Dr Sarah Ward Clavier will be delivering a talk at Found Gallery entitled 'Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Post-Mistresses, Post-Wenches and Other Seventeenth-Century Women of the Post’ at 7.30pm.
Do come along to view the new exhibition Five Women at Found from 6.30 and then to join Sarah to hear about postwomen, petitions, and the only crown-approved paid employment for women in this period!
Dr Sarah Ward Clavier is an historian of seventeenth-century Britain. She completed her doctorate in 2017 at the University of Oxford, writing about royalism, religion, and revolution in North-East Wales, 1642-88. Her current research interests range from the secret activities of Interregnum ejected clergy to the lives of Welsh royalists and Jacobites in the seventeenth century. Sarah is also active in public history, commencing work as a consultant historian for St Mary Redcliffe church, Bristol. She has published on royalist ballads, Welsh royalism, seventeenth-century autobiographical and biographical writing, and her monograph is forthcoming with Boydell & Brewer. She has taught at Warwick and Oxford, has held fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington D.C.) and the Huntington Library (San Marino, California), as well as the Royal Historical Society's Centenary Fellowship in 2016. Sarah is currently Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of the West of England.
Found Gallery, 1 Bulwark, Brecon, LD3 7LB
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