The editorial board of The Historian is made up of volunteers, who meet regularly to review submitted articles and to set the themes for upcoming articles. Find out more about our current board membership below.

Jenni Hyde

Dr Jenni Hyde is a Trustee and Fellow of the Historical Association. She works as a freelance historian and Lecturer in Early Modern History at Lancaster University. She is a Fellow of the Historical Association and of the Royal Historical Society. Her first book, Singing the News: Ballads in Mid-Tudor England, was published in 2018 by Routledge while her critical edition of a seventeenth-century ‘musical’, John Balshaw’s Jigge: Revelry and Royalism in Restoration Lancashire, appeared in 2021.  Other work has appeared in Renaissance Studies, History, and the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. She is a former music teacher, a classically-trained soprano and a keen folk singer.

Maggie Wilson

Maggie has an MA Hons in Modern History from St Andrews University and taught history until she retired in 2012, after which she moved to Edinburgh, where she continues to follow several historical pursuits including being part of an active archaeology group. Maggie joined the HA in the 1990s, was a Key Stage 3 consultant when the history curriculum was revised in 2007 and has been a member of the Historian Editorial Board since 2016. 

James Sewry

An editorial board member since 2022, James is a civil servant at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. He has previously taught history in the independent sector and has contributed to the Times Literary Supplement and Aspects of History.

 

Steve Illingworth

Steve Illingworth is a part-time university lecturer in history education. He has been a secondary school history teacher, educational consultant and teacher trainer. His published historical writings include a book about the Pilgrimage of Grace rebellion against Henry VIII and articles on topics such as pacifist activities in both world wars and attempts at social reconstruction in Britain after 1918. He has delivered talks to the Historical Association annual conference on five occasions.

Ian Armour

Ian’s specialism is the Habsburg Monarchy and the Balkans in the 19th-early 20th centuries, but by extension Eastern and Central Europe generally. He did his BA at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, an MA at the London School of Economics, and a PhD at the School of Slavonic & East European Studies. He is co-author of a textbook on imperial Germany, and sole author of two textbooks on Eastern Europe between 1740 and the present, and a monograph on Austria-Hungary and Serbia in 1867-1881. He is retired and lives in Devon with his wife and two cats.

Tom Hamilton

Tom teaches early modern European history at Durham University, and his research focuses on French history as well as the history of criminal justice. He is particularly interested in the experience and impact of the French Wars of Religion (1562–1598), and this was the subject of his recent book A Widow’s Vengeance after the Wars of Religion: Gender and Justice in Renaissance France, which focused on an exceptional trial for sexual violence in war.

Rosalind Crone

Rosalind Crone is Professor of History at The Open University. As a nineteenth-century historian, she has published widely on popular culture, crime and justice (including prisons), reading and literacy, and education. Her books include Violent Victorians: Popular Entertainment in 19th Century London (Manchester University Press, 2012) and Illiterate Inmates: Educating Criminals in 19th Century England (Oxford University Press, 2022). Rosalind is also resident historian and frequent co-presenter on Lady Killer with Lucy Worsley (BBC).

Natasha Brockman

Natasha is based in Cambridgeshire and is currently completing her MA in the History of Political Thought and Intellectual History. She has wider academic interests that extend into philosophy and theology and is passionate about making history accessible and engaging for all ages. She loves writing and researching, and is dedicated to inspiring a love of history in everyone.

Joe Saunders

Joe Saunders is a freelance historian and working part-time toward a PhD at the University of York on the print trade in early modern England. He loves family and local history, is a tutor at two adult-learning organisations, and a Trustee of the British Association for Local History.