Anthony Fletcher

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

Fletcher was born to Dr. Clarence Molyneux and Isabel Trench. He was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire and Merton College, Oxford.^[1][2]

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".^[3]

Fletcher's festschrift was published in 2007 by the Cambridge University Press (The Family in Early Modern England).

Works

• (with Diarmaid MacCulloch), Tudor Rebellions (1st ed., 1968; 2nd ed., 1973; 3rd ed., 1983; 4th ed., 1997; 5th ed., 2008).
• The Outbreak of the English Civil War (1981).
• History, Society and the Churches (1985).
• Gender, Sex, and Subordination in England, 1500-1800 (1999).
• Growing Up in England: The Experience of Childhood 1600-1914 (2010).

Notes

1. Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900-1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 513.
2. Fletcher's entry at thepeerage.com
3. Anthony Fletcher, The Outbreak of the English Civil War (London: Edward Arnold, 1985), front cover.