Laura A. M. Stewart, FRHistS, FSA Scot, is a historian specialising in early modern British history, especially Scottish political culture, Anglo-Scottish relations and the Civil War.
Stewart completed a Master of Arts degree at the University of St Andrews before moving to the University of Edinburgh to complete a Master of Science degree by research; she stayed there to carry out doctoral studies, and her PhD was awarded in 2003 for her thesis "Politics and religion in Edinburgh, 1617–53".
She was a British Academy postdoctoral fellow from 2005 to 2007, and spent ten years teaching at Birkbeck, University of London, before moving to the University of York in 2016,[1] and being made Professor in Early Modern History at York in 2018.
Her book Rethinking the Scottish Revolution (2016) won the American Historical Association's Morris D. Forkosch Prize in 2017[2] and was shortlisted for the Longman–History Today Awards in the same year.
[3][4][5] Stewart's research focuses on early modern British history, especially Scottish political culture, Anglo-Scottish relations and the Civil War.