Jack Scarisbrick

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John Joseph Scarisbrick is a British historian who taught at the University of Warwick. He is also noted as the co-founder with his wife Nuala Scarisbrick of Life, a British anti-abortion charity founded in 1970. [1]

Born in 1928 in London, Scarisbrick was educated at The John Fisher School and later Christ's College, Cambridge, after spending two years in the Royal Air Force. [1] He specialises in Tudor history and his most critically acclaimed work is Henry VIII, first published in 1968. [2] [3] His revisionism, particularly his book The Reformation and the English People [4] which argued that "English men and women did not want the Reformation and most of them were slow to accept it when it came", [5] formed part of a broader wave in Tudor historiography with other historians such as Eamon Duffy and helping to form the basis for the theory of the long reformation. [6]

Scarisbrick was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1969. [7] He was appointed MBE in 2015 for services to vulnerable people as founder of Zoe's Place, a hospice for children in Coventry. [8]

References

  1. 1 2 Gray, Freddy (21 September 2007). "I am a rather unsubtle sort of chap". Catholic Herald. p. 7. Archived from the original on 25 February 2014. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  2. ↑ Guy, John. "Signposts: The Tudors". History Today. Archived from the original on 4 October 2015. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  3. ↑ Loades, David (2011). Henry VIII. London: Amberley. pp. Preface. ISBN   9781445606651 – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ Scarisbrick, J. J. (1984). The Reformation and the English People. Oxford: Blackwell.
  5. ↑ Gwyn, Peter (20 December 1984). "Scarisbrick's Bomb". London Review of Books. Retrieved 27 September 2025.
  6. ↑ Taylor, Stephen (2025). "The long Reformation: conceptualisation and periodisation in English religious history between the 16th and 18th centuries" (PDF). East Asian Journal of British History. 9: 102.
  7. ↑ "Scarisbrick, J.J." Royal Society of Literature. 1 September 2023. Retrieved 27 June 2025.
  8. ↑ Waddington, Jenny (30 December 2014). "New Years Honours recognise people from Coventry and Warwickshire". Coventry Telegraph. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
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