R. B. Wernham

Richard Bruce Wernham MA FBA (11 October 1906 – 17 April 1999) was an English historian of Elizabethan England.

He studied at Exeter College, Oxford from 1925 to 1928. He was then appointed Official Fellow, Trinity College from 1934 to 1951.[1] He was Professor of Modern History and Fellow at Worcester College from 1951 until 1972.[2]

Works

  • "The Disgrace of William Davison", The English Historical Review, Vol. 46, No. 184 (Oct., 1931), pp. 632–636.
  • "Queen Elizabeth and the Siege of Rouen, 1591", Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Vol. 15 (1932), pp. 163–179.
  • (editor), Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, of the Reign of Elizabeth. Vol. XXII: July–December 1588 (London: Stationary Office, 1936).
  • "Queen Elizabeth and the Portugal Expedition of 1589", The English Historical Review, Vol. 66, No. 258 (Jan., 1951), pp. 1–26.
  • "Queen Elizabeth and the Portugal Expedition of 1589 (Continued)", The English Historical Review, Vol. 66, No. 259 (Apr., 1951), pp. 194–218.
  • Before the Armada: The Emergence of the English Nation, 1485-1588 (London: Jonathan Cape, 1966).
  • (editor), The New Cambridge Modern History. III. The Counter-Reformation and the Price Revolution (London: Cambridge University Press, 1968).
  • "Christopher Marlowe at Flushing in 1592", The English Historical Review, Vol. 91, No. 359 (Apr., 1976), pp. 344–345.
  • The Making of Elizabethan Foreign Policy, 1558-1603 (University of California Press, 1980).
  • After the Armada: Elizabethan England and the Struggle for Western Europe, 1588-1595 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984).
  • The Expedition of Sir John Norris and Sir Francis Drake to Spain and Portugal, 1589 (Aldershot: Temple Smith, 1989).
  • The Return of the Armadas. The Last Years of the Elizabethan War against Spain, 1595-1603 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994).

Notes

  1. Marshall, P.J., ed. (20 January 2005). "Richard Bruce Wernham 1906–1999". Proceedings of the British Academy. Oxford University Press. 124: 378. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  2. Oxford University Gazette
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