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Professor Steven Gunn

Professor Steven Gunn, a smiling man with glasses standing with arms folded
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Steven Gunn is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in History at Merton College. His books include Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, c1484-1545 (1988), Early Tudor Government, 1485-1558 (1995), War, State and Society in England and the Netherlands, 1477-1559 (2007), Henry VII’s New Men and the Making of Tudor England (2016) and The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII (2018).

He is currently writing a book on everyday life and accidental death in sixteenth-century England. He has made regular contributions to radio and television history programmes, publishes in history magazines and speaks to Historical Association branches and local history societies.

Steven Gunn became a Trustee for the Royal Armouries in March 2021.