Derek Hirst
British historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Derek Hirst is an English historian of early modern Britain. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and author of five books and over thirty articles, Hirst held a B.A. and Ph.D. from Cambridge University. He was the William Eliot Smith Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis, 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 is 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 , Authority and Conflict: England 1603-1658 , and Dominion: England and its island neighbours, 1500-1707 . In addition, he published over 80 scholarly articles and reviews . Soon after his retirement from Washington University in St. Louis, an endowed chair of history was established in his honor at the university . The chair was inaugurated by another well-published historian of early modern England, Steve Hindle.
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