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Professor Samantha K Williams

College position(s)

Fellow, Director of Studies

Subject

History, History and Politics

Degrees, Awards and Prizes

BA (Lancaster), MSc (Oxford), PhD (Cambridge), T. S. Ashton Prize from the Economic History Society 

Research themes

My research focuses upon the history of poverty and the poor law in Britain in the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. I have written two books, Unmarried motherhood in the metropolis, 1700-1850: pregnancy, the poor law and provision (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and Poverty, gender and life-cycle under the English poor law, 1760-1834 (Boydell and Brewer, 2011) and am co-editor of A. Levene, T. Nutt, and S.K. Williams (eds.), Illegitimacy in Britain, 1700-1920 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

Responsibilities

I teach first-year students the Outline paper 4 Early Modern Britain, second-year students the Research Project RP3 Gender in Early Modern Britain, and supervise third-year dissertations. I also teach on the MPhil in Early Modern History and am Course Director for the MSt in History.

Other

I am a member of the Cambridge Group for the history of Population and Social Structure, The Economic History Society, and the Royal Historical Society.

Roles within the University

  • Professor of Social History
  • Course Director for the MSt in History, Institute of Continuing Education

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