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Alexandra Walsham

アレクサンドラ・ウォルシャム

Arekusandora Worushamu

Aliases: Alexandra Marie Walsham

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1966-01-04 （Hayle, Cornwall）
Nationality
British, Australian
Languages
English
Residence History
Hayle, England → Australia → Exeter, England → Cambridge, England

Career

Occupations
Historian, Professor
Active Years
1993-2024
Affiliations
University of Cambridge, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, University of Exeter
Memberships
Royal Historical Society (Vice-President), Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA), Ecclesiastical History Society (Past President)
Influenced By
Patrick Collinson

Education

University of Melbourne
History with English
Degree: BA, MA
Country: Australia
Studied history with English, awarded BA and MA degrees
Trinity College, Cambridge
Early modern history
Degree: PhD
Period: 1990-1995
Year of Graduation: 1995
Country: United Kingdom
Thesis: Aspects of Providentialism in Early Modern England. Doctoral advisor: Patrick Collinson

Awards

Longman-History Today Award
2000
Work: Providence in Early Modern England
Organization: Longman-History Today
Result: Winner
Morris D. Forkosch Prize
2000
Work: Providence in Early Modern England
Organization: American Historical Association
Result: Winner
Leo Gershoy Award
2011
Work: The Reformation of the Landscape
Organization: American Historical Association
Result: Winner
Wolfson History Prize
2012
Work: The Reformation of the Landscape
Organization: Wolfson Foundation
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Providence in Early Modern England

1999 History

A monograph exploring the concept of providence and its cultural and religious impact in early modern England.

ProvidenceReformationProtestantism

The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity, and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland

2011 History

Analysis of how the Reformation reshaped landscapes, identity, and memory in early modern Britain and Ireland.

ReformationLandscapeMemory

Church Papists: Catholicism, Conformity, and Confessional Polemic in Early Modern England

1993 History

Examines Catholicism, conformity, and confessional polemic among church papists in early modern England.

CatholicismConformityConfessional Polemic

Bibliography

  • Church Papists: Catholicism, Conformity, and Confessional Polemic in Early Modern England (1993)
  • Providence in Early Modern England (1999)
  • The Uses of Script and Print, 1300–1700 (2004, ed.)
  • Charitable Hatred: Tolerance and Intolerance in England, 1500–1700 (2006)
  • Angels in the Early Modern World (2006, co-ed.)
  • Syon Abbey and Its Books (2010, co-ed.)
  • Relics and Remains (2010, ed.)
  • The Reformation of the Landscape (2011)
  • Catholic Reformation in Protestant Britain (2014)
  • Religion and the Household (2014, co-ed.)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Archival research-driven analysisNarrative historical writingAcademic rigor
Recurring Motifs
ReformationLandscape and memoryTolerance and intoleranceProvidence and divine will

Legacy

Leading scholar of early modern British religious history, winner of the Wolfson History Prize and other awards. Professor at University of Cambridge.

Academic Societies

  • Royal Historical Society
  • British Academy
  • Australian Academy of the Humanities

Trivia

  • English-Australian historian
  • First woman to hold the Chair of Modern History at Cambridge
  • Co-editor of Past & Present journal