Ballot Archive

09 Oct 2014

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Christopher James Skidmore

Academic degrees, honours etc.

BA, MSt

Profession or occupation

MP Bristol Kingswood; hon.research fellow, Bistol University

Grounds for election

Historian, specialising in 15th and 16th-century politics and nobility and the author of 3 critically acclaimed books on Tudor history, notably the definitive biography of Edward VI and Bosworth: Birth of the Tudors., published 2013. Vice-chair, Parliamentary group on history & archives and member Speaker’s Committee on the 2015 anniversaries of Magna Carta and 1265 Parliament. Speaks on heritage issues in House of Commons. FRSA, FRHistS.

Signatories

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