Maureen M. Meikle (1961-2023) was an academic historian.

Her 1988 PhD thesis at theUniversity of Edinburgh was titled 'Lairds and gentlemen: A study of the landed families of the Eastern Anglo-Scottish Borders c.1540-1603'. Maureen Meikle was a Fulbright Visiting Professor of British History atWestminster College,Fulton, Missouri, between 1993 and 1995.^[1]

She was Senior Lecturer in History at theUniversity of Sunderland,^[2] and appointed Head of Humanities atLeeds Trinity University in 2009.^[3] Latterly, writing a new biography ofAnne of Denmark,Anna of Denmark 1574-1619: Britain’s First Queen Consort, like most recent historians she prefers "Anna" for the queen's forename.^[4]

In 2015, Meikle was a historical consultant to theBorder Reiver "Beyond the Border" project atHexham Old Gaol project based on the stories of 16th-century prisoners chosen by groups from three prisons in the North East, funded by theHeritage Lottery Fund.^[5] Professor Emerita Maureen Meikle gave a public lecture, 'Anna of Denmark as Queen of Scots, 1590-1603', at thePatrick Geddes Centre atRiddle's Court in Edinburgh on 30 October 2019.

• 'Once a Dane, Always Always a Dane? Queen Anna of Denmark's Foreign Relations and Intercessions as a Queen Consort of Scotland and England, 1588-1619', Sara Ayres,The Court Historian, 24:2 (August 2019), pp. 168-180
• The Scottish People, 1490-1625 (Lulu, 2013).ISBN 978-1291518009 (Paperback);ISBN 978-1291985665 (E-book).
• Maureen Meikle & Helen M. Payne, 'From Lutheranism to Catholicism: The faith of Anna of Denmark, 1574-1619',Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 64 (2013), pp. 45–69.doi:10.1017/S0022046911000868
• 'Scottish reactions to the marriage of the Lady Elizabeth, "first dochter of Scotland"', Sara Smart & Mara R. Wade,The Palatine Wedding 1613: Protestant Alliance and Court Festival (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz in Kommission, 2013), pp. 131–143
• 'Anna Of Denmark’s Coronation And Entry Into Edinburgh, 1590: Cultural, Religious And Diplomatic Perspectives',Sixteenth-Century Scotland: Essays in Honour of Michael Lynch (Brill, 2008), pp. 277-294
• A British Frontier? Lairds and Gentlemen in the Eastern Anglo-Scottish Frontier, 1540-1603 (Tuckwell: East Linton, 2004)
• 'A meddlesome princess: Anna of Denmark and Scottish court politics 1589–1603,Julian Goodare &Michael Lynch,The Reign of James VI(Tuckwell: East Linton, 2000), pp. 126–140.
• 'Holde her at the Oeconomicke rule of the house': Anna of Denmark and Scottish Court of Finances, 1589-1630', Elizabeth Ewan and Maureen M. Meikle,Women in Scotland c.1100-c.1750 (Tuckwell: East Linton, 1999).

• Professor Maureen Meikle, Honorary Fellow, University of Edinburgh
• Sierra Dye, 'Review ofThe Scottish People, 1490-1625', Innes Review, 35:2 (November 2015)

• Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
• 21st-century Scottish historians
• 1961 births
• 2023 deaths

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