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Dr David Grummitt
Lecturer
History (Rutherford N3.S3)
- d.i.grummitt@kent.ac.uk
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David Grummitt is a historian who specialises in the political, administrative and military history of late-medieval and early Tudor England.
Dr David Grummitt studied at the universities of Kent and Leicester and the London School of Economics, where he completed his Ph.D in 1997. He has held research posts at the University of Oxford and the History of Parliament of Trust and taught at the London School of Economics and the University of Cambridge.
His research interests focus on the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. He has a particular interest in the Wars of the Roses, and especially the changes in political culture brought about by defeat in the Hundred Years War and the experience of civil war. He has a particular expertise in military and administrative history, having published extensively on the Calais garrison and the reign of Henry VII. His current research focuses on Cade’s Rebellion of 1450 and the political culture of late-fifteenth century England and he is writing A Short History of the Wars of the Roses to be published by I.B. Tauris in 2012. Dr. Grummitt welcomes enquiries from prospective research students interested in the political, military and cultural history of late-medieval and Tudor England.
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- The Calais Garrison: War and Military Service in England 1436-1558 (Boydell & Brewer, 2008)
- (co-authored with Steven Gunn and Hans Cools), War, State and Society in England and the Netherlands, 1477-1559 (Oxford University Press, 2008)
Chapters in Books
- 'Changing Perceptions of the Soldier in Late Medieval England', in The Fifteenth Century X, ed. Hannes Kleineke (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2011)
- 'Kent and National Politics, 1399-1461' in Later Medieval Kent, 1220-1540, ed. Sheila Sweetinburgh (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2010)
Articles
- ‘Household, Politics and Political Morality in the Reign of Henry VII’, Historical Research 82 (2009), 393-411.
- ‘War and society in the north of England, c. 1477-1559: the cases of York, Hull and Beverley’, Northern History 45 (2008), 1-16.
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Member of the editorial board of The Fifteenth Century Series