The New Palace at Westminster, 1851 by E. Walker after Sir Charles Barry

History of Parliament Staff

Dr Charles Moreton

Senior Research Fellow, 1422-1504

cmoreton@histparl.ac.uk

Research
I am currently working on Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire. The knights of the shire for these counties include Sir William Oldhall, John Wenlock and Thomas Daniell, all substantial figures with wide-ranging careers. In due course I shall begin work on Oxfordshire.

My own research interests lie in late medieval and early modern East Anglia, particularly the gentry of that region.

Publications
My principal publication is The Townshends and their World: Gentry, Land and Law in Norfolk, c.1450-1551 (Oxford, 1992).




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