Richard Ansell

Richard Ansell is a historian of seventeenth and eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland, focusing on travel to continental Europe. He studied at Selwyn College, Cambridge, Brown University and Hertford College, Oxford. He held the Irish Government Senior Scholarship at Oxford and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Leicester, where he is currently a Research Associate. Alongside educational travel, he is now working on travelling servants and British encounters with...See more

Richard Ansell is a historian of seventeenth and eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland, focusing on travel to continental Europe. He studied at Selwyn College, Cambridge, Brown University and Hertford College, Oxford. He held the Irish Government Senior Scholarship at Oxford and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Leicester, where he is currently a Research Associate. Alongside educational travel, he is now working on travelling servants and British encounters with Spain. His research has appeared in the Historical Journal, English Historical Review and several edited collections. See less