David Robinson, Editor-in-Chief

David Robinson is the Editor-in-Chief and a founder-member of the Midlands Historical Review.

After a long stint in the business world, David began a much more interesting career in the academic sphere and was recently awarded his PhD in history by the University of Nottingham.

David’s research interests include eighteenth and nineteenth-century British travel writing, particularly on India and Italy, and British cultural history during the same period. He has published several peer reviewed articles and recently edited a collection of historical and contemporary travel writing, due for publication by Anthem in Spring 2021.

When not writing and editing the MHR, David can often be found hiking and climbing in Scotland, and chasing his errant spaniel across the Vale of Belvoir.

E: historydavid40@gmail.com

T: @whoknowsdave

EmmaLucy Cole, Interim Editor-in-Chief

A writer, adventurer and speaker, EmmaLucy is in the 2^nd year of a PhD at the University of Bristol exploring how Bedouin cultures are represented by travel writers. She joined the MHR in early 2021, setting up the South West Regional team before stepping into the role of interim Editor-in-Chief in Summer ‘21.

E: ec0034@bristol.ac.uk

Darcie Mawby, Deputy Editor

E: darcie.mawby@nottingham.ac.uk

Zoe Screti, Lead Editor (Research Articles)

Zoe is a PhD student at the University of Birmingham funded by a College of Arts and Law Doctoral Scholarship. She is also the recipient of a New Scholar Award from the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry. Her thesis focuses on the interplay between the Reformation and alchemy in Early Modern England.

E: zxs454@student.bham.ac.uk

T: @zoescreti

Waseem Ahmed, Lead Editor (Research Articles)

Waseem is currently an Early Modern MA student at University of Birmingham and will be embarking on a PhD in History at UCL, funded by the UCL Research Opportunity Scholarship. His thesis will explore how non-elite men and women during the English republic (1649-1660) collaborated and co-operated with the state through political processes and everyday practices. At undergraduate and master’s level, his research has looked at divisions during the Cromwellians Protectorate and how Cromwellians were able to assimilate themselves to Charles II’s government. His research interests include politics and political culture broadly defined during the Early Modern period, particularly seventeenth century Britain, alongside the French Revolution, Wars of the Roses and twentieth century historiography. Away from the library, he enjoys a Saturday morning Parkrun and an occasional game of Squash.

E:  waseem.ahmed.21@ucl.ac.uk

T: @Waseem_Ahmed98

Emily Sharp, Lead Editor (Book Reviews and Other Research Outputs)

Emily Sharp is a PhD student at Northumbria University. Her research is funded by the AHRC and seeks to assess the contribution of British student activists to international solidarity campaigns across the second half of the twentieth century. Prior to commencing her doctoral studies, she completed her MA (Hons) and MLitt in History at the University of Glasgow where she was awarded the George Gilbert Ramsay Memorial Prize (2013) and the Charlotte Nicholson Postgraduate Bursary (2016). She has also previously worked for Springer Nature and Cambridge University Press.

E: emily4.sharp@northumbria.ac.uk

Dr. David Civil, Assistant Editor (prev. Spotlight Articles)

David Civil joined the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham as a Research Fellow in January 2021. Prior to joining the Centre, David completed an AHRC-funded PhD in the Department of History at the University of Nottingham entitled ‘Meritocracy: A Post-War Conceptual History’. This research utilised meritocracy as a lens to explore broader questions of intellectual politics in modern Britain, from transformations in education policy to the changing nature of work.

E: d.civil@bham.ac.uk

Catrin Fear, Website and Social Media Editor

Catrin is a third year PhD student at the University of Nottingham, funded by the AHRC Midlands3Cities. Her research focuses on the uses and impact of lead in the Anthropocene and palaeopathological examination of lead poisoning.

E: catrin.fear@nottingham.ac.uk

T: @catrinfear