Professor Steven Gunn

I teach and research the history of later medieval and early modern Britain and Europe. My current research concerns the councillors and courtiers of Henry VII and accidental death and everyday life in sixteenth-century England. I have also published in the wider fields of Tudor government, warfare, foreign policy and political culture and the comparison of the English state in this period with others in Europe. I write for BBC History Magazine and History Today, have contributed to radio and television programmes such as In Our Time and Time Team, and speak regularly to Historical Association branches and sixth-form conferences.

I supervise research students working on later fifteenth- and sixteenth-century English and international history, a number of whose theses have been published in revised form as books. These include P.R. Cavill, The English Parliaments of Henry VII, 1485-1504 (Oxford, 2009); Yuval Harari, Renaissance Military Memoirs: War, History and Identity, 1450-1600 (Woodbridge, 2004); Tracey Sowerby, Renaissance and Reform in Tudor England: The Careers of Sir Richard Morison c.1513-1556 (Oxford, 2010); and Monica Stensland, Habsburg Communication in the Dutch Revolt (Amsterdam, 2012). Recent publications touching on the different areas of my research incude Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales: Life, Death and Commemoration, edited with Linda Monckton (Woodbridge, 2009), 'Archery Practice in Early Tudor England', Past and Present209 (2010), 53-81, 'War and the Emergence of the State: Western Europe 1350-1600', in European Warfare 1350-1750, edited by Frank Tallett and David Trim (Cambridge, 2010), 50-73, and, written with Tomasz Gromelski,  'Deadly beasts of Tudor England', BBC History Magazine, 14/13 (December 2013), 43-7. In Hilary term 2015 I delivered the James Ford lectures in British history on 'The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII' and I am now revising them for publication.

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