Laura Gowing FBA is professor of early modern history at King's College London[1] where she works on women’s and gender history. She received her PhD from Royal Holloway, London, supervised by Lyndal Roper, where she was subsequently a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. She lectured at the Universities of Hertfordshire and Essex before King’s, and is one of the editors of History Workshop Journal. Gowing was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2023.[2]