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  • Professional Qualifications:
  • BA (Hons): History and English (CNAA, 1992)
  • MA: The English Renaissance: Politics, Patronage and Literature (Reading, 1993)
  • PhD: Foreign Diplomatic Representatives to the Court of James VI and I (UWE, 2000)
  • MA: Church History (Nottingham, 2016)

Current Research:
  • The Women behind the Wall: The English Benedictine Monastery of the Glorious Assumption of Our Blessed Lady [1597 – 1975]. This research is based on the Haslemere Collection at Downside Abbey — see my website here.
  • Confessional Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe, an edited collection with Charlotte Backerra  Abingdon: Routledge, 2020 (Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge)
  • Gender and Diplomacy. Women and Men in European and Ottoman Embassies from the 15th to the 18th Century. Vienna: Hollitzer Verlag, 2019 (Diplomatica, 2) with Laura Olivàn Santaliestra and Suna Suner
  • Performance of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World. Vienna: Hollitzer Verlag, 2019 (Diplomatica, 3) with Reinhard Eisendle and Suna Suner of Don Juan Archiv Wien

Membership of Professional Bodies:
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • Fellow of the Royal Historical Society