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Dr Tim Reinke-Williams serves as Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Northampton within the School of Culture and Creative Industries and Centre for Historical Studies. His expertise centers on Britain's social, economic, and cultural history from c.1500-c.1750, with significant focus on gender, work, and bodily experiences. Actively supervising PhD students and engaging with media, he maintains robust scholarly output including monographs and journal publications.
His research prioritizes Women's History and Gender History through intersecting lenses of class, race, and identity. Core investigations span unpaid/paid labor systems, family structures across life-cycles, urban development, migration patterns, consumption economies, and evolving bodily norms. Recent work intensifies examination of masculinity's historical construction alongside persistent analysis of women's socioeconomic roles in early modern contexts.
Publication trends reveal deepening specialization in emotional history and masculinity studies, evidenced by 2025's analysis of men's emotions in jest-books and ongoing monograph on seventeenth-century bodily perceptions. Concurrently, he maintains strong engagement with consumption history through editorial leadership of Bloomsbury's Cultural History of Shopping series.
His distinguished professional recognition includes:
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
- Member of the Institute for Historical Research
As an educator, he directs three undergraduate modules covering early modern world systems, family structures, and gendered labor. His academic service extends to doctoral examinations and hosting prominent scholars like Professor Emma Griffin, demonstrating active integration within historical research communities.
