Dame Frances Lannon DBE

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(born 22 December 1945) is a retired

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academic and educator. She was Principal of

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. Born in

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, she was educated at

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( BA) and at

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(

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). After teaching at Queen Mary's College and holding a

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at the

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, she was in 1977 appointed Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at

. She was Vice-Principal 1992–97 and became Principal in 2002. She retired on 30 September 2015. Lannon is a

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. In 2006, she was a visiting scholar at the

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Research School of Social Sciences and Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated Centre for Social Research. Lannon was appointed

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(DBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to higher education.

Publications

*Frances Lannon, ''Catholic Bilbao from Restoration to Republic: a Selective Study of Educational Institutions, 1876–1931'' (

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DPhil thesis 1975) *Frances Lannon, ''Privilege, Persecution, and Prophecy: the Catholic Church in Spain, 1875–1975'' (Oxford:

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, 1987) *Frances Lannon and Paul Preston (editors) ''Elites and Power in Twentieth-Century Spain: Essays in Honour of Sir Raymond Carr'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990) *Frances Lannon, 'Women and Images of Women in the Spanish Civil War', ''Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'' 6th series, 1 (1991), 213–228 *Frances Lannon, ''1898 and the Politics of Catholic Identity in Spain'', in

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, ed., ''The Politics of Religion in an Age of Revival'' (London:

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, 2000) *Frances Lannon, ''The Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939'' (Oxford:

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, 2002) *Frances Lannon, ''Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford: the First 125 Years, 1879–2004'' (Oxford: Lady Margaret Hall, 2004)

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