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Dr Stephen Alford
University Lecturer in History
Fellow of King's College
Stephen Alford began his graduate work at the University of St Andrews under
the supervision of John Guy. He arrived in Cambridge in 1997 as a British
Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of History and a Research
Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, before moving to an Ehrman Senior Research
Fellowship at King's College in 1999. He was appointed an Assistant Lecturer
in the Faculty of History in 2000 and a Lecturer in 2003. He is a Fellow of
King's College and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Research Interests
Dr Alford works mainly on the politics of England in the second half of the
sixteenth century. His major interest at the moment is the life and career of
William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520-98), Queen Elizabeth I's secretary,
treasurer and councillor. He is writing a biography of Burghley for Yale
University Press.
Teaching Interests
Dr Alford teaches Tudor political history. He lectures and supervises for
Paper 4 of Part I of the Historical Tripos (British Political and
Constitutional History, 1450-1750). From October 2004 he will teach a Special
Historical Subject for Part II of the Tripos on 'Tudor monarchy and its
critiques'.
Areas of Research Supervision
Dr Alford supervises graduate students for the MPhil in Historical Studies and
the MPhil in Early Modern History. He supervises doctoral students who work on
topics in British political and religious history in the sixteenth century.
Chief Publications
Stephen Alford has published essays and articles and reviews in journals like
The Historical Journal and The Journal of Ecclesiastical History.
- The Early Elizabethan Polity: William Cecil and the British
Succession Crisis, 1558-1569 (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
- Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI (Cambridge
University Press, 2002)
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