outlined the relation between the English clergy and their lay compatriots abroad. Building upon this research, my PhD assesses the diversity of the English Catholic expatriate experience. Looking both at the long-term migrants, and at more transcient contact with the Continent such as grand tourists, travellers, and pilgrims, allows me to assess how these groups interrelated and influenced one another.
