Valerie Pearl
Encyclopedia
Dr Valerie Louise Pearl is an historian, noted for work on the English Civil War
and was the second President of New Hall, Cambridge
.
, the former Labour Party
Member of Parliament
for
East Dunbartonshire
. She was educated at St Anne's College, Oxford, going up in 1946 and gaining a Second-Class degree in Modern History. She subsequently gained a D.Phil. for her thesis supervised by Christopher Hill on London and the outbreak of the Puritan Revolution 1625-1643. This was published in revised form by the Oxford University Press in 1961.
Between 1965 and 1968, Valerie Pearl was a Lecturer in History at Somerville College, Oxford. She then moved to University College, London as Reader in London History later holding a chair in the same subject.
Pearl was appointed as the second President of New Hall, Cambridge
in 1981, a position she held until 1995.
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English Civil War
The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists...
and was the second President of New Hall, Cambridge
New Hall, Cambridge
Murray Edwards College is a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It was founded as "New Hall" in 1954, at a time when Cambridge had the lowest proportion of women undergraduates of any university in the United Kingdom, and when only two other colleges admitted women...
.
Life
Pearl is the daughter of Cyril BenceCyril Bence
Cyril Raymond Bence was a British toolmaker, part-time lecturer and politician.-Earlier career:Bence, a Welshman, was born near Bristol, the son of a farmer and meat purveyor. He went to school in Newport, Monmouthshire but left school when he was 14...
, the former Labour Party
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
for
East Dunbartonshire
East Dunbartonshire (UK Parliament constituency)
East Dunbartonshire is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....
. She was educated at St Anne's College, Oxford, going up in 1946 and gaining a Second-Class degree in Modern History. She subsequently gained a D.Phil. for her thesis supervised by Christopher Hill on London and the outbreak of the Puritan Revolution 1625-1643. This was published in revised form by the Oxford University Press in 1961.
Between 1965 and 1968, Valerie Pearl was a Lecturer in History at Somerville College, Oxford. She then moved to University College, London as Reader in London History later holding a chair in the same subject.
Pearl was appointed as the second President of New Hall, Cambridge
New Hall, Cambridge
Murray Edwards College is a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It was founded as "New Hall" in 1954, at a time when Cambridge had the lowest proportion of women undergraduates of any university in the United Kingdom, and when only two other colleges admitted women...
in 1981, a position she held until 1995.
Publications
- London And The Outbreak Of The Puritan Revolution. City Government And National Politics, 1625-43, Oxford University Press, 1961, ISBN 0198212852
- The London Journal, A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (editor), Longmans 1975
External links
- Portrait of Valerie Pearl by Maggi HamblingMaggi HamblingMaggi Hambling CBE is an English painter and sculptor. Perhaps her best known public works are a memorial to Oscar Wilde in central London and Scallop, a 4 metre high steel sculpture of two interlocking scallop shells on Aldeburgh beach dedicated to Benjamin Britten...
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