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Lena Liapi is an Honorary Research Fellow at Keele University. Her research revolves around print, crime, and cultures of communication. She has published a monograph, Roguery in Print: Crime and Culture in Early Modern London (Boydell & Brewer 2019), as well as other publications on news and crime.
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Heather is an active local historian with various research interests including sixteenth- and seventeenth-century social unrest. She has published various articles, two books of fifteenth-century wills and a collection of eighteenth-century recipes.
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Simon is a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern British History at the University of Winchester. He joined the History Department in September 2012, having previously held positions at the University of East Anglia and the Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester. He completed his BA in English Studies and MA in Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia. In 2009 he completed his PhD at the UEA as part of an AHRC-funded project on popular memory. His research interests are in the areas of custom, law and community, particularly how these relations underpinned popular politics and popular protest in Early Modern England.
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Imogen Peck is a historian of memory and communities, with research expertise in local and family history, the social history of archives, and the mental afterlife of conflict. She is especially interested in the ways memory and the representation of the past shapes individual and collective identities, with a particular emphasis on the experiences of non-elite men and women. Her first book, Recollection in the Republics: Memories of the British Civil Wars in England, 1649-1659, was published by Oxford University Press in 2021. Other recent publications include articles on the family archives and intergenerational memory in eighteenth-century England (Cultural and Social History), early modern almanacs (Historical Research), and several book chapters on memory and post-war reconciliation.
