Leo Shipp is a cultural historian who teaches in the University of Galway’s History department on British history 1485–1815. His AHRC-funded doctoral research, carried out at the University of Exeter, led to his recent monograph The Poets Laureate of the Long Eighteenth Century, 1668–1813: Courting the Public, published in the Royal Historical Society’s New Historical Perspectives series (2022). His work has also appeared in the English Historical Review. For Theatronomics, he focuses on the theatres’ expenses and their place in the wider London economy. He is particularly interested in tradespeople, and his work on them falls at the interstices of cultural, social, and urban history.
