I’m Sharon Howard, and since summer 2006 I’ve been working at the University of Sheffield as Project Manager for various digital history projects, including the Proceedings of the Old Bailey/Central Criminal Court, London Lives and the Making of Modern London 1690-1800 and Connected Histories: Sources for Building British History, 1500-1900, a federated search facility for a wide range of distributed electronic resources relating to early modern and nineteenth-century British History. I’m now managing Manuscripts Online, which is applying the Connected Histories methodology to a collection of medieval sources.

My main research interests, apart from focusing on the early modern period (c.1500-1800), are crime and legal history; women and gender; Welsh and British history. I’m also interested in the relations and tensions between academic and ‘popular’ history.

My full (and usually somewhere near up-to-date) academic CV is here.

I maintain the website Early Modern Resources as a gateway for free online resources for anyone with an interest in the early modern period.

I blog occasionally at Early Modern Notes and on Tumblr at Gaudy Night.

I co-ordinate two Blog Carnivals: the History Carnival and Carnivalesque (for pre-modern history).

I can be found on Twitter and I have a page on Academia.edu, but don’t bother to look for me on Facebook. Everyone has to draw a line somewhere.