Dr Taylor Aucoin
Honorary Research Fellow
Background
I’m a social and cultural historian of medieval and early modern Britain, with research interests in work, play, festivity and Carnival. I study how practices and traditions of work and play intersected with social relations, identities, and politics in the past; how people used them to shape their social worlds.
I completed my PhD at the University of Bristol, with a thesis on medieval and early modern Shrovetide, Britain’s pre-Lenten Carnival. I am now an Honorary Fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh, where I previously held a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship researching the social and cultural history of football in Britain before 1800.
Prior to joining Edinburgh, I was a postdoc at the University of Exeter on the European Research Council-funded project ‘Forms of Labour: Gender, Freedom and Work in the Preindustrial Economy’.
Undergraduate teaching
Revelry and Riot: Popular Culture in Britain, c.1400-1800 [HIST10504] Honours Elective