Peter Marshall (historian)

Peter Marshall FRHistS FBA (born 26 October 1964) is a Scottish historian and academic, known for his work on the Reformation and its impact on the British Isles and Europe. He is Professor of History at the University of Warwick.^[1]

Marshall was born on 26 October 1964 in Orkney, Scotland.^[2][3] He was educated at Kirkwall Grammar School, before studying at University College, Oxford.^[2] His doctoral thesis was titled Attitudes of the English People to Priests and Priesthood, 1500–1553.^[4]

Marshall began his career as a teacher: he was a history teacher at Ampleforth College, a Roman Catholic private school in North Yorkshire. In 1994, he joined the University of Warwick as a lecturer. He was promoted to senior lecturer in 2001, and to reader in 2004.^[2] He was appointed Professor of History in 2006.^[2][5]

Between 2023 and 2024 Marshall served as President of the Ecclesiastical History Society.^[6]

Marshall was the winner of the 2018 Wolfson History Prize for his book Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation.^[7][8] In July 2018, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.^[9] He is also an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).^[2]

• The Catholic Priesthood and the English Reformation. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1994. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198204480.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-820448-0.
• Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2002. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198207733.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-820773-3.
• Reformation England, 1480–1642 (1st ed.). London: Hodder Education. 2003. ISBN 978-0-340-70623-7.
• Religious Identities in Henry VIII's England. Aldershot, England: Ashgate. 2006. ISBN 978-0-7546-5390-5.
• Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-927371-3.
• The Reformation: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-19-923131-7.
• Reformation England, 1480–1642 (2nd ed.). London: Bloomsbury Academic. 2012. ISBN 978-1849665292.
• 1517: Martin Luther and the Invention of the Reformation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2017. ISBN 978-0-19-968201-0.
• Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. 2017. ISBN 978-0-300-17062-7.
• Invisible Worlds: Death, Religion and the Supernatural in England, 1500–1700. London: SPCK. 2017. ISBN 978-0-281-07522-5.
• Storm's Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney. London: William Collins. 2024. ISBN 978-0-00-839439-4.

• The Impact of the English Reformation, 1500–1640. London: Arnold. 1997. ISBN 978-0-340-67709-4.
• The Place of the Dead: Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. With Gordon, Bruce. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-521-64518-8.
• The Beginnings of English Protestantism. With Ryrie, Alec. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-521-80274-1.
• Angels in the Early Modern World. With Walsham, Alexandra. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0-521-84332-4.
• Catholic Gentry in English Society: The Throckmortons of Coughton from Reformation to Emancipation. With Scott, Geoffrey. Farnham, England: Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-6432-1.
• The Oxford Illustrated History of the Reformation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2015. ISBN 978-0-19-959548-8.