Women’s experience of violence and suffering as represented in loyalist accounts of the English Civil War

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is an early modern historian specialising in sixteenth and seventeenth-century religious and social history. Her work focuses on anti-clericalism, religious conflict, family and memory within parishes during and after the English Civil wars. She has published a book, Baal's Priests: the Loyalist Clergy and the English Revolution (Ashgate, 2013) and other papers on loyalist culture. She is currently writing a book on religious conflict in English parishes during the Commonwealth period, funded by the British Academy.