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James Daybell (he/him)
Professor of Early Modern British History at the University of Plymouth, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is a specialist in gender, materiality and heritage and written more than 14 books on the Tudors, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century history, letters and letter-writing, gender and politics, materiality and heritage including Women Letter Writers in Tudor England (Oxford University Press, 2006), The Material Letter (Palgrave, 2012) and Glove Culture in Early Modern England (Amsterdam University Press, 2024). He has worked with a number of museum and heritage institutions, with the V&A, the Royal Armouries in Leeds, Powderham Castle and Saltram House National Trust Property in Devon, and with the Vasa Museum in Sweden. He also co-writes and co-presents (with the TV historian and writer Dr Sam Willis) the chart-topping Histories of the Unexpected weekly podcast. He is co-author of Histories of the Unexpected: How Everything has a History (Atlantic Books, 2018) and a series of Histories of the Unexpected books on The Romans, The Vikings, The Tudors and World War Two (Atlantic Books, 2019).