Biography
Jack Newman is Honorary Fellow; Associate Fellow at University of Kent. He is currently leading The Making of Maidstone project, a Victoria County History initiative that is producing a scholarly volume on the history of Maidstone from 1549-1660 while building a sustainable community of interest around the town’s past through collaborative research. Previously, Jack was a Leverhulme Funded Post-doctoral Researcher at the Centre for Digital Humanities and Literary Criticism, University of Antwerp, where he developed a Handwriting Text Recognition model for fourteenth-century English legal records. Their interests include migration, diaspora, and mobility, colonialism, empire, and decolonization, trade, economy, and global networks, legal and inquisitorial history. Within PUC, their profile connects to ai.
Thematic Interests
- Migration, Diaspora, and MobilityHistorical movements of peoples, exile, forced migration, and diasporic identities., Colonialism, Empire, and Decolonization – Exploration of colonial systems, resistance movements, and post-colonial legacies., Trade, Economy, and Global Networks – Economic systems, merchant communities, and cross-cultural trade routes.
- Legal and Inquisitorial HistoryLegal traditions, inquisitorial practices, and the administration of justice in different societies.