Susan Elizabeth Brigden (born 26 June 1951)[1] is a historian and academic specialising in the English Renaissance and Reformation.
She was Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Lincoln College, before retiring at the end of 2016.
Her doctoral supervisor was the eminent Tudor historian Geoffrey Elton, and her thesis was titled 'The early Reformation in London, 1520-1547: the conflict in the parishes'.
She missed out on her first choice special subject at the University of Manchester and was instead allocated to a paper on the Reformation taught by Christopher Haigh.
[9] In May 2024 Brigden appeared on the BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time discussing the life of Thomas Wyatt alongside Laura Ashe and Brian Cummings.