Lloyd Bowen
Lloyd Bowen | |
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| Born | October 24, 1971 |
| Awards | FLSW FRHistS |
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| Discipline | Modern history |
Sub-discipline | British political and social history |
| Institutions | Cardiff University |
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Lloyd Bowen (born 24 October 1971) is a Welsh academic and author, whose work focuses on the political and social history of early modern Wales and Britain. He is a professor of early modern history at Cardiff University.[1]
Work
Bowen’s research focuses on the political and social history of early modern Wales and Britain, with particular attention to the relationship between local and regional politics. A significant strand of his work examines the British Civil Wars (1642–1660), including studies of royalism, gentry culture, and parliamentary politics.
He has also examined the nature of Welsh political identity following the Acts of Union, analysing the tensions between the English state and Welsh culture and highlighting the complexities of nationhood in early modern Britain.[2]
Bowen has also published multiple monographs on early political figures such as John Poyer[3] and Edward Vaughan,[4] examining factionalism, early Welsh law and the beginning of the Second English Civil War.
Civil War Petitions Project
The Civil War Petitions Project is a collaborative research effort, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) that examines petitions submitted by veterans, widows, and civilians seeking relief following the British Civil Wars. The project ran from June 2017 to October 2020 and investigated the social, political, and cultural consequences of the wars and explored how petitioning functioned as a form of communication and political participation in early modern Britain.[5][6] As a co-investigator on the project, Bowen contributed through research on the language, form, and authenticity of petitions, with particular attention to Welsh perspectives. His work examines how such petitions created narratives and how memory of the Civil Wars was shaped through bureaucratic and legal processes.[7]
Honours and awards
In 2024, Bowen was elected as a fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.[8] He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[9]
Selected published works
- Family and society in early Stuart Glamorgan: the household accounts of Sir Thomas Aubrey of Llantrithyd, c.1565-1641. Cardiff: South Wales Record Society. 2006 – via Google Books.
- The politics of the principality: Wales, c.1603-1642. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2007 – via Google Books.
- John Poyer, the Civil Wars in Pembrokeshire and the British Revolutions. University of Wales Press. 2020 – via Google Books.
- Anatomy of a duel in Jacobean England: gentry honour, violence and the law. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2021 – via Google Books.
- Bowen, Lloyd; Stoyle, Mark, eds. (2021). Remembering the English Civil Wars. Taylor & Francis – via Google Books.
- Early Modern Wales c.1536–c.1689; Ambiguous Nationhood. University of Wales Press. 2022 – via Google Books.
- The Trials of Edward Vaughan; Law, Civil War and Gentry Faction in Seventeenth-Century Britain, c.1596–1661. University of Wales Press. 2024 – via Google Books.
References
- 1 2 "Staff Profile". Cardiff University.
- ↑ Bowen, Lloyd (2022). Ambiguous Nationhood: Wales and the English State, c.1603–1642. University of Wales Press. ISBN 9781786839596.
- ↑ Bowen, Lloyd (2020). John Poyer, the Civil Wars in Pembrokeshire and the British Revolutions. University of Wales Press. ISBN 9781786836557.
- ↑ Bowen, Lloyd (2024). The Trials of Edward Vaughan, c.1596–1661. University of Wales Press. ISBN 9781837721788.
- ↑ "The human cost of war". Cardiff University. Retrieved 24 December 2025.
- ↑ "The British and Irish Civil Wars, 1640-1660". Oxford Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford. 1 January 1640. Retrieved 24 December 2025.
- ↑ "Petitions Project Profile". Civil War Petitions.
- ↑ "Lloyd Bowen Profile". Learned Society of Wales.
- ↑ "List of RHS Fellows" (PDF). Royal Historical Society.