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English historian and author
Jonathan McGovern
Born (1993-06-10 ) June 10, 1993 (age 31) Derby, England
Education University of Oxford University of York Notable work The Little History of England (2024) Children 1
Jonathan McGovern
FRHistS (born
1993 ) is an English historian and author. He specializes in the study of
Tudor England . He is one of the founders of the
New Administrative History .
[1]
[2]
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]
He has defended traditionalist historical methods, arguing for the importance of
empiricism in history "as a practical benchmark, not a philosophical position".
[8]
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
Thomas Becket .
[9] The phrase actually originated with
Robert Dodsley .
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 is a Fellow of the
Royal Historical Society
[13] and a member of the
Selden Society , a learned society dedicated to the study of English
legal history .
[14]
The Little History of England . The History Press (2024).
The Tudor Sheriff: A Study in Early Modern Administration . Oxford University Press (2022).
"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.
^ Wright, Kirsty (2023).
"Revisiting the War in the Receipt, 1572–1609" . Parliamentary History . 42 (1): 13.
doi :
10.1111/1750-0206.12668 .
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"Dr. Jonathan McGovern: The Tudor Sheriff and the New Administrative History" . Law & History Review .
^ Dobson, Nick (Spring 2010).
"Public Speaking and Debating" (PDF) . Newslink .
^ McGovern, Jonathan (2022). The Tudor Sheriff: A Study in Early Modern Administration . Oxford University Press. p. vii.
^
"Author Bio (Jonathan McGovern), The History Press" .
^ 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 .
^
" "Jonathan McGovern", Google Scholar" .
^ 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.
^ Blackburn, Jack (March 24, 2023).
"Protestants added the 'à' to smear Thomas Becket" . The Times .
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"Jon McGovern wins prestigious Sir John Neale Prize" .
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"Editorial" . Northern History . 56 (1–2): 1. 2019.
doi :
10.1080/0078172X.2019.1662684 .
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"John McGovern wins Parliamentary History Essay Prize" .
^
"List of current Fellows" (PDF) . May 2024.
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"Selden Society: Report of the Council for the Year 2022" (PDF) .