Travel Testimonies: Migrant Women’s Mobilities in London Consistory Records, c. 1560–1600

John Gallagher is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leeds, and the author of Learning Languages in Early Modern England (Oxford University Press, 2019). He is a historian of language, migration, and education, focused on the history of Britain and Ireland in early modern Europe. His articles and essays have appeared in Renaissance Quarterly, Huntington Library Quarterly, Renaissance Studies, The Italianist, and elsewhere. He is the co-editor of the Historical Journal. His current research explores migration and multilingualism in early modern London, and the history of multilingual cities more broadly. John is a BBC/Arts & Humanities Research Council New Generation Thinker and writes regularly for the London Review of Books. In 2023, he won a Philip Leverhulme Prize for History.