Dr Joe Cozens

About the author

Part of the Modern Britain team, Joe works across legal, military, and financial records to explore histories of crime, protest, ‘disorder’ and the law in 18th and 19th-century Britain. His current research focuses on challenges to public order and the ways the British state sought to control smuggling gangs and protesting crowds.

More broadly, he is a proponent of ‘history from below’ and is interested in reading official records ‘against the grain’ to foreground and better understand the lives of disadvantaged and marginalised groups in the past.