Dr Valerie Louise Pearl (born 31 December 1926)[1] is an historian, noted for work on the English Civil War and was the second President of New Hall, Cambridge.
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Pearl is the daughter of Cyril Bence, the former Labour Party Member of Parliament for East Dunbartonshire.[2] She was educated at St Anne's College, Oxford, going up in 1946 and gaining a Second-Class degree in Modern History.[3] She subsequently gained a D.Phil. for her thesis supervised by Christopher Hill on London and the outbreak of the Puritan Revolution 1625-1643. This was published in revised form by the Oxford University Press in 1961.
Between 1965 and 1968, Valerie Pearl was a Lecturer in History at Somerville College, Oxford. She then moved to University College, London as Reader in London History later holding a chair in the same subject.
Pearl was appointed as the second President of New Hall, Cambridge in 1981, a position she held until 1995.
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| Preceded by Dame Rosemary Murray |
President of New Hall, Cambridge 1981–1995 |
Succeeded by Anne Lonsdale |
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