Notes on Contributors

173 Notes on Contributors Barry Collett formerly taught history at the University ofMelbourne, specializing in the nexus between political thought, religion, intellectual movements and civil unrest. He is now virtually retired, and divides his time between writing Australian history in Melbourne and early m o d e m European history in Oxford. Patricia Crawford studied history at the University of Melbourne. She subsequently moved to The University ofWestern Australia, where she has taught early modern history from 1964. Her publications include Denzil Holies 15981680 : A Study of his Political Career (1979), Women and Religion in England 1500-1720 (1993) and, with Sara Mendelson, Women in Early Modern England 7550-7720(1998). Robert Crocker's Oxford doctorate was in the history of early modern philosoph science and religion, and he recently published a revision of his thesis, entitled Henry More, 1614-1687: A Biography of the Cambridge Platonist (Kluwer Academic Press, 2003). Sybil Jack taught at the University of Sydney, first in Economic History and t in History, where she retired as Associate Professor, but continues as a Research Associate. She is the author of various books, the most recent being Towns in Tudor and Stuart Britain, as well as many articles. She has contributed a number ofbiographies to the new DNB, including one on Wolsey. Frank McGregor is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Adelaide. He has published essays on radical religious groups in the English Civil Wars, including Baptists, Ranters and Quakers. H e is presently studying the attempts of the English parliament to define and proscribe emerging religious dissent, which has led him to the case of Paul Best. Lotte Mulligan was taught by George Yule as an undergraduate in the Department ofHistory at the University ofMelbourne, 1948-50. Herfieldofscholarship, early modem British history and the history of ideas, was strongly influenced by his work. She completed her B A (Hons) and M A at Melbourne, worked for her PhD at London, and completed it at Adelaide University while teaching there. She Parergon 21.2 (2004) 174 taught at La Trobe University for nearly 30 years and was made Reader/Associate Professor in 1972. O n retirement in 1995 she was made Scholar Emeritus. At the University of Melbourne, Wilfrid Prest attended George Yule's lec first-year British history and his college tutorials in General History I (Renaissan and Reformation). He taught early modern history for many years, mainly at the University of Adelaide, and is now working on William Blackstone, as an ARC Australian Professorial Fellow. His AlbionAscendant: English History 1660-1815 was published in 1998. Judith Richards (La Trobe University) has specialized in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English history, and in recent times has worked on a succession of monarchs. She is currently writing a historical biography of Mary Tudor. Alison Wall studied history at the Universities of Melbourne and London. has taught at the Universities of Sydney, Sussex, Warwick and Oxford. Recent publications are: Power and Protest in England 1525-1640, (London: Arnold, 2000); 'Deference and Defiance in Women's Letters of the Thynne Family', in Early Modern Women s Letter-writing, ed. J. Daybell (London: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 77-93; '"The Greatest Disgrace": the Making and Unmaking ofJPs in Elizabethan and Jacobean England', EHR, 119,481 (2004): 312-32; and with C. Haigh, 'Clergy JPs in England and Wales 1590-1640', Historical Journal, 47,2 (2004): 233-59. Alexandra Walsham completed her BA (Hons) and MA at the University of Melbourne and her P h D at Trinity College, Cambridge. She is currently Senior Lecturer in History at the University ofExeter, UK. As well as many essays, she has published Church Papists: Catholicism, Conformity and Confessional Polemic i Early Modem England (1993), Providence in Early Modern England (1999), and (co-edited with Julia Crick), The Uses ofScript and Print 1300-1700 (2004). Parergon 212 (2004) ...