Dr Fred Smith

frederick.smith@lincoln.ox.ac.uk After completing an MPhil in Early Modern History at Cambridge, I went on to study for a PhD under the supervision of Professor Alexandra Walsham before being elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at Clare College, Cambridge, in 2019. I began my fellowship at Balliol in October 2021. My first book, Transnational Catholicism in Tudor England (Oxford, 2022), explored the importance of exile, displacement and mobility in shaping the development of mid sixteenth-century English Catholicism. Focusing upon English Catholic exiles from the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI, it explored the ways in which these emigres' experiences of displacement and dislocation, as well as their contact with Catholics from throughout Europe, influenced the development of their religious and political beliefs and identities. Through investigating the influential roles many of these exiles went on to fulfil after their return home during the reign of Mary I, as well as their longer-term legacies at home and abroad, this book sought to reconnect the history of mid-Tudor English Catholicism to the religious history of the continent and the rest of the British Isles.