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Sophie T. Ambler
Sophie T. Ambler
Education	Doctor of Philosophy
Alma mater	King's College London ;
Occupation	Medieval historian, university teacher
Employer	Lancaster University; University of East Anglia ;
Awards	Philip Leverhulme Prize (2020) ;

Sophie Ambler FRHistS is a medieval historian, focussing on politics, ethics, and warfare, often through the lens of the Crusades.^[1] She undertook her PhD at King's College London, supervised by David A. Carpenter.^[1]

Career edit

Between 2012 and 2013, Ambler worked as a Research Associate on the AHRC-funded 'Breaking of Britain' project, with a focus on the 'People of Northern England' project.^[2]^[3] Ambler subsequently joined the Magna Carta Project as a Research Associate, working on the project at the University of East Anglia from 2013 to 2015.^[4]^[5]

Ambler joined Lancaster University as a Lecturer in 2017, and since 2021 she has been Reader in Central & Later Medieval History.^[1] In 2020, Ambler was one of the recipients of the Philip Leverhulme Prize.^[6] She frequently contributes to TV and radio, like her piece on the Second Barons' War as part of In Our Time.^[1]^[7]

In 2023, Ambler secured funding from the Castle Studies Trust to investigate the medieval site of Lowther Castle Stead in Cumbria and its associated village. The project aimed to investigate the castle's foundation through the first geophysical surveys and excavations at the castle.^[8]^[9]

Selected works edit

Books

— (2016). Bishops in the Political Community of England, 1213−1272. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-875402-2. OL 27415575M. Wikidata Q107305460.
— (2019). The Song of Simon de Montfort: The Life and Death of a Medieval Revolutionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-094623-7. OL 34087677M. Wikidata Q72932472.
— (2019). The Song of Simon de Montfort: England's First Revolutionary and the Death of Chivalry. London: Picador. ISBN 978-1-5098-3757-1. OL 30157277M. Wikidata Q107669769.^[10]

References edit

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d University, Lancaster. "Sophie Therese Ambler | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences | Lancaster University". www.lancaster.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 October 2021.
^ Broun, Dauvit; Tucker, Joanna (2023). "The People of Medieval Scotland database as history". In Nyhan, Julianne; Rockwell, Geoffrey; Sinclair, Stéfan; Ortolja-Baird, Alexandra (eds.). On Making in the Digital Humanities: The scholarship of digital humanities development in honour of John Bradley. UCL Press. p. 123. doi:10.2307/j.ctv2wk727j.10.
^ "Magna Carta Project - personnel". magnacarta.cmp.uea.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
^ University, Lancaster. "Sophie Therese Ambler | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences | Lancaster University". www.lancaster.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
^ "The Magna Carta Project – enhancing the legacy of Magna Carta as a cultural, historical, and legal icon". ref.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
^ "Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2020 | The Leverhulme Trust". www.leverhulme.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
^ "In Our Time | The Second Barons' War". www.bbc.co.uk.
^ "Lowther Castle: Archaeologists bid for signs of Norman conquest". BBC News. 27 February 2023. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
^ Manuschka, Jacob (22 December 2023). "Unearthing the overlooked history of the Norman Conquest in Cumbria". News and Star. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
^ Spencer, Andrew M (31 May 2021). "The Song of Simon de Montfort: England's First Revolutionary and the Death of Chivalry, by Sophie Thérèse Ambler". The English Historical Review. 136 (578): 178–180. doi:10.1093/ehr/ceaa351. ISSN 0013-8266.