Leanne Calvert is a historian specialising in the Irish family.Her research focuses on family, gender and sexuality in Ireland and North America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She has published extensively on Irish family life, with a particular emphasis on Presbyterian sources. Leanne has held positions at Queen’s University, Belfast, Ulster University and the University of Hertfordshire. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Irish History at the University of Limerick, where she also directs the MA History of Family programme.