Dr Alice Marples

I received my doctorate from King’s College London in 2016 for a thesis entitled ‘Collecting and Correspondence in the Papers of Hans Sloane (1660-1753),’ conducted in collaboration with The British Library as part of the AHRC-funded ‘Reconnecting Sloane’ project. From August 2016 to 2018, I was the Shreeve Fellow in the History of Medicine at the John Rylands Research Institute at the University of Manchester, where I have co-founded the Lives of Letters Network (https://livesofletters.wordpress.com/). I have held fellowships at the Edward Worth Library in Dublin, Windsor Castle, the Science Museum and, most recently, the Lisa Jardine History of Science Award at the Royal Society.

I am Research Associate on ‘Newton and the Royal Mint’, part of the Newton Papers Project. My research examines the financial and administrative aspects of Newton’s work and his relationship with the Treasury and other financial institutions, placing them into broader social, political and economic contexts.