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]
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.
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]
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.