Harriet is the J. H. Plumb College Lecturer at Christ's and Director of Studies for Parts IA and IB of the Historical Tripos. She is a historian of early modern Britain, with particular interests in the religious and cultural history of the English Reformation and in the history of memory and temporalities. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2018 and her thesis was revised and published as Memory and the Dissolution of the Monasteries in Early Modern England (Cambridge UP, 2021). The book seeks to recover the significance of the dissolution to the wider processes of the English Reformation and early modern senses of the past. It was shortlisted for the 2021 Royal Historical Society Whitfield Prize for a first book in any field of British or Irish history. You can hear her speak about the book on the New Books Network podcast.
Harriet has also published articles, mainly on the legacies of the dissolution and the Reformation, in the Historical Journal, the Sixteenth Century Journal, The Seventeenth Century, Reformation, and History Today.
Harriet's current research interests include early modern senses of nostalgia, memory, time, and periodisation. A volume on Early Modern Nostalgia: Memory, Temporality, and Emotion, co-edited with Alexandra Walsham, was published by Boydell & Brewer in 2023, and she is now editing, with Matthew Champion, the Bloomsbury Cultural History of Time in the Early Modern Age, which is set to be published by Bloomsbury in 2026.
