Stuart Jennings is an Early Modern Historian and a Methodist Minister. He completed an MA in history at Nottingham University and a PhD at Nottingham Trent University. He has published a number of peer reviewed academic papers, three chapters in books of academic essays and two books as sole author. His book ‘These Uncertaine tymes’ won the Alan Ball Local History prize in 2010. He lectures in history at the Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Warwick and serves as part of s team of academic advisors to the National Civil War Centre at Newark upon Trent.
""The author's use of contemporary and eyewitness accounts is excellent, resulting in detailed accounts of the sieges themselves. He also presents Newark in its wider context demonstrating how events elsewhere affected the town, and emphasising just how crucial Newark became......This is a well-researched and thorough history, and nicely complements the RCHM book. It is an important addition to the library of the Civil Wars, and is bound to be popular. * Battlefields Trust Magazine, Vol 29, Issue 1, 2024 *