Maurice Whitehead

Maurice Whitehead MBE FRHistS (born 1952) is a British historian and archivist. He is Director of Heritage Collections and Schwarzenbach Research Fellow at the Venerable English College in Rome. He was formerly Professor of History at Swansea University from 2004 to 2014.

Early life and education

Whitehead graduated from Durham University in 1975 with a degree in French. ^[1] He qualified as a teacher at the University of Cambridge, and taught at Wimbledon College from 1976 until 1987. ^[2] In 1984, he completed his doctorate in educational history at the University of Hull. ^[2]

Academic career

Whitehead was appointed to a lectureship in Education at the University of Hull in 1987, and promoted to senior lecturer in 1995. ^[2] In 2000, he became Professor of Education at Swansea University, later moving to the Department of History in 2004 following the closure of the Department of Education. ^[2]

In 2013, he published English Jesuit Education: Expulsion, Suppression, Survival and Restoration, 1762–1803, which received positive reviews. ^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

He was appointed MBE in the 2025 King's Birthday Honours for services to the development of British heritage in Rome, Italy. ^{[7] [1] [8]}

Selected bibliography

• Whitehead, Maurice (1980). Peter Newby: Eighteenth Century Lancashire Recusant Poet. Lancaster: University of Lancaster Centre for North-West Regional Studies.
• Whitehead, Maurice (1992). Education and Europe: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Hull: University of Hull.
• Whitehead, Maurice (1996). The Academies of the Reverend Bartholomew Booth in Georgian England and Revolutionary America: Enlightening the Curriculum. Lewiston NY: The Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN   0773488561.
• Whitehead, Maurice; Hartley, David, eds. (2006). Teacher Education: Major Themes in Education. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN   041532422X.
• Whitehead, Maurice, ed. (2008). Held in Trust: 2008 Years of Sacred Culture. Stonyhurst: St Omers Press. ISBN   0955359236.
• Whitehead, Maurice (2013). English Jesuit Education: Expulsion, Suppression, Survival and Restoration, 1762–1803. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN   1409448827.
• Whitehead, Maurice, ed. (2020). Memory, Martyrs, and Mission: Essays to Commemorate the 850th Anniversary of the Martyrdom of St Thomas Becket (c. 1118–1170). Rome: Gangemi Editore. ISBN   9788849240078.

References

1. "King's Birthday Honours 2025". Durham University. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
2. "Professor Maurice Whitehead". Swansea University. Archived from the original on 20 September 2012. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
3. McCulloch, Gary (2014). "Book Review: English Jesuit Education: Expulsion, Suppression, Survival and Restoration, 1762–1803, written by Maurice Whitehead". Journal of Jesuit Studies. 1 (4): 621–623. doi:10.1163/22141332-00104006.
4. Lowe, Roy (2014). "English Jesuit Education: Expulsion, Suppression, Survival and Restoration, 1762–1803". History of Education. 43 (5): 709–711. doi:10.1080/0046760X.2014.913700.
5. Walsh, Michael J. (2017). "English Jesuit Education: Expulsion, Suppression, Survival and Restoration, 1762–1803". Heythrop Journal. 58 (3): 534–535. doi:10.1111/heyj.12565.
6. McClelland, V. Alan (2014). "Maurice Whitehead, English Jesuit Education: Expulsion, Suppression, Survival and Restoration, 1762–1803, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2013, Pp. xviii + 266, £70.00, ISBN: 978-1-4094-4882-2". British Catholic History. 32 (2): 257–258. doi:10.1017/S0034193200032283.
7. "The King's Birthday Honours 2025". The Gazette. 13 June 2025. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
8. Sullivan, Kevin (15 June 2025). "Historian honoured for services to British heritage in Rome". Swansea University Press Office. Retrieved 29 June 2025.