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Mark StoyleFRHistS is an English historian of theTudor andStuart periods, specialising in theEnglish Civil War, the history ofwitchcraft, and the history of the South West peninsula. He is Professor at theUniversity of Southampton, and has published many works on the history and landscape ofExeter where he previously lived and taught.
Mark Stoyle was raised inMid Devon and attended school inCrediton.[1] Upon finishing school, he took part in archaeological excavations inExeter for some years.[2] He received a BA in history in 1988.[3] In 1992, he was awarded his doctorate atSt Peter's College, Oxford under the supervision ofGerald Aylmer.[2][4][5] After completing a Scouloudi Fellowship at theInstitute of Historical Research and a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at theUniversity of Exeter, he was appointed to a post at theUniversity of Southampton where he is presently Professor of Early Modern History.[4] In 2012, he won a Vice-Chancellor's Teaching Award from the University of Southampton, and has gone on to receive a number of similar awards.[4]
Stoyle is a fellow of theRoyal Historical Society.[6] He served on the Council of the Royal Historical Society from 2013 to 2016,[7] and chaired its Research Support Committee.[2] He has also served as a member of the editorial advisory panel ofBBC History and as a member of the editorial board of the Victoria County History.[4]
Stoyle has appeared on many television and radio programmes in the UK, together with others in the US, Australia, and Canada. These includeThe World at One, The Long View, Who Do You Think You Are?, Word of Mouth, Making History, The Great British Story, Walking Tudor Britain, Great British Railway Journeys, Underground Worlds, Songs of Praise, The Antiques Road Trip, andBargain Hunt. His research into the history of witchcraft in Exeter has also attracted a considerable amount of media attention and been discussed in most of the main national newspapers in the UK (see, for example,West Country witchcraft and the hanged women of urban Exeter in The Guardian,[8] onBBC Radio 4's Today programme, and in 2024, on the BBC news website).[9]
In 2024, Stoyle acted as the Historical Consultant for Sarah Dickenson's new stage-play,The Commotion Time, which had its world premiere at Exeter Northcott Theatre that October. The play subsequently received a five-star review inThe Stage, the leading industry journal, which described it as a "mesmerising" piece of work.[10]
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