Ed Selkirk Ford

I am currently in the second year of my PhD supervised by Professors David Thackeray and Richard Toye as part of the Leverhulme-funded project Parliamentary Empire. My thesis explores the ways in which national and imperial identities interacted with understandings of parliamentary representation in Australia and South Africa c.1890-1910.

Originally from West Yorkshire, I gained my first degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at St Peter’s College, University of Oxford in 2019; and an MSt in Modern British History at Christ Church, University of Oxford in 2021. Before coming to Exeter in 2022, I also worked in Westminster politics.