OUR trustees

The Jewish Square Mile Foundation was registered with the Charity Commission in January 2025; its four trustees are Howard Morris (Chair), Gaby Morris, JM Petroschka and Susannah Cohen.

OUR ACADEMIC LEADS

Dr Rory MacLellan is a Cataloguer and Manuscript Researcher at the British Library. He holds a PhD in Medieval History from the University of St Andrews for a thesis on the Knights Hospitaller in late medieval Britain. From 2020 to 2022 he undertook a postdoctoral research project at Historic Royal Palaces on the Jewish history of the Tower of London, creating a catalogue of archival sources for the medieval Anglo-Jewry and the Tower and writing biographies of every medieval Jew known to have worked, been a prisoner, or sought sanctuary, at the Tower from the twelfth century down to 1290. As well as his work on the Hospitallers and the Crusades, he has published on the Tower's links with the Anglo-Jewry and ties between Jewish converts and the Knights Hospitaller.

Dr Dean A. Irwin is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Lincoln. He is currently working on several volumes relating to medieval Anglo-Jewry: an edited collection of the Medieval Lincoln Jewry (Arc Humanities Press), volume 3 of Hebrew and Hebrew-Latin Documents from Medieval England (with Judith Olszowy-Schlanger), and a monograph on Jews and Christians as Neighbours in Medieval England (Palgrave Macmillan). He convenes the Medieval Anglo-Jewish History and Records seminar at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, is a board member of the MedievalJewishStudiesNow! blog and Advisory Board member of the Jewish Historical Society of England.