Dr. Tom Leng, M.A., Ph.D. (Sheff.)
Lecturer in History [intellectual history, commercial discourse and policy in 17th c. England]
Email: t.leng@sheffield.ac.uk
Room: Jessop West: 3.12 | Telephone: (0114) 22 22583
Office Hours, Spring 2009-10: Mondays 11-12am, Wednesdays 10-11am
Tom Leng became a lecturer at the History Department at Sheffield in 2005, having previously completed both his BA and PhD at the university. He has previously taught at the University of Nottingham, and has worked on a number of projects at the Humanities Research Institute here at Sheffield. His PhD was on the subject of Benjamin Worsley (1618-1677), an individual most famous for having claimed to have drafted the Navigation Act of 1651, the major piece of English commercial legislation to that date, but whose diverse interests also encompassed experimental science, alchemy, and spiritual introspection. Leng's interests therefore fall roughly into two parts: commercial policies, discourses and debates in seventeenth-century England, and the intellectual history of the middle third of the century with a particular focus on science.
Current Research
Leng is presently engaged in turning his thesis into a monograph to be published as part of the Royal Historical Society's Studies in History series in June 2008, entitled Benjamin Worsley (1618-1677). Trade, Interest and the Spirit in Revolutionary England. He has also worked on civil war and interregnum London, and is currently preparing an article on this subject for publication. His next project will consider the interactions between commercial discourse and policy in civil war and revolutionary England.
Teaching and Research Supervision
Dr. Leng teaches on the level three Special Subject HST3080/81 (Civil War and Restoration London) and the Further Module HST3038 (Plague, Fire and Dissent: London in the 1660s). At level two, he teaches the option HST247 (The Struggle for England´s Soul: Politics, Religion and Cultural Conflict in England, 1560-1640). He is also convenor of the level one module HST115 (The Disenchantment of Early Modern Europe), and teaches on the HST202 (Historians and History) and HST3000 (The Uses of History).
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Leng is convenor of HST115, The Disenchantment of Early Modern Europe.
- Benjamin Worsley (1618-1677): Trade, Interest, and the Spirit in Revolutionary England (forthcoming 2008: Boydell and Brewer for the Royal Historical Society 'Studies in History' series).
- ''What evil spirit haunts this place?' The Guildhall Giants remember Civil War London' (in preparation)
- 'Natural Philosophy', in Philip Stern and Carl Wennerlind (eds.) Rethinking Mercantilism: New Perspectives on Politics, Economics, and Cultures of Early Modernity (forthcoming)
- ''A Potent Plantation well armed and policeed': Huguenots, the Hartlib Circle, and British Colonization in the 1640s' (under consideration by The William and Mary Quarterly)
- 'Shaftesbury's Aristocratic Empire', in John Spurr (ed.) Anthony Ashley Cooper, First Earl of Shaftesbury, 1621-1683 (Ashgate, forthcoming)
- 'Conflict and co-operation in the discourse of trade of seventeenth-century England', The Historical Journal, 48, 4 (December 2005), pp. 933-954.
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