Rosalind Johnson 

Associate Lecturer 

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences 

Email:

rosalind.johnson@winchester.ac.uk 

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Biography

Rosalind Johnson gained her first degree in History at the University of York, and followed that with a year studying at the University of Regensburg in Bavaria. She was awarded an MA in Librarianship from the University of Sheffield, with a dissertation completed at the University of Linköping in Sweden. She is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP). Following a career with the British Library and later as a freelance information researcher specialising in European Union information, she returned to study, completing an MA in Regional and Local History and Archaeology at the University of Winchester in 2008. Her dissertation was on the persecutions experienced by Hampshire Quakers to 1689. She is currently working towards a PhD at the University of Winchester on Protestant dissent in Hampshire and Wiltshire, 1640 to 1740.

Research Interests

Protestant dissent in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a focus on Hampshire and Wiltshire.Early modernreligious practices. Witchcraft and folkbeliefsinthe seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Funding Awards and Professional Membership

• Institute of Historical Research Ruddock bursary awarded for academic year 2009-2010.
• Friends Historical Society annual bursary 2010.
• Quaker Higher Education Adult Grants Committee bursaries awarded 2006 and 2007.

Chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP). Member of the Ecclesiastical History Society, Folklore Society, Quaker Studies Research Association and the Friends Historical Society.