Ballot Archive

09 Apr 2015

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Malcolm Mercer

Academic degrees, honours etc.

1987-1994: University of London: School of Economics & Political Science BSc with First Class Honours 1990; PhD 1995

Profession or occupation

Curator of Tower History and Tower Special Collections, Royal Armouries, Tower of London

Grounds for election

Lecturer, Department of Historical & Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths' College 1993-4; Department of International History, London School of Economics Research Assistant 1995-6, Lecturer 1996; Information & Records Department, Public Record Office (later National Archives) 1996-2001, Assistant Manager, Medieval & Early Modern Records 2001-04 & Senior Records Specialist 2004-06; 2006-09 Senior Research Archivist, Canterbury Cathedral Archives; 2009-Present Curator of Tower History. Publications: The Medieval Gentry: Power, Leadership and Choice during the Wars of the Roses (2010); Henry V: The Rebirth of Chivalry (2004). ‘The Rise of the Kings’ Armourers’ in Fourteenth Century England, ed., Jeffrey Hamilton (2014); ‘The Artillery Train of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, 1640, The Irish Sword XXVIII (2011); ‘Kent and National Politics, 1461-1509’, in Later Medieval Kent 1220-1540, (2010); ‘Exchequer Malpractice in Late Medieval Ireland, Irish Historical Studies (2009) other articles.

Signatories

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