May McKisackFSA, FRHistS (30 March 1900 – 14 March 1981) was an Irish^[1] medievalist^[2] and academic. She was a professor of history at theUniversity of London'sWestfield College and at theUniversity of Oxford inSomerville College.^[3] She was the author ofThe Fourteenth Century (1959) in theOxford History of England.^[3]

McKisack was born on 30 March 1900 inBelfast, Northern Ireland, to Audley John McKisack, a solicitor, and Elizabeth McKisack (née McCullough). When her father died in 1906, her mother took May and her brotherAudley (1903–66) to live inBedford, England. She was educated atBedford High School, an all-girlsindependent school. In 1919, shematriculated atSomerville College, Oxford, where her tutor in history wasMaude Clarke. She graduated with aBachelor of Arts (BA) degree, and then taught in a school for one year. She returned to Somerville where she was Mary Somervilleresearch fellow while she studied for thepostgraduateBachelor of Letters (BLitt) degree.^[1]

She was alecturer inmedieval history at theUniversity of Liverpool from 1927 to 1935, before returning to Somerville College, Oxford in 1936 asfellow andtutor. She was additionally a university lecturer at theUniversity of Oxford between 1945 and 1955. In 1955, she left Oxford having been appointed Professor of History atWestfield College,University of London. She was made anhonorary fellow of Somerville College in 1956. She retired in 1967, and was made Emeritus Professor of History by the University of London.^{[citation needed]}

McKisack was elected aFellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS) in 1928 and as aFellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA) in 1952.^{[citation needed]}

• McKisack, May (1932).The Parliamentary Representation of the English Boroughs during the Middle Ages. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• McKisack, May (1959).The fourteenth century: 1307-1399.Oxford History of England. Vol. V. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• McKisack, May (1971).Medieval history in the Tudor age. Oxford: Clarendon.ISBN 9780198223412.

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