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Jacob Field earned a degree in Modern History from the University of Oxford and entered a doctoral program at Newcastle University. In 2008, he moved to Cambridge, where he joined the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure and took part in a study of employment structures in Britain from the 14th to the 19th century. In 2012, he relocated to New Zealand, where he taught economic history at Massey University and the University of Waikato. He has written four popular history books, the latest of which is D-Day in Numbers.

In autumn 2017, Routledge published his revised dissertation under the title London, the Londoners, and the Great Fire of 1666: Disaster and Recovery. He currently works as a research fellow at Cambridge, conducting research on the economic history of London.