Nicola Clark

Dr Nicola Clark serves as Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History within the Department of History at the University of Chichester, having joined as an Associate Lecturer in 2014 and receiving promotion in 2018. Her academic career includes prior teaching appointments at Royal Holloway College and the University of Winchester.

Her educational qualifications include:

• BA (Hons) in English and American Literature and History from the University of Kent (2007)
• MA in Medieval History from Royal Holloway College, University of London (2008)
• PhD in Early Modern History from Royal Holloway (2013)

Dr Clark's research investigates elite women's intersecting family, religious, and political identities during the late medieval and early modern era, with emphasis on how these roles influenced surrounding institutions. Her scholarship spans women's religious adaptation, court dynamics, and queenship frameworks.

Her seminal monograph Gender, Family, and Politics: The Howard Women, 1485-1558 (Oxford University Press, 2018) analyzes Tudor-era Howard family women, complemented by publications examining gendered responses to the Reformation.

Recent 2024 publications explore noblewomen's cross-border court service and survival strategies amid adversity, while her 2017-2018 works investigate Howard family religious conservatism and dynastic memory through burial practices. Collectively, her output demonstrates consistent focus on gendered power structures within Tudor political and religious transformations.