Eric Ives

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Eric William Ives (1931 -) is a well-respected British historian and an expert on the Tudor period (1485 - 1603.) He is particularly noted for his work on the life of Queen Anne Boleyn, who he began researching in 1979 culminating in an acclaimed biography of her in 1986. He has also written extensively on the History of Law, the development of modern higher education, the politics of Henry VIII's reign and the lives of various other Tudor courtiers - including the Welsh land-owning magnate Sir William Brereton, who was unjustly condemned to death in 1536 on the false charge of being Anne Boleyn's lover. His biography of Anne Boleyn was modified and expanded for re-publication in 2004 under the new title of The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn. His theories on her life have drawn him into fierce debate with the American historian, Professor Retha Warnicke, who wrote The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn in 1989 to challenge Ives's findings. Ives is currently Emeritus Professor of English History at the University of Birmingham. In 2001 he was awarded the prestigious Order of the British Empire by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of his services to history.

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