James Sharpe (historian)

James Anthony Sharpe, FRHS (9 October 1946 – 13 February 2024) was an English social historian who was a professor emeritus of early modern history at the University of York. He was a specialist in witchcraft, and crime and punishment, in early modern England.[1]

Sharpe earned his BA and DPhil at the University of Oxford and joined the University of York as a lecturer in 1973.[2] He became professor in 1997 and retired in 2016.[3]

Sharpe died on 13 February 2024, at the age of 77.[4]

  1. ^ Sad News of the Death of Jim Sharpe. Department of History, University of York. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
  2. ^ The Decline of Public Punishment in England 1750-1868 James Sharpe. York Festival of Ideas, 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  3. ^ James Sharpe. Penguin Books. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  4. ^ Roper, Lyndal (15 March 2024). "James Sharpe obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 March 2024.