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Anthony Fletcher

Anthony John Fletcher (born 24 April 1941) is an English historian of the seventeenth century.

His parents were Dr. (Clarence) John Molyneux Fletcher (younger brother of Eric Fletcher, Baron Fletcher) and Isabel Chenevix Trench. His maternal grandfather Reginald Chenevix Trench, who died in the Great War, had a sister Cesca, a Sinn Féin supporter who was at the General Post Office, Dublin during the Easter Rising of 1916. Isabel Fletcher was born in November 1915, shortly before her father's death. Fletcher produced a series of recordings about his Irish forebears for the Irish Life and Lore website.

Dr. John Fletcher, after government service as a research metallurgist at Harwell, became an antiquarian who pioneered the use of dendrochronology in the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art at the University of Oxford, dating medieval buildings, structures, and paintings on panel.

Anthony Fletcher was educated at Wellington College from 1954 to 1959, where he was an avid historian, journalist and stamp collector. In spite of his talent, he failed History at O-Level, which he considered "unpassable". On leaving school, he read history from 1959 at Merton College, Oxford, where he was a contemporary of R. I. Moore. At Oxford, he was particularly influenced by WG Hoskins.

He decided to teach history as a career, and spent three years doing so at King's College School, before becoming a lecturer at the University of Sheffield. He was subsequently appointed as Professor at Durham University, from where he moved to the University of Essex. In his final post, from 2000 to 2005 he was Director of the Victoria County History. He was President of the Ecclesiastical History Society for 1996–97.

J. P. Kenyon called Fletcher's ''The Outbreak of the English Civil War'' "easily the most important book on the Great Rebellion in the past 20 years".

Fletcher's festschrift was published in 2007 by the Cambridge University Press (''The Family in Early Modern England'', edited by H Berry and E Foyster). Provided by Wikipedia
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    Tudor rebellions / by Fletcher, Anthony

    Published 1968
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    A county community in peace and war : Sussex 1600-1660. by Fletcher, Anthony

    Published 1975
    Book
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    Reform in the provinces : the government of Stuart England / by Fletcher, Anthony

    Published 1986
    Book
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    Growing up in England : the experience of childhood, 1600-1914 / by Fletcher, Anthony

    Published 2008
    Book
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    Tudor rebellions / by Fletcher, Anthony

    Published 2008
    Book
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    Life, death and growing up on the western front / by Fletcher, Anthony

    Published 2013
    Book
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    Gender, sex, and subordination in England, 1500-1800 / by Fletcher, Anthony

    Published 1995
    Book
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    The outbreak of the English Civil War / by Fletcher, Anthony

    Published 1981
    Book
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    Order and Disorder in Early Modern England / by Fletcher, Anthony

    Published 1985
    Full Text (via Cambridge)
    Electronic eBook
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    Gender, sex, and subordination in England, 1500-1800 / by Fletcher, Anthony

    Published 1995
    Book
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    Tudor rebellions / by Fletcher, Anthony, MacCulloch, Diarmaid

    Published 2015
    Book
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    Religion, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain : Essays in Honour of Patrick Collinson /

    Published 1994
    Other Authors: “…Fletcher, Anthony…”
    Full Text (via Cambridge)
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    Order and disorder in early modern England /

    Published 1985
    Other Authors: “…Fletcher, Anthony…”
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    Religion, culture, and society in early modern Britain : essays in honour of Patrick Collinson /

    Published 1994
    Other Authors: “…Fletcher, Anthony…”
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