Maureen Meikle

Maureen M. Meikle (1961-2023) was an academic historian.

Her 1988 PhD thesis at the University of Edinburgh was titled 'Lairds and gentlemen: A study of the landed families of the Eastern Anglo-Scottish Borders c.1540-1603'. Maureen Meikle was a Fulbright Visiting Professor of British History at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, between 1993 and 1995.[1]

Anna of Denmark, studio of Adrian Vanson

She was Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Sunderland,[2] and appointed Head of Humanities at Leeds Trinity University in 2009.[3] Latterly, writing a new biography of Anne of Denmark, Anna of Denmark 1574-1619: Britain’s First Queen Consort, like most recent historians she prefers "Anna" for the queen's forename.[4]

In 2015, Meikle was a historical consultant to the Border Reiver "Beyond the Border" project at Hexham Old Gaol project based on the stories of 16th-century prisoners chosen by groups from three prisons in the North East, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.[5] Professor Emerita Maureen Meikle gave a public lecture, 'Anna of Denmark as Queen of Scots, 1590-1603', at the Patrick Geddes Centre at Riddle's Court in Edinburgh on 30 October 2019.

  1. ^ Maureen Meikle, A British Frontier? Lairds and Gentlemen in the Eastern Anglo-Scottish Borders (Tuckwell, 2004), p. viii.
  2. ^ Julian Goodare & Michael Lynch, The Reign of James VI (Tuckwell: East Lothian, 2000), p. 268.
  3. ^ Maureen Meikle, The Scottish People, 1490-1625 (Lulu, 2013), p. ix.
  4. ^ Sara Ayres, 'Introduction', The Court Historian: The Northern Line: Representing Danish Consorts in Scotland, England and Great Britain, 24:2 (2019), p. 180
  5. ^ David Whetstone, 'Prisoners past and present had a hand in a new attraction in Hexham', Chronicle Live, 5 December 2015