Julia Merritt
Julia Merritt is associate professor of early modern British history at the University
of
Nottingham and co-convenes the Medieval and Tudor London seminar, held at London’s
Institute
of Historical Research. She has published extensively on the social, religious and
political
history of early modern London and her books include Westminster 1640-1660:
A Royal City in a Time of Revolution (2013); The Social World of
Early Modern Westminster: Abbey, Court and Community, 1525-1640 (2005) and Imagining Early Modern London: Perceptions and Portrayals of the City from Stow
to Strype 1598-1720 (ed., 2001). Her articles have investigated topics such as
church-building , parochial politics and the later refashionings of Stow’s Survey, the last of which emerged from her 2007 Leverhulme-funded online version
of John Strype’s 1720 Survey of
London. Her current interests include space, politics and urban identity,
London’s religious cultures, and the neighbourhood of the early Stuart royal court.
