Michael Questier's research interests include the politics of religion in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and Tudor and Stuart government and administration. He has been a Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London since 2007. His publications include The Trials of Margaret Clitherow: Persecution, Martyrdom and the Politics of Sanctity in Elizabethan England (2011) and Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England: Politics, Aristocratic Patronage and Religion, c.1550 1640 (Cambridge, 2006).