Person

Field, Jacob F.

1983

He studied modern history at the University of Oxford after which he undertook postgraduate study at Newcastle University, receiving his MLitt there in 2005. In 2005 he was awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Council grant to research and write his doctoral thesis on the socio-economic impact of the Great Fire of London for which he received his PhD from Newcastle in 2008; joined the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure at the University of Cambridge in 2008; In 2012 he moved to New Zealand, where he taught economic history at Massey University and the University of Waikato. He returned to England in 2016 where he began to work at the University of Cambridge on a research project examining the historical occupational structure of London

English historian of the early modern period and author. He has written several works of popular history