The New Palace at Westminster, 1851 by E. Walker after Sir Charles Barry

History of Parliament Staff

Dr Ben Coates

Senior Research Fellow, 1604-1629

bcoates@histparl.ac.uk

Research
I mostly work on midland counties for the History of Parliament.

My research interests include the economy of Civil War London, trade and finance in the 1640s and 1650s and London merchant and livery companies in the 17th century.

Publications
The Impact of the English Civil War on the Economy of London (Ashgate, 2004)

‘Poor relief in London during the English Revolution revisited’. London Journal, 25:2 (2000), 40-58.

(with Charles Littleton and Michael Hunter) ‘The Work-diaries of Robert Boyle: Biographical and Bibliographical Register’, The Perseus Digital Library (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu).




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