Dr Siobhan Talbott is Principal Investigator on this AHRC-funded project and Dr Sophie H Jones is the Research Associate.
Also involved in the project are five steering committee members, who advise on the research being undertaken.
Dr Siobhan Talbott is the Principal Investigator of Business News in the Atlantic World. She is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Keele University, and specialises in early modern commercial and business history of the Atlantic World.
Dr Sophie H Jones is a Postdoctoral Research Associate for Business News in the Atlantic World. She completed her PhD in History at the University of Liverpool in 2018 and specialises in the eighteenth-century Atlantic; her research interests particularly include early American history, loyalism and the American Revolution.
Andrew Pettegree is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews and Director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue. He is the author of over a dozen books in the fields of Reformation history and the history of communication including Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion (Cambridge University Press, 2005), The Book in the Renaissance (Yale University Press, 2010), The Invention of News (Yale University Press, 2014) and Brand Luther: 1517, Print and the Making of the Reformation (Penguin, 2015). His recent projects include ‘Preserving the World’s Rarest Book’s, a collaboration with the international library community funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. His most recent book, The Bookshop of the World. Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age (co-authored with Arthur der Weduwen), will appear in March 2019.
Sheryllynne Haggerty is a Reader in Economic and Business History. Her work focuses on the eighteenth-century British Atlantic, and particularly in its trading communities – both men and women. She is presently working on a project on mid-eighteenth century Jamaica.
Dr Sara Barker is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Leeds. Her research focuses on books and printing in sixteenth and early seventeenth-century France and western Europe, particularly news, translation, reprints and piracy. She’s currently completing a monograph entitled New and True? Translation, news and pamphlets in early modern France and England.
Dr Nina Lamal is a FWO postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Antwerp. She specialises in early modern media history. She is currently working on a bibliography of Italian newspapers and a project on seventeenth-century handwritten newsletters in the Low Countries and France.
https://www.uantwerpen.be/nl/personeel/nina-lamal/
Twitter: @NinaLamal
Andrew Popp is Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Baltimore. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Enterprise and Society, The Journal of Business History. His work focuses on business in nineteenth-century Britain, with a particular interest in networks and social capital. Most recently he has been interested in the emotional dimensions of family business.
