Blair Worden

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Blair Worden
Born
Alastair Blair Worden

(1945-01-12) 12 January 1945 (age 80)
Occupation(s)Historian and academic
Academic background
Alma mater Pembroke College, Oxford
Harvard University
Thesis Politics and policy of the Rump Parliament, 1648-1653 (1971)
Doctoral advisor Anne Whiteman
Institutions Pembroke College, Cambridge
St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Royal Holloway, University of London

Alastair Blair Worden, FBA FRHistS (born 12 January 1945), usually cited as Blair Worden, [1] is a historian, among the leading authorities on the period of the English Civil War and on relations between literature and history more generally in the early modern period.

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Education and career

He matriculated as an undergraduate at Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1963. After spending a year as a visiting student at Harvard he began graduate research at Oxford in 1967. [2] During and after his doctoral studies he held a research fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge. [3] After a period as a Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, teaching History, he took up a position as a Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London. [4] In 1997 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, [5] and in 1999 he delivered the British Academy's Raleigh Lecture on History. [6] As of 2011 he is an Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall. [7] He is well known for his revolutionary article "Oliver Cromwell and the Sin of Achan", which changed established historical perceptions about what exactly caused Oliver Cromwell to reject the offer of the Crown.[ citation needed ]

Books

Selected articles and chapters

References

  1. "Worden, Prof. (Alastair) Blair", Who's Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  2. Paul Laity (31 January 2009). "A life in writing: Blair Worden". The Guardian .
  3. Blair Worden (1974). The Rump Parliament, 1648-1653. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. ix.
  4. Royal Holloway webpage.
  5. "Professor Blair Worden FBA". British Academy.
  6. "Raleigh Lectures on History". The British Academy. text
  7. St Edmund Hall, Oxford, webpage.