Stanley Bindoff

{{Short description|English historian}}

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|birth_name = Stanley Thomas Bindoff

|birth_date = 1908

|death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1980|12|23|1908}}

|occupation = Historian and academic

|known_for = Tudor England (1950)

|workplaces = Queen Mary, University of London

|discipline = History

|sub_discipline = {{hlist|Early modern Britain|History of parliamentarism|Political history}}

|doctoral_students = {{hlist|Eric Ives|Marcus Merriman}}

|alma_mater = University College London

|education = Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School

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Stanley Thomas Bindoff (1908 – 23 December 1980) was an English historian who specialised in the Tudor and Elizabethan periods. He was the first professor of history at Queen Mary College, University of London. He was the editor of The History of Parliament for the parliaments of 1509–1558, published in 1982.[http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6q64x77 Bindoff, S.T. (Stanley Thomas), 1908.] SNAC. Retrieved 1 November 2017.[http://library.qmul.ac.uk/archives/archive-galleries/archive-highlights/name-36475-en.html Stanley Bindoff.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223065343/http://library.qmul.ac.uk/archives/archive-galleries/archive-highlights/name-36475-en.html |date=23 December 2017 }} The Caroline Skeel Archives Reading Room, Queen Mary University of London. Retrieved 1 November 2017.

Bindoff is best known for his book Tudor England, which R. H. Tawney stated "deserves to become a classic" upon its publication in 1950. Its enduring appeal compared to the other works in the Pelican History of England series derived, for William Lamont, from Bindoff's understanding of Tudor politics as "essentially trivial".{{cite journal|journal=History Workshop Journal|title=S. T. Bindoff|date=1 March 1981|page=220|volume=11|issue=1|author=William Lamont}} He supervised many graduate students, Eric Ives{{cite web |last1=Cust |first1=Richard |title=Eric Ives obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/30/eric-ives |website=The Guardian|date=30 October 2012}} and Marcus Merriman{{cite web |last1=Mullett |first1=Michael A. |title=Dr Marcus Merriman obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/apr/10/guardianobituaries.obituaries1 |website=The Guardian|date=10 April 2006}} among them.

Bindoff died in Surbiton on 23 December 1980 at the age of 72.{{cite news |title=Death announcement |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-obituary-for-stanley/169257655/ |access-date=31 March 2025 |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=27 December 1980}} A lecture series in Bindoff's name at Queen Mary was inaugurated by his colleague Eric Hobsbawm in 1990.{{cite web |last1=Pick |first1=Daniel |title=Memories of Eric Hobsbawm |url=https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/communism-socialism/memories-of-eric-hobsbawm/ |website=History Workshop|date=3 October 2012}}