Janet Dickinson

Janet Dickinson teaches history for the Open University and researches the history of the Tudor and Stuart periods. She has has published a book on the extraordinary relationship between Elizabeth I and her last great favourite, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, and chapters on different aspects of Elizabethan government and society. She also works with the Society for Court Studies to promote the study of courts and their people in all sorts of places and periods.

Having come to university as a mature student herself, Janet has a pretty good idea of the challenges faced in combining studies with real life and, now that she gets to talk and write about history for a living, why it’s all incredibly worthwhile!