Robert Beddard

Robert Anthony Beddard {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRHistS}} was, until 2006, the Cowen Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, Oriel College, Oxford.{{Cite web | url=http://www.btinternet.com/~akme/ocloril2.html | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120630225029/http://www.btinternet.com/~akme/ocloril2.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=2012-06-30 |title = Oriel Calendar entry, Fellows, 2003-4}}

He holds a master's degree (MA), a Doctorate (Doctor of Philosophy), a Cambridge Master's (MA) and a Bachelor's (BA) from London.

He was a fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge from 1965 to 1968.{{Cite web | url=http://www.quns.cam.ac.uk/page-249 |title = Fellows 1900–1999 | Queens' College}}

He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k_3CETsokjEC&q=Robert+Beddard+Cowen+Fellow&pg=PA231 |title = Bachelors: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases|isbn = 9780546654875|date = 2008-11-26| publisher=Icon Group International, Incorporated }}

His research interests lie in 17th century British politics and religion, and include relations between Stuart England and Rome.{{cite web |url=http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/staff/faculty/beddard_rapj.htm |title=University of Oxford History Faculty |website=www.history.ox.ac.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061014090049/http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/staff/faculty/beddard_rapj.htm |archive-date=2006-10-14}}

Publications

'The Restoration Church' in The Restored Monarchy, 1660-1688 (ed. J.R. Jones), (1978)
A Kingdom Without a King: The Journal of the Provisional Government in the Revolution of 1688. (Oxford, 1988)
The Revolutions of 1688. (Oxford, 1991)
Restoration Oxford', 'Tory Oxford', and 'James II and the Catholic challenge in The History of the University of Oxford, IV: Seventeenth-Century Oxford (ed. N. Tyacke), (Oxford, 1997)
'A Traitor's gift: Hugh Peter's donation to the Bodleian Library', The Bodleian Library Record. Vol 16 (1999) pp. 374–90
'Pope Clement X's inauguration of the Holy Year of 1675', Archivum Historiae Pontificiae. Vol 30 (2000)
'Six Unpublished Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria', The British Library Journal. Vol 25 (2000) pp. 129–43
'Isaac Basire: The Bodleian Library's first foreign reader', The Bodleian Library Record. (2003)

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[http://www.historytoday.com/MainArticle.aspx?m=31398&amid=30231244 "Robert Beddard looks at two books on the decisive turning point of 1688."], History Today, June 2006, Volume: 56 Issue: 6, Page 62-62

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