Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History
University of Birmingham
Research expertise
History of gender in the long eighteenth century, domestic life, religion, manufacturing and consumption, material and visual culture.
Contributions
Objects
Phaeton
Pleasure-driving emerged as a new elite sociable pastime in late eighteenth-century Britain. The best and most desired pleasure-carriage was the phaeton. Toweringly high and extremely dangerous to drive, the phaeton was the supercar of the eighteenth century.