Stephen Alford
Autore di The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I
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Stephen Alford is the author of the acclaimed biography Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He taught for fifteen years at the University of Cambridge, where he was a senior lecturer in the Faculty of History and a fellow of King's mostra altro College. He is now a professor of early modern British history at the University of Leeds. mostra meno
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I studied at the University of St Andrews, where I was taught by John Guy, before moving in 1997 to the University of Cambridge as a British Academy Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of History and a Junior Research Fellow of Fitzwilliam College. In 1999 I was elected Ehrman Senior Research Fellow in History at King’s College, Cambridge. I stayed at King’s as a Fellow when I joined the Cambridge Faculty of History as an Assistant Lecturer, a Lecturer and finally a Senior Lecturer. In 2000 I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. I left Cambridge to come to Leeds as Professor of Early Modern British History in September 2012.
Research interests
My principal interests lie in the history of politics, political thought and monarchy in sixteenth-century Britain. For a long time I have worked on the life and career of William Cecil, first Baron of Burghley (1520-98), the most powerful man in Elizabethan England. I am interested also in Tudor espionage, commerce, diplomacy and travel literature, Anglo-Russian relations in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and Tudor and Jacobean London.
Current research projects
My main research interest at the moment is the history of the City of London in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. I am also revisiting the life and reign of King Edward VI in a short study to be published by Penguin.
Publications
My doctoral dissertation at St Andrews was published in the series of Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History, The Early Elizabethan Polity: William Cecil and the British Succession Crisis, 1558-1569 (Cambridge University Press, 1998). Cambridge University Press also published my second book, Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI, in 2002. Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I (Yale University Press, 2008) was shortlisted for the Marsh Biography Award. My latest book, The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I, which was published in 2012 by Allen Lane/Penguin Press in the United Kingdom and Bloomsbury Press in the United States, was one of the Books of the Year in both the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times.
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However, I did enjoy what I was reading - mainly I wasn't in the mood for this type of book.
Scholarly, drawing from primary sources (letters, ledgers, etc) but without quoting them in minute detail.
I felt almost out of my depth, like I needed to have read another history of Elizabeth I's reign shortly before reading this book so that I could catch all of the allusions to political events.