Julie Miller MA

Biography

A mature student who works as Curator of the Combined Military Services Museum in Maldon Essex. Julie studied for a BA Hons in Humanities with Literature at The Open University and gained a Masters at the University of Essex in 2020 studying 17th and 18th century Quakers in Essex and America, but she is interested in many aspects of the early modern period including the local history of her home town of Maldon in Essex. which she explores through her work as a Trustee for the Friends of the Moot Hall, a charitable trust looking after a 15th century tower house in Maldon, built by the Darcy family. Julie is now studying for her PhD in History at University of Essex where she is researching the life of the Saffron Walden Quakers John and Mary Farmer and the network of radical Essex Quakers who went to America to fight slavery, and women travelling Quaker ministers in Europe in the early eighteenth century. She has also worked for the University of Essex as an Assistant Lecturer in Early Modern History and is an active public historian regularly giving talks on her research, and other areas of historical interest. She is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Qualifications

• MA in History with Distinction University of Essex (2020)

• BA Hons in Humanities with Literature Open University (2010)

Thesis