The archives of Stanley Bindoff, Historian, are now catalogued and available to users.
Bindoff’s archives document the full course of his career and contribution to research and teaching on Tudor History.
Bindoff is most remembered for his outstandingly successful history of Tudor England, (1950). He became the first holder of a chair in History in 1951, and held posts at Queen Mary College including Head of the History Department and Dean of the Faculty of Arts.
Correspondence and documents reveal Bindoff’s involvement in the complex affairs of the University of London, as Chairman of the Board of Studies in History and as a representative of the University of London on the Council of the University College of Rhodesia (now the University of Zimbabwe).
Other notable items in Bindoff’s papers include correspondence with numerous academics, including the eminent historians Arthur Geoffrey Dickens, Alfred Cobban, Sir John Neale, Eric Hobsbawm and Christopher Hill.
Bindoff jointly edited Elizabethan Government and Society (1961) and contributed to the History of Parliament gazetteer (parliaments of 1509-58), published in 1982, and the Victoria History of the Counties of England.
To find out more about the archives, see the guide to archives, or email archives@qmul.ac.uk