History

Mark Stoyle

Primary position:
Professor

Background

I specialise in early modern British history, with particular research interests in the ‘British crisis' of the 1640s; witchcraft; urban society; and cultural, ethnic and religious identity in Wales and Cornwall between 1450 and 1700.  My most recent book is: ‘The Black Legend of Prince Rupert's Dog: Witchcraft and Propaganda during the English Civil War' (University of Exeter Press, 2011).  I have appeared on many radio and TV programmes, including ‘Who Do You Think You Are?', ‘The Great British Story: A People's History', ‘Inside Out', ‘Making History', ‘Word of Mouth' and ‘The Roots of English'.  In 2012, I received a Vice-Chancellor's Teaching Award in recognition of my contribution to education at Southampton.

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Publications

The University of Southampton's electronic library (e-prints)

Article

Stoyle, Mark (2011) No Christmas under Cromwell? BBC History Magazine, 12, (13), 20-25.
Stoyle, Mark (2011) The prince and the devil dog. BBC History Magazine, 12, (5), 22-26.
Stoyle, Mark (2011) 'It is but an olde wytche gonne': Prosecution and execution for witchcraft in Exeter, 1558-1610. History, 96, (322), 129-151. (doi:10.1111/j.1468-229X.2011.00511.x).
Stoyle, Mark (2010) The execution of a witch in Elizabethan Exeter. Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries, 40, (7)
Stoyle, Mark (2009) Two new seventeenth-century witch-cases from Exeter. Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries, 40, (Part IV), 163-173.
Stoyle, Mark (2008) The road to Farndon Field: explaining the massacre of the royalist women at Naseby. English Historical Review, 123, (503), 895-923. (doi:10.1093/ehr/cen178).
Stoyle, Mark (2008) Afterlife of an army: the old Cornish regiments, 1643-44. Cornish Studies, 16, 26-47.
Stoyle, Mark (2003) Memories of the maimed: the testimony of Charles I’s former soldiers, 1660-1730. History, 88, (290), 204-226. (doi:10.1111/1468-229X.00259).

Book

Stoyle, Mark (2011) The black legend of Prince Rupert's dog: witchcraft and propaganda during the English civil war, Exeter, GB, University of Exeter Press, 240pp.
Stoyle, Mark (2005) Soldiers and strangers: an ethnic history of the English Civil War, New Haven, USA : London, UK, Yale University Press, 320pp.
Stoyle, M.J. (2003) Circled with stone: Exeter's city walls 1485-1660, Exeter, GB, University of Exeter Press, 231pp.
Stoyle, Mark (2002) West Britons: Cornish identities and the early modern British state, Exeter, GB, University of Exeter Press, 288pp.
Stoyle, Mark (2001) Devon and the Civil War, Exeter, UK, Mint Press, 96pp. (Concise Histories of Devon).
Stoyle, Mark (ed.) (1996) From deliverance to destruction: Rebellion and civil war in an English city , Exeter, GB, University of Exeter Press, 232pp. (Exeter Studies in History).
Stoyle, Mark (ed.) (1994) Loyalty and locality: Popular allegiance in Devon during the English civil war, Exeter, GB, University of Exeter Press, 330pp.

Book Section

Stoyle, Mark (2011) 'His Majestie's sea service in the western parts: Maritime affairs in Cornwall during the English civil war'. In, A New Maritime History of South West England. Exeter, GB, University of Exeter Press . (In Press).
Stoyle, Mark (2004) Remembering the English civil war. In, Gray, Peter and Oliver, Kendrick (eds.) The Memory of Catastrophe. Manchester, UK, Manchester University Press, 19-30.
 

Teaching Responsibilities

Areas where I can offer postgraduate supervision:

Any area of early modern English and Welsh history between 1450 and 1660, especially on topics relating to the Civil Wars.

Contact

Professor Mark Stoyle
Building 65
Faculty of Humanities
University of Southampton
Avenue Campus
Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BF
United Kingdom

Room Number: 65/2077

Telephone: (023) 8059 4860
Facsimile: (023) 8059 3458
Email: mjs@soton.ac.uk