Maureen Meikle

Maureen M. Meikle is an academic historian.

Her 1988 Phd thesis at the University of Edinburgh was titled 'Lairds and gentlemen: A study of the landed families of the Eastern Anglo-Scottish Borders c.1540-1603'.

She is writing a new biography of Anne of Denmark. Like most recent historians she prefers "Anna" for the queen's forename.[1] She was Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Sunderland,[2] and appointed Head of Humanities at Leeds Trinity University in 2009.[3]

Professor Emerita Maureen Meikle gave a public lecture,'Anna of Denmark as Queen of Scots, 1590-1603', at the Patrick Geddes Centre at Riddle's Court in Edinburgh on 30 October 2019.

Selected publications

References

  1. Sara Ayres, 'Introduction', The Court Historian: The Northern Line: Representing Danish Consorts in Scotland, England and Great Britain, 24:2 (2019), p. 180
  2. Julian Goodare & Michael Lynch, The Reign of James VI (Tuckwell: East Lothian, 2000), p. 268.
  3. Maureen Meikle, The Scottish People, 1490-1625 (Lulu, 2013), p. ix.


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