Dr Jack SargeantLecturer in Business History and HeritageEmail: j.sargeant@qmul.ac.ukProfileResearchPublic EngagementProfileRoles: Lecturer in Business History and Heritage Member of the Department of Business and Society Biography: Jack is a historian of economic life in early modern Britain and Europe. Before joining QMUL, he was Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Manchester. He holds a PhD from University College London and an MA from the University of Amsterdam. Jack’s research explores the long history of capitalist development, including through the business practices of merchants and retailers; the shifting role of state regulation in governing commercial enterprise; and the relationship between economic activity and the environment. He is particularly interested in histories of capitalism ‘from below’, which seek to understand how ordinary people experienced and influenced nascent capitalist social relations.ResearchResearch Interests:Research interests: Histories of capitalism and political economy Histories of guilds and market regulation Environmental history Early capitalism and maritime industry Urban geographies and industrial heritage The social and political history of early modern Britain and Europe Jack is currently exploring these themes through a study of maritime industry in early modern Europe, and of the regulation of the fish trade at Billingsgate Market in East London in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This involves extensive archival research, including in the records of the City of London corporation and the Fishmongers’ Company. Centre and Group Membership: Member of Centre on Labour, Sustainability and Global Production Publications Sargeant, J. D., ‘Official communication and political innovation in the English Revolution’, in Enter the Crowd: Social Communication in Early Modern England, ed. M. Pennacchia and I. Plescia (Florence, 2023), pp. 48-59. Sargeant, J. D., ‘Publicity, authority and legal radicalism at John Lilburne’s treason trial, 1649’, Historical Research, 93:262 (2020), pp. 661-77. Sargeant, J. D., ‘Parliament and the crown jewels in the English Revolution, 1641–1644’, Historical Journal, 63:4 (2020), pp. 811-35. Public EngagementJack has worked as a historical consultant to Historic Royal Palaces.