Antonia Gransden (1928 – 18 January 2020), English

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

and

medievalist The asterisk ( ), from Late Latin , from Ancient Greek , ''asteriskos'', "little star", is a typographical symbol. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a heraldic star. Computer scientists and mathematicians often voc ...

, was

Reader A reader is a person who reads. It may also refer to: Computing and technology * Adobe Reader (now Adobe Acrobat), a PDF reader * Bible Reader for Palm, a discontinued PDA application * A card reader, for extracting data from various forms of ...

Medieval History In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire a ...

at the

University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a public university, public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. The University of Nottingham belongs t ...

. She was author of works in medieval

historiography Historiography is the study of the methods of historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians ha ...

, including the two-volume study ''Historical Writing in England''. She was born Antonia Morland. Educated at

Dartington Hall Dartington Hall in Dartington, near Totnes, Devon, England, is an historic house and country estate of dating from medieval times. The group of late 14th century buildings are Grade I listed; described in Pevsner's Buildings of England as "on ...

and

Somerville College, Oxford Somerville College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges. Among its alumnae have been Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Dorothy Hodgkin, Ir ...

, she married Ken Gransden in 1957. The couple had two daughters and the marriage was dissolved in 1977. She died on 18 January 2020 at the age of 91.

Select bibliography

* ''A History of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds, 1257-1301. Simon of Luton and John of Northwold'' (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2015) * (ed.) ''The Letter-Book of William of Hoo: Sacrist of Bury St Edmunds, 1280–1294'' (Ipswich: Suffolk Records Society, 1963) * (ed. & trans.) ''The Chronicle of Bury St Edmunds 1212–1301'' (London; Edinburgh: Nelson, 1964) * (ed.) ''The Customary of the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk: (from Harleian MS. 1005 in the British Museum)'' (

Henry Bradshaw Society The Henry Bradshaw Society is a British-based text publication society founded in 1890 for the scholarly editing and publication of rare liturgical texts. Foundation An initial meeting to plan the Henry Bradshaw Society took place in London on 3 ...

, 1973) * ''Historical Writing in England, c.550 to c.1307'' (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974) * ''Historical Writing in England. 2, c.1307 to the Early Sixteenth Century'' (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982) * ''Legends, Traditions, and History in Medieval England'' (London: Hambledon Press, 1992)

References

1928 births 2020 deaths Academics of the University of Nottingham Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford British medievalists Women medievalists English historians British women historians {{UK-historian-stub