Dr Ed LegonSenior Lecturer in Heritage Management and Business HistoryEmail: e.legon@qmul.ac.ukTelephone: +44 (0)20 7882 5617Room Number: 4.20, Francis Bancroft Building, Mile End CampusOffice Hours: Tuesday 11.00am - 1pmProfileTeachingResearchSupervisionProfileRoles: Programme Director for MA Heritage Management Member of the Department of Business and Society Biography: Ed is Programme Director of the Heritage Management MA, a teaching collaboration between Queen Mary and Historic Royal Palaces. Ed’s research and teaching interests straddle two broad areas. The first concerns the history of production, trade, and work, and specifically the political culture of textile workers in early modern England. He is currently researching and writing a book and articles on this subject. Ed’s second research area corresponds with his role as Programme Director of the MA Heritage Management. He is interested in ecclesiastical and industrial heritage in contemporary London, as well as the history of heritage discourse.TeachingUndergraduate: Organiser of BUS262 Business and History Coordinator, Undergraduate Dissertations, SBM Postgraduate: BUSM162: Heritage: History, Theory and Practice BUSM167: Leadership Seminar BUSM168: Dissertation in Heritage Management Ed is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.ResearchResearch Interests: Histories of production, work, and capitalism Histories of heritage and memory Heritage studies Political culture and power relations Early modern Britain and Europe Centre and Group Membership: Member of the Centre on Labour and Global Production (CLGP) Publications Legon, E., ‘The Wings of Daedalus: The Business and Politics of the Linen Trade in Late Seventeenth-Century England’, Business and History (published online, Nov. 2022) Legon, E., ‘The Lord Mayor’s Show and the Politics of London’s Clothworkers’ Company in the Mid-Seventeenth Century’, The London Journal, 47:3 (Nov. 2022), 241-259 Legon, E., ‘Heritage before Modernity: The Afterlife of a Dissolved Priory’, International Journal of Heritage Studies, 28:4 (2021), 427-443 Legon, E., 'Sadler Saddled: Reconciliation and Recrimination in a Restoration Parish' publication to include publication information: English Historical Review, 36:582 (Oct., 2021), 1164-1192 Legon, E., ‘“If ever the Devil is abroad, he is abroad now”: Loyalty, Disloyalty, and the Coronation of 1661’, in M. Ward (ed.), Loyalty and Disloyalty in Medieval and Early Modern England (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) Legon, E., Co-editor, ‘Ruling Sexualities: Sexuality, Gender, and the Crown’ special edition, Royal Studies Journal 6:2 (2019) Legon, E., Review article, ‘Radical Possibilities: Gary S. De Krey’s Following the Levellers’, Parliamentary History, 38:3 (2019), 431-435 Legon, E., Remembering Revolution: Seditious Memories after the British Civil Wars (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019) Legon, E., ‘Remembering the “good old cause”’, in E. Vallance (ed.), Remembering Early Modern Revolutions (London: Routledge, 2018) Legon, E., ‘Bound up with meaning: the politics and memory of ribbon wearing in Restoration England and Scotland’, Journal of British Studies, 56:1 (Jan., 2017), pp. 27-50 SupervisionEd is interested in supervising PhDs in early modern histories of capitalism, production and trade, heritage studies, and memory studies. Others include: Tom Chivers (co-supervisor), 'In the Flow of Things: Encounters with the Mudlarks of the Thames Foreshore' Olusanmi Amujo (second supervisor), 'The Development of Commercial and Diplomatic Relationships between the English Crown/State, the City of London and the Crown/States in British West Africa, 1470 to 1970' Waseem Ahmed (UCL, second supervisor), 'Everyday Politics in Revolutionary England, 1649-1660'