Dr Grant Tapsell

Grant Tapsell has been a Fellow and Tutor in History at Lady Margaret Hall and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of History since 2011. He has previously served as Chair of both Prelims and Finals examination boards at a Faculty level, and been Vice-Principal, Dean of Degrees, and Fellow Archivist for his college. He also has considerable experience within Oxford's library system, having been LMH's Fellow Librarian, Chair of the Faculty of History's Committee for Library Provision and Strategy (CLiPS) , and a member of the Humanities Divisional CLiPS. Having read Modern History at Oxford (1995-8), he migrated to Cambridge for an MPhil (1999) and then obtained his PhD in History from Cambridge in 2003, before being a Lecturer at the University of St Andrews (2006-11). He has held both a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (2003-4, 2005-6) and an AHRC Early Career Fellowship (2010-11). 

His research interests encompass a variety of topics in early modern British and Irish history, especially early 'Whig' and 'Tory' party politics during the Restoration era, and the Church of England in the Stuart period. He is currently completing a major edition of the letters of Archbishop William Sancroft for the Church of England Record Society.