Blair Worden is a British historian, among the leading authorities on the period of the English Civil War

English Civil War

The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists...

 and on relations between literature and history more generally in the early modern period. He matriculated as an undergraduate at Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1963. After spending a year as a visiting student at Harvard he began graduate research at Oxford in 1967. After a period as a Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, teaching History, he took up a position as a Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London

University of London

-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

. As of 2011 he is an Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall.

Books

• The Rump Parliament 1648-53 (1974)
• (ed.) Edmund Ludlow: A Voyce from the Watchtower (1978)
• (ed.) History and Imagination: Essays in honour of H. R. Trevor-Roper (1981)
• (ed.) Stuart England (1986)
• The Sound of Virtue: Philip Sidney's Arcadia and Elizabethan politics (1996)
• Roundhead reputations: the English Civil Wars and the passions of posterity (2001)
• Literature and politics in Cromwellian England: John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham (2007)
• The English Civil Wars 1640-1660 (2010)

Selected articles and chapters

• 'The Commonwealth Kidney of Algernon Sidney', Journal of British Studies, 24 (1985), 1–40
• 'Andrew Marvell, Oliver Cromwell and the Horatian ode', in Politics of Discourse: The literature and history of seventeenth-century England, ed. by Kevin Sharpe and Steven Zwicker (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), pp. 147–80
• 'Cromwellian Oxford', in The History of the University of Oxford, ed. by Nicholas Tyacke (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), pp. 733–72
• 'The Question of Secularisation', in A Nation Transformed: England after the Restoration, ed. by Alan Houston and Stephen Pincus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)
• 'Oliver Cromwell and the Protectorate', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th ser., 20 (2010), 57–84

External links

• Worden author page and article archive from The New York Review of Books
  The New York Review of Books
  The New York Review of Books is a fortnightly magazine with articles on literature, culture and current affairs. Published in New York City, it takes as its point of departure that the discussion of important books is itself an indispensable literary activity...
  
  
• A life in writing: Blair Worden