Kevin M. Sharpe (26 January 1949 – 5 November 2011) was a British historian, Director of the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, Leverhulme Research Professor and Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London.
[1] Kevin Sharpe studied as an undergraduate and postgraduate at St Catherine's College, Oxford,[1] and from 1974 to 1978, he was a junior research fellow at Oriel College, Oxford.
[2] He was also lecturer at the University of Southampton, where he was awarded a personal chair in 1994.
[1] During the late 1970s and 1980s, Sharpe, together with scholars such as Conrad Russell, John Morrill, and Mark Kishlansky, was labelled a revisionist political historian for his criticism of the previous Whiggish narrative of the English Revolution.
[4] As a leading revisionist, he welcomed the shift towards increased role of literary and artistic representations in the chronicle of early modern politics.