Hello, my name is Jessica Ayres. 

I am a historian of early modern England, specialising in the social and economic lives of women in the seventeenth century, and the history of institutional record keeping.

My academic background: 

I hold a PhD in History from the University of York and have over six years’ experience researching in archives across the UK.

Between 2020 and 2022, I taught at the Universities of Sheffield and York in both History and Economics departments, delivering modules such as the Tudor Regime, Advertising Loss in Eighteenth Century England, and Historical Perspectives on Economic Growth. For my teaching, I was awarded the History prize in 2021 and, in 2022, an Economics teaching prize. 

Today:

Since 2022 I have worked at The London Archives, where I am a trainee Archivist, but have held posts at The National Trust, York Museums Trust, and York Archaeology. I currently live in East London.

Through the University of York, I am a Research Associate at the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (CREMS).

You can read more about my research and publications here.