Professor Jane Whittle

Exeter scholars awarded Fellowships of the British Academy

Five world-renowned researchers have been recognised for their scholarly work after being elected as Fellows of the British Academy. Historians...

A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far...

Research project invites members of the public to help transcribe thousands of historic wills

A research project investigating how people’s attitudes towards material possessions altered in sixteenth-, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England is appealing for...