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Jacob F. Field, BA, MLitt, PhD

Research Associate

The social and economic history of England in c. 1550-1850, especially: the history of London, the Great Fire of 1666 and urban disasters, patterns of migration and social networks, charity, changes in occupational structure, domestic service, and female occupations

Biography

In 2004, I completed my undergraduate degree at the University of Oxford and then moved to Newcastle University for my post-graduate study. In 2005, I completed my masters' on apprenticeship migration from the North-East to London in the seventeenth century. In 2008, I completed my doctoral thesis, entitled 'Reactions and responses to the Great Fire of London', which was supervised by Jeremy Boulton and financed by an AHRC doctoral award. Since November 2008, I have been working as a research associate on the occupational structure of Britain 1379-1911 project.

Career

  • 2008 to present: Research Associate, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge

Qualifications

  • 2001 BA University of Oxford
  • 2005 MLitt Newcastle University
  • 2008 PhD Newcastle University

Research

At the moment my research focuses on occupations in Britain from c. 1500 to 1850, in particular how female occupations changed over this period. I am also interested in all aspects of the history of London in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, how urban societies responded to disaster, and social networks in early modern England.

Publications

Selected Publications:

  • 'Charitable giving and its distribution to Londoners after the Great Fire, 1666-76', Urban History (forthcoming)
  • 'Apprenticeship Migration to London from the North-East of England in the Seventeenth Century', London Journal, 35/1 (2010), 1-21
  • 'Reactions and responses to the Great Fire: London and England in the later seventeenth century' (Newcastle Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 2008)

Selected Papers: