SARAH FOX

Dr Sarah Fox is a Senior Lecturer in History at Edge Hill University, leading undergraduate History programmes. She holds a BA and MA from the University of Leeds, and a PhD from the University of Manchester on eighteenth-century women's childbirth experiences. Her research focuses on ordinary lives in eighteenth-century England, emphasizing bodies, embodiment, and their intersections with law, monarchy, and community structures. She actively contributes to the Sustainable Development Goals through historical analysis.

Teaching roles include modules on European history from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, historiography, and public history engagement. She supervises PhD projects on eighteenth-century life, gender, legal/social histories of medicine, and body studies. She has held postdoctoral positions at Manchester, York, Birmingham, and Leeds Beckett Universities before joining Edge Hill in 2024.

• Research Interests: Embodiment, parish structures, legal frameworks, and gendered experiences
• Projects: 'The King's Dinner' (Royal Consumption, 1780-1830) and 'Re-conceptualising Birth Processes' in eighteenth-century England
• Awards: No explicitly stated honors found