Degrees: 
B.A. (Hons.) (Rhodes University, S.Africa); M.A. (Cambridge); Ph.D. (Cambridge)

Awards and prizes: 
T.S.Ashton Prize of Economic History Society (1976);
Whitfield Prize of the Royal Historical Society for The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People, 1770-1868 (1995);
Wolfson Literary Prize for History for City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London (2006)
English PEN’s Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History for City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London

Research interests: 
British cultural and social history