British social and religious history of the C16th and C17th; social practices of elites, especially hospitality and gift-exchange; the political and cultural nature of religious identity in Britain and Ireland
Social history with a focus on the early modern Ottoman Empire (1500s to early 1800s), especially concerned with Istanbul and the towns of Anatolia; comparative history of artisans, using Ottoman archival records to analyse their social positions, the conditions under which they worked and the products of their labour
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