| PhD candidate in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge, Campop | MPhil in Early Modern History, University of Cambridge | BA History, University of York |
| History does not belong to the historians. It’s imperative that we come down from the ivory tower and share it as broadly and as accessibly as possible.“The love of history is, then, an expression … of the love of life” – A.L. Rowse
| Current research: Female incarcerations for debt in the long eighteenth century in England |
| Interests: Communicating history | Family history | Museums, unusual and general | Theatre, ancient and modern |
| amfw2@cam.ac.uk || @A_Wakelam |http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/directory/alex-wakelam |
Alex’s Posts
- Bringing Archives Back to Life
- EEBO, the RSA, and #proquestgate – the open resource debate (with Tom Smith)
- Secrets in the Archives – Breaching the privacy of the long dead
- “I got drunk – fie upon it” – A look back at early modern alcohol consumption
- The Case of Betty John – gender ambiguity in a late eighteenth century small-claims court
- Dying Declarations – Last Words in the hands of Historians
- The Public House – the struggle to find privacy in the eighteenth century home
Doing History in Public 