Project Team

Professor Mike Braddick

Principal Investigator

Mike has recently moved to the University of Oxford, having previously been at the University of Sheffield since 1990. He has published extensively on state formation, popular politics and the negotiation of power in England, Britain and the British Atlantic between 1550 and 1700.  More recently he has been working on the English revolution, and this AHRC-funded project marks a return to some of his original research interests.

Professor Jessica Dijkman

Co-Investigator

Jessica Dijkman (1960) is an associate professor in economic and social history at Utrecht University. Her research focuses on the organization of commodity markets in premodern Europe and on the resilience and vulnerability of premodern societies faced with disasters. She has published on grain market institutions and the contribution of public grain reserves to the mitigation of food crises in the North Sea region in the late Middle Ages and early modern period. She is currently the scientific director of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, the Dutch-Flemish research school for economic and social history.

Dr Edda Frankot

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Utrecht)

Edda Frankot specialises in late medieval maritime, legal and urban history. She has been employed on a number of projects digitising and editing late medieval and early modern sources from the Netherlands, the UK and Ireland, such as the 1641 Depositions and the Aberdeen Council Registers (1398-1511). Her PhD analysed the practice of maritime law in urban northern Europe. More recent publications have focussed on legal culture and banishment, including the book Banishment in the Late Medieval Easter Netherlands. Exile and Redemption in Kampen (Palgrave Macmillan 2022).

Dr Mabel Winter

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Oxford)

Mabel’s research focusses on the social, economic, and political history of England. She completed her PhD at the University of Sheffield in 2020, and her thesis was published in 2022 as a monograph with Palgrave Macmillan entitled Banking, Projecting and Politicking in Early Modern England: The Rise and Fall of Thompson and Company, 1671-1678. Prior to this project, she was research associate on the AHRC project ‘The Cultural Lives of the Middling Sort‘.