Professor Blair Worden
Emeritus Fellow
Professor Blair Worden was a Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at St Edmund Hall from 1974-1995. He was made an Emeritus Fellow of the College in 2003. Blair Worden is an expert in the history of the English Civil War as well as on the wider early modern period.
He was born in 1945, took his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at Pembroke College Oxford (1963-71), and was Research Fellow at Pembroke College Cambridge (1969-72) and Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Selwyn College Cambridge (1972-4). He was Professor of History at the University of Sussex (1996-2003) and at Royal Holloway, London (2000-2005), and Visiting Professor of History at Oxford (2003-11). He was Fletcher Jones Foundation Professor at the Huntington Library (1995-6) and Visiting Professor of History at the University of Chicago (2005).
Blair Worden was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1997.
The Rump Parliament 1648-1653 (Cambridge U.P., 1974)
The Sound of Virtue: Philip Sidney’s ‘Arcadia’ and Elizabethan Politics (Yale U.P., 1996)
Roundhead Reputations. The English Civil Wars and the Passions of Posterity (Penguin and Allen Lane, 2001)
Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England: John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham (Oxford U.P., 2007)
The English Civil Wars 1640-1660 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009)
God’s Instruments. Political Conduct in the England of Oliver Cromwell (Oxford U.P., 2012)
Where next?
The 2020 A B Emden Lecture “The Bolsheviks in Isolation: Loneliness and Autonomy in a Collectivist Society”
19 May 2020
Professor Blair Worden
MA, DPhil (MA, PhD Camb), FBA
- Emeritus Fellow