Jonathan McGovern | |
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Born | Derby, England | June 10, 1993
Education | University of Oxford University of York |
Notable work | The Little History of England (2024) |
Children | 1 |
Jonathan McGovern FRHistS (born 1993) is an English historian and author. He specializes in the study of Tudor England. He is one of the founders of the New Administrative History. [1] [2]
McGovern was born in Derby and studied at Landau Forte College, then a City Technology College. [3] He read History and English at St Peter's College, University of Oxford, where he won the Smith Prize. [4] He holds a PhD in English from the University of York and has taught at Nanjing University, China. [5] [6] He is currently Professor of English at the College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Xiamen University. [7]
He has defended traditionalist historical methods, arguing for the importance of empiricism in history "as a practical benchmark, not a philosophical position". [8]
In 2021, he published his discovery of the eighteenth-century origin of the phrase "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest", which was formerly misattributed to King Henry II of England. [9] The phrase actually originated with Robert Dodsley.
He is winner of the Sir John Neale Prize (2018), [10] the Gordon Forster Essay Prize (2018) [11] and the Parliamentary History Essay Prize (2019). [12] He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2022 [13] and is a member of the Selden Society, a learned society dedicated to the study of English legal history. [14]
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