Liesbeth Corens Author & Editor

Liesbeth Corens is a Lecturer in Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London, where she arrived after a PhD at the University of Cambridge and research fellowships at the universities of Cambridge and Oxford. Her works focuses on early modern Catholic minorities and their central role in the Counter-Reformation. Having finished researching for Confessional Mobility she is currently working on Creating Counter-Archives: Record-collecting and Commemoration among Catholic Minorities, ca. 1660-1730, a comparative study of the commemorative practices of both English and Dutch Catholics. With Alexandra Walsham and Kate Peters, she has edited a number of volumes on the history of archives: 'The Social History of the Archive: Record Keeping in Early Modern Europe', Past & Present Supplement, 11, (2016) and Archives and Information in the Early Modern World (OUP, 2018).