She was awarded her PhD. in Economic and Social History from the University of Leicester, where she was supervised by Prof. P. L. Cottrell. She was elected a Trustee of the Business History Conference in 2003, serving until 2007, and elected as Council member of the Association of Business Historians (UK) in 1997, serving to 2000. She is currently Secretary to the ABH (2013-). She has published her work on banks and, more recently, nineteenth century consumer durables, in a variety of business history journals.