Staff profile

Dr Arnold Hunt is IMEMS Lecturer in Early Modern Palaeography at Durham University. He specialises in the social, cultural and religious history of early modern Britain. From 2005 to 2015 he was a Curator of Manuscripts at the British Library, and from 2015 to 2019 a Lecturer in Early Modern History at Cambridge University. He has published widely in the history of early modern books and manuscripts. 

His first book, The Art of Hearing: English Preachers and their Audiences 1590-1640, was published in 2010, and his second book, Protestant Bodies: Gesture in the English Reformation, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2024. He is currently working on a history of book collecting, Bibliomania: A History, to be published by Princeton University Press.