Marilyn Roberts

Marilyn Roberts
Born North Lincolnshire
Occupation Author, Historian
Language English
Nationality British
Education Didsbury College, Manchester
Alma mater University of Hull
Genre History
Notable works The Mowbray Legacy[1]
Website
www.queens-haven.co.uk/index.htm

Marilyn Roberts is a British writer of history books and lecturer, mainly on the Middle Ages and Tudor period. She has been described by Alison Weir as one of the leading experts on the Mowbray family.[2]

Early life and education

Roberts was born in North Lincolnshire. She attended Didsbury College, Manchester, and received a Master’s degree in the History and Politics of the Administration of Education in England and Wales from the University of Hull.[3]

Career

Marilyn Roberts is one of the foremost experts on the Mowbray family, a historian of the top rank...[2]

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Roberts is a writer and lecturer and works as a Collections Care Co-ordinator at Epworth Old Rectory Museum, once home to John Wesley and Charles Wesley.[3]

Her first published work was The Bare Bones of English History: Romans to Elizabeth I, 3rd ed. 2001[3] which was followed by The Mowbray Legacy in 2004.[3] Other published works include: The Bare Bones of Queen Victoria's Family Trees: Her Children and Grandchildren, published in 2012[3] and British Royal Family Trees: From William the Conqueror to the House of Windsor, 2003.[3][4] Her last book was Lady Anne Mowbray: the High and Excellent Princess: The Child Wife of a Prince in the Tower released in in 2013.[2][3]

Roberts is currently working on another book, Trouble in Paradise,[3] about Norfolk House in Lambeth, and its former inhabitants, Henry VIII's fifth wife, Catherine Howard and her step-grandmother, Agnes Tilney, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk.

Bibliography

Notes

  1. ↑ Roberts 2012.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Ridgway 14 February 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 Roberts 2014.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Ridgway 11 February 2014.

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