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Dr Valerie Louise Pearl (née Bence, born 31 December 1926)〔(The Independent 30 December 1995 )〕 is an historian, noted for her work on the English Civil War, and was the second President of New Hall, Cambridge. ==Life== Pearl is the daughter of Cyril Bence, the former Labour Party Member of Parliament for East Dunbartonshire.〔(Obituary of Cyril Bence, The Independent 8 September 1992 )〕 She was educated at St Anne's College, Oxford, going up in 1946 and gaining a Second-Class degree in Modern History.〔(Distinguished alumni of St Anne's College, Oxford )〕 She subsequently gained a D.Phil. for her thesis, supervised by Christopher Hill, on London and the outbreak of the Puritan Revolution 1625-1643. This was published in revised form by the Oxford University Press in 1961. In 1949, she married Morris Pearl, with whom she had a daughter, Sara. Between 1965 and 1968, Pearl was a Lecturer in History at Somerville College, Oxford. Having been offered a Fellowship at Somerville provided she resided in Oxford on a full-time basis, she moved to University College, London, as Reader in London History later holding a chair in the same subject. Adam Sisman's biography of Hugh Trevor-Roper mentions her contacts with Trevor-Roper. Pearl was appointed as the second President of New Hall, Cambridge, in 1981, a position she held until 1995. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Valerie Pearl」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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