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Jacob Franz Field (born 1983) is an English historian of the early modern period and author. He has written several works of popular history as well as an account of the impact of the Great Fire of London.

Early life

Jacob Field was born in Lambeth, south London, in 1983. He studied modern history at the

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after which he undertook postgraduate study at

Newcastle University Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a UK public university, public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England. It has overseas campuses in Singapore and Malaysia. The university is ...

, receiving his MLitt there in 2005. In 2005 he was awarded an

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grant to research and write his doctoral thesis on the socio-economic impact of the

Great Fire of London The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through central London from Sunday 2 September to Thursday 6 September 1666, gutting the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city wall, while also extending past the ...

for which he received his PhD from Newcastle in 2008.Jacob Field.
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Career

Field joined the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure at the

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in 2008 where he researched Britain's occupational structure from the 14th to 19th centuries with particular reference to women's work and

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. In 2012 he moved to New Zealand, where he taught

economic history Economic history is the academic learning of economies or economic events of the past. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and the application of economic theory to historical situations and ins ...

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and the

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. He returned to England in 2016 where he began to work at the University of Cambridge on a research project examining the historical occupational structure of London. He has written several popular history books and is best known for ''One Bloody Thing After Another: The World's Gruesome History''. The inclusion of

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ( bn, শেখ মুজিবুর রহমান; 17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975), often shortened as Sheikh Mujib or Mujib and widely known as Bangabandhu (meaning ''Friend of Bengal''), was a Bengali politi ...

's 1971 rallying-call for Bangladeshi independence in ''We Shall Fight on the Beaches: The Speeches That Inspired History'' attracted attention as it was the first time the speech had been published in book form. His PhD dissertation has also been adapted into book form as ''London, Londoners and the Great Fire of 1666: Disaster and Recovery'' (2017).''London, Londoners and the Great Fire of 1666 Disaster and Recovery''.
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Selected publications

* ''One Bloody Thing After Another: The World's Gruesome History''. Michael O'Mara Books, London, 2012. * ''We Shall Fight on the Beaches: The Speeches That Inspired History''. Michael O'Mara Books, London, 2013. * ''D-Day in Numbers: The facts behind Operation Overlord''. Michael O'Mara Books, London, 2014. * ''London, Londoners and the Great Fire of 1666: Disaster and Recovery''. Routledge, London, 2017. ( Routledge Research in Early Modern History)

References

External links

*https://www.britannica.com/contributor/Jacob-F-Field/9837571 {{DEFAULTSORT:Field, Jacob Living people English historians Alumni of the University of Oxford Alumni of Newcastle University Historians of the early modern period 1983 births People from Lambeth