Anna Whitelock | |
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Born | Liverpool |
Spouse | Sue Perkins |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Corpus Christi College, Cambridge |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Historian |
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Institutions | Royal Holloway, University of London City, University of London |
Anna Whitelock, FRHistS , is a British historian and academic, specialising in the history of monarchy. She is Professor of the History of Monarchy at City, University of London and Director of the Centre for the Study of Modern Monarchy. [1]
Whitelock undertook a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree in historical studies at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, graduating in 2004: her master's thesis was titled "Henry VIII's ecclesiastical patronage". [2] She remained to undertake a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 2004 under the supervision of Dr David Starkey. Her PhD was awarded in 2004 for a doctoral thesis titled "In opposition and in government: the households and affinities of Mary Tudor 1516-1558". [3]
She is Professor in the History of Monarchy at City, University of London, having previously taught at Royal Holloway, University of London. [4]
Whitelock is an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS). She won the PEN Weld Award for Biography.
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Anne of Cleves was Queen of England from 6 January to 12 July 1540 as the fourth wife of Henry VIII. Little is known about Anne before 1527, when she became betrothed to Francis, Duke of Bar, son and heir of Antoine, Duke of Lorraine, although their marriage did not proceed.
Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, was the daughter of the Scottish queen dowager Margaret Tudor and her second husband Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, and thus the granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and the half-sister of King James V. She was the grandmother of King James VI and I.
John Alexander Guy is a British historian and biographer specialising in the early modern period.
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Susan Michelle Doran FRHistS is a British historian whose primary studies surround the reign of Elizabeth I, in particular the theme of marriage and succession. She has published and edited sixteen books, notably Elizabeth I and Religion, 1558-1603, Monarchy and Matrimony and Queen Elizabeth I, the last part of the British Library's Historic Lives series.
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John Vaughan was an English politician.
Felicity Margaret Heal, is a British historian and academic, specialising in early modern Britain. From 1980 to 2011, she was a lecturer at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. She had previously taught or researched at Newnham College, Cambridge, the Open University, and the University of Sussex.
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Laurence Totelin (FRHistS) is a historian of Greek and Roman science, technology, and medicine. She is professor of ancient history at Cardiff University.
Thomas Hungate of Saxton, North Yorkshire, was an English politician. He was a Member of the Parliament of England (MP) for the seat of Maldon in 1554, Lancaster in 1555 and Newport Iuxta Launceston in 1558.