Susan Brigden

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Susan Brigden
FRHistS FBA
Born
Susan Elizabeth Brigden

(1951-06-26) 26 June 1951 (age 73)
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Historian and academic
SpouseJeremy Wormell
Awards Wolfson History Prize
Academic background
Alma mater University of Manchester (BA)
Clare College, Cambridge (PhD)
Thesis The early Reformation in London, 1520-1547: the conflict in the parishes (1979)
Doctoral advisor Geoffrey Elton
Institutions
Notable worksThomas Wyatt: The Heart's Forest

Susan Elizabeth Brigden FRHistS FBA (born 26 June 1951) [1] is a historian and academic specialising in the English Renaissance and Reformation. She was Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Lincoln College, before retiring at the end of 2016. [2]

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Academic career

Brigden was educated at the University of Manchester (BA) and Clare College, Cambridge, where she graduated with a PhD in 1979. Her doctoral supervisor was the eminent Tudor historian Geoffrey Elton, and her thesis was titled 'The early Reformation in London, 1520-1547: the conflict in the parishes'. [3]

She stated that her interest in Tudor history was "rather accidental". She missed out on her first choice special subject at the University of Manchester and was instead allocated to a paper on the Reformation taught by Christopher Haigh. Her interest in the period grew from there and she wrote her undergraduate thesis on the Pilgrimage of Grace. [4]

In 1980, Brigden was elected a Fellow in history at Lincoln College, Oxford. This made her the first female fellow of that college. Prior to arriving at Lincoln she taught at Newcastle University and Durham University. [2] In 1984, she became a university lecturer in the Faculty of History, University of Oxford. [5] She later became Reader in Early Modern History. [6] At Lincoln College, in addition to her duties as Fellow and tutor, she was the College's Tutor for Women. [7]

Among Brigden's former doctoral students are Alexandra Gajda of Jesus College, Oxford [8] and Lucy Wooding, who succeeded Brigden as Lincoln College's early modern history tutor in 2016. [9]

Broadcasting

In May 2024 Brigden appeared on the BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time discussing the life of Thomas Wyatt alongside Laura Ashe and Brian Cummings. [10]

Honours

Brigden won the Wolfson History Prize in 2013 for her book Thomas Wyatt: The Heart's Forest. [11] In 2014 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. [12] She is also an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS). [13]

Personal life

Brigden is married to Jeremy Wormell. [14]

Publications

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References

  1. ↑ "Brigden, Prof. Susan Elizabeth", Who's Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 5 July 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Women at Lincoln: Dr Susan Brigden". Lincoln College MCR. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
  3. ↑ Brigden, Susan (1989). London and the Reformation. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. vii. ISBN   0198227744.
  4. ↑ Gauci, Perry (2016). "The End of an Era". Lincoln College Imprint: 2. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
  5. ↑ "Dr Susan Brigden FBA". Fellows & Staff. Lincoln College, Oxford. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
  6. ↑ "Teaching and Research Staff (A-Z)". Faculty of History. University of Oxford. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
  7. ↑ "Welfare around Lincoln". Lincoln MCR. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
  8. ↑ Gajda, Alexandra (2012). The Earl of Essex and Late Elizabethan Political Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. viii. ISBN   9780199699681.
  9. ↑ Wooding, Lucy (2000). Rethinking Catholicism in Reformation England. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. vii. ISBN   9780198208655.
  10. ↑ "In Our Time, Sir Thomas Wyatt". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  11. ↑ "Wolfson History Prize for Susan Brigden". Faculty of History. University of Oxford. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
  12. ↑ "British Academy announces 42 new fellows". Times Higher Education. 18 July 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  13. ↑ "Fellows of the Royal Historical Society - B" (PDF). Royal Historical Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 October 2014. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
  14. ↑ Brigden, Susan (2012). Thomas Wyatt: The Heart's Forest. London: Faber and Faber. p. 696. ISBN   9780571235841.
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