Alastair Blair Worden, FBA (born 12 January 1945), usually cited as Blair Worden,[1] is a historian, among the leading authorities on the period of the English Civil War and on relations between literature and history more generally in the early modern period.
He matriculated as an undergraduate at Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1963.
After spending a year as a visiting student at Harvard he began graduate research at Oxford in 1967.
[2] After a period as a Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, teaching History, he took up a position as a Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London.
[6] He is well known for his revolutionary article "Oliver Cromwell and the Sin of Achan", which changed established historical perceptions about what exactly caused Oliver Cromwell to reject the offer of the Crown.