Overview

I am a social and religious historian of early modern and long eighteenth century Britain. I joined Exeter in November 2023 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Leverhulme Project 'The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790’.

My publications to date have focused on religious life in London, on bodily experience, on letter-writing, and on experiences of the life cycle. My forthcoming monograph, based on my doctoral research, focuses on domestic religion and the life cycle in early modern London. 

Prior to joining Exeter, I was a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham and before that, at the University of Leeds. I studied for my PhD in History at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), and held the 2018/19 Thornley Junior Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research. During my time in London I taught at QMUL and King's College London, and I also spent a few months as a historical researcher for the BBC children’s TV show 'Horrible Histories'. I studied for my undergraduate and master’s degrees here in the wonderful History department at Exeter.

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Research

I am interested in the social and religious history of early modern and long eighteenth century Britain. My publications include:

Emily Vine, Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in early modern London, [Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming]

Karen Harvey and Emily Vine, ‘The body and religion in eighteenth-century letters’ [The Historical Journal , forthcoming]  

Alison Searle and Emily Vine, ‘We have sick souls when God's physic works not’: Samuel Rutherford’s Pastoral Letters as a Form of Literary Cure’, The Seventeenth Century 37 (2022) 913-936. 

 Emily Vine, 'Caring for the dying and the dead in the London Sephardi and Ashkenazi Communities, 1656-1800' in Caroline Bowden, Emily Vine and Tessa Whitehouse eds., Religion and Life Cycles in early modern England (Manchester University Press, 2021). 

Caroline Bowden, Emily Vine and Tessa Whitehouse eds., Religion and Life Cycles in early modern England (Manchester University Press, 2021). 

Emily Vine, ‘“The Cursed Jew Priest that ordered the Woman and her Child to be Burnt”: rumours of Jewish infanticide in Early Modern London’, Huntington Library Quarterly 83 (2020), 331-359.  

Emily Vine, ‘“Those enemies of Christ, if they are suffered to live among us”: Religious minority homes and private space in early modern London’, The London Journal, 43:3, (2018) 197-214 [Winner of the 2017 Curriers’ Company London Journal Prize].

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