Margaret Spufford
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Professor Margaret Spufford OBE FBA |
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| Born |
Honor Margaret Clark 10 December 1935 Cheshire, England |
| Died | 6 March 2014 (aged 78) |
| Nationality | British |
| Title | Professor of Social and Local History |
| Spouse(s) | Peter Spufford (m. 1962) |
| Children | Two, including Francis Spufford |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Cambridge High School for Girls |
| Alma mater |
Newnham College, Cambridge University of Leicester |
| Thesis title | People, Land & Literacy in Cambridgeshire in the 16th & 17th Centuries (1970) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Institutions |
Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge Keele University Newnham College, Cambridge Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study University of Roehampton Japan Academy |
Honor Margaret Spufford, OBE, FBA (née Clark; 10 December 1935 – 6 March 2014), known as Margaret Spufford, was a British academic and historian. She was Professor of Social and Local History at the University of Roehampton from 1994 to 2001.
Spufford was born Honor Margaret Clark in Cheshire on 10 December 1935. Her parents, Mary (née Johnson) and Leslie Marshall Clark, were scientists. During her childhood, she was educated at home by her mother. During World War II, she lived in the Welsh borders to be safer from the threat of bombing. In 1953, with the death of her father, the family moved to Cambridge. There, she attended the sixth form of Cambridge High School for Girls, a grammar school.
In 1956, she matriculated into Newnham College, a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Due to ill health she left university without completing her degree. For all her adult life she suffered from early onset osteoporosis. Although her first fracture was at the age of 17, the disease was not diagnosed until she was 31. She later returned to university and studied in the Department for English Local History at the University of Leicester. She graduated in 1963 with a Master of Arts (MA) degree, having achieved a distinction. She remained to complete post-graduate research and completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1970. Her thesis was titled People, Land & Literacy in Cambridgeshire in the 16th & 17th Centuries.
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