The Faculty
Dr Stephen Alford
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University Lecturer in History
Fellow of King's College
King's College
Cambridge CB2 1ST
Cambridge CB2 1ST
Email:
saa24@cam.ac.uk
Office Phone:
01223 3 31100
Biography:
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.Subject groups/Research projects
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.Teaching
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'.Key Publications
- 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)