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Charmian Mansell is a Research Fellow at University College London (UCL), currently serving as a Research Associate on the Legacies of the British Slave Trade project. She holds a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Cambridge and has previously held academic positions including a Lectureship in Early Modern British History at Queen Mary University of London, postdoctoral roles at the University of Oxford and the Institute of Historical Research, and a position at the University of Exeter. Her research focuses on economic and social history, particularly the histories of work, gender, and community in early modern England.
Her major publications include the forthcoming monograph Female Servants in Early Modern England, which challenges existing scholarship using court testimony, and the edited resource Court Depositions of South West England, 1500-1700. She is also investigating British investment in the transatlantic slave trade as part of her current project, which will produce a free database of 12,000 investors and their connections.
Mansell has received prestigious fellowships, including the Women in Humanities Writing Fellowship and the Economic History Society Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. In 2024, she will join the Huntington Library as a fellow. Her research integrates legal depositions, labor laws, and community dynamics to explore themes such as gendered labor experiences and social exclusion.
