Clare Jackson
Clare Jackson | |
|---|---|
| Born | Janet Clare Louise Jackson 1972 (age 52–53) |
| Occupation(s) | Historian and academic |
| Awards | Wolfson History Prize (2022) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Loretto School |
| Alma mater | Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge Aberystwyth University |
| Doctoral advisor | Mark Goldie |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge Trinity Hall, Cambridge |
| Notable works | Devil-Land: England under Siege, 1588–1688 (2021) |
Janet Clare Louise Jackson FRHistS (born 1972) is a British historian and academic, specialising in early modern Britain. She was senior tutor of Trinity Hall, Cambridge from 2013 to 2023, and is now Walter Grant Scott Fellow in History and Honorary Professor of Early Modern History. In 2022, she was awarded the Wolfson Prize for Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588–1688.
Jackson was educated at Loretto School in Musselburgh, Scotland. She studied history at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (BA), then undertook a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree at in history at Aberystwyth University, before returning to Sidney Sussex College for her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree and, later, a research fellowship.
Jackson edited The Historical Journal from 2004 to 2011. She has appeared as an expert commentator on the BBC Radio 4 programmes In Our Time and Start the Week, and presented the BBC Two series The Stuarts (2014) and The Stuarts in Exile (2015).