Publications include The Pursuit of Stability: Social Relations in Elizabethan London (1991); The History of the Haberdashers’ Company (1991); ‘Politics and Government, 1540-1700’, in P. Clark (ed.), The Cambridge Urban History of Great Britain, 1540-1840 (2000); ‘The burden of taxation on sixteenth-century London’, in Historical Journal 44 (2001); The Haberdashers’ Company in the Later Twentieth Century (2004); ‘Discourses of history in early modern London’, in Huntington Library Quarterly 68 (2005); ‘“Civic Culture” in later medieval and early modern London’, in Journal of Urban History 34 (2008); ‘Conspicuous consumption revisited : City and court in the reign of Elizabeth I’, in M.P. Davies et al. (eds), London and the Kingdom: Essays in Honour of Caroline M. Barron (2008); ‘The City of London and the theatre’, in R. Dutton (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theatre (2009).  Present research interests include early modern London; Holinshed’s Chronicles; and government, politics and religion in early modern England.