Henry Summerson
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Henry Summerson is an English historian. He is the author of a number of books.
Summerson worked for the Carlisle Archaeological Unit and wrote a history of medieval Carlisle (1993). He was then employed by English Heritage writing a number of guidebooks on English castles. He is an editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, for which he has written 165 articles.{{cite web |title=Magna Carta Project - personnel |url=https://magnacarta.cmp.uea.ac.uk/about/personnel |website=magnacarta.cmp.uea.ac.uk}} He was Research Edition for the Dictionary's medieval and Tudor articles, and is now an associate research editor. He has taken part in the Oxford Holinshed Project.{{cite web |title=The Editor |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/page/the-editor |website=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |language=en}}
A participant in the Magna Carta Project, Summerson has written commentaries chapter by chapter of the original Magna Carta of 1215, and its sequel of 1225.{{cite book |last1=Carpenter |first1=David |title=Magna Carta |date=2015 |publisher=Penguin UK |isbn=978-0-14-196846-9 |page=11 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XJnvAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT11 |language=en}}
Summerson is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.{{cite book |title=Royal Historical Society: Fellows - S |url=https://royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/RHS-Fellows-S.pdf}}
Works
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- The maintenance of law and order in England, 1227-63. Ph.D. dissertation 1975, University of Cambridge, supervisor D. J. V. Fisher{{cite book |last1=University of London Institute of Historical Research |title=Historical Research for University Degrees in the United Kingdom |date=1976 |page=16 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wWAPAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA16 |language=en}}
- Crown Pleas of the Devon Eyre of 1238 (1985), court records, editor{{cite book |last1=Summerson |first1=Henry |title=Crown Pleas of the Devon Eyre of 1238 |date=1985 |publisher=Society |isbn=978-0-901853-28-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p3lnAAAAMAAJ |language=en}}
- Medieval Carlisle: The City and the Borders from the Late Eleventh to the Mid-Sixteenth Century (1993, 2 vols.){{cite book |last1=Summerson |first1=H. R. T. |title=Medieval Carlisle: The City and the Borders from the Late Eleventh to the Mid-Sixteenth Century |date=1993 |publisher=The Society |isbn=978-1-873124-18-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nuQhAQAAIAAJ |language=en}}
- Crown Pleas of the Wiltshire Eyre, 1268 (2012), court records, editor with Brenda Farr and Christopher Robin Elrington{{cite book |last1=Regis |first1=Great Britain Curia |title=Crown Pleas of the Wiltshire Eyre, 1268 |date=2012 |publisher=Wiltshire Record Society |isbn=978-0-901333-42-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M3Q8lwEACAAJ |language=en}}
- Carlisle Castle (2013), with M. R. McCarthy, and R. G. Annis{{cite book |title=Liverpool University Press: Books |url=https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/id/51770/ |language=en}}{{cite book |title=Carlisle Castle : a survey and documentary history |publisher=Historic Buildings & Monuments Commission for England |isbn=978-1-848-02141-9}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1126039.Henry_Summerson Henry Summerson at GoodReads]
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