Anne Laurence

After a degree in History and Politics at the University of York Anne completed an Oxford D. Phil thesis on ‘Parliamentary Army Chaplains, 1642-1651’. She joined the Open University in 1976 and was appointed to a chair in History in 2003. She served as treasurer to the Social History Society and as chair of the Women’s Committee of the Economic History Society and she is still a member of the Economic History Society Council. Since the 1980s her research has moved away from civil war history to the history of gender in the early modern period and, most recently, to the history of the early years of the eighteenth-century financial revolution, with a special interest in women investors.

BOOKS

WOMEN IN ENGLAND 1500-1760: A SOCIAL HISTORY