Dr Jonah Miller

I joined Westminster in 2025 as a research fellow on the project 'Social and spatial encounters over time: Revisiting Katharine Buildings'.

I have a PhD in History from King's College London, and previously held teaching and research positions at KCL and Cambridge.

'Social and spatial encounters over time: Revisiting Katharine Buildings', Leverhulme (PIs Val Gillies and Ros Edwards) (2025-2028).

This project uses a unique set of archives to uncover experiences of living with diversity in an East End housing block from the 1880s to the 1960s.

More generally, I work on British social and political history, especially the history of poverty, migration, radical movements, and policing. I am writing a book about the history of police violence, which will be published by Penguin.

Publications

The Police Outrage (Penguin, under contract)

‘Privileged Slayers: Chartism, Police Violence, and the Democratic Deficit in Modern Britain’, English Historical Review (in press) 

‘Office-holding’ in Tim Reinke-Williams (ed.), Companion to the History of Masculinity in Early Modern Europe (Routledge, forthcoming) 

‘Origin Stories and the Possibilities of Policing in Britain’ in Nicole Asquith et al. (eds), Routledge International Handbook of Critical Policing Studies (Routledge, 2025) 

‘Authority and Violence’ in Philip Dwyer (ed.), A Cultural History of Violence in the Age of Enlightenment (Bloomsbury, 2025) 

‘Suffrage and the Secret Ballot in Eighteenth-Century London Parishes’, Historical Journal 67.1 (2024) 

Gender and Policing in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2023) [shortlisted for Royal Historical Society Whitfield Prize] 

‘Hobbes on Public Ministers’, Hobbes Studies 35.2 (2022) 

‘Patricians, plebeians, and parishioners: parish elections and social conflict in eighteenth-century Chelsea’, Social History 47.4 (2022) 

‘The Touch of the State: Stop and Search in England, c.1660-1750’, History Workshop Journal 87 (2019) [awarded British Society of Criminology Prize for Best Article on Policing published 2019-22]