Antonia Gransden

Antonia Gransden (1928 – 18 January 2020), English historian and medievalist, was Reader in Medieval History at the University of Nottingham. She was author of a number of works in medieval historiography, most notably the large two volume study Historical Writing in England.

She was born Antonia Morland.^[1] Educated at Dartington Hall and Somerville College, Oxford, she married Ken Gransden in 1957. They had two daughters and the marriage was dissolved in 1977.^[2]

She died on 18 January 2020 at the age of 91.^[3]

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• A History of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds, 1257-1301. Simon of Luton and John of Northwold (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2015)
• (ed.) The Letter-Book of William of Hoo: Sacrist of Bury St Edmunds, 1280–1294 (Ipswich: Suffolk Records Society, 1963)
• (ed. & trans.) The Chronicle of Bury St Edmunds 1212–1301 (London; Edinburgh: Nelson, 1964)
• (ed.) The Customary of the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk: (from Harleian MS. 1005 in the British Museum) (Henry Bradshaw Society, 1973)
• Historical Writing in England, c.550 to c.1307 (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974)
• Historical Writing in England. 2, c.1307 to the Early Sixteenth Century (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982)
• Legends, Traditions, and History in Medieval England (London: Hambledon Press, 1992)

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