Imogen Peck

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.