Dr Michael Powell-Davies

Positions held:

Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication

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Biography

Michael Powell-Davies is a postdoctoral research associate at Birkbeck, University of London, leading the 'London' strand of the Leverhulme-funded project ‘Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writing in Seventeenth-Century England’.
Investigating the people and places of writing in early modern London, he is currently writing on stationers, vestrymen, apprentices, shipwrights, and a site-based study of cultural life along the Thames.

Honours and awards
- David Walker Memorial Visiting Fellowship in Early Modern History Bodleian Libraries, November 2025
Research
Research

Research Centres and Institutes
- , Medieval and Early Modern Worlds
Publications
Publications
Article
- Powell-Davies, Michael (2026) Beyond utility: pleasure and play in the works of William Leybourn, writer, stationer, and mathematical practitioner. The Seventeenth Century ISSN 0268-117X.

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