Christine Carpenter (historian)

[1] She received her Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Newnham College, Cambridge.

Carpenter is author and editor of a number of English history books and papers.

[2][5] Carpenter supervises postgraduate work on government, politics and landed society from c. 1250 to 1500 and at the undergraduate level she teaches all aspects of English history from c. 1050 to 1500.

[5] Carpenter is the director of an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project to complete the calendaring of the 15th-century Inquisitions post mortem, and one of the editors of the Cambridge University Press Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, in addition to serving on other editorial committees.

[5] In June 2012, Carpenter was selected to give the Ford Lectures at the University of Oxford in the 2015–2016 academic year.

Newnham College , part of the University of Cambridge , with a view of Pfeiffer Arch and the Old Hall building