Claire Donovan
{{Short description|British historian and academic (1948–2019)}}
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University of East Anglia
| thesis_title = The early development of the illustrated book of hours in England, c. 1240-1350
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Claire Marie Donovan {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FSA|RA|FRHistS}} (née Baker; 12 February 1948 – 5 June 2019{{cite web |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetimes-uk/obituary.aspx?n=claire-marie-donovan&pid=193202625 |title=Obituary:Claire Marie Donovan |work=The Times}}) was a British historian and academic.
Career
Donovan was educated in Oxford before studying an undergraduate degree in English and History of Art at the University of London. She gained a Postgraduate diploma from Somerville College, Oxford and a PhD from the University of East Anglia.{{cite web |url=https://us6.campaign-archive.com/?u=5557bc147d34993782f185bde&id=c27243df1b#mctoc9 |title=Fellow's Remembered: Claire Donovan FSA |author1=Sandy Nairne |date=19 June 2019 |publisher=SALON: Society of Antiquaries of London Online Newsletter |access-date=20 June 2019}} Her PhD thesis, "The Early Development of the Illustrated Book of Hours in England, c. 1240–1350," was filed in 1981.{{WorldCat|oclc=34901526|name=The Early Development of the Illustrated Book of Hours in England, c. 1240–1350}}
She was vice principal of Dartington College of Arts, an Honorary Research Fellow in the College of Humanities at the University of Exeter, a Council member of the Devon History Society, a Trustee of Poltimore House Trust{{cite web |url=http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/news/college/title_96995_en.html |title=Investigating Poltimore and its landscape |publisher=University of Exeter |date=9 September 2010 |access-date=20 June 2019}} and Chair of the South West Association of Preservation Trusts.
Personal life
In 1996, she married Colin Platt, a historian, archaeologist and academic.{{cite news |last1=Stamper |first1=Paul |title=Colin Platt obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/sep/24/colin-platt |access-date=12 December 2024 |work=The Guardian |date=24 September 2015}}
Doctoral thesis and select publications
- Baker, C. M. 1981. "The Early Development of the Illustrated book of Hours in England, c. 1240–1350" (unpublished Ph.D. thesis).
- Donovan, C. 1991. The de Brailes Hours: shaping the book of hours in 13th-century Oxford. London, British Library.
- Donovan, C. and Bushnell, J. 1996. John Everett Millais, 1829–1896: a centenary exhibition. Southampton, Media Arts Faculty Institute.
- Donovan, C. 2000. The Winchester Bible. Winchester, Winchester Cathedral.
- Donovan, C. 2005. Review of Kathryn A. Smith, Art, Identity and Devotion in Fourteenth-Century England: Three Women and their Books of Hours (London: The British Library/Toronto: U. of Toronto Press, 2003), in English Historical Review CXX, no. 486, pp. 203-05.
- Donovan, C. and Hemmings, J. 2014. "Evidence for Eighteenth-Century Rebuilding at Poltimore House: Interpreting Edmund Prideaux’s Drawings, 1716 and 1727", The Devon Historian 83.
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Category:Alumni of the University of East Anglia
Category:Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford