David Smith (historian)

David L. Smith, born in London on 3 December 1963, is a noted historian of the Early Modern period of British history, particularly political, constitutional, legal and religious history in the Stuart period.http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/academic_staff/further_details/smith-d.html</ref> He was educated at Eastbourne College (1972-81) and then went up to Selwyn College, Cambridge, as a Scholar in October 1982. At Selwyn he took his BA with First Class honours in 1985, his PGCE with Distinction in 1986, his MA in 1989, and his PhD in 1990.

He has been a Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge, since 1988. He has also served as a Director of Studies in History since 1992, and as a Graduate Tutor since 2004. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago in 1991. In that year he also won the Royal Historical Society's Alexander Prize, and Cambridge University's Thirlwall Prize for historical research. For nearly twelve years (1992-2003) he was Admissions Tutor at Selwyn, a period during which the College's academic performance improved markedly. From 1996 until 2006 he was also the College's Praelector.

He became an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of History at Cambridge in 1995, and he has served as Convenor of the Directors of Studies in History since 2006. He also teaches regularly for Cambridge's Institute of Continuing Education, and he has been Director of the Institute's annual History Summer School since 2005.

He became a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1992, and he has been President of the Cambridge History Forum since 1997. He is also a Governor of Eastbourne College (since 1993), and a Trustee of Oakham School (since 2000).

Chief Publications

• Oliver Cromwell: Politics and Religion in the English Revolution, 1640-1658 (Cambridge University Press, 1991)
• Louis XIV (Cambridge University Press, 1992)
• Constitutional Royalism and the Search for Settlement, c. 1640-1649 (Cambridge University Press, 1994)
• (co-edited with Richard Strier and David Bevington) The Theatrical City: Culture, Theatre and Politics in London, 1576-1649 (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
• A History of the Modern British Isles, 1603-1707: The Double Crown (Blackwell, 1998)
• The Stuart Parliaments, 1603-1689 (Edward Arnold, 1999)
• (with Graham E. Seel) The Early Stuart Kings, 1603-1642 (Routledge, 2001)
• (with Graham E. Seel) Crown and Parliaments, 1558-1689 (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
• (edited) Cromwell and the Interregnum (Blackwell, 2003)
• Twenty-three articles in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
• (co-edited with Jason McElligott) Royalists and Royalism during the English Civil Wars (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
• (with Patrick Little) Parliaments and Politics during the Cromwellian Protectorate (Cambridge University Press, 2007)