Anna WhitelockFRHistS | |
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Born | Liverpool |
Spouse | Sue Perkins |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Corpus Christi College, Cambridge |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Historian |
Sub-discipline | |
Institutions | Royal Holloway, University of London City, University of London |
Anna Whitelock, FRHistS, is a British historian and academic, specialising in the history of monarchy. She is Professor of the History of Monarchy at City, University of London and Director of the Centre for the Study of Modern Monarchy.
Academic career
Whitelock undertook a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree in historical studies at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, graduating in 2004: her master's thesis was titled "Henry VIII's ecclesiastical patronage". She remained to undertake a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 2004 under the supervision of Dr David Starkey. Her PhD was awarded in 2004 for a doctoral thesis titled "In opposition and in government: the households and affinities of Mary Tudor 1516-1558".
She is Professor in the History of Monarchy at City, University of London, having previously taught at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Whitelock is an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS). She won the PEN Weld Award for Biography.
Selected works
- Whitelock, Anna (2010). Mary Tudor: England's first queen. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1408800782. OCLC 759872962
- Hunt, Alice; Whitelock, Anna, eds. (2010). Tudor Queenship: The Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0230618237.
- Whitelock, Anna (2014). Elizabeth's bedfellows: an intimate history of the queen's court. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1408833643. OCLC 1004469938
References
- "Professor Anna Whitelock | City, University of London". 13 October 2021.
- Whitelock, Anna (2000). Henry VIII's ecclesiastical patronage (MPhil thesis). University of Cambridge. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
- Whitelock, Anna May (2004). In opposition and in government: the households and affinities of Mary Tudor 1516-1558 (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
- "Anna Whitelock". Retrieved 3 September 2021.
- "Mary Tudor: England's First Queen, By Anna Whitelock". The Independent. 7 March 2010. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
- "Review: Elizabeth's Bedfellows, By Anna Whitelock". The Independent. 1 June 2013. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
- Gallagher, John (29 May 2013). "Elizabeth's Bedfellows by Anna Whitelock, review". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
- Harrison, Kathryn (7 February 2014). "'The Queen's Bed,' by Anna Whitelock". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
External links
- http://www.annawhitelock.co.uk/
- http://onthetudortrail.com/Blog/book-talk/author-interviews/q-a-with-anna-whitelock/