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Jonathan McGovern
Born
Derby, England
EducationUniversity of Oxford
University of York
Notable workThe Tudor Sheriff: A Study in Early Modern Administration (2022)

Jonathan McGovern FRHistS is an English historian and author. He specializes in the study of Tudor England and has been a proponent of the New Administrative History.[1][2]

Education and career

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McGovern was born in Derby and studied at Landau Forte College, then a City Technology College.[3] He read history and english at St Peter's College, University of Oxford, where he won the Smith Prize.[4] He holds a PhD in english from the University of York and has taught at Nanjing University, China.[5][6] He is currently Professor of English at the College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Xiamen University.[7]

Academic research

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Historical perspective

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He has defended traditionalist historical methods, arguing for the importance of empiricism in history "as a practical benchmark, not a philosophical position".[8]

Thomas Becket

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In 2021, he published his discovery of the eighteenth-century origin of the phrase "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest", which was formerly misattributed to King Henry II of England.[9] The phrase actually originated with Robert Dodsley.

Awards and honours

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He is winner of the Sir John Neale Prize (2018),[10] the Gordon Forster Essay Prize (2018)[11] and the Parliamentary History Essay Prize (2019).[12] He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2022[13] and is a member of the Selden Society, a learned society dedicated to the study of English legal history.[14]

Publications

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Books

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  • The Tudor Sheriff: A Study in Early Modern Administration. Oxford University Press (2022).[6][15][16][17][18]
  • The Little History of England. The History Press (2024).
  • The Early Parliaments of Henry VIII, 1510–1523. Boydell Press (2025).

Selected articles

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  • "Was Elizabethan England Really a Monarchical Republic?", Historical Research, vol. 92, no. 257 (2019), 515–28. doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12275.
  • "The Development of the Privy Council Oath in Tudor England", Historical Research, vol. 93, no. 260 (2020), 273–85. doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htaa003.
  • "Royal Counsel in Tudor England, 1485–1603", The Historical Journal, vol. 65, no. 5 (2022), 1442–69. doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X21000820.
  • "The Practical Historical Approach: A Review of the Principles and Methods of Fact-First History", World History Studies, vol. 9, no. 2 (2022), 1‒14.

References

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  1. ^ Wright, Kirsty (2023). "Revisiting the War in the Receipt, 1572–1609". Parliamentary History. 42 (1): 13. doi:10.1111/1750-0206.12668.
  2. ^ "Dr. Jonathan McGovern: The Tudor Sheriff and the New Administrative History". Law & History Review.
  3. ^ Dobson, Nick (Spring 2010). "Public Speaking and Debating" (PDF). Newslink.
  4. ^ McGovern, Jonathan (2022). The Tudor Sheriff: A Study in Early Modern Administration. Oxford University Press. p. vii.
  5. ^ "Author Bio (Jonathan McGovern), The History Press".
  6. ^ a b Kesselring, K. J. (2023). "Review of The Tudor Sheriff: A Study in Early Modern Administration, by Jonathan McGovern". English Historical Review. 138 (592): 649. doi:10.1093/ehr/cead038.
  7. ^ ""Jonathan McGovern", Google Scholar".
  8. ^ McGovern, Jonathan (2022). "The Practical Historical Approach: A Review of the Principles and Methods of Fact-First History". World History Studies. 9 (2): 1–14.
  9. ^ Blackburn, Jack (March 24, 2023). "Protestants added the 'à' to smear Thomas Becket". The Times.
  10. ^ "Jon McGovern wins prestigious Sir John Neale Prize".
  11. ^ "Editorial". Northern History. 56 (1–2): 1. 2019. doi:10.1080/0078172X.2019.1662684.
  12. ^ "John McGovern wins Parliamentary History Essay Prize".
  13. ^ "List of current Fellows" (PDF). May 2024.
  14. ^ "Selden Society: Report of the Council for the Year 2022" (PDF).
  15. ^ Flannigan, Laura (July 3, 2022). "JONATHAN MCGOVERN, The Tudor Sheriff: A Study in Early Modern Administration: (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. £75.00. 320 pages. ISBN: 9780192848246)". Northern History. 59 (2): 311–313. doi:10.1080/0078172X.2022.2103064.
  16. ^ Cavill, Paul (July 2023). "Jonathan McGovern. The Tudor Sheriff: A Study in Early Modern Administration. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 315. $100.00 (cloth)". Journal of British Studies. 62 (3): 791–792. doi:10.1017/jbr.2023.101.
  17. ^ Lambe, Simon (May 4, 2023). "The Tudor Sheriff: A Study in Early Modern Administration: McGovern, Jonathan, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 297 pp., $100.00, ISBN 978-0-19-284824-6". History: Reviews of New Books. 51 (3): 51–52. doi:10.1080/03612759.2023.2214008.
  18. ^ Gibbs, Spike (December 2024). "Jonathan McGovern, The Tudor sheriff: A study in early modern administration (Oxford University Press, 2022). 320 pp. £75". Agricultural History Review. 72 (2): 307–308.
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