My name is Sophie Michell, and I am social and family historian, focusing on the Victorian era.
I have a Masters degree (2019) in local and regional history with the Open University. My dissertation was on infant death in the coroner’s court.
In October 2020, I began working on my history PhD with the Open University, with funding from the Open-Oxford-Cambridge DTP. The PhD will consist of a broad survey of decision making following a suspicious death in the Victorian coroner’s court.
My main academic interests are the coroner’s court, women, infanticide and infant mortality, family economies, gendered violence, and the history of medicine.
I particularly enjoy writing working-class family history, and am experienced in reconstructing history using a rich variety of records. I am also an experienced transcriber.
When I’m not up to the eyeballs in census returns and suspicious death, I live with my cat, husband and three sons in Peterborough, surrounded by books.
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