Amanda Bevan
- Roles
- Author
- Researcher
Head of Legal Records
About
Amanda Bevan is Head of the Legal Records Team and is a specialist in the records of the courts of Chancery and the Star Chamber in the early modern period.
Research activity
Since 2013, Amanda has been working on a project to catalogue the Prize Papers – papers seized from ships captured in wartime between 1650 and 1815, and submitted to the High Court of Admiralty as exhibits to prove their enemy status.
Publications
- A. Bevan and D. Foster, ‘Shakespeare’s original will: A re-reading, and a reflection on inter-disciplinarity within archives article, Archives, 2016
- Tracing Your Ancestors in The National Archives: the website and beyond (7th edition, 2006)
- ‘The Henrician Assizes and the enforcement of the Reformation’, in The Political Context of Law, ed. Richard Eales and David Sullivan (London, 1987), pp. 61-76.
Articles
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Blog post
Researching Love Letters
Discover how expressions of love have been uncovered in unexpected places by The National Archive.