A Hosier near Hungerford Market: Ann Hodgson and her Partnership in Trade

On 15 October 1718, Ann Hodgson ‘next the one Ton Tavern near Hungerford Market in the Strand’ took out an insurance policy for her goods and merchandise as a hosier.[1] No specific value for her stock was recorded but Sun Fire Office insurance policies usually covered goods worth up to £500 in this period (the

Women’s History Month 2020 – on this day tweets

Following Women’s History Month 2020, I thought it would be useful to collate my ‘on this day’ tweets into one place with added references. There were significant breaks, particularly in the first part of the month, when I was observing the digital picket in support of the UCU strike. However, by the end of the

Welcome to A Fashionable Business – Launch for Women’s History Month

Women’s History Month 2020 has arrived and I am thrilled to launch my new blog: A Fashionable Business to celebrate the myriad contributions that women made to the social, economic, and cultural history of early modern London. My PhD project officially began at Birkbeck in Autumn 2016 but I first became interested in the history