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Dr Michael Powell-Davies

Positions held:
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
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  • Overview

    Overview

    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’.

    Researching people and places of writing in early modern London, he is currently writing on stationers, apprentices, shipwrights, and a site-based study of cultural life along the Thames.

    Qualifications

    • BA, University of Sheffield
    • MA, King's College London
    • PhD, Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Kent

    Honours and awards

    • David Walker Memorial Visiting Fellowship in Early Modern History, Bodleian Libraries, November 2025
  • Research

    Research

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