Tara works on the social and cultural history of Britain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (the Tudor and Stuart periods). she is interested in how the profound changes to religion and society over the course of this period played out in domestic life and practices of belief, with particular focus on the role of visual and material culture (images, objects, built environment) in shaping people’s experience of everyday life.
Tara is Reader in Early Modern Studies at Birmingham niversity.
