I studied Medieval and Modern History at the University of Birmingham, moving to the University of Kent at Canterbury to research my PhD thesis (entitled ‘Rural Crime and Protest in Wiltshire 1830-1875’). My doctoral research played a part in developing my interest in religious history, in particular in strands of radical Protestant dissent. My more recent research interests have been in the area of Quaker history, exploring the relationship in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries between Quakers and the wider culture. I was able further to develop this interest after working as a data developer, between 2002 and 2004, on the Old Bailey Proceedings Online project (in the Institute of Historical Research at the University of Sheffield). Since July 2006, I have been an honorary lecturer in the Graduate Institute for Theology and Religion in the University of Birmingham in my capacity as a member of the Advisory Panel of the Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies.
I have been an Associate Lecturer with the Open University (in Region 04, the West Midlands) since 1994 teaching A425, ‘Women, Evangelicals and Community in the Nineteenth Century’, A433, ‘The Professions in Early Modern England’, the MA in History, and currently, AA307, ‘Religion in History: Conflict, Conversion and Coexistence’, and AA100, ‘The Arts Past and Present’. I have been a member of the AA307 course team since 2005. I took up my part-time post as lecturer in the Religious Studies department in November 2009, and, in addition to AA307, my involvement is primarily in contributing to the maintenance of interdisciplinary courses supported by the department, AA100 and A207 ‘From Enlightenment to Romanticism, c. 1780-1830’.
‘John Brewin’s Tracts: the Written Word, Evangelicalism and the Quaker Way in Mid-Nineteenth Century England’ in Quaker Studies, 9 (2005)
‘Some Quaker Attitudes to the Printed Word in the Nineteenth Century’ in Quaker Studies, 11 (2007)
‘“Children of Light and Sons of Darkness”: Quakers, Oaths and the Old Bailey Proceedings in the Eighteenth Century’ in Quaker Studies, 12 (2007)
Pam Lunn, Betty Hagglund, Edwina Newman, Ben Pink Dandelion, ‘“Choose Life!” Quaker Metaphor and Modernity’ in Grace Jantzen. Redeeming the Present, ed. by Elaine L. Graham (Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009)
