Leanne Calvert

Leanne is a Research Fellow in Intangible Cultural Heritage in the History Group. She is a historian of women, gender and the family, and her research interests include the family and its relationships, the life-cycle, religion (with an emphasis on Presbyterianism and Dissenting traditions) and migration. 

Leanne completed her Ph.D. at Queen's University, Belfast in 2015, entitled 'Love, Life and the Family in the Ulster Presbyterian community, 1780-1844'. Before joining the University of Hertfordshire, she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher on an AHRC-funded project entitled 'Bad Bridget: Criminal and Deviant Irish Women in North America, 1838-1918', held jointly between Ulster University and Queen's University, Belfast.

Leanne has published articles in Analecta Hibernica, Women's History Review and Journal of Family History. She is currently the co-Director of the Perceptions of Pregnancy Researchers' network with Jennifer Evans.

Leanne is interested in the following broad areas:

• The History of the Family and its Relationships
• The Household
• Religion and the Family, particularly the Presbyterian community
• Women's History
• Gender History
• Irish History
• Long Eighteenth-century, c. 1680-1850

Leanne's teaching specialisms include:

• The Family, Gender and Household in History
• Religion and the Family
• Social History

Leanne currently teaches on the following modules:

4HUM1104 The Fight for Rights: Freedom and Oppression, 1790s -1990s

5HUM1083 Nation and Identity: Newly Independent States in Interwar Europe, 1918-39

6HUM1153 How the Victorians Saw the World Abroad