Dr Jonah Miller

Biography

I did my MA and PhD at King’s before taking up a Research Fellowship in Cambridge. I returned to KCL as a lecturer in 2024.

Research interests and PhD supervision

• Early modern Britain
• Social history
• Legal history
• Gender
• Policing

My research focuses on Britain from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. In particular, I study everyday practices of government – especially policing – and how they related to wider power structures like patriarchy and the state. My first book, Gender and Policing in Early Modern England, was published in 2023, and I am now working on a new book about police violence in the nineteenth century.

Teaching

I teach British history from the early modern period to the nineteenth century, as well as modules on the history of crime, policing, and punishment.

Selected publications

• 'Suffrage and the Secret Ballot in Eighteenth-Century London Parishes', Historical Journal 67.1 (2024)
• Gender and Policing in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2023)
• ’Hobbes on Public Ministers’, Hobbes Studies 35.2 (2022)
• 'Patricians, plebeians, and parishioners: parish elections and social conflict in eighteenth-century Chelsea', Social History 47.4 (2022)
• 'The Touch of the State: Stop and Search in England, c.1660-1750', History Workshop Journal 87 (2019) – awarded the British Society of Criminology's Policing Network prize