Steven Gunn (historian)

Steven J. Gunn FRHistS is an English historian and fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford. He teaches and researches the history of late medieval and early modern Britain and Europe, and is the author of a number of academic texts.

Biography
Gunn's doctoral thesis, a study of the life and career of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, was supervised by C. S. L. Davies and completed in 1986.

Gunn's research interests lie in the political, social, cultural and military history of England and its European neighbours, spanning the mid-fifteenth to the late sixteenth century.

Gunn was awarded the Title of Distinction of Professor of Early Modern History by the University of Oxford in October 2015.

Gunn delivered the 2015 James Ford Lectures in British History at the University of Oxford, taking as his subject 'The English people at war in the age of Henry VIII'. A book of the same title based on the lectures was published in 2018.

In 2021 Gunn was appointed to the board of trustees of the Royal Armouries by Oliver Dowden, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, serving a four-year term.

Selected publications

 * Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales: Life, Death and Commemoration, Edited with Linda Monckton (Woodbridge, 2009)
 * War and the Emergence of the State: Western Europe 1350-1600, in European Warfare 1350-1750, edited by Frank Tallett and David Trim (Cambridge, 2010), 50-73
 * Henry VII’s New Men and the Making of Tudor England, Oxford University Press, August 2016
 * The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII, Oxford University Press, January 2018