Welcome! I am a historian of early modern Europe who studies the impact of the Reformation on travel and travel writing. In a broader sense, I’m interested in the material culture of travel and pilgrimage, asking what things people collect to remember their journeys and why.

I currently hold a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship at Newcastle University, looking at how British Protestants defended their confessional stances while traveling through Catholic Europe.

Souvenirs for sale outside the Basilica della Santa Casa, Loreto, Italy

Frontispiece, William Lithgow’s The totall discourse of the rare aduentures and painefull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares trauayles, from Scotland, to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Affrica (1632) — Frontispiece, William Lithgow’s The totall discourse of the rare aduentures and painefull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares trauayles, from Scotland, to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Affrica (1632)