Dr Katrina Navickas is currently lecturer in British history at the University of Edinburgh, having previously taught at the universities of Oxford and Bath Spa. She read modern history at St. John's College, Oxford, and completed a DPhil there in 2005. Her previous publications include a chapter on volunteer corps in Resisting Napoleon, ed. Mark Philp (2006), and 'The Search for General Ludd,' Social History, 30 (2005). She is now researching a cultural geography of popular protest in northern England, 1760-1848.