Robert Anthony Beddard (born 1939)[1][2] FRHistS is a British historian.
Beddard was, until 2006, the Cowen Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, Oriel College, Oxford.[3]
Life
[edit]He is the son of J. E. Beddard, and was educated at Brierley Hill Grammar School.[4] He graduated B.A. at the University of London, and M.A. at Cambridge. He was a fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge from 1965 to 1968.[5] A D.Phil. at Oxford in 1966, in 1968 he was elected a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.[4]
Beddard is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[6] His research interests lie in 17th century British politics and religion, and include relations between Stuart England and Rome.[7]
Publications
[edit]- 'The Restoration Church' in The Restored Monarchy, 1660-1688 (ed. J.R. Jones), (1978)
- A Kingdom Without a King: The Journal of the Provisional Government in the Revolution of 1688. (Oxford, 1988)
- The Revolutions of 1688. (Oxford, 1991)
- Restoration Oxford', 'Tory Oxford', and 'James II and the Catholic challenge in The History of the University of Oxford, IV: Seventeenth-Century Oxford (ed. N. Tyacke), (Oxford, 1997)
- 'A Traitor's gift: Hugh Peter's donation to the Bodleian Library', The Bodleian Library Record. Vol 16 (1999) pp. 374–90
- 'Pope Clement X's inauguration of the Holy Year of 1675', Archivum Historiae Pontificiae. Vol 30 (2000)
- 'Six Unpublished Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria', The British Library Journal. Vol 25 (2000) pp. 129–43
- 'Isaac Basire: The Bodleian Library's first foreign reader', The Bodleian Library Record. (2003)
Criticism
[edit]- "Robert Beddard looks at two books on the decisive turning point of 1688.", History Today, June 2006, Volume: 56 Issue: 6, Page 62-62
References
[edit]- ^ Trevor-Roper, Hugh Redwald (2014). One Hundred Letters From Hugh Trevor-Roper. OUP Oxford. p. 238 note 1. ISBN 978-0-19-870311-2.
- ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
- ^ "Oriel Calendar entry, Fellows, 2003-4".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ a b "A Master of Arts". Wolverhampton Express and Star. 4 January 1968. p. 6.
- ^ "Fellows 1900–1999 | Queens' College".
- ^ Bachelors: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases. Icon Group International, Incorporated. 26 November 2008. ISBN 9780546654875.
- ^ "University of Oxford History Faculty". www.history.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 14 October 2006.
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