Research Overview

I joined the History department in Lancaster University in 2022, where I research and teach the history of crime, justice and punishment from the eighteenth to twentieth century. My research has involved co-creating large-scale historical datasets (Digital Panopticon [AHRC], Convict Tattoos [British Academy/ JISC], Skin and Bone [British Academy/ Leverhulme]) that benefit from the application of various data science techniques (linked data, data mining, and data visualisation) to the history of law, crime and justice in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I’m currently developing a project with Dr Richard Ward (Exeter) examining deaths in prison custody, 1760-1925, and I'm writing a monograph on the history of femicide, violence and misogyny in Victorian England.