Peter Marshall (historian)


Peter Marshall is a Scottish historian and academic, known for his work on the Reformation and its impact on the British Isles and Europe. He is Professor of History at the University of Warwick.

Biography

Marshall was born on 26 October 1964 in Orkney, Scotland. He was educated at Kirkwall Grammar School, before studying at University College, Oxford. His doctoral thesis was titled Attitudes of the English People to Priests and Priesthood, 1500–1553.
Marshall began his career as a teacher: he was a history teacher at Ampleforth College, a Roman Catholic independent school in North Yorkshire. In 1994, he joined the University of Warwick as a lecturer. He was promoted to senior lecturer in 2001, and to reader in 2004. He was appointed Professor of History in 2006.

Honours

Marshall was the winner of the 2018 Wolfson History Prize for his book Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation. In July 2018, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. He is also an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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