Dr Tim Reinke-Williams

Tim Reinke-Williams researches the social, economic and cultural history of Britain in the period c.1500-c.1750.  His first monograph, Women, Work and Sociability in Early Modern London, was published by Palgrave in 2014, and he has published articles in leading peer-reviewed academic journals, including Continuity and Change, Cultural and Social History, Gender and History, History Compass and Social History.  Tim has edited the early modern volume of the Bloomsbury A Cultural History of Shopping series (2022), is co-editor (with Dr Angela McShane) of From the Margins to the Centre: Essays in Honour of Professor Bernard Capp (Boydell and Brewer, 2025) and is editing the Routledge Companion to Masculinity in Early Modern Europe (forthcoming 2026).  His current major research project focuses on everyday attitudes to men's bodies in seventeenth-century England.

This research feeds into three modules for which Tim acts as module leader:

HIS1029: The Early Modern World, 1500-1800 (Level 4 - year 1 UG)

HIS2025: Family and Life-Cycle in Early Modern England (Level 5 - year 2 UG)

HIS3029: Gender and Work in Early Modern England (Level 6 - year 3 UG)

My research focuses on the social, cultural and economic history of the British world in the period c.1500-1750 CE.  My two main areas of expertise are the history of women's work and of the gendered body, but I have undertaken collaborative research on the history of migration too, as well as editing a volume of essays on the history of shopping and co-editing a Festschrift in honour of Professor Bernard Capp.  I am in the process of completing my second monograph, entitled Leaky Bodies: Manhood, Sex and Power in Early Modern England, as well as editing the Routledge Companion to the History of Masculinity in Early Modern Europe.  Once these projects are completed I intend to undertake research on women as producers and retailers of alcohol in London and the Home Counties between c.1550 and 1740 CE.