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
- 'Once a Dane, Always Always a Dane? Queen Anna of Denmark's Foreign Relations and Intercessions as a Queen Consort of Scotland and England, 1588-1619', Sara Ayres, The Court Historian, 24:2 (August 2019), pp. 168-180
- The Scottish People, 1490-1625 (Lulu, 2013).
- 'Anna Of Denmark’s Coronation And Entry Into Edinburgh, 1590: Cultural, Religious And Diplomatic Perspectives', Sixteenth-Century Scotland: Essays in Honour of Michael Lynch (Brill, 2008), pp. 277-294
- A British Frontier? Lairds and Gentlemen in the Eastern Anglo-Scottish Frontier, 1540-1603 (Tuckwell: East Linton, 2004)
- 'A meddlesome princess: Anna of Denmark and Scottish court politics 1589–1603, Julian Goodare & Michael Lynch, The Reign of James VI (Tuckwell: East Linton, 2000), pp. 126–140.
- 'Holde her at the Oeconomicke rule of the house': Anna of Denmark and Scottish Court of Finances, 1589-1630', Elizabeth Ewan and Maureen M. Meikle, Women in Scotland c.1100-c.1750 (Tuckwell: East Linton, 1999).