is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Kent as part of the Leverhulme funded Political Economies of International Commerce project. Her research focuses on trade corporations and the English empire in the seventeenth century, including its impact on English society, politics, and culture. She is currently completing articles on the transatlantic tobacco trade and women investors in the Virginia Company.
A guest post by Misha Ewen William Petre (1575-1637) was a typical gentleman of his time. He was 22 years old and newly married when he began keeping an account book of his household expenses. Between 1597 and 1610 Petre…
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