Valerie Pearl

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Dr Valerie Louise Pearl (née Bence, 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.

Life

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.

She married Morris Pearl in 1949.

Between 1965 and 1968, 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.

Publications

London And The Outbreak Of The Puritan Revolution. City Government And National Politics, 1625-43, Oxford University Press, 1961, ISBN 0-19-821285-2
The London Journal, A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (editor), Longmans 1975

References

External links

Portrait of Valerie Pearl by Maggi Hambling

Academic offices
Preceded by Dame Rosemary Murray	President of New Hall, Cambridge 1981–1995	Succeeded by Anne Lonsdale

Authority control	VIAF: 62876052 ISNI: 0000 0000 8248 1741

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Name	Pearl, Valerie
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Short description	Historian
Date of birth	31 December 1926
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