Rate My Professor Siobhan Talbott

An economic and social historian specializing in business history, Talbott's research examines how commercial information was created, disseminated, and received in the early modern Atlantic world, addressing information exchange, knowledge consumption, and business education acquisition. She has a particular interest in publishing critical editions of manuscript material. Her first monograph, Conflict, Commerce and Franco-Scottish Relations, 1560-1713, published in 2014, won the 2016 Senior Hume Brown Prize for the best first book in Scottish history and was highly commended in the Frank Watson prize competition. Earlier work on the Franco-Scottish Auld Alliance and British trade with France earned the IHR’s Pollard Prize, the Economic and Social History Society of Scotland's essay prize, the Northern Studies essay prize, and the Scottish History Society's Rosebery Prize. Talbott held an AHRC Leadership Fellowship from 2018 to 2022 and a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship from 2022 to 2023, supporting her project on information and education in early modern business. Her forthcoming monograph, Knowledge, Information, and Business Education in the British Atlantic World, 1620-1760, is under contract with Oxford University Press. She co-edited Business News in the Early Modern Atlantic World with Sophie Jones (Brill, 2024), edited The Letter-book of Thomas Baret, 1672-1677 (Norfolk Record Society, 2021), and has two further editions under contract. Talbott is co-editor of the Royal Historical Society's Camden Series, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a member of the AHRC Peer Review College, and Pathway Lead for Economic and Social History for the ESRC NWSSDTP. She supervises PhD students and teaches on early modern Britain, Europe, and the Atlantic World.