Professor Anne Laurence

Professional biography

Publications

My books include:

The 37 Men of New and South Hinksey: New and South Hinksey at the Time of the First World War, Oxford, 2018 [with Barbara Creed, Sarah Gray, Laura Hunter, Anne Kiltie, Sharon Murray & Dee Tucker, a community history project with the Soth Oxford Women's Institute]

Women and their Money 1700-1950: Essays on Women and Finance, London: Routledge, 2009 [edited with Josephine Maltby and Janette Rutterford]

Women, Scholarship and Criticism: Gender and Knowledge c.1790-1900, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000 [edited with Joan Bellamy and Gill Perry]

Women in England 1500-1760: A Social History, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson/Orion, 1994, 1995, 2002

‘Parliamentary Army Chaplains 1642-1651’, Woodbridge: Royal Historical Society Studies in History, 1990

John Bunyan and his England, London: Hambledon, 1990 [edited with W.R. Owens and S. Sim]

My articles and chapters include:

'Women's Work in Oxford and its Invisibility, 1860-1914', in Anna Nilsson Hammar, Daniel Nyström & Martin Almbjä (eds), Gender, Materiality and Politics: Essays on the Making of Power, Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2022

‘Exploiting Dante: Dante and his women popularisers, 1850-1910’ (pp.281-301), in N. Havely (ed.), Dante in the Nineteenth Century, Oxford: Peter Lang (2011)

‘Using buildings to understand social history: Britain and Ireland in the seventeenth century’ (pp.103-122), in Karen Harvey (ed.), History and Material Culture, London: Routledge (2009)

‘Lady Betty Hastings (1682-1739): godly patron’, Women’s History Review 19 (2), pp.201-213 (2009)

‘Les femmes et la transmission de la propriété. L’héritage dans les îles Britanniques au XVIIe siècle’, XVIIe Siècle 244, pp. 435-50 (2009)

‘Women, banks and the securities market in early eighteenth century England’ (pp.46-58), in Anne Laurence, Josephine Maltby and Janette Rutterford (eds), Women and their Money 1700-1950: Essays on Women and Finance, London: Routledge International Studies in Business History, 2009

‘Real and imagined communities in the lives of women in seventeenth-century Ireland: identity and gender’ (pp.13-27), in Sue Broomhall & Tarbin (eds), Women, Identities and Communities in Early Modern Europe, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008

‘The emergence of a private clientèle for banks in the early eighteenth century: Hoare’s Bank and some women customers’, Economic History Review 61 (3), (pp.565-86), 2008

‘Women investors, ‘that nasty South Sea affair’ and the rage to speculate in early eighteenth-century England’, Accounting, Business and Financial History 16 (2), (pp.245-264), 2006 (awarded the Basil Yamey prize 2007)

‘Lady Betty Hastings, her half-sisters and the South Sea Bubble: family fortunes and strategies’, Women’s History Review 15 (pp.533-540), 2006

‘Women, godliness and personal appearance in seventeenth-century England’, Women’s History Review 15 (pp.69-81), 2006

‘Did the nature of the enemy make a difference? Chaplains in the wars of the three kingdoms 1642-9’, in Doris Bergen (ed.), The Sword of the Lord: Military Chaplains for the First to the Twenty-First Century (pp.89-104), Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004

‘Women in the British Isles in the sixteenth century’, in Robert Tittler and Norman Jones (eds), A Companion to Tudor Britain (pp.381-399), Blackwell, 2004

‘Space, status and gender in English topographical paintings c.1660-c.1740’, Architectural History 46 (pp.81-94), 2003

‘Women using building in seventeenth-century England: a question of sources?’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 6th series 13 (2003)

‘Daniel’s practice: the daily round of godly women in seventeenth-century England’, in R.N. Swanson (ed.), The Use and Abuse of Time in Christian History, Studies in Church History 37, 2002

‘"Begging pardon for all mistakes in the writeing I being a woman & doeing itt myselfe": family narratives in some early eighteenth-century letters’, in James Daybell (ed.), Early Modern Women’s Letter Writing, 1450-1700, Palgrave, 2001