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==Description== | ==Description== | ||
| − | Senior Lecturer in history at Royal Holloway College, University of London. Scholar of early modern history and author of a number of books, including 'Tudor and Stuart Britain 1471-1714' and 'Habsburg and Bourbon Europe 1470-1720', which are standard texts on many school and university courses. He was also responsible for the first full biography, in 1981, of | + | Senior Lecturer in history at Royal Holloway College, University of London. Scholar of early modern history and author of a number of books, including 'Tudor and Stuart Britain 1471-1714' and 'Habsburg and Bourbon Europe 1470-1720', which are standard texts on many school and university courses. He was also responsible for the first full biography, in 1981, of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, in which he presented evidence of the extent of Villiers’ homosexual relationship with [[King James I]]. The first to enter into a civil partnership, with his partner [[Percy Steven]], when legalized in the UK (2005). Appeared in the film 'Against The Law'. |
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| + | * [[Prominent Biographers Who are LGBTQ]] | ||
| + | * [[LGBTQ Historians]] | ||
==Further Reading/Research== | ==Further Reading/Research== | ||
Latest revision as of 00:43, 4 May 2021
Country
Great Britain
Birth - Death
1927 - 2017
Occupation
Academic
Description
Senior Lecturer in history at Royal Holloway College, University of London. Scholar of early modern history and author of a number of books, including 'Tudor and Stuart Britain 1471-1714' and 'Habsburg and Bourbon Europe 1470-1720', which are standard texts on many school and university courses. He was also responsible for the first full biography, in 1981, of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, in which he presented evidence of the extent of Villiers’ homosexual relationship with King James I. The first to enter into a civil partnership, with his partner Percy Steven, when legalized in the UK (2005). Appeared in the film 'Against The Law'.
