Jordan Landes

(Dr Matthew Davies & Dr Vanessa Harding) M.Phil./Ph.D.
London’s Role in the Creation of a Quaker Transatlantic Community in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries.

Jordan majored in History as an undergraduate at Haverford College, outside Philadelphia. She then earned her Master of Arts in History from the University of Maryland, College Park, writing a Masters thesis entitled "Great Openings in Maryland: Quakers and Politics, 1656-1692" which drew on probate, chancery and Maryland Assembly records, as well as Quaker Meeting records. In addition, she earned a Masters in Library Science. After 10 years as a librarian at the University of Maryland, she moved to London, where she works part-time as a librarian at Laban, London's conservatoire of Contemporary Dance.

After studying Quakers in early America, Jordan became interested in the influences of Quakers on opposite sides of the Atlantic upon each other. Among the themes to be studied is the involvement of Quakers in London's maritime trades, which will inform the broader study of the transatlantic nature of Quakerism. The study will rely on manuscript and printed sources, including Quaker Meeting records, extensive early Quaker publications and journals, sources relating to London as a whole, such as taxation and property records, as well as port books. These sources are distributed across the National Archives, the Joint Archive Service of the Corporation of London, and the library of the National Maritime Museum.