Veronica Wedgwood

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Dame (Cicely) Veronica Wedgwood OM DBE (July 20, 1910 – 9 March 1997) was an English historian.

Born in Northumberland, she was educated at Norland Place School and later Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and became a specialist in the English Civil War and early 17th century history. Well regarded in academic circles, her books are widely read, and she was also successful as a lecturer and broadcaster.

She was the only daughter of Sir Ralph Wedgwood and his wife Iris Veronica Pawson. She was a great-great-great-granddaughter of the potter Josiah Wedgwood. She had a brother, Sir John Wedgwood. Her book The Last of the Radicals (1951), was about her uncle Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood.

She was created a DBE in 1968, and in 1969 became only the third woman to be appointed a member of the British Order of Merit. Her biography William the Silent was awarded the 1944 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

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Strafford biography of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford was published in 1935.
The Thirty Years' War (1938)
Oliver Cromwell (1939)
William the Silent (1944)
Velvet Studies
Richelieu and the French Monarchy. (1962)
English Literature in the Seventeenth Century
The Last of the Radicals
Montrose (1966)
Truth and Opinion
The King's Peace (1955)
The King's War (1958)
Poetry and Politics Under the Stuarts (1960)
The Spoils of Time: A Short History of the World ^[1]
The Trial of Charles I (also publised as A Coffin for King Charles) (1964) ^[2]
Wedgwood also wrote the 1960 introduction to Rose Macaulay's They were Defeated^[3]

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^ Additional Bibliography detail taken from a copy of The Spoils of Time which was first published by William Collins (UK) in 1984, and published also by Book Club Associates.
^ (Biographical details taken from a copy of The Trial of Charles I published by Collins (UK)
^ First published by Collins London in 1932, and reset and reprinted in later years