PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Jonathan McGovern holds BA and MSt degrees from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the University of York. His work has won a number of prizes, including the Parliamentary History Essay Prize (2019), the Sir John Neale Essay Prize (2018) and the Gordon Forster Essay Prize (2018). He has published widely on the history and literature of the sixteenth century, on themes ranging from allegory, sermons, and balladry to political and parliamentary history.
McGovern has produced a valuable addition to the literature, based on extensive archival work in both national and local repositories, and one that is not only informative, but readable and even enjoyable. * Hannes Kleineke, History of Parliament, London, Parliamentary History * This could, like so much institutional history, have been a somewhat dry book, but McGovern has skilfully leavened his discussion with a plethora of colourful examples... McGovern has produced a valuable addition to the literature, based on extensive archival work in both national and local repositories, and one that is not only informative, but readable and even enjoyable. This is administrative history at its best, and a book that should be essential reading for anyone concerned with the government or politics of the long 16th century. * Hannes Kleineke, Parliamentary History * Anyone who has worked on the administrative history of Tudor England has glimpsed the sheriff, a key figure in regional governance. Dr McGovern's book offers the most comprehensive effort so far to survey and summarise the work of these officers... [A]n exhaustively detailed study... attests to the capacity for painstaking administrative reconstruction to be valuable in its own right * Laura Flannigan, Northern History *
