Susan Brigden
- Early modern Britain
- History of religions
- Social history
- English Reformation
- Newcastle University
- Durham University
- Lincoln College, Oxford
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]
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]
Honours
Brigden won the Wolfson History Prize in 2013 for her book Thomas Wyatt: The Heart's Forest.[10] In 2014 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[11] She is also an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).[12]
Publications
- London and the Reformation (1989)
- New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors 1485-1603 (2000)
- Thomas Wyatt: the Heart's Forest (2012)
References
- ^ "Brigden, Prof. Susan Elizabeth", Who's Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 5 July 2018.
- ^ a b "Women at Lincoln: Dr Susan Brigden". Lincoln College MCR. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
- ^ Brigden, Susan (1989). London and the Reformation. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. vii. ISBN 0198227744.
- ^ Gauci, Perry (2016). "The End of an Era". Lincoln College Imprint: 2. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
- ^ "Dr Susan Brigden FBA". Fellows & Staff. Lincoln College, Oxford. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
- ^ "Teaching and Research Staff (A-Z)". Faculty of History. University of Oxford. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
- ^ "Welfare around Lincoln". Lincoln MCR. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
- ^ Gajda, Alexandra (2012). The Earl of Essex and Late Elizabethan Political Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. viii. ISBN 9780199699681.
- ^ Wooding, Lucy (2000). Rethinking Catholicism in Reformation England. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. vii. ISBN 9780198208655.
- ^ "Wolfson History Prize for Susan Brigden". Faculty of History. University of Oxford. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
- ^ "British Academy announces 42 new fellows". Times Higher Education. 18 July 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
- ^ "Fellows of the Royal Historical Society - B" (PDF). Royal Historical Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 October 2014. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
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