Peter Marshall (born 26 October 1964) is a Scottish historian and academic, known for his work on the

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and its impact on the British Isles and Europe. He is Professor of History at the

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Biography

Marshall was born on 26 October 1964 in

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, Scotland. He was educated at Kirkwall Grammar School, before studying at

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. His

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was titled ''Attitudes of the English People to Priests and Priesthood, 1500–1553''. His doctoral supervisor was

Susan Brigden Susan Elizabeth Brigden (born 26 June 1951) 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 ...

. Marshall began his career as a teacher: he was a history teacher at Ampleforth College, a Roman Catholic

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in North Yorkshire. In 1994, he joined the

as a

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. He was promoted to senior lecturer in 2001, and to reader in 2004. He was appointed Professor of History in 2006. Between 2023 and 2024 Marshall served as President of the Ecclesiastical History Society.

Honours

Marshall was the winner of the 2018

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for his book ''Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation''. In July 2018, he was elected a

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(FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. He is also an elected

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(FRHistS).

Published works

Books authored

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Books edited

* ''The Impact of the English Reformation, 1500–1640''. London: Arnold. 1997. . * ''The Place of the Dead: Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe''. With Gordon, Bruce. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. 2000. . * ''The Beginnings of English Protestantism''. With Ryrie, Alec. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. 2002. . * ''Angels in the Early Modern World''. With Walsham, Alexandra. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. 2006. . * ''Catholic Gentry in English Society: The Throckmortons of Coughton from Reformation to Emancipation''. With Scott, Geoffrey. Farnham, England: Ashgate. . * ''The Oxford Illustrated History of the Reformation''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2015. .

References

1964 births Living people People educated at Kirkwall Grammar School 20th-century Scottish historians 21st-century Scottish historians 20th-century Scottish male writers 21st-century Scottish male writers Academics of the University of Warwick Alumni of University College, Oxford Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Historians of England People from Orkney Reformation historians Scottish schoolteachers British social historians Presidents of the Ecclesiastical History Society Wolfson History Prize winners Scottish expatriates in England History journal editors {{Scotland-academic-bio-stub