Economics and Social History Alumni
PhD Researcher in Economic and Social History (ESRC +3)
College of Humanities, University of Exeter
Start date: September 2014
Graduation date: September 2020
Research topic: Wage labour and poverty on a Dorset estate, c.1680-1834
For my PhD, I am undertaking a comprehensive analysis of wage labour and poverty in Dorset from c.1680 to 1834. My research, which will be a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, will help bridge the gap in literature by directly linking these two topics. It will consider how individuals and households managed to survive at the subsistence level and what happened if they did not manage to ‘get by’. The research will focus on the Kingston Lacy estate, in east Dorset.
Research supervisors: Professor Jane Whittle, Professor Henry French
Professional memberships/Positions held:
Assistant Editor of Ex Historia, Member of the Economic History Society, SWDTC Conference Chair 2015
Email: acr216@exeter.ac.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/amy_ridgway1