Derek Hirst (born 1948,

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) is an

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historian of

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. A Fellow of the

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and author of five books and over thirty articles, Hirst held a B.A. (1969) and Ph.D. (1974) from

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. He was the William Eliot Smith Professor of History at

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, where he taught from 1975 to 2017, supervising seventeen dissertations and serving as chair of the department for several years. His focus was on 17th-century England and his best known work i
England In Conflict 1603-1660: Kingdom, Community, Commonwealth
His other academic books included Representative of the People? Voters and Voting in England under the Early Stuarts (Cambridge UP, 1975), Authority and Conflict: England 1603-1658 (Oxford UP, 1986)

and Dominion: England and its island neighbours, 1500-1707 (Oxford UP, 2012)

In addition, he published over 80 scholarly articles and review

(a convenient list of his most important earlier essays may be found on the Wayback Machin

). Soon after his retirement from Washington University in St. Louis, an endowed chair of history was established in his honor at the university (2022). The chair was inaugurated by another well-published historian of early modern England, Steve Hindle

Hirst also worked extensively on

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with Steven Zwicker, a colleague at

. Hirst and Zwicker conducted an extensive review of Marvell's work and were the first to suggest that Marvell's campaigns for the rights of the individual were the result of "an inner struggle that tugged at every fiber of his personal life." Their work has led them to be considered among the leading experts on Marvell and their findings appeared in book form i
Andrew Marvell, Orphan of the Hurricane (2012)

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Washington University in St. Louis faculty Fellows of the Royal Historical Society English historians 1948 births Living people {{UK-historian-stub

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