Phone number: +44 (0)1223 339417
Email: hat27@cam.ac.uk
Dr Hillary Taylor
Fellow
Lecturer in Early Modern British Social and Economic History (Fixed Term)
Dr Hillary Taylor is a Fellow of Jesus College. She has broad interests in the social, economic, and legal history of Britain, c. 1500-1750. She is currently working on a book about social relations and the class politics of language.
Degrees obtained
- BA, Brown University.
- MA, Yale University.
- PhD, Yale University.
Publications, links and resources
- The Price of the Poor’s Words: Social Relations and the Economics of Deposing for One’s “Betters” in Early Modern England, Economic History Review (2018), pp. 1-20.
- "Branded on the Tongue”: Rethinking Plebeian Inarticulacy in Early Modern England, Radical History Review (2015), pp. 91-105.
