Derek Hirst (born 1948, Isle of Wight) is an English historian of early modern Britain.
A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and author of five books and over thirty articles, Hirst held a B.A.
He was the William Eliot Smith Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis, where he taught from 1975 to 2017, supervising seventeen dissertations and serving as chair of the department for several years.
[2] In addition, he published over 80 scholarly articles and reviews [3] (a convenient list of his most important earlier essays may be found on the Wayback Machine [4] ).
[5] Hirst also worked extensively on Andrew Marvell with Steven Zwicker, a colleague at Washington University in St. Louis.