Publications

Monograph

Quakers in the British Atlantic World. First book to discuss the eighteenth-century Quaker reformation and its economic consequences for the Society of Friends, Boydell & Brewer, May 2021.

Dissertation

A Faith of Merchants: Quakers and Institutional Change in the British Atlantic, c.1660-1800. LSE E-Thesis 2016. Revised version, equivalent to German published thesis. An analysis of the Society of Friends’ formal and informal institutions, and how these impacted Quaker merchants’ businesses.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

‘Gospel Order: Quaker Institutions and Trade Expansion in Colonial Philadelphia’.
Continuity & Change, Vol.35, Issue 2, December 2020.

‘Quakers, Coercion and Pre-Modern Growth: Why Friends’ Formal Institutions did not Matter for Early Atlantic Trade Expansion’,
The Economic History Review, Vol.71, Issue 2, May 2018.

Working Papers

‘An Investigation of Early Modern Quakers’ Business Ethics’, LSE Economic History Working Papers, No.216 (2015).

‘Quakers, Coercion and Pre-Modern Growth: Why Friends’ Formal Institutions did not Matter for Early Atlantic Trade Expansion’,
LSE Economic History Working Papers, No. 211 (2014).

‘Re-evaluating the Role of Voluntary Organisations: Merchant Networks, the Baltic, and the Expansion of European Long-Distance Trade’,
LSE Economic History Working Papers, No.138 (2010).

Book Reviews

Priya Satia, ‘Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution’ (Penguin Press, 2018), Quaker Studies, (2019), Vol. 24, (2).

Jonathan Harlow (ed.), ‘The Ledger of Thomas Speed, 1681–1690 (Bristol: Bristol Record Office, 2011)’, Quaker Studies, (2015).

Pierre Gervais, Yannick Lemarchand and Dominique Margairaz (eds.), ‘Merchants and Profit in the Age of Commerce, 1680-1830’ (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014), Accounting History, (2015) Vol.21 (1).

Lars Maischak, ‘German Merchants in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013)’, The Economic History Review, (2015), Vol.68 (2).

Blog Posts

A Page in the Life of Betty Fothergill: Marriage and Liberty in the Diary of Teenage Girl
The Many Headed Monster, December 2018

‘Quakers, Coercion and pre-modern Growth’
The Long Run: the EHS blog, January 2018

Readers’ Stories: 18th century London – a foreign country
Quaker Strongrooms. A blog for the Library of the Society of Friends, June 2013