Rosemary O'Day

Rosemary O'Day is professor emeritus of history at the Open University. She was co-director of the Charles Booth Centre and is currently a consultant to the Charles Booth Archive Online project at the University of London.

Early life[]

O'Day was educated at the Orme Girls' School in Staffordshire, the University of York, and at King's College, University of London.^[1]

Career[]

O'Day was a lecturer at the University of Birmingham and joined the Open University in 1975, of which she is now professor emeritus in history. She was co-director of the Charles Booth Centre and is currently a consultant to the Charles Booth Archive Online project at the University of London.

Family[]

O'Day was married to fellow historian David Englander (died 1999). The couple had two sons together and co-edited several books. O'Day has three sons in all.^[2] O'Day was married to historian Alan O'Day (died 2016) and later divorced. They had one son.

Selected publications[]

• Economy and Community: economic and social history of preindustrial England, 1500–1700, A. & C. Black, 1975.
• Continuity and Change: personnel and administration of the Church of England 1500–1642, 1976. [with Felicity Heal]
• Church and Society in England, Henry VIII to James I, 1977. [with Felicity Heal]
• The English Clergy: emergence and consolidation of a profession, 1558–1642, Leicester University Press, 1979.
• Princes and Paupers in the English Church, 1500-1800, 1981. [with Felicity Heal]
• Education and Society 1500–1800: the social foundations of education in early modern Britain, Longmans, 1982.
• The Debate on the English Reformation, Methuen, 1986.
• Mr Charles Booth's Inquiry: life and labour of the people in London reconsidered, Hambledon, 1993. [with her husband Dr. David Englander]
• Family and Family Relationships, 1500–1900: England, France and the United States of America, Macmillan, 1994.
• Retrieved Riches: The History of Social Investigation in Britain, Scolar Press, 1995. [again with Dr. David Englander]
• Longman Companion to the Tudor age, Longman, 1995.
• The Professions in Early Modern England: Servants of the Commonweal, Longman, 2000.
• Women's Agency in Early Modern Britain and the American Colonies, Longman, 2007.
• Cassandra Brydges (1670–1735) First Duchess of Chandos: Life and Letters, Boydell and Brewer, 2007.
• London Labour and the London poor, Wordsworth Editions (with an introduction by Rosemary O'Day and David Englander), 2008.
• "Family Galleries: Women and Art in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries", Huntington Library Quarterly, Autumn 2008.
• The Routledge Companion to the Tudor Age, Routledge, 2009.
• "Matchmaking and moneymaking in a patronage society: the first duke and duchess of Chandos c.1712-35", Economic History Review, 2012.
• An Elite Family in Early Modern England, Boydell & Brewer, 2018

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