John Guy (historian)

John Guy (historian)

John Guy (born 1949 in Warragul, Australia) is a leading British historian and biographer.

Born in Australia, he moved to Britain with his parents in 1952. He was educated at King Edward VII School in Lytham, and Clare College, Cambridge, where he read History, taking a First. At Cambridge, Guy studied under the Tudor specialist Geoffrey Rudolph Elton. He was awarded a Greene Cup by Clare College and the Yorke Prize by the University of Cambridge. During his academic career he has held posts at St Andrews University (where he is Honorary Professor and was sometime Vice-Principal for Research), Bristol University, UC Berkeley, Rochester and Johns Hopkins. Guy currently teaches at Cambridge University, as a fellow of Clare College, where he teaches part-time so he can devote more time to his writing and broadcasting career.

Guy specializes in the history of Tudor England and has written extensively on the subject. His books have been critically acclaimed, with his most recent work, "My Heart is My Own: the Life of Mary Queen of Scots", being awarded the 2004 Whitbread Biography Award. Among his current projects is a volume in the New Oxford History of England on the early Tudor period.

His style is one of re-assessment and evaluation and his works often involve him re-telling and re-evaluating history from a novel viewpoint.

He is now married to Julia Fox, a former history teacher, who has written 'Jane Boleyn: The Infamous Lady Rochford'.

References

*University of St Andrews: [http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/academic/history/honstaff/guy.shtml Professor John Guy]
* [http://www.johnguy.co.uk/biography-john-guy.php Biography on Guy's own website]
*British Council [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth519D18CE02e1d16AFAGiIvDBF0A4 "contemporary writers" page]

External links

*tudors.org: [http://www.tudors.org History lectures, essays and notes written by John Guy]


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