Kate Gibson is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in History at the University of Manchester. She is a social historian of family, gender, and sexuality in eighteenth-century Britain, with a particular interest in the relationship between family and social inequality. She studied history at the Universities of Oxford, York, and Sheffield, where she completed a PhD in 2018 funded by the Wolfson foundation. She has held fellowships at the University of
Manchester, the University of Edinburgh, the Royal Archives, and the Huntington Library, California.