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Research Staff
- Dr Beverly Adams
- Dr Stephen Ball
- Dr Andrew Barclay
- Dr Linda Clark
- Dr Ben Coates
- Dr Robin Eagles
- Dr Stephen Farrell
- Dr David Fisher
- Dr David Grummitt
- Dr Stuart Handley
- Mr Simon Healy
- Dr Paul Hunneyball
- Dr Hannes Kleineke
- Dr Vivienne Larminie
- Dr Patrick Little
- Dr Charles Littleton
- Dr Henry Miller
- Dr Charles Moreton
- Dr James Owen
- Dr Ruth Paley
- Dr Simon Payling
- Dr Kathryn Rix
- Dr Stephen Roberts
- Dr Philip Salmon
- Dr David Scott
- Dr Rosemary Sgroi
- Dr Andrew Thrush
History of Parliament Staff
Dr David Grummitt
Senior Research Fellow, 1422-1504
Research
My work at the History has focused on Kent. It has included major figures like Sir James Fiennes, Lord Saye and Sele, and Sir Thomas Kyriel.
My own research interests have mainly involved the military and fiscal history of late medieval England. I am currently completeting two books, one of the Calais garrison and another, co-authored with Steven Gunn of Merton College, Oxford, on war and society in England and the Habsburg Netherlands. I am also interested in the effects of literary texts in shaping historical perceptions and have recently begun a new study of Cade’s rebellion of 1450.
Publications
My main publications include an edited collection of essays The English Experience in France: war, diplomacy and cultural exchange, c. 1450-1558, (Aldershot, 2002), ‘The financial administration of Calais during the reign of Henry IV, 1399-1413’, English Historical Review 113 (1998), ‘The establishment of the Tudor dynasty’ in The Blackwell Companion to Tudor Britain, eds. Norman Jones and Robert Tittler (Oxford, 2004), ‘Deconstructing Cade’s Rebellion: discourse and politics in the mid fifteenth century’ in The Fifteenth Century VI, ed. Linda Clark (Woodbridge, 2006) and ‘Gunpowder weaponry and the defence of Calais in the later fifteenth century’, War in History 7 (2000).